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Show PROHIBITIONISTS LOCK HORNS WITH ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE Chicago, Jan. 2. In a New Year"-? study of the party outlook, tho Prohibitionists Pro-hibitionists havo locked horns with the anti-Saloon league, by declaring that local option laws are a "rarce," that they are nothing but temporary i expedients, with little or no real gain to the temperance cause, ana tuai wherever they have been passed they have cut down the vote in the prohibition ticket. The survey of tho situation issued from national headquarters, was written writ-ten by Michael J. Fannigan, of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. It analyzes the returns of tho recent re-cent election that gives point to the paradoxical assertions recently made by Eugene W. Chafln that the. smaller the vote the party polled In 19US, the greater would be Its vote In VJll.' The writer pointy out that in state.-? that passed local option laws, the Chafln vote fell orf, while In those that turned down the bills of the anti-BalJon anti-BalJon League, Chafln got more votes than Swallow did in 11)04. In part It says: "It is almost invariably true that all the achievements of which tho inter-partlsau temperance workers boast were made possible by the increase in-crease of our party vote. The con-verso con-verso is also true. Whero tho Prohibitionist Pro-hibitionist vote falls orr, the politicians politic-ians lay it to the ' inter-partlsan organizations or-ganizations and do not hesitate to luiu mem uowri wnicn ncips iu increase in-crease tho Prohibitionist vote. "County option, wherever passed, hab proved harmful to tho Prohibition party, and will do so until the honest men who support it learn what a farco it really is in Its operations. If the whole country showed a proportionate pro-portionate loss In the Prohibition party par-ty vote to that shown In Ohio, lndi-run, lndi-run, Illinois, Kentucky, and Oregon, the states in which county option law havo been passed since the campaign of 1904, Mr. Chailn would have polled poll-ed but 20,16$ votes, the emallcst voto c any polled by any or our candidates candi-dates since 1SS4. On the other hand If the whole country coun-try showed a proportionate gain in the prohibition party vote a3 shown by the states where county option was turned down. Mr. Chafln would have polled 316.95C votes or 53,470 more votes than the highest vole ever polled poll-ed for a prohibitionist. |