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Show Kentucky, famous for its pretty women, fine horses and good whiskies, but nearly all of whose counties have gone "dry," Is threatened with state wldo prohibition next November. The "drys" claim they hove the voles to carry tho state. Hut the "wets" claim first blood. Tho republican state convention, just held, refused to put n prohibition plnnk in the platform, and by a vote of twenty-one hundred to one hundred and sixty declared for the existing county option system. sys-tem. The republican candidate for governor, to bo selected in n primary election in August, will hnvo to make his campaign on this platform. Tho democrats do not hold their convention until August, after the republican primary, but it is predicted thnt they will also declare for tho county coun-ty unit law and against state wide prohibition. |