Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1919 — WETS HOLD LEAD ON ALL PROHIBITION PROPOSALS. [ARTICLE]

WETS HOLD LEAD ON ALL PROHIBITION PROPOSALS.

Columbus, 0., Nov. 6.—Tuesday’s prohibition results in Ohio show: 1. Actual figures on returns from fifty-nine out of eighty-eight counties show wets in lead on all four prohibition proposals. 2. Secretary of state officials say that available figures indicate that the wets won in the defeat of the Crabbe state prphibition enforcement act and that the final result in the ratification of the Ohio legislature amendments will 'bfe close. They say the other two proposals, the repeal of the state-wide prohibition and the 2.75 per cent beer proposals were defeated by the drys. L. H. Gibson, state manager of the wets, admits defeat bn the 2.75 per cent beer proposal and also the defeat of’ the proposal to defeat state-wide prohibition. He asserts, however, that the wets defeated the Crabbe prohibition act and the federal prohibition amendment. 4. J. 'A. White, state manager for the drys, claims all four proposals. -