PROHIBITION: PROHIBITION – 25th & 26th

28th & 26th

They said Vermont was doubtful on Repeal, pointed for proof to its first prohibition law in 1852, its dry record ever since. But when the votes were counted last week it was found that Green Mountaineers stood 2-to-1 in favor of the 21st Amendment. Only about half the usual number of voters turned out for the election, nonvoters feeling that Repeal was now inevitable. With Vermont as the 25th consecutive State to turn thumbs on the 18th Amendment, about two-thirds of those voting were on record for Repeal. The popular vote to date stood: For—10,186,690; Against—3,213,440. Next State to vote was Maine which went Dry 75 years ago. The State Supreme Court had ruled that delegates must be chosen by counties, must sit as a deliberative assembly unbound by the sentiment of the State as reflected in its total popular vote. With no Wet or Dry labels on the ballots, voters were confronted with a maze of names from which they had to pick men who in the preceding campaign had indicated their position on the Repeal question. But most Maine voters had been provided with lists of bona fide Wet or Dry delegates by the conflicting organizations. Result in the 26th State to vote on Repeal indicated a 2-to-1 Wet victory.