STATE ELECTIONS IN UNITED STATES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 7

STATE ELECTIONS IN UNITED STATES

" WET AND DRY " VOTES

TAMMANY DEFEATED IN NEW YORK By TelceraDh—Press Association—Ooovriiftal Washington, November 5. In the elections of State Governors, tiro Republicans gained several Governorships. Kentucky defeated a Prohibition r.meiionicnt. Ohio decided to remain dry._ A. wet candidate won the New Jersey Governorship. An anti-strike Governor was returned in Massachusetts by a record majority. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was rct.urncrf as Assemblyman for New York State. His election synchronised with a birth of a son, who was named Quentin. Tammany was defeated heavily in New York, ana tho .Socialists had no gains.. At Cleveland, Oiiio, John Kilbanc, pugilist, was defeated for municipal honours.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. November 6, 8.55 p.m.) New York, November 3. Ohio has triplctf the former dry majority—Renter. PROHIBITION ANDTABOUR UNREST MR. GOMPERS REBUKED. Washington, November 5. The Methodist Church has issued a rebuke in reply to Mr. Gompers's statement that prohibition is responsible for industrial unrest.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Mr. Samuel Goinpers, president of tho American Federation of Labour," djsenss ine the current unrest, said the foisting of Drohibition on the people of the Unitfid States is a blunder charged wii.li dunear and loaued with disastrous possibilities. The adoption of prohibition takes the change of wrecking the social anil economic fabric of the nation. jVn invasion of tli.e workingnmn's habits unsettled him. "Bolshevism in Russia began with prohibition."") 'A STARTLING STATEMENT. 'Rec. November 7,-0.50 a.m.) London, November 4. "The Times'a" New York correspondent makes the startling declaration that according to police and other reports prohibition has been followed by a wave of increased' drug talcing. The vice has trebled in such States as Colorado, Utah, and Montana. Extreme Socialistic and Bolshevistic movements, particularly of the 1.W.W., arc gaining ground, and a large percentage of the law-abiding trades unionists are joining them, believing that prohibition is the outcome of anti-labour movements. A new entry has been added to the police lists—"death dne to drinking wood alcohol."—"The Times."