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North Dakota entered the Union in 1889 with a Prohibition law among its statutes. In 1915 it voted, by referendum, to make its Dry law more severe. In 1918, its legislature ratified the 18th Amendment by a whacking majority...
Last week, final compilation of another Prohibition referendum in North Dakota, showed that some 86,000 voters were still Dry, that some 82,000 voters wanted to repeal the State enforcement law. Repealers were in the majority in two of North Dakota's three Congressional districts...
Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis and Manhattan is a lawyer, writer, globetrotter, Princeton graduate (1868). He is kin of the late famed Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. His father, Winslow S. Pierce, was a Comptroller of California. His law partners included the late Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and the late U. S. Senator David Turpie of Indiana. Among his neighbors was Benjamin Harrison. Among his friends were Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson...
Practically all such votes will, however, cancel each other, as required by the law of equal chances. The weighty, decisive body of votes will be moved by instinct. In the last analysis, such issues as the campaign will present will sum up in two questions which instinct alone can answer...
Whether or not Son-in-Law Soloviev was the means of carrying out his father-in-law's prophecy, it is significant that he was gifted in lesser degree with the prodigious hypnotic powers of Rasputin...