Dry Forces Name a Ticket and Expect to Run Newport Unopposed
In a caucus at the Lusher & Chrysler office, the Municipal League put up Mike Fox Sr. for mayor and a full Citizens' Ticket for the December 7 election — and nobody expects a rival slate.
At a caucus held Wednesday evening at the office of Lusher & Chrysler a ticket was placed in nomination to come before the voters of the town of Newport at the municipal election to be held Dec. 7.
Rev. G. H. Rice was named as chairman of the caucus with W. L. Chrysler as secretary. The committee previously appointed by the Municipal League to line up and submit a list of candidates for the consideration of the caucus presented the following for nomination:
For Mayor — Mike Fox, Sr. For Councilmen — George Torreson, D. R. Lusher. For Town Treasurer — Fred Phillips.
The ticket proposed was unanimously accepted and placed in nomination. A committee consisting of Messrs. S. J. Appleman, E. J. Lutz and George Graupner was appointed to fill any vacancies which might occur in the ticket. After adopting the name of Citizens' Ticket, with which to head their ballot, the caucus adjourned.
It is likely that no other ticket will be placed in nomination and that these gentlemen will be selected to administer the municipal government of Newport for the next two years. There is a general disposition to concede the reins of government to those who were active in bringing about local option, with the thought that a rigid enforcement of the dry law will be brought about and a fair test given the proposition.
“There is a general disposition to concede the reins of government to those who were active in bringing about local option, with the thought that a rigid enforcement of the dry law will be brought about and a fair test given the proposition.”
The men who won local option in September took the whole town government in December, and the paper expected no contest at all — a one-party, single-issue slate in a small town. The promise was a 'fair test' of Prohibition enforcement, the same bargain communities still strike when they hand power to the faction that won a single vote. Newport's dry experiment would be tested by the very officials who campaigned for it.
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