The American Issue

How to Make Your Vote Count

The endorsement of the Anti-Saloon League is the best guarantee that the candidate will vote right in the Legislature if elected.

In the past, voters have often been misled into supporting candidates who were supposed to be dry but failed to support dry measures in the Legislature after election. With a knowledge of the situation in the entire district, the Anti-Saloon League endorses only the candidates who can be elected by the united vote of the drys.

If the proportion of wet and dry voters is such that only one dry candidate can be nominated, the League endorses one, while if there are enough dry votes to nominate two candidates, the League endorses two. If one candidate is endorsed, it means that he must receive the votes of all the drys to be elected. If two are endorsed, it means that all the dry votes must be divided between these two candidates only. If drys scatter their votes, giving a part of them to men who are not endorsed, the result will be that no one dry candidate will get as many votes as the wet candidates in districts where there are enough dry votes to elect one dry candidate. In districts where there are enough dry votes to elect two dry candidates if the drys fail to vote for endorsed men only, the result will be that only one or possibly not any dry candidate will get enough votes to be elected although there are enough dry votes cast to elect two had they been united upon the two endorsed candidates. Giving part of the dry vote to candidates who are not endorsed divides the dry vote so wet candidates are elected. A vote for candidates not endorsed is a wet vote because it helps wet candidates to win. Victory may depend on your vote. Don't lose it, but vote at the primaries, September 11th. Don't waste it, but vote for candidates endorsed by the Anti-Saloon League.