Shall The Saloon Go?

A Washtenaw county prohibition conference will be held in Ann Arbor, at Fireman's hall, Wednesday, Nov. 1G, at 11 o'clock a. m. Hon. Chas. S. May, oL Kalamazoo, a fice orator, is advertised to address the meeting at 2 o'clock of thatday. It ia expected that every town in the connty except Freedom, Lyndon, and Bridjtewater, will be repre6ented. The conference will discusa ways and tneans for the campaien of next year. It is desired by the leaders in Ann Arbor to keep a good man in Washtenaw county all the time making speeches in school-houses, canvassing for prohibition papers, and laboring with individuals to induce tbem to join the Prohibition party. The vcxed question of local cption of course will come up for dis3ussion. In counties where the prohibition amendment had a majority, the prohibitioniats are going ahead securing petitions for a special election ; but in this county the third party prohibitionists are evincing a desire to throw the respoosibility upon the republicana for starting the ball a rolling. Mr. B. J. Conrad, the chairman of the prohibition county committee, was found Monday working industriously in Bending out circulars to hij lieutenants in the towns askirig them to attend the conference. He said that he had been about the county a good deal lately, and some Prohibitionists and Republicana he föund think that local option could be carried in Washtenaw county in spite of the adverse vote on the amendment. "This local option law is a Republican measure," eaid Mr. Conrad, " and I don't know of a third party piohibitionist who asked for it. We don't feel very anxioup, therefore, to take all the odium, and bear all the expense and trouble, of circulating a petition for the necessary number of aignatnres before the election can take place. The Republicans ought to do tbat. But if the question of prohibition in Washtenaw county comes up for a vote we will work bard for prohibition. If we had secured a majority for the prohibitory amendment, we would go ahead now without doubt, and circuíate the petition. "It would be a grand thing for Ann Arbor if we could once banish the saloons from ihe county," continued Mr. Conrad. "I know of a family in Missouri that sent a young son to the University, and in four years he was a drunkard. The father went about Missouri advising parents not to send their sons here. We would soon have 500 more students in the Uuiversity after driving out the saloons." Said a Republican the other day : "The attempt of the third party prohibitionists to make political capital out of the question of an election under the local option law, will not work. The law aays nothing about parties. Certainly, if any party has any responsibility about it, it is the Prohibitioe party. But it ia really a citizens' queation, and the citizens irrespective of party should take hold of the matter. I think we ought to wait in Washtenaw awhile, and see how the efforts in other counties succeed."