> Women praying for Prohibition near polling places are blamed by wet leaders for the loss since September of seven Kentucky counties to the drys. (Bourbon-famed Kentucky now has 66 dry counties, 54 wet.) The wets demanded that the vote be thrown out because the praying pickets intimidated the voters. Assistant Attorney General Guy Herdman has ruled against the wets. Said he: "Unless you could establish that praying affected the result, it would not invalidate the election. No voter would be so weak as to admit that these prayers so frightened him...
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