The issue is squarely before us.

Shall we continue the rule of rum and boodle and shameless incompetency, or shall we, as President Marsh said in his noble speech, rise as good citizens and begin a new order of things, cleansing our city of the worst enemy known to municipal honesty, and doing what lies in our power to do with the ballot to purify our civic life?
"The NEWS is positively and without reservation on the side of the new movement.

We shall henceforth do all in our power to drive out the saloon and destroy its political strength.

We shall advocate the election of the men nominated by the majority of citizens met in the first primary and we call upon all Christians, church members, lovers of right, purity, temperance, and the home, to stand by President Marsh and the rest of the citizens who have thus begun a long-needed reform in our city." President Marsh read this editorial and thanked God for Edward Norman.

At the same time he understood well enough that every other paper in Raymond was on the other side.