Edinburgh, Oct. 6.
'The Citizens' Councils—that is, the Temperance Reformers,—have done their work thoroughly, and by dint of assiduous canvassing have secured the 10 per cent. of the electors in every area they attacked. Scotland is divided into 1,200 areas, and in about 600 they have lodged demands for polls; about 300 other areas are already "dry" through the action of large landowners; and the remaining 200 areas are all in remote districts with not more than one or two inns. Polls are therefore a certainty throughout practically the whole of Scotland that really matters. The big fight will be in the cities, notably in Glasgow.
The newly-enfranchised women voters, it is understood, have supplied the larger number signatures to the preliminary _requisition for the polls. But they have not yet mastered the ethics of citizenship, and allowed their zeal to outrun their discretion. Many of the signatures are marked doubtful, and it was quite common. for women to sign for their husbands or other relatives.
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