Prohibition was the law of the land by 1920, but the Prohibition Party was still uneasy. As the presidential campaign season got underway, they feared that neither a Republican nor a Democratic president could be trusted to vigorously enforce the new law. Already there were proposals to weaken prohibition by modifying the law to allow the manufacture of light wines and beer.
![Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still, ca. 1922. [RG3348-10-11]](https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/blog%20/%20img/4523.jpg)
![Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still, ca. 1922. [RG3348-10-11]](/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/blog%20/%20img/4523.jpg)
May 1, 1917, the first day of statewide prohibition in Nebraska. NSHS RG0813-40
Official portrait of Judge Joseph William Woodrough
Edward Rosewater. NSHS RG2411.PH0-4772-2
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