The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-09
TEMPERANCE MASS MEETING.

TEMPERANCE MASS MEETING.
Ia accordance with call circulated in
the county by means of hand bills, the
temperance people of Alexander county
met en- mass convention yesterday after
noon and night for the purpose of select
ing delegates to the senatorial and congress
sional temperance conventions to be held
respectively ~ Anna, on the Goth, and Car
bondale on the 9th instants.
The meeting was to have been called to
order at 2 o'clock, but owing perhaps to a
rising rain storm, there were not a sufficient
number present in the hall to carry out
this part of the programme. However,
delegates from the country soon begun to
arrive and by 2:30 o'clock the meeting
was called to order by President Alden, Of
the Temperance Reform Club
Mr. VIM, Ireland, of Hodges Park, was
suggested for chairman, and he was unan.
mously elected. Mr.. Ireland modestly
sought to decline the honor but he was not
permitted to do so and he took the chair.
Mr. NJ. yesterday was nominated and
elected secretary without opposition.
On motion of DR.. J. $. Petre, Messrs.
j. p. Coyle, Charles Hammond and j. NJ.
Bowles, and Mrs. L. j. Rittenhouse were
appointed by the chair as committee on
resolutions.
The question of whether or not the meet.
ing should bring out"a full ticket" that
was to say, county, senatorial and con-
gressional, ticket, was raised by
DR.. Petrie. AS for himself, he favored
full ticket. He had seen two great parties
in council here and place in the field
men for whom he could not vote and be con-
sistent with himself. And the conventions
of these two parties had even in so many
words resolved to oppose the temperance
movement. He could not vote for either
the Democratic or Republican candidates
for Congress and the state legislature, and if
no Prohibition candidates were put in the
field he would not vote at all.
Chairman Ireland concurred with the
DR.. in the opinion that a full ticket should
be nominated He thought it was time to
md out how strong the Prohibition party
was; it was time to have and organization of
the party in this county an in these dis
tlicts, and he could think of
no better way than to take an active, par
tisan part in all the elections.
Mr.. yesterday thought that in the con
sideraton Of this important matter every
part OF the county should be represented.
mere were a number Of Prohibtionists in
lhe county precincts who had signifed their
intention OF being present at the meeting,
but who had not yet arrived. He sug-
sested that the convention adjourn until
I ~ o'clock at night, and that the furthur
consideration OF the question under dis |
cu'slop be postponed until then.
Mr. G. NJ. Alden also spoke in favor of
adjournment, and DR.. Petrie moved that
tue meeting adjourn until the hour named, |
which was carried.
The meeting was very nice one
throughout Six or eight ladies
were present and were recognized as mem.
oers OF the convention. The males, unluck. |
ny numbering just thirteen, were princi-
pally from the country precincts.
NIGHT SESSION.
The night session was called to order bv |
the chairman The exercises were opened
with prayer by Mr.. Bowles.
A committee Of three was appointed TO
select candidates for the county Offices and
delegates to the senatorial and COMPRESSION.
al conventions, and pending the delbera.
tons OF this committee, the report of the
committee on resolutions was read and
adopted. The resolutions were as follows
Resolved, that we, as citizens of Alexan.
amer county recognize in the manufacture
ana sale OF intoxicating liquors as bev-
efage sin against God, a crime and curse
against mankind, which no human enact.
men' or usage can make right, and as
Christianity, humanity, and patriotism
aliKe demand its prohibition, therefore,
we declare in favor of
FIRST Submitting to a vote of the peo.
pie OF the State of Illinois, constitutional
prohibiting the manufacturing
ana sale OF alcoholic beverages in this
state.
Second. The enactment of all existing
Jaws restricting and prohibiting the sale Of
lntoxicants, gambling and Sabbath break.
ing.