The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-31
rHE pRoHlhlTIoNrsrs.
They Re-enter the Arena to Stay
Until Whisky IL Driven from
Lincoln County.
Some Strong resolutions.
BRookHAvrN. Julr 2sth. lss


BRooKHAvRN, July 2Sth, 1884.
In pursuance to call of the Chairman Of
Permanent Organization, the Prohibition
lists of Lincoln county met at the County
Court House, at IL o'clock NJ. The Chair
man being unavoidably absent in another
State, the meeting was called to order by
the Secretary, d. T. Hobbs, and ON mo-
ton, W. r. Spencer was unanimously
chosen Chairman pro ten.
The following resolutions were intro
duced by B. 7. Hobbs:
Resolved, That o committee of FIVE,
con sisting of one member from each Beat,
be appointed by the Chair, who shall re-
tire aud report for ratification by this
Convention, County Prohibition Execu-
tive Committee, constituted as follows:
Two members selected from each Beat in
the County and five from the County ut
large, not including the Chairman of this
organization, who shall be Chairman of
this Committee. -
Resolved further, That five members of
the Committee thus appointed shall con-
stitute quorum for the transaction OF
business pertaining to the Prohibition
cause within the County, fill all vacancies
that may occur, and that their tenure of
Office be fixed at two years from this
date.
The Chair then appointed the following
Committee: John /. Marshall, W. II.
Barley, w. C. Summers, L. w. Chisholm
and J. E. Chiles; to which, on motion OF
p. G. Milan, B. T. Hobbs was also added.
The Committee retired and on return
ing reported the following:
COUNTY PROHIBITION EXECUTIVE COM.
Beat IA. J. Martin, Simeon Jordan,
Beat 2-J. NJ. White, Samuel Cooper,
col.
Beat &C. w. Huffman, Silas Garner,
col.
Beat As. J. Hodges, Jere Terrell, col.
Beat 5-W. +. Smith, Jim Markham,
col.
County LARGE. +. Floyd, W. r.
| Spencer, b. +. Beason, j. Z. Carruth and
s. p. McRee.
The report was received and adopted,
and on motion of J. r. Parish, j. NJ. Ty-
Ter was also added to the Committee from
| the county -aU-iarge.
The following preamble and resolutions
were introduced by j. E. Chiles, and af-
ter discussion by Messrs. Milan, Gam
brell, White, Hobbs and bennett, were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, We, the Prohibitionists OF
Lincoln county, in Convention assembled,
regard the licensing of the whisky bust
ness within our bounds as demOralizing
to our people, the principal source OF
crime, idleness, poverty and pauperi SIN,
striking at the very foundation of all real
prosperity, and combining all those evils
and influences which are calculated to
keep our County in its present impover-
ished and debt-ridden condition /; there
fore be it
Resolved, That, gathering fresh en-
couragement from the Inherent rightful
ness of orr cause and the great progress
which it is to-day making in our com
mon country and State, we hereby re
affirm our purpose and determination tC
renew the contest in Lincoln, and press
the hattie with unremittlng zeal unit
whisky is driven from eur bounds.
That we hereby express our unqualified
condemnation of the members of th'
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the Legislature who voted for or in any
manner aided in the defeat of the LincolI
county Prohibition bill Mt the last session
whereby less than two hundred voters in
the town of Brookhaven were allowed tC
set aside the expressed will of fourteen
hundred in the County at large.
Resolved, That we also strongly disap
prove of the course of those citizens o
Brookhaven who, under the flattering but
really false assumption that the sale o
whisky would make to the interest of the
town, voted to retain it, regard
less of the welfare of the County
at large and in defiance of what
they knew to he the will of a majority O
the people, and that we now extend &
cordial invitation to all such to join anG
aid us in our efforts to suppress the traf
fic, believing as we do that every dime
that goes into the tills of the five saloon.
of BrOokhaven are not only worse thar
thrown into the fire, as far as concern;
the individual who thus exchanges his
earnings for the fiery beverage, but that
it is Just so much taken from the legiti-
mate and necessary branches of trade and
merchandise, and if diverted into these
by the suppression of the liquor traffic
would correspondingly add to their pros
perity and to that of the whole city OF
BroOkhaven, without bringing to the en-.
tire County harvest of crime, poverty,
indebtedness and general Generalization
Resolved further, That henceforth we
will not support or lend our influence to
any legislative aspirant who is not known
to be a man whose ability, past private
and public life entitle him to the fullest
trust and confidence, and who will not
publicly pledge himself in advance to use
all honorable and legitimate means to Sc
cure County Prohibition, without respect
to the wishes of a little minority of any
given corporation or beat And further,
that we will not give our votes or infu-
ence in support of candidate for any
other office, who is known to be a man
of drunken and dissolute habits, it mat
tiers not what may be his qualifications
in other respects.
Resolved, That our delegates to the
State Prohibition Convention be directed
to exercise their own Judgment in the
support of measures that will best pro-
mote the general cause, but at the same
time to watch with jealous eye any prop
Osition threatening our local interests.
Resolved finally, That as we are max
ing war on the liquor traffic and not on
the individuals engaged in the business,
that we extend special invitation to the
whisky-sellers themselves to join with ms
at their pleasure in carrying out the OBJ
jects and aims of Prohibition, assuring
them that whenever they embark in any
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