Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28
NUMBER 40.
WILL PROHIBITION WIN?
The City OF Atlantis Excited from Top to
Bottom Over the Question of Local Option
The Work Being Done.

| The City OF Atlanta Excited from Top ia
Bottom Over the Question of Local Option
Tho Work Being Done.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 1.-On Wednesday
next will close the most remarkable con-
test ever carried ON in any southern city,
when Atlanta will decide whether the sale
of LIQUOR shall be prohibited or not. For
ten years temperance agitation has been
carried on in Georgia which has 80 far sue
ceeded that now ont Of 1S7 counties OF the
state the sale Of liquor is only allowed in
| fifteen. These fifteen counties are the seats
of large cities. where the liquor element
has large property interests at stake.
The principal by which Negotiation was
carried on is known a. that of "local OPP
ton" It hss been preached in each COM
munity as moral and not q political mess-
ure, IL us meeting the support Of both po-
litical parties, both cOlOrs and the entire
moral element of society. It was not un-
til the movement reached the large cities
that any serious opposition was met. These
local option elections were held under
special acts of the Legislature. The lusi-
ness interests of the large cities were stong
enough to prevent the passage OF such 10
Cal option laws 50 far as they themselves
were concerned, hence the legislature
passed local option bill under which the
ordinaries of the CO mites were required to
order elections upon the petition OF given
number Of citizens.
The first city to which this was applied
was Atlanta. An election on the question
was ordered by Ordinary Calhoun on the
petition Of $500 voters to take place No
vember rs. Then begun . canvass which
has developed most remarkable features.
The highest vote ever cast even in presi-
Dental year was little over 5000. The
registration in this election has run up to
1900.
Tho prohibitionists organized q strong
committee backed by nearly all the preach
ers in the city; with Senator Colquitt, Dis
trict Attorney B. II. Hill and other promi-
nent men actively at work. The brunt OF
battle, however, has fallen on the shoulders
of the Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, the celebrated
Baptist preacher. The Rev. Sam Jones,
Colonel Sam Small. Rev. Atticus @. Hap
good, Rev. w. 81. FELTON, and others have
for ten days been addressing audiences Of
from five to eight thousand in Sam Jones'
gospel tent.
The anti prohi bitonists have been equal
~ active, being led by Julius Brown, son Of
Senator Brown; the Hon. Albert Cox and
many others. They have been particularly
active in committee work. The most re-
msrkable political feature of the campaign
has been the breaking up of party and
color lines. The meetings of both parties
are attended by white and black alike, and
earnest efforts have been made by both
sides to Capture the colored vote. For this
purpose speakers of both sides have not
only addressed large bodies of colored men,
but they have imported colored speakers,
such as Bishop Campbell, of Philadelphia.
Bishop Turner and ex-Congressmsn JEFF
Long. The ladies, toe, have taken up the
contest with vigor. In word every ele-
ment of society, all ages, sexes and colors,
are stirred up and nothing else is talked of
but prohibition. The general feeling is
that II Atlanta goes for prohibition the
movem ent will spread rapidly tn rough all
the southern states.