Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-06-20
I.sncoIn County Prohibition Convention.
RRo6EHAIJFy June II 18S-

| man or the County Prohibition Ex
eclhve Committee, the Prohibition
lsts.0t Lincolna county met ut the
/ Court House in the city of Brookha-
ven at IL . clock IL m.
+ The Chairman being absent, the
meeting was called to order by Dr.
/ G. .g(iallnway, and on motion,
Judge j. b. Chrisman was unani-
mously chosen Chairman pro TEN,
and Col. Dan'l Dennett and w. Il.
Spencer requested to ;acc as Secre-
tarics. iea1l =
Il .Iiulao Ghrisman, on taking the
char. 4rletly explained 4hat the OBJ
ject Of the meeting was to select del
l'rgates to attend the State Prohibi-
ti5n Convention, to be held I'm Jaek-
son on July lst, 1885. aii ! ~ i
On notion of DIR. Galloway, "a
committee on resolutions, consisting
Of five members, was appointed by
i the chair, to whom AL resolutions
! offered must be referred for consider
alton before being acted upon by the
Injecting. The chair appointed on
i said committee Dir. &. B. GALLOWAY,
/ J. f. ChiIes, Danl bennett, J. vi,
Tyler and b. J. Lard. 80
The chair here announced that
/ DIR. Galloway had consented to a;!-
dress the meeting and requested that
all who favored hearing him now
would please rise to their feet. The
meeting unanimously expressed
! themselves in favor of hearing him
by rising.
Dir. Galloway then came forward
and delivered one 1t the most elo-
quent, able and masterly addresses
upon the subject of Prohibition ever
delivered in Brookhayen, at the
close Of which the meeting took re-
cess until 2 o'clock p. m.
The chair then announced that
the ladies' Of the W. c. L. L. would
| furnish an excellent dinner in the
lower story of the building, for the
! small sum of , cents, the funds
/ raised to be used for the benefit of
| their society.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Promptly at , O'Clock the chair
man called the meeting to order.
The chairman Of the committee on
resolutions reported the following
resolutions, which report was re-
ceivea and adopted:
RESOLUTION 50. |.
Resolved, 1st, That this conven-
ton appoint 25 delegates from the
county-at large to attend the State
Prohibition Convention, called to
convene III jackson on the 1st day
Of July.
Resolved, ID, That in our judg-
ment the people of the county should
have opportunity afforded to them
by legislation to decide for them
selves in an election separate from
other elections, whether or not the
sale Of splrituous liquors shall be
prohibited BY law. We learn from
various sources and from leaders OF
the dominant political party that
said party will very probably at its
next convention express approval 0!
submitting the question TO popular
vote, and we hope the other existing
party will do likewise.
Resolved, Sd, That while we do
not seek 10 disturb the party aflilia-
ton of each other in respect to the
two great national parties, we at the
same time agree that we will not
support any man for the Legislature
who IS opposed to local option by
counties as regards the privilege 81
retailing liquor, and We propose to
vote solid against any man who has
not sufficient confidence in the intel
ligence and patriotism of his fellow
citizens to submit the question o.
Prohibition to this and to other
counties in the State.
Resolved, 18th, That we invite the
law-abiding people Of the county,
and AL friends Of the temperance
cause, to lend Their influence in
helping to remove the great evil oui
Of the land.
RESOLUTION NO. =.
WHEREAS, Lincoln county, in the
State Of Mississippi, according to the
census Of 1890, contains 13,541
souls (7,7Ol white, 5,Sf6 colored)
and,
WHEREAS, This county contains
1,500 farms and its inhabitants are
chiefly farmers and
WHEREAS, At least $1,000 out D
1871 Of our population derive nj
benefit whatever from saloons ant
the whisky traffic Of Brookhayen
but on the contrary more thar
$4,000 of people of all colors anc
ages, suffer more or less by the ex
+ istence of this traffic in our midst
i, and.
WHEREAS, We believe that hin,
out OF ten and more of the voters o
this county, if wellinformed and al
! lowed to give honest votes w0ulC
cast their ballots in favor of driving
/ the traffic from Brookhaven and Lin
coin county; Therefore be it 'i
ii Resolved, That in the name OF
\ strong majority of the legal voters o
i Lincoln county, we solemnly protes
against the continuance of the whis
Ky traffic anywhere in the limits 0
this town and county and 824
s.E Z In the name of more than nine
itenths Of the farmers Of Lincoll
county and their families ;54a. -.
In thnl name Of more than nine