Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-05-08
FROM aLCoRN cougTr.
CoRINTH, Mss May |. 1886.
,ditOr SWORD AND SHIELD:


We assume the liberty Of addressing
this article to you for publication in the
SWORD AND SHIELD, from the fact that
we know that you are always more than
willing to publish any thing that YOU
deem of interest to the Prohibition
cause.
We would not ask 50 much space in
your valuable and ieasless journal, but
inasmuch as We constantly receive let
ters from all parts of the State, making
inquiry in reference to the late election
just held in Alcorr county under the
Local Option law, and for the further
fact that we see in some of the State pa
pers some very erroneous reasons given
why this county went for the sale" by
the enormous majority of ~, We beg you
to give this article space in your paper
just as soon as this law passed, the
for sale" crowd in this county went to
work and procured the signatures ofone
tenth of the legal voters of this county,
calling for an election There was a
meeting ofthe Board Of Supervisors
held on the 9Th of April to consider
that petition. They ordered the election
on that day, April 9th, to be held on
the 10th of April They appointed
three commissioners, t,co of whom we're
anti -Prohibitionists Those three com
missioners in appointing the the Inspcc-
tors of election at the different precincts
in the county took the precaution to
make t,co of the Inspectors at every
single precinct in the county anti-Pro-
hibitionists.
In the face Of all these disadvantages
and the short time of only two weeks to
make the canvass, the Temperance peo-
pie organized; went TO work in earnest
They spent the first week in publishing
appointments for speaking the second
week; the second week was very rainy
and bad, but the work went on as best
it could under the circumstances.
The whisky mon boldly boasted on the
streets OF Uorinth that they would carry
the county by not less than five hundred
majority, and professed longing desire
all through the canvass to bet that. they
would carry every single box in the
county; but it SO happened that the
whisky men carried four boxes and the
Temperance side carried six boxes
Corinth was the place where the heart
OF the whisky men were most desirous
of carrying, and they did not permit
single one of their workers who voted at
this box to go elsewhere, but kept the
whole phalanx here, with their backs
bowed like tobacco worm, working to
carry the box for the sale. They have t
been claiming that the Corinth five mile
law was obnoxious to the dear people
that the law had been conceivedon the
part OF, and delivered by, a few men only
and that the personal liberties of people
were infringed upon and that if they
could only get to the ballOt-box they
would vote such an overwhelming vote
for the sale, : as to completely shame
the five mile law out of existence; but it
came to pass on the day. of the election,
that the dear people failed to condemn
but on the contrary ratified, upheld and
endorsed the five mile law. by giving
majority against the sale by full,
free and untramelled vote.
In this county we have three different J
md seperate Prohibition laws; one the
i've mile law at Corinth, where it went J
against the sale; one is in the Second t
supervisors District, including all that t
erritory that vote at the Pennington J
oox, and that box gave majority
lgainst the sale; thereby ratifying that
Prohibition law. The other is the FIVE
nile law Of Kossuth, in this county, and
he kossuth box went over two to one
gainst the sale. So all statements or G
that the good people ofthis T
ounty have tried Prohibition and voted t
t out, is not true, but, on the contrary. t
very Prohibition law in the country t
Vas sustained by majority vote against n
he sale in the territors effected bythese Y
avs.
To further show how the Temperance
ointment is growing in this county, we :
Ill state that last year there was fled a "
etition for license from the third Dis Y
rict, (the Rienzi district), before the 7
'oard Of Supervisors, containing three :, =
undred and FIVE names. The regular I
oting strength of the district being but Z
,ur hundred and thirty FIVE, but by = :,
'rong and vigorous agitation, there was :, =
lough Of those three hundred and FIVE = =
ulled off to defeat the issuance of IL :
,nse, and in that district which votes
Rienzi, the whisky men only carried it
ie district by forty nine majority. and st