Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-18
THE PROHIBITION CITY OF GEORGIA
MORALLY PLAGUE-STRICKRN.
Two Sets Of Fansdcs-0ne Wants No Liquor, the
Other Wants Gin-Hills on Every COnsr-Biusr
Comments on the SituaiOn-Incidsus
Illustrating the STATE Of Things

spirit OF DraVauO. Inc ponce recOruS snow
that during that month there were 453 ar
rests made, On the last of July every one
of the saloons We're closed, and Prohibition
reigned save in half dozen wholesale
houses, where less than quart could not
be sold. For July, the first Prohibition
month, when the city officials, who are
Prohibition partisans, were anxious to
make a good record for their cause, the
number of arrests suddenly jumped up to
$50, being an increase of % per cent!
Such facts rs these caused one of the
city papers to say, on last Sunday morn
ing:
To-day is the 5th of August 1t is
thirty-eight days since prohibition went
into effect. Less money in the City and
State Treasury; less business houses occu-
pied less people in the city; less morality;
more drunkenness; more crimes and Crim-
inals; more poor people out of employment
than ever before; more taxes put upon the
people; more extra licenses imposed upon
the merchants and more dissatisfaction
among all classes of people than ever has
existed before
The Erening Capital, which was a Pro-
hibiti0n organ during the campaign, is also
out of sorts, and says
There is limit to straight-laced pur-
tanicalism, but the City Council does not
seem to know it. They find more time
to charge merchants for drayS, dodge the
chronological question: sit still and sleep
while city officials make 81 30 ti-ta opprcS-
siOns; make laws that if n man sells liquor
legally he shall be fined $500, and do a
score or more equally unprOgressive things;
but when it come to benetitting the people
or advancing the interests of the city, they
are not at home"
Added to the state of affairs thus strongly
stated is the fact that Fulton county, in
which Atlanta is located, shows an assess
ment this year Of $500, 600 less than last
year
TIE CONTEST FOR A CHANGE.
The newly organized Conservative Club
is an ASSOCIATION of citizens who see that
the city is being knitted between two sets
of fanaticS-thc PrOhibtiOniStS, who would
ruin everything to secure the success of
! their hobby, and the Liquor Dealers ASsO-
ciation who would have cheap groggerics
| in every square The Conservatives pro-
pose to draw n middle line, and by COM
! bining business experience with a desire
! for moral reform, to bring about, by prob
ably high license, 4 state of things which
will not be menace to business. Their
ranks are being filled by recruits from the
| two extremists. 4 ticket will be run for
| the City Council, in which the issue will
/ he clearly drawn. The Conservative can
didate for Mayor, it is generally under
stood, will be Hon. J. Tyler Cooper, while
/ City Recorder Anderson is the man who is
looked forward to as the leader of the Pro-
! hibtiOnistS.
The colorcd people have made an almost
complete change of sentiment. When the
Prohibition campaign opened the cOlOred
churches were the popular resorts of Cau-
| casian workers The preachers were fiat
tered into service, and, being invited To sit
cheek by iowl with their white brethren,
they felt that tHe millennium had come.
/ Prohibition became their sole topic. The
whole power of the Church was used 10
compel the negroes to vote dry. Now these
voters see the white men getting all the
| liuuOr they want but the African citizen
is at discount No "blind tiger" will
! trust him. Consequently he looks upon
the whole affair as well devised white
mans trick to keep him out of his dram.
BLIND TIGER"
This latest addition to the menagerie is q
vcritablc wild beast in the smaller towns
! of the State In almost every community
where vote has been taken on the prOhi-
| bition question it left behind it two bitter
| factions. Those who favored the sale of
! liquor refused TO accept the law as salutary.
| 1t became known that some one was run
| ming 'blind tiger, more out of a spirit of
| defiance than for the money there was in
/ il. PartisanS who had never before drank
/ liquor frcqucntcd these places to cheer on
| the boys. Thus feuds have arisen which
may never be healed again. One of the
most notable cases of this kind is that of
! Tobe Jackson, in Barlow county. TObe
was a good natured lad, whose first excite
ment was experienced in the Prohibition
election in his county. The liquor men
were defeated, and TObc organized a
! blind tiger for his friends, Fight after
! fight was the result, and in the attempt TO
enforce the law neighbOr became iniOrmer
on neighbOr Judge Collins house was
one night blown up by dynamite Next
day Jackson was fugitive, but his friends
still swore by him. He was followed to
Texas and brought back. Pending his
| trial he became involved in the homicide
of Strickland, about month ago. He is
now in Fulton county Jail, under SEN
! tence of ten years.
THE LAW THROUGHOUT TIE STATE.
Throughout the State the law is almost
openly defed. In ElbertOn, for instance,
! it is said that ''ifprQhibitiOn is TO be judg-
ed by its operation in ElbertOn, it is not a
success" Liquor is sold every day in the
| town. and the PrOhibitiOnists are despOn-
dent Every town along the Richmond
and Danville railroad is dry, yet the trav-
eler can step into almost any store and get
what he wants. if he looks like a man who
can be trusted. The piles of kegs and jugs
to be seen at every station, consigned to the
local express agents. shows that the liquor
still finds its way into the county.
! In the recent Legislative nomination IN
Wilkes County, the home OF the late
! General looms, the WHISKY lSSue WAS
brought in. 1t was defeated by majority
of 137. The drift in all parts of the State
is against further prohibition. Not only
is this the case in Georgia, but 1t is also
manifesting itself in South Carolina. In
Barnwell County the Democratic COnyen-
ton. by vote of 66 TO 6S, decided upon
the repeal of prohibition. The result was
accepted by the ProhibitiOnists.
SOME INCIDENTS IN ATLANTA.
There is a policeman in Atlanta known
as Jumbo Hunter. Jumbo has won an un-
enviable reputation as a spy, the liquor
men taking strong ground against his
methods.
Three men in Brooklyn" recently pro-
cured each q quart of whisky. Standing
on prominent street crossing they forced
their liquor upon all who passed. They
were finally arrested, and had to pay into
the city Treasury SO piece for their un-
appreciated hospitality.
Some wag attached quart bottle to
telegraph wire fifty feet high. 1t slipped
down the swag of the wire, and now hangs
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