The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-18
THE ~DRYsO AND EDITOR At WAR;
North DanviIis Prohibitionists AFTER THO
.Great and Only Piedmont Daily"


D,Sv,LLx, Va. July 17.-tSpecial.l-I
p,obibition campaign in North Danyiiie. rs
has already been telegraphed The TIMES. WIS
,o-,, hitter and has left wounds that will re-
a,,;,o rruch time 10 heal. When 1t became
ev;dent that the white people, being
SO evenly divided. the nSegro's vote vote
NUS both sides made strenuous efforts
70 s.cure that vote. The vets employed q
vb;ts Republican speaker and imported
80 orator from Petersburg. The drys then
;ros,or,ed negro preacher named Brooks
from washington 10 speak in favor OF prohi-
bition. On Monday night last this negro
preacher spoke at nm open air meeting 70
a rnixed audience of men. women and chill
dren of both races and the speaker was rotten
egged by rowdies.
She Danyille Register, which had taken no
n.rt in the fight. commented edtOrally on
The Monday nights affair and splritedly con-
damned the whole business. The article,
which was headed. Two Wrongs Never
Make Right" was as follows: There are
numbers of people who regret e1eeedihsiy
that the North Danvllle Frohibltionsts
saw proper to import colored
preacher from Washington to 'enllghten
North Danyille on the moral questions
involved in the prohibition campaign, ana,
undoubtedly, the sight of white women mar
shalled in mixed and promiscuous outdoor
night audience Monday night TO listen TO the
exhortatiOns of cOlored men was repugnantt 10
the ideas Of Southerners and in violation OF
what we have always understood as South
ern sense of propriety but there are none. we
think. among the better class OF North Dan
yille's population who approve OF the
boisterous acts of thei rOwdes who. on the
same night. were engaged in throwing rotten
eggs at the speaker and those VINO sat WITH
Al. -. M nEG a
have been allowed TO say his say IN ms own
way. and those who had the indiscretion 70
reflect upon North Danville's people by I'M
porting him held responsible for the indiscre-
ton in other ways than by throwing rotten
eggs at the colored preacher who doubtless
was simply doing no more than earning inc
wages that were paid to him to come and do
his talking. -,
Two wrongs never made a right. and II
there is any law against throwing rotten eggs
il should he vigorously enforced against the
throwers provided the police can catch the
right men,"
Wednesday night committee OF three sent
by the Prohibitonists Of North Danyiiie, de-
manded of the Register that a communication
signed by fifty persons be published. The COM
munication, which was addressed TO the editor
of the Register was insulting and scurrilous,
and Mr. WOodsOn the managing editor and au-
thor of the above quoted editorial, politely
refused 10 publish it. The next morning the
communication was published Ill circular
form and scattered broadcast over the two
towns. The Register Of that morning also
contained an account of the visit OF the COM
mittee. and firmly declined to retract any
thing or 10 apologize OF explain anything.
The chief complaint of the North Danville
men seemed to be that the Register had used
the word women. instead of ladies 1t
said I'VE are Southerners. and as such are
Il &c Lsr,. cf az nd
the eternal fitness of things rs you ever dare
boast and when the most refined and cultured
ladies of our town are dubbed
white women marshaled IN mixed
and prOmscuous outdoor night au-
dience our Indignation rises 10 fever heat
and the English language fails TO express our
vituperation for such wanton insolence.
There is an OdOr emanatlng from your last
issue which is more disgusting than 1t Is pos
sible for rotten eggs, rotten whisky and
rotten onions, all combined, to produce,
and we call on you TO retract, apollo
gize, and explain to the public through
the columns of your most admirable paper
that this man was not imported here to en-
tighten North Danyille people but 10 speak
10 his own race and color the words OF truth
and soberness, and that North Danyilles
white citizens, ever willing to give honor to
whom honor is due, lent their presence and
influence 10 the meeting by occupying seats
reserved specially for them"
The Register having vigorously refused
10 accede to the demand of the irate
signers OF the circular, a public meeting WAS
called tonight to take action" $50 says the
dodger calling the meeting! in regard to the
insult offered the people OF North DanyiIle
by the Dsnville Register.
The meeting was attended by about one
hundred and seventy-fYe Prohibitionists Of
North Danville, and WAS somewhat ran
tankerous." Some favored conservative steps
and others favored boycotting and other
means to make the Register eat dirt one
legged man favored lighting Finally series
of resolutions denouncing the Register was
passed. and that ended the meeting.