The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-09
PROHIBITION AT ATLANTA.
The City on the Eve OF Another Big
Municipal Battle.

The City on the Eve OF Another Big
Municipal Battle.
ATLANTA. Ca, Nov. s.-The municipal
.ampsign has been opened in earnest. It is
"a square issue of barrooms or no barrooms,
SO put that it cannot readily be avoided.
and In consequence one of the hottest fights
on record is to be the result. For
month the campaign has been
kept IN what might be called
slumbering conditions on account Of the
Piedmont exposition, there being a racit
agreement between the factions not 20 open
the fight fully until after the exposition
closed. Meanwhile, however, the an ti-bar-
room and barrooH men have been hard at
work IN quiet way. ana now that the ex-
position IS at an end the subdued interest
will be allowed TO leap TO fever heat at a
bound.
Apparently the auti-berroom faction has
been the more active of the two. A full
ticket for aldermen aud counollmen was
placed In the field month ago. and already
several speeches have been made by prohibi-
ton leaders. Thursday night last Rev. Sam
Small took the boards aud made one of his
usual energetic speeches 10 big meeting in
the 1870 Club rooms.
That was the first big gun of the proaibi-
tion campaign. Mr.. Small announced
that he would continue in the field until the
close OF the fight, and to-day delivered his
second broadslde. Monday the other side
will in ell probability be heard from. The
anti-barroom people consider that the
nature of their fight gives them the right to
carry it on on Sunday, and therefore
they have the start Of the opposing faction,
who contend that politics should not be
preached in place of the gospel.
Inst hare IL NAV ha Tr,aufionad fhof ho
Evangelical Ministers' Association declined
to indoRe the anti-barroom ticket, and the
preachers will not take any active or or
ganizsd part III the campaign as they have
done heretofore, unless sentiment changes
when the fight warns up.
Barrooms are TO be abolished by the re-
fusal Of council to grant licenses, if the pro-
inhibition ticket wins. Already there are sew
eral prohibitionists in council pledged to this
policy, who, with the members on the ticket
now in the field. could easily accomplish
their end.
The anti-barroom ticket ia cham
pioued by the 1890 Club, a prohi-
bition organization which has
been in existence since the close of the Sec
ond local option election.
Opposition TO the prohibitionsts in or
ganized form comes from the VI. A. B., Il
secret political club, which everybody rec
ognizes as the chief factor in the defeat of
prohibition four years ago. They have NOT
yet agreed upon a ticket, but several have
been under consideration.
In addition to these two factions, zach OF
which will fight for its particular side of
the barroom question, It is very likely that
conservative citizens will put out third
ticket. pledged neither way.
Monday meeting OF the city executive
committee will be held to consider this, and
also the best way Of selecting such ticket.
by mass meeting or primary.
Both sides on the prohibition question are
watching the registration books closely, and
voters illegally registered, and that some
prosecutions are likely to be made before
the election in order to put the others on
notice of the vigorous policy co be pursued