The daily Republican., 1902-11-25
Wilmington, Del, November "a, lyQ2.
Local Option.

The friends Of the temperance
cause are engaged in movement
to secure the submission of the
question Of license or no license to
the voters at the general election
OF 1904. They appear to be start
ing in the right way. They are
acting in accordance with the con-
stitutional provisions on the subject
which are found in article l3 of the
constitution.
"The General Assembly," says
section of the article, may from
time to time provide by law for the
submission to the vote of the quail
fed electors of the several districts
OF the State, or any of them, mem
Moned in section 2 of this article
the question whether the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors
shall be licensed OF prohibited with
in the limits thereof; and in every
district in which there is a majority
against license, no person, firm or
corporation shall thereafter manu-
facture or sell spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, except for medicinal
or sacramental purposes, within
said district until at subsequent
submission of such question, a ma
jority Of votes shall be cast in said
district for license. Whenever
majority of all the members elected
to each House Of the General AS
sembly by the qualified electors in
any district named in section 2 of
this article shall request the sub
mission of the question of license
or DO license to vote Of the quail
fed electors in said district, the
General Assembly shall provide for
the submission Of such question to
the qualified electors in such district
ut the next general election"
: Section 2 designates Sussex Coun-
ty as one district, Kent County as
one district, rural New Castle Coun-
ty as one district, and Wilmington
as one district, for the purposes of
the act.
Section 3 directs that the General
assembly shall provide necessary
laws to carry out aud enforce the
provisions of the article, enact laws
governing the manufacture and sale
OF Intoxicating liquors under the
limitations of the article, and pro-
vide such penalties as may be nee
essary to enforce the same.
s The first thing which the temper
ance folk need to do is to stir up
sentiment that will secure the co.
operation of the Legislators in any
one of the four districts. Then if
q majority of those legislators shall
.uest the submission of the ques-
tion to the voters, the General AS
sembly must provide for its sub
mission.
Down in Smyrna, the Rev.
Vaughn s Collins, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, has
begun the local option movement
for Kent County. One thing insist
ed upon is that it shall be divorced
from politics and SO Pastor Collins
has had a meeting, attended by
members of the Republican, Demo
cratic and Prohibition parties, and
the committee to proceed with the
movement comprises three mem bers
of each. The same method is sug-
gested for the whole State, and the
temperance folks will strive to So
cure the cooperation of the mass of
voters. A meeting is to be held at
The Y. M. c. A. next Monday morn
ing, when the movement is to re-
ceiVe consideration and the matter
Of State organization may be dis
ctssed.
7sThe present plan of securing
popular support should be more
successful than that tried fouryeaas
Ego, when two Methodidist minis
fers epdeavored to secure favorable
eQhon on the part Of the Kent leg
gslators. At first the prospects
seemed bright, for the whole Kent
DEL egation assented to it, but it was
not long before the Legislators
withdrew their support.
r'pious may differ as to the best
-. 4 Reet the evils of drink,
- eTtsas.,sAems grounded on
principle, and that is that
~ trict should have the right
10 sayDWhether OF not Intoxicating
io,rora sho,1ld be- manufactured and