The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-02-05
ANENT THE ADAMS BILL.

At Wartrace they will vote on the 18th.
Gallatin will vote on the liquor ques-
ton on the 14th.
At Humboldt two petitions are being
freely signed-one to abolish without
vote and one for a vote.
AT Murfreesboro the temperance and
saloon people agreed to abolish the
charter to take effect July LIST, but later
some of the saloon men declined to
stand by the agreement and an election
will probably be ordered.
At Paris an election has been ordered
for the Goth by the election commits
siOners upon the request of more petit
TONERS than the law requires and the
anti-saloon people are still circulating
petitions to have the Legislature abolish
without vote.
At Shelbyville a committee was ap-
pointed upon the request of the repre-
sentative and senator at a mass meet
ing to confer with the saloon men and
agree if possible upon reasonable
time in which they should have to sell
out their stock and property.
When the Adams bill was passed the
temperance advocates made definite
promise that they would give the peo-
pie an opportunity to vote on the abol-
ishment of charters. This promise is
not being kept. The temperance peo-
pie will make a great mistake if they
don't kept good faith with the people.
Knoxville Sentinel.
The Nashville Banner of the 4th says:
"The bill to abolish the charter of
Morristown came up before the house
committee on education this morning.
Morristown has over 2, 900 population
and this is the first bill considered
which means anything under the Adj
ans bill. The action taken was signif-
icant, establishing as it does prece-
dent. The committee refused, by q
vote of 0 to 5, to recommend the bill for
passage, and it was suggested that an
election be held to test the sentiment
of the white voters of Morristown be-
fore any action is taken"
The State Graphic is now and has
heretofore been, and has frequently ex-
pressed itself In favor of the abolition
of the saloon. It's owners, when the
issue is brought to a vote, will cast
their ballot in favor of the prohibition
of the liquor traffic in Brownsville. But
it believes that this object should be
accomplished in the usual way in which
questions are determined. The men
who run the saloons have lived here
long, paid their taxes, own other inter
ests here and have just claim upon
the public justice. The majority should
rule; and, in this particular case, il
seems the prohibition element FREEDOM
mate, and it should be our careful, pru.
dent purpose to defeat the opposition,
but in manner 80 eminently fair thai
it will be closed to criticism. The first
step necessary to be taken by Browns
vile, in order TO obtain the advantages
Of the Adams bill, is to have the city
charter abolished. Steps along this
line will be taken within the next few
days. Brownsville States Graphic.
At banquet in honor of Rev. Johr
Royal Harris at the Tulane in Nashville
Wednesday evening to bid farewell to
the man who has done 80 much fol
temperance in Tennessee, he having
accepted call to the First Cumberland
Presbyterian church at Pittsburg, Pa.
several speeches were made. The
Nashville Banner says: "Senator Ad
ans, in the course of his speech, paid I
high tribute to Senator Nelson Gate
whose determined stand for temperance
when the other republican senators
were about to desert, had made thu
passage OF the bill possible. He also
referred to the courageous stand o.
Senator Parsons of Bedford, to whom
!, he stated, Nancy Shwab had gone ant
claimed his vote because the whisky
men had help elect him. Senator Nc
Farland said the saloon is the greater
enemy of happiness and prosperity ant
the four-mile law should apply to every
place except hell. He would not obiec
to saloons being run there. DR.. Harris
responded, saying the tribute paid dur
ing the evening was to the cause, an(
that the credit was due the many wht
had borne the burden of the fight. Thou
sands had prayed and worked and thu
day was coming when every locality
would have the right to vote on the vi
tai question. The high character O
the legislature was due to the temper
ance movement"
Appropriations for Soldiers Home.
Washington, Feb. 2.-The sundry