The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-09
DECLARATIONS THAT WILL
APPEAL TO CONSERVATIVE
MEN.


at the Anti-Saloon Convention In Raleigh
on Tuesday, but the speech OF DR.. Nc
Kelway in presenting and discussing the
declaration of principles contained words
of such wisdom that We venture to call
particular attention to two or three OF
his utterances 1T is our desire" he
said, that this great movement may con-
tinue to attract the conservative men OF
this steadfast old commonwealth. and
in that connection he added:
$50 this platform differs from some that
have been adopted by temperance con-
ventions. We have not had word to
saw about the analysis of the alcoholic
stomach. We have neglected to mention
the familiar figure of the lady at the
punch bowl The platform Is lacking In
that it does not contain TRADE against
the spilling of good wine on the prov OF
battleship 1t has no declaration
against tobacco or coffee or tea or vine
gar We have put away childish issues
because we are men. This is mans
movement, trying to enlist voters who
must be men,"
After reading the declarations, conclud-
ing his sensible speech of DIR. McKelway
said:
And we are bipartisan. We welcome
all to our ranks who believe with us that
the soloon and the distilleries are no solu-
ton of the liquor problem at all, and that
we want to cure the evil of drunkenness.
Eat the same time this league will ac-
complish very little if it does not secure
for. itself the wholesome respect of every
man that wants pubnc office. We must
teach them that the most dangerous thing
for a politician to tamper with IS the
bar-room vote, that it will damn any
man in North Carolina who aspires to
public office Let us not be too hard on
the politician. If he formerly had the
fear of the saloon vote before his eyes,
it was our fault, not his. w estood suplne
and saw him murdered, # he dared to
stand against the saloon. Let 1T ring out
from this convention and re-echo in every
county and township of the Old North
State, that the man who controls the sa-
loon vote is the man who is controlled by
the saloon vote and is the man to leave
at home. And this can be done without
weakening for a moment the loyalty OF
any man to his party
LET it ring out from this convention
and re-echo in every township OF the Old
North State That the man who controls
the saloon vote is 1.-The man who is con-
trolled by the saloon vote" Nothing
truer was ever spoken. The saloon vote
knows the men it can control, and when
ever you see it rallying for any man you
controlled by them or will prove cipher.
They look after their own. With men
who favor temperance and good govern
ment it is often otherwise. II
the temperance men hope to accom-
plish great things they must not let
any man suffer because he has the cour-
age of his convictions. 1t is equally i'm
portant that they must not let self-seek-
ers try to ride into office upon advocacy
of temperance.
The declaration of principles of the con-
vention are reprinted below because we
wish every good man in the State to note
how much of wisdom, conservatism, mod
Grafton and good sense were incorporated
in short compass:
1.-The North Carolina Anti Saloon
League is an independent body maintain
ing friendly relations with similar asso-
Citations in other States but it is entirely
Independent in its acts, and it is non
partisan in character.
Its purpose is the abolition of liquor
saloons and distilleries by all proper
means; the creation and capitalization OF
righteous public sentiment, and the
proper enforcement of all laws against
the liquor traffic. It favors the firm and
just enforcement of the Watts law, and
it earnestly requests future legislatures
not to incorporate small towns with the
privilege Of licensing saloons or distilleries
1T calls the attention of Board OF
! Commissioners of the various towns and
cities to the danger of whiskey distilleries
and rectifying establishments now forbid
den to operate in the country removing