The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-05
1T WILL HAVE WEIGHT WITH
HONEST TEMPERANCE RE-
PUBLICANS.

Mr. Milo Dixon. who lives at Syl-
vester. AIamance county, has always
been a Republican. He thought until
this year he could oppose barrooms
and whiskey stills and remain in the
Republican party in North Carolina.
He finds that he can no longer do so,
and has written a strong and sensl-
BILE letter giving the reasons that will
impel him to vote the Democratic
ticket.
Mr.. Dixon declares that for more
than twenty years the temperance
people have been praying and laboring
for better temperance legislation. That
prayer was granted in the passage of
the Watts law, and now he shows that
his party, while blowing hot and cold,
is against the Watts law and would
repeal it if they get power. He says
of the Republican attitude:
ION the one hand they put some
prohibitionists on the ticket for some
minor offices in order to catch the
temperance vote. and on the otner
hand they threaten the repeal of the
Watts law to catch the liquor vote.
1t reminds me of the dog that was
crossing the creek on a log with a
piece of meat in his mouth and saw
his shadow in the water and thought
it was another dog with a piece of
meat and dropped his own piece and
grabbed at the other dogs and lost
everything.
can the good temperance people
of Alamance county afford to nave
the best prohibitory liquor law that
we have ever had. repealed? L an
sWer no. Yet there are some men
right here in southern Alamance that
take an active part in temperance
meetings, and serve on committees to
go before the Legislature to plead for
prohibitory liquor laws, that will vote
straight with their party if they knew
that their party would destroy all
laws and give us free whiskey without
restraint. With such principle is
is everything. Such
people remind me Of the Irishman's
fice-into everything and good for
nothing"
AS the conclusion to a remarkably
strong letter is the following:
"While 1 have always been known
as a temperance Republican, principle
always has and always will stand be-
fore party, and no amount of abuse,
falsehood, Vilification and persecu-
ton shall ever move me one jot or
title Here / stand. and by the help
of Cod | shall work and vote against
the rum power until | go down. l
don't expect to receive any congratu-
lations for writing this article except
it should be from some poor suffering
wife whose hearts blood you can
hear going drip. drip, as her life Gibbs
away from cruel treatment caused by
LIQUOR.
1 could sign up as "a Temperance
Republican" but prefer to sign my
self unmasked. My name is
MILO DIXON,
Sylvester p. o.. Alamance County
n. c.
This letter, coming from Mr.. Dixon,
will have weight. 1t is a sad COM
mentary upon many men, who have
been loud in their prayers for tenn
perance. joining hands with the liquor
interests to restore the Republican
party to power. That party is getting
part OF it's campaign fund from stills
and saloons, it has promised to repeal
the Watts law, and the man who votes
the Radical ticket in North Carolina
or for any candidate on that ticket
votes to reopen stills and saloons in
the coves and on the hills where now
schools and churches flourish There
are honest Republican voters in North
Carolina, like Mr.. Dixon, who resent
having their party sold out to the
whiskey forces and marching under
the banner of ''Down with the Schools
Up with the Stills.
Like Mr.. Dixon all such Republicans
will vote the Democratic ticket this
year.