The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-02
REVIEW AND OUT
LOOK.
statement Issued by Chairman Bailey
of the Work Done in Past and
prospects for Future.

Mr.. J. w. Bailey, president of the
Anti-Saloon League, has made up the
following statement of the work OF
the temperance advocates of the State
and the aims of the association for
the immediate future:
"The present local option campaign
opened i'm North Carolina in March,
1903, with the election at Statesville,
Since that time elections have been
carried for prohibition at the follow
ing places:
elizabeth City, New Bern. Colds
boro. Nashville, Benson, Hillsboro,
Wadesboro, Greensboro. Durham,
Roanoke Rapids, Charlotte and States
Vile.
"In the following places dispensa-
ries have been established by popu-
lar vote:
"Wilson, Greenville. Kinston, Hen
derson, Oxford and Raleigh, together
With several minor points.
Elections have been lost in the fol-
lowing places:
washington, Wilmington, Rocky
Mount. Tarboro, Weldon, Scotland
Neck Spring Hope, Reidsville, RoX-
boro, Salisbury, Marion and Morgan
ton.
'Rutherfordton and Brevard voted
the dispensary out for prohibition.
washington and Edenton have
greatly restricted their saloons, clos
ing them early and taking away their
screens.
Graham, ~, c., refused to eS-
change prhibition for bar-rooms, and.
/ believe, Morganton is the only town
i'm the State which has done this Wit5-
in the last two years.
1--WE carried the election at Jack
sonville, Onslow county, but on ac-
count of some regularity, it did not
count
1.-THE commissioners have ordered
Camden county dry. 1t is understood.
| believe, by agreement. that the bars
at Scotland Neck will close in 1905.
This is a result of the election held
there.
I'm this hurried glance over the
map of the State / may have omitted
one or two points. but the statement
above is fairly accurate.
'srhrae-fo of the bar towns of
North Carolina are now east OF Colds
boro and north of the A. and N. 9.
RAILROAD.
cit becomes every friend of tenn
perance to resist the effort to over
throw the Watts Act. The Repupli-
can party has thrust this issue uQon
us. 1t has made its choice and it
must accept the consequences. The
Watts Act is prohibition measure so
far as the unpoliced districts are con-
cerned: and it is a fair and liberal
local option measure so far as the
policed districts are concerned, and
it should, therefore, command the
support of all genuine friends of pro-
hibition and local option / have no
sympathy whatever with the cry of
.ertin politicians that this act is a
partisan act. There is nothing par
tisan about it. 1t is no more parti-
san than any other good piece of leg
islation would be when enacted by
the North Carolina General Assem-
bly The men who seek to injure it
by speaking of it as partisan are SIM
ply eVading the issue. Let the act
stand on its merits and it will COM
mend itself to every friend of temper
ance If this act should be repealed
the temperance cause would not re-
cover from its loss in this genera
tion
This may not be the paramount
issue, but it is an issue and it is
vital issue and 1 hope there shall be
no doubt about how every candidate
in North Carolina stands with regard
10 it,
1--WE shall have no more elections
this year, but will concentrate our
forces i'm support of the Watts Law.
We must resist the political attack
upon this legislation so vital to our
progress. Next spring l expect cleo
tons will be called in many places.
and with a view to this we shall have
a Temperance Convention in the not
distant future"