Backbone., 1904-10-01
Vertebrae.

The Good Templars have just held an
all the-week rally in the Twin Cities.
Oregon made gain of so per cent in
it's recent state election over it's vote OF
1900.
The college Prohibition work through
out the land is opening up finely for the
new year.
I: Vermont cast only 3ss Prohibition votes
in 1900 but polled 1,17S In its recent
state election.
another successful raid on eight blind
pigs on the 18th.
The state W. c. T. U. convention at
Rochester was most successful. The Of
ficerS were reelected.
Two ladies smashed the five joints OF
Cuba, Kansas, and spilled carload OF
beer stored at the jail.
W. A. Brubaker, one of our speakers,
was rotten-egged at Petoskey, Mich.
What are you going to do about it?
Capt K. W. Brown, Iowa, will hold
three meetings at Winnebago City on
can Rapids, Nov. g.
A bullet narrowly missed one of Pro
hibition quartet, while singing at a rally
at Red Key, Ind. Vote against the an
archistic saloon Nov. 8th.
The greatest Prohibition rally ever held
in Kalamazoo, Mich, was on the occasion
of Mr.. Swallows s visit to that city When
over 5000 people listened to his address.
The Red Men in their recent national
convention were the latest to bar the
saloonkeepers and bartenders from their
organization. Several million White Men
ought to hit the saloon a blow, Nov. g.
The Swallow meeting in Rochester N:
Y, was a record breaker, even IN that
citv where great rallies are almost COM
monplace on account of their frequency.
The Hath anniversary of the birthday
of Father Mathew, a great Total ADstl-
nence apostle, was celebrated Oct. lU Dy
Catholic Temperance Societies generaily.
w. J, Edgar of Bushnell is our cand1-
date for governor of South Dakota. A.
Jamison, Beresford, and G. K. Thomp-
son, Worthwhile, are our presidential elect
orS.
A saloonkeGger said to me once that
a preacher who is not a fool or hypo-
crite will vote the Prohibition ticket
County Chairman Hall in Patriot Pha-
lanx.
About thirty Minnesota papers used the
by the Prohibition State Committee. thus
giving it's telling matter an entrance into
10000 homes.
The Upper Wabash Conference Of the
United Brethren Church have resolved;
that 1--WE as a Conference will vote and
pray with the party that will prohibit the
liquor traffic"
Between immigration and growth, 1t
is believed that the Prohibition vote OF
Oklahoma will be increased about eoO
legislative ticket.
At the st. Louis Conference of the
NJ E. Church, South, State Chairman
Stokes placed Swallow buttons on sixty
ministers and then stopped only because
he ran out of buttons.
Governor Dorsett has been stumping
the state and has been meeting with en-
thusiastic receptions everywhere. lis hs
clear, concise and earnest putting OF the
question is making votes.
r,1,o inv itod
ter to attend their state convention at
Philadelphia The Royal Arch also placed
his photograph at the head of the SOU
venir program side by side with prOm1-
nent saloonkeepers.
Fayette County, Pa, Prohibitionists are
publishing a daily campaign paper 1t
is needless to say that this is one OF the
counties which is electing it's candidates:
Its vote for this year is estimated at
from 5000 to 1000.
The late P. M. Arthur, Chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
said: .'If it were not for the saloons,
seven-tenths of all the working men
would have their own homes.'' Vote
the Prohibition ticket.
Onward, the well known young peo-
pies paper of Boston, says, "The facts in
the Prohibition Year Book are indispens..
able to one who would be well informed"
The price has been reduced to 10c, post
paid. Backbone Office.
Robert H. Patton, Prohibition candidate
for governor of Illinois, said before an
audience the other night ''The old par
ties tell you to stand pat I ask you to
stand Patton for governor" Mr.. Patton
is making whirlwind campaign.
Tell it to those who don't know it that
Chas: 3. Bentley and ]. H; Southgate;
candidates on the National ticket In 1895
for president and vice-president, and
John P. St. John, who supported them,
are working for Swallow and Carroll
The candidacy Of State Chairman Will
son of Illinois for Representative has
been endorsed by the Populists and by
the Anti-Saloon League. The Joliet
Daily News, with a circulation of $4,000,
is also heartily supporting him. His
chances for election are good.
Texas is being greatly stirred. Judge
Davis, Cyclone Davis as he is called,
came into the party only a few weeks
to good audiences. He was one Of the