The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-15
AN ADDRESS BY Mr.. BAILEY.
HoY THE ELECTION WILL Eff
Feet TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
New Legislature VIII be Strongly fo-
Temperance and Firm Defenders OF
the Watts Law-Sentence OF Arthur
Bishop Stands-An Interview on the
Election With Senator Simmons.
Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., November L.

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hand. convicted of manslaughter al
Charlotte, and now in the penitentiary
here. With her was her little boy and
also a lady friend with her little son.
The governor will not take any action
in this case. He does not feel that IL
is proper TO do so, and in this view he
will no doubt be fully sustained by the
people of the state, by far the create,
number of whom do not think Bishop
got a 1.-THE of the punishment ne de-
served for his great crime.
Judge and Mrs. P~ritchard arrived
here today from Asheville. The judge
at noon Sthe hearing of the case
of Forrest against Southern Lumber
Company, of which w. J. Edwards, of
Sanford, is the receiver, he being also
the receiver for h Carolina and
Northern railway. Forrest seeks to
remove the receiver of the Lumber
Company and TO have a special master
appointed to take testimony to inves>
llSdIG dlIC5Cu uAoA ANANS" AOHo
ago Cameron MacRae vas appointed
special master. Today a motion was
made to remove him, on the ground of
alleged business relations with Ireden
Meares, one of the attorneys for For>
rest. Both branches of the matter were
postponed until Monday.
The Democrats were talking a good
deal today about North Cardinals
vote in the election just held. Yester-
day the Republicans, or some OF them,
were claiming that they would get close
to 100, 900 votes on the official count, but
today they ave reduced their figures
to something like S0,000. A.rD. Watts,
Chairman simmons private secretary,
says HI Democrats will AVE 120, 600
votes, and at least A, 0G0 or $4,000 ma
jority in the vote for governor. He
says he doubts very much whether the
Republicans get $4,000 votes. North
Carolina gave Bryan "a 1000 majority
and has doubled that figure for Par
ker. It is claimed that no other state
did so well. Yet there was a remen
dous stay-at-home vote. Not so per
cent. of a full vote was cast. There are
3OO,0 G0 white voters, and 250, 900 would
oC ~ pS " SoON w." II -
tai this year will hardly reach 200, 900.
A good many things, come to the
mind about this election. For one
thing, while the Republicans ave al
ways worked to get out every vote
they could. yet in many counties Demo-
Gratis, while they attend the speakings
and things of that kind. do not work
among their neighbors to get out the
latter to vote, and as a result this stay
at-home vote cuts a great figure.
Today chairman Josiah w. Bailey,
of the state Anti-Saloon League issued
an address to the people on the result
as to the temperance matter. He says:
1T must be an impressive lesson to
us all that a party could go before the
people defending so sweeping a temper
ance enactment as the Watts act and
achieve the triumph the Democratic
party achieved. From all reports we
can gather the new legislature viii bs
as strongly Democratic as the one
which enacted the Watts law, and even
more strongly for temperance than
that legislature was. 1t is true the
Democrats have probably lost the
Eighth Congressional district, but 1t is
the stronghold of the distilleries, has
always been Republican and in it are
the liquor towns of Williams and Shore,
by incorporating which the last legis-
lature made the blunder of surrender
ing the Watts act in Yadkin county.
Therefore, so far from charging this
loss to the Watts act, We may as well
charge 1t to the uncalled for compro-
mise of the Watts act. We are not
inclined to press this point, but we
know from a visit to Yadkin that it
would have been more inclined to SUP
port the Democrats had they not COM
promised the Watts act by Incorporate
ing Williams and Shore. 1t is also true
that one or two counties have been
lost and one or two gained. Brunswick
will send a Republican to the legisla-
ture but he is an out and out temper
ance Republican and he defeated a
whiskey ring Democrat.
I'm two western counties gained by
Democrats temperance men are elect
ed. 1t is plain that instead of proving
a burden, the temperance cause prov
ed a help to the Democratic party. The
number of temperance men in the new
legislature is so large that opposition
to the Watts act will not find it worth
while to make a fight. We are inform
ed hat perhaps forty Of the fifty Sen
ators favor the Watts act, and 75 of the
120 members of the house are firmly
for it. We have this to fear. in a few
counties, that men have been elected
who will plead senatorial courtesy and
special privilege to exempt their coun-
ties from the application of the act.
They will offer the plausible plea of
. leaving 1T to a vote of the people in
their counties. To yield to these pleas
Will be to let down the bars. Doubt
less the opposition will move along tn,
! line. We must be careful, least we lose
what We have gained by over conn.,
dence and by moving too rapidly. In a
few weeks the executive committee OF
the State Anti-Saloon League will NEE,
and prepare an address setting forth
the situation and pointing out the line
of progress in the coming Legislatures
, Meantime we advise all friends of tenn
perance to keep up agitation so no weas