The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-05
i PROHIBITION FRIEND.
Mr.. Bickers Writes to Let Voters
Know About Swallow.

Appended is a letter from Mr., W. NJ.
Bickars:
Richmond, Va, Nov. 3, 1904
Editor Times Dspat, nooo
II am sure you will accord me SPACE 'aSo
to clll attention to the fact that the
Prohibition party will be represented! on on
the Official ballot to be voted at the polis
next Tuesday. L take 1t that TINS y, -
generally known and yet tnere .I nv =, =.
as the names of Swallow and Carol 90
not appear SO often IN the neWspap thI'
as those. of Parker and DAVIS, Roosev ~
that You print the enclosed address OF
the Prohibition Club Of Richmond as
part of my remarks.
Yours respectfully, = nrcKERs
Prohibition EIector fol. Third District
The address referred to Is subjolned
The Prohibition party offers inc onlS
practical means Of eifeetualiy t G,tc' are
heartily endorsed by the best citizens OF
All parties and declared by them 70 .ne
OF paramount consideration for the moral
and material rial Wetf o 1egolly pronlbit
redeem society from this blight and the
body polite from, the woes now sattendhnt
upon this traffic which threaten to under Y, ,,,.
s,l.ino our, governments. Is conceded py
Quite a sufficient number OF our, citizens
to result in the desired reformat ton.
Our case las been won N .d'e pe e.,
Supreme Court. The verdict as rendered
by churchmen. morallsts, organizhtlons pt
reform. good citizens unidentified With w
such organiZatons hnd me tho4si n,,us
Social ana industrial life shall he bansh-
ed. And yet tho sentence thus :, pro- Q.
nounced has not been executed ~ Mhy!
the manner Of executing the verdict!
II every man who, says III my. vote
would accomplish thetrcsult.gI would cast
1t for Prohibition" would act in accord
a Prohibition President and Congress
next Novcmber! The too common cry,
This result can DO better effected inside
OF my party,',.s proven TO pc tut lie, , by
have, respectively. been in charge Of the
government for over half q century, and
yet the traffic still lives! II there Is any
validity In the contention that voting for
our ticket is Throwing away one's vote"
why does not the same line of reasoning
nullfy every vote cast lii Virginia for.
Presidential candidate? For, see; tho
minority party does not register a single
vote when tho States electoral vote Is
given to the candidates of tho dominant
party. ana not u vote OF the. dominant
party counts. when tho majority OF the
electoral college is on. the other side.
Therefore. all votes ~ virginia are
thrown away In nearly every Presl-
Dental election
"A Nute 10y IpElIlNlplS, W iiGNc ca tliIpNf
away. 1t stands for aomething, 1t counts
for something; and what true man would
not PREFER TO cast h's sacred ballot Tor
what he desires and not secure IT,, than
tn vote for what no does not want and
get It?
4 vote for swallow and Carroll will
not be thrown way! Just at this critical
time, when we have won our case; Just
when the popular demand is stronger
than ever for the execution OF tho popu-
lar verdict; just when the enemy, Is cor
nered and demorllIzed and pleading for
mercy aid compromise, this Of All times
Is tho time when every nnti-liccnso man
should record his ballot Where II will
count In an uncompromislng onslaught
against the powers of Hell and Satan
Surely no party l'rohibtlonlst Will fall
to measure us to duty now. You have
fought a good fight, stand nom with the
And YOU, good people, who IN the abstract
believe with rs and profess With MS TO
desire I'll s,Sood result above all things,
! behaving that this is paramount qucs-
ton, we besaecl you to remember that
lfthr Prohibition party Is the only PARTY
In tho nciu that promises to do this
thing, and TINT neither Of tho other par
ties promises even an iota OF help IN tho
premises! a vote for ether of the other
X the prohibition OF tho liquor traffic to ba
the paramount question. when the l'rolily
b!ti0n ticket Is IN the field, Is, indeed, a
strange contradiction.
BROTHERS, citizens, nelgllbors, friends
think over tl,nsesthlnss. and may tho God
of truth ana right help you to stand lllm
for this righteous cause and share IN the
6, CENTRAL. PROlIIBTrION CLuH.
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