The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-20

| going, united on measures as one man
! laboring in a common cause for the
| good of mankind.
1t was as Danton had said ''We
must agitate, agitate, agitate and
France will be free: we must work.
| work, work, and if we do so braveIy,
| energetically, we will see the glorious
result of giving peace and happiness
to the women and the children and OF
producing the salvation # the weak
men who are now enslaVed by the
| enemy against which we are enlisted.
Chairman Bailey moved that Rev.
| John A. Oats be made temporary sec
rotary, and the motion prevailed unan-
| imously.
| Mr.. Bailey then moved that a COM
mittee be appointed to enroll delegates
| and to proceed to the organization of
| the convention.
| Delegate Simmons. a small, alert
/ looking gentleman, in a skull cap
specks and a brown mustache arose
| to make the point that there were
many present who We're not regularly
| appointed delegates and who wished
| seats in the convention as members.
| 1t was announced from the chair
| that the opportunity awaited for all
i who wished to do SO to enroll, and
that afterwards the rule ~e represen-
| tation would be by counties.
! The committee to enroll delegates
was then named as follows
j. II. Rich, j. e. M. Davenport, j. r.
| Edmundson, Cameron Morrison, G.. n.
| Watkins, r. l.. Flowers, j. j. Beach
and j. II. Smith.
On motion, a committee TO nomi-
nate officers was appointed as fol-
lows:
N. 3. Broughton, j. N. Cole. T. N
Ivey a. j. McKelway, Fl. A. London,
c. d. Graves, e. S. Pearce, j. J.
Beach and A. d. Belts.
| While these committees were out
| Mr.. f.. +. billiard, of Halifax, was
called on and made a short talk in
which he said that the temperance
cause was now looking out from the
horizon of hope to the sunrise of vic
tory. That he was Il. listener at the
| exercises on Lees birthday at the
| capitol and had been impressed with
| the speech of an old soldier who had
said that every Confederate carried
enshrined in his heart in the holy Of
| holes the name of one man than
whom there was no other TO compare
that of Robert T.. Lee; in the heart
of every temperance advocate. de-
clared Mr.. Hilliard there Law the
cause embalmed There is nothing in
the State which has, SO attracted the
attention and riveted the thought OF
the people" He felt assured OF the
result for good of this convention and
of it's effect on the General Assembly
now in convention in Raleigh. He
felt secure that the cause was assured
of victory. Addresses were made by
| Mr.. Josephus Daniels and Senator
Hector Mclean,
Report Of The Work Done.
Mr.. J. William Bailey, chairman of
the Anti-Saloon League, read the re-
port Of the work done for the past
year. II was frequently punctured by
applause, particularly his reference to
the service The News and Observer
had rendered to the cause. Mr.. Bal
ley's report was as follows:
Inasmuch as six months more than
81 year have elapsed since the temper
ance forces of North Carolina met IL
State Convention, it seems to me we'll
TO submit a report covering two years.
This seems to me all the more de-
sirablc because it was just Two years
ago that l found myself under the
necessity of representing you in be-
half of our cause in the General AS
sembly.
Work in the Office
Within these two years ! have sent
cut 100000 leaves of literature in be-
half of temperance, amounting to 100
out more than 100, 900 circular letters
and, | estimate, several thousand
actual letters. l sent out during the
General Assembly of 1908 many thou
sand petitions which were signed by
between 900 and 10000 people and
submitted to the General Assembly. l
have sent out 10000 pledges and 49,
COO of them have been rturned to me-
bearing the names of a rising army of
total abstamers. A dozen or more ad-
dresses TO the friends of temperance
have been issued in the public press
Expense.
For support of the work in the Cen
eral Assembly of 1908, l received
S571.53. From this sum enough was
saved to maintain our work until July
Z, 1905, when our first Convention met
and its members pledged $500. of
This sum $956,93 has been collected,
including a few items that We're not
pledged. / am glad that 1 can report
to you that we come to this hour with
cut serious debt. We owe less than
500. and SIS of that is Cwed to ourI
attorneys.
It is my duty to inform you how
the total sum of $1,S2S.46 has been
expended. | have spent $500 for!
stenographer and assistance; $500 fort
printing; $500 for postage; $3.50 for
salary of Mr.. Hinton, our field repre-
sentative for a time, and for travelling
expenses; SIS for attorneys. Mr.. Hin
ton, l may say, served us earnestly and
effectually for a few months, but it'll
seemed to him that the financial re-
Spouse to his efforts did not justify
him in continuing.
Work Accomplished.
Within these two years 1900 local
leagues have been organized; 90 coun-
ty executive committees have been APP
pointed. l am we'll aware that few OIL
the local leagues meet regularly; butt
they have organized spontaneously;
they have met and worked whenever
occasion required, and this is all that
may be asked. From my correspond
ence / have enrolled a list of 1000
North Carolina temperance workers
most of them minister's but many of
them stalwart laymen. Altogether, |
feel assured in saying that we have
cne of the most thorough, responsive
and effectual organizations that has
ever been formed in the interest of
temperance in North Carolina. BY
means of it we may reach every lOcat-
ity in the state at any time through
men whom to reach is to touch the