The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-09
Under the Dome.

|Onder the Dome.
Judge Graham was absent from the
! House yesterday He is attending
| court in Granville.
Mr.. c. e. Foy, of New Eern. arrived
last night to look in on the Legisla-
| ture.
| Col. Geo. L. Morton. of Wilmington
who has represented New Hanover in
| the House and his district in the Sen
| ate, arrived last night and will spend
| some days in the city.
! The big mistake was made in grant
| ing charters TO Williams and those
towns for the purpose mentioned, and
| it will be another if the matter is not
medied.-Durham Herald.
The Committee on Cities and Towns
has reported faVoraby the bill
to authorize the town of Kings
Mountain to issue bonds in the amount
of $4,000 for electric lights and for
$4,000 for street Improvement. A
favorable report was also made on the
bill to validate all the acts of LeXing-
ton with regard to bonds.
Mr.. j. w. Pass. Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee OF
| Yadkin County, writing to gentlemen
| in Raleigh yesterday said After con
! ocrats ii IS felt that it would
morally to have the whole liquor bust
| nees wiped out of the county.
The people Of Yadkin County are
deeply interested in the temperance
| legislatio. DR.. j. l.. Speas, leading
citizen of the county, writing to a
member of the Legislature yesterday
said:
THE best people ali over Yadkin
| County are intensely interested that
| the present Legislature pass the
! Ward bill which has been INTRODUCED
| in your Honorable body. relative to the
! liquor questiOn-thiS bill or something
| similar. The Watts law gave us some
relief, but the good effects which this
| law would have given us We're almost
| entirely destroyed by the places OF
Shore and Williams being incorpor-
! ated for the purpose of making and
| selling liquor. The Legislature will
| make no mistake in wiping out all
! such places wherever incorporated.
| They are a stencil and q disgrace &c
| any place or county where they exist
| Nothing but dissipation and evil flows
| from them.
"Republicanism is the only thrifty
| growth arising from the liquor traffic
carried on in Yadkin County. Thirty
five years ago, | cast my first vote for
| the Democratic ticket. At that time
we sent Democratic members to the
| Legislature. So did the counties OF
| Davie, Stokes Surry, and Alexander
| At the last election, the Republicans
! poiled two votes to our one in Yadl1in
kwhile, as YOU know. our neighbol
| counties Davie, Stokes, Surry and AL
| eXander all went Republican by hand
! some majorities. This is what the
! liquor traffic has done for us politi-
cally.
"On the other hand, every good
| good cause worth living for-peace
| good morals, education, and religion
| has had TO suffer the consequences
! Today we have to confes to our humil-
| lation and shame, that We have not a
| foot of railroad in Y2dkin County
neither have we newspaper worthy
| of the name. But the dearest of all tC
us are our homes and families that we
love as we do our lives. 1t is useless
| for me to tell the trouble and disgrace
/ that too often comes to them where
| liquor is easy of access. We have
suffered long and patiently. Surely il
| any county in the State has ever need
| ed relief from the evils OF the liquor
| traffic ours needs it badly-needs il
! beyond expression. We sincerely hope
and pray that the Ward bill or some
similar one may be made law
| Let not the Legislature be deceived
| by the statement that the morals OF
| incorporated liquor towns have inn
proved. / understand that such a
| statement is made relative to Shore
and Williams. Politically beyond
question, these interpretations hurt
the Decorate party in the last cam
| paign. 1t was the chief thing which
the Republican candidates harped
upon. Shore and Williams must con-
tinue to hurt the Democratic party as
long as these interpretations exist for
the purpose of maxim and selling ii
quor. Nothing they can do for the
Democratic party either by voting or
contribution to the campaign fund, can
amend for it.
in conclusion / would say that I
have made no attempt to unduly color
or mlarepresent any statement herein
made, but on the other hand. / believe
that what | have said are facts-the
words Of truth and soberness. | was
born III Yadkin~county. | am now SIS
years Old, and | have lived here all my
lie. Thirty years Of this time j have
spent in an active practice of medi-
and practiced over the greater part OF
the county. This. | think. places me
IN a position 30 give you the exact
facts relative 10 the needed temper
2ncc legislation of our people. The
good people all over the county are
kneeling. as it were. at your feet
the feet of ali the members of your
honorable body. who are favorable to
the cause of temperance. praying you
to remember and work TO remove the
liquor curse from our county"
III confidential conversation with
some of his friends here today, in the
hotel lobby. while waiting to take the
train for Raleigh, Representative j. NJ.
HolloWcll, the only original y. NJ FL. =
said that when he was first elected 10
the Legislature, and before he went to
Ia leigh TO convene" he felt like he
was the whole push but that after
getting there and brushing up against
eX-Congressmen, eX-Judges, etc. mem
bcrs with him Of that body, he felt like
rs cents and that it did him so
much good to get home again even
for Il day, that he felt like 20 cents
today.-GoldSboro Argus