The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1906-10-01
The Governors TaIIy-Ho Party Now Moving North.

There is victory in this thing
writes Oliver w. Stewart from the
Tally-Ho trail. CAV coorse! That's
the intintion of it"
Since our last issue the Governors
Party has covered points in Mower,
Freeborn, Faribault, Martin, Jackson,
Watonwan, Cottonwood, Murray,
Noble, Rock, Pipestone, Lincoln and
Lyon counties There have been the
to-be-eXpected rainy days, bad roads,
sick horses and occasionally imperfect
advertising Yet despite all, the tour
is one of gladness and triumph, a
harbinger of the day when women
shall cease to cry for their loved ones
gone down to death through the bloody
saloon over which hang the stars and
stripes. People are coming out in
splendid numbers and listening most
attentively. Some meetings are i'm
mense In a number of instances
schools have been closed during the
meeting The cordial greeting extend
ed personally to our royal candidate
for governor and his eloquent COM
rades in the tour show that they, the
party they represent and the prln-
ciples for which that party stands have
gotten close to the center of the heart
of a vast and rapidly growing number
of thoughtful and patriotic citizens
A member of the Party writes, I'VE
are still meeting. with many encour
aging incidents that point to changed
and changing feeling OF the people
toward our party" He adds however,
and, it is of Importance that the point
be we'll noted, "Our own men do not
seem to realize as they should, that
the old party man does not feel toward
us as he did fifteen or twenty years
ago. Our fellows ought all to get at
once into the spirit of victory. They
need no longer to walk the streets
with hang-dog look about them as
though they wanted to apologize for
being Prohibitionists. We are enter
ing that stage of the game when men
look to us with respect and are feel
ing, after all, that we are pretty
decent sort of people. We have good
meetings almost everywhere, even in
those places where we have no one to
support us. For instance, we were at
Welcome this noon where some one
had only last night put up the notice
of our meeting. There was, of course,
no chance for a large audience on
such short notice but when we went
on the street at one o'clock, quite
crowd gathered to hear us and listened
most attentively. The town has five
saloons and two stores.
"a member of the County Repub-
lican Committee came six miles to
hear us at Elmore and made con-
tribution toward the prosecution OF
the work Another contribution was
made at this place by one who listened
as intently as any enemy of the saloon
present, while he is understood to get
outside of considerable liquor. After
he enclosed his dollar in the envelope
he remarked to a friend that If 1t were
not for such fellows as the Tally-HO
Party, the country would be a good
deal more hellish than it is now and
that he felt glad to give something
to help the good cause along. Such
occurrences indicate that people are
turning toward us and that the victory
of the saloon may not be so very far
distant"
The suggestion made elsewhere in
this issue regarding the arrangement
for and conduct of the Open-a1r meet
ings are heartily endorsed by Sec
Calderwood and strongly urged upon
Headquarters by the touring party
One thing which is greatly lessenine
the result of the Tally-Ho and Quar-
tette campaign is that at some points
our men, faithful workers though they
are. are depending altogether toe
largely on the uniqueness of the out
fits and attractions to draw the people