Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-10-31
snow Hill Voted Wet and Why!

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tinues her shame.
"At the election last week thu
vote was forty-one for saloons
and thirty-eight ADMINISTRATIONS.
But that is not all the story-the.I
worst is yet to be told.
THE white people heard theap
peal of the women and children,
and said we will no longer toler-
ate the saloons in our town, the
breeders OF shame and iniquity.
The white men voted 35 against
saloons to 81 for saloons. Well
done!
"But here comes the negro-ea-
sy tool of the saloons-and over
rides the will of the will OF t he
sovereign white voters OF the
town: They voted 10 for saloons
and 3 against, making Al wet
and 38 dry
"And so saloons will stay there
to blight and curse-and stay by
the vote OF the negro, who heed
ed not the pitifnl cry OF injured
womanhood and childhood. God
bless our women, the best, the
purest, the most heroic. How
they have prayed and longed and
: hoped for the glad day ofdeliver-
ance.
J "They have pleaded with their
: husbands and brothers to pro-
tect them from the foul hand of
, the saloon which dares to enter
any home and steal away hus-
band and father, son and broth
e er, and these stalwart Anglo-Sax
g ons have heard the call OF their
I women.
g "But their will has been thwar'
9 ted, their votes nullified, theil
: women repelled and their wishes
5 ignored by the negro voters, un
der the influence and control o
}, the saloon; and against the ad
Il vice of the better men of thei
n race.
IS "Thus the saloons defeat th'
J. will of our people. In their des
It peration they bring the elimina
d ted negro voter back as an &C
g tive factor to say what the NOR
e al laws of a community shall be
r, "We do not care to argue thi
h question now-only to state tn
IS cold facts as they are and let yo1
8 see them for yourself and thin
i'll upon them. North Carolina BaI
It tist.
l.
D. The people Of North Caroln
ID did not 60 through the campaig
4 of 1893 and 100, as a result {
h which the mass of ignorant nj
If gro voters were excluded fror
il. the polls, to permit the negr
ns vote to be thrown as q balant
Of of power to perpptuate the 81
a loon. The victory won at Sno
n Hill will serve to create q sti
4 stronger sentiment in the Stat
f. against the saloon evil, and tt
,;s day is not far distant when tt
I'd people will shut up every saloo
X and still in the State.
wv Independent Of the question
IL whether prohibition or salool
On should prevail in a communit;
ir, the reintroduction OF the negro
t's politics is a question of the hig
Is. est Importance. II they can vo
re- to keep saloons open, they cf
"a, thereafter vote in every electio
We and if encouraged there willsot
mt be a return in part of the poll
to cal conditions thatprevailed al
nee that required the strenuous cal
~ paign of 1898 to redeem I'll
State, If the negroes voted
ng' gainst the saloon, this pap
'Pe would protest just as earnest
M against their rs-entrance to
'en ballot. They are getting on W.
de, Government is good. The salo
hat power is diminishing. The ste
Of. is going forward. Once open
-. door and this Pandora box
M evils will be with us agalu I
'me worse evil and greater trouble
its The Snow Hill victory, by r