Middletown transcript., 1907-11-30
communicated.
AFTERMATH OF ELECTION

/ Communicated.
AFTERMATH OF ELECTION
Well, as predicted, ii has come. Dur
ing the past week three negroes OF our
town we're arrested and held under $500
bal each for appearance at Court on
charge Of bribery. Poor devils, will they
have to suffer for the greater Sin Of
their tenpters Its seems unfair il such
is the case. II is we'll known that one Of
the victims started off as an advocate
OF local option when he Topped over to
the vets, he was charged with having
been bought, this he did not deny, only
laughed Now, the question would natur-
ally arise, who bought him? Certainly
not any anti-Iicense man, then the suppo-
sition is, that the men who rushed to the
reseue OF the bribers were in all proba-
bility, the chief devils in the case. It
was generally thought and believed on
the day Of election, that there was dirty
#efhk s6iag eH. Tie Tie saag be #as ttsES-
ing to manipulate the doubtful colored
voters in alleys and byways, and, late in
the afternoon sending them out well. filed
with liquor, was without doubt the insti-
gators Of these bribery cases, as well as
the men who furnished the funds with
which to pay for votes could it be other
wise? Therefore, it is to be hoped that
they who made scats-paws" Of those poor
colored boys, may be the ones to suffer
most The briber is always worse thsn
the bribed.
The past was an election long to be
remembered, as, certain it is that. the
better class OF citizens, the most decent
people, white and eolored alike, we're
against license. They, the anti-license
people, cannot reflect upon themselves
no matter how it goes or what happens,
they had only the moral and business
welfare of the people at heart, while the
license advocates had only the financial
interest of the sellers to prompt them,
and, none the less true is it that, iwhile
the sellers grow richer the buyers grow
poorer. By the way, what good is bar
room or saloon anyway, ercept to the
seller? Does it stand for anything that
Is good anything that is moral, refining
and elevatiDg not much, not much.
Is there man in ST. Georges Hundred
who would be willing to take his wife or
daughter into bar room and hang over
whiskey bar, drink the vile stuff, then
make fools of themselves the dady
often does? Slightly not, then why not
If it is good for the gander, it ought to be
good for the goose also. No; instead of
that, the great man Of the house (great
in lis own opinion only will 60 to the
saloon buy and drink the rum, make an
ass Of himself, leave the good wife (who
as a rule is his superior) at home to work
and worry and wonder If, when the un-
reasoning creature whom she was silly
enough TO marry comes, will he come
sober. L such man, man or beast
just here, it recurs to the writer's mind,
the one single instance in the history OF
this state, where white women Cor colored
either signed a petition to.a Court for
4 license for man to sell intoxicating
liquors. Many ofthese women were true
good, women but were mislead, yet, there
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stood their names doye-tailed in hit-and-
mis- with the names of the dem-i:mond
pray ihg the Court to grant a license to a
nan Of good moral character (so sworn to
on the witness staud) to sell drink to
husband or son to come home drunk or
be sent to the Keeley Cure, or, perhaps
something worse-if anything can be
worse.
The writer thinks that, on reflection,
not one Of these good women would re-
peat the act. Suppose there we're no
places for the sale Of liquor, would there
be any disorder. rioting. etc, in town
Saturday nights? The writer thinks not,
and, not much bribery. Do the churches
In the tesn cause any disorder, rioting,
etc Nptthat we have heard Of Sup
pose the several hundred dollars that
are spent for liquor each week in town,
Wereapent for good books for the family,
for good clothes for the children to wear
to Sunday School or for good nourishi q
food Tor their little atomachs, low much
better itwonid be for every body. Since
the agftation Of the license question, the
ssalsoHs, a. never before, have been trying
to rnps OIL Sunday School lines, and, soon
no doubt, will be opening and closing
their places with prayer according to
Hudler and the Heavenly choir will sing
.--iffivt Too drunk. CITIZEN.