The weekly true Democrat., 1907-03-29
BAIRlBRIDCE AND
QUINCY BOTH DRY
REohibitionists Garry Both Decatur
County. Ca, and Caasdsn County.
Fla. b LsrBs fiaiOritiss.

Fla. ~ LARGE hiaiOritisG
We take the following from the Balm
bridge Daily Tribune:
Not in the history Of Bainbridge has
there been sight more inspiring than
that witnessed here yesterday. AS early
as five O'Clock, men accompanied by
their wives and sisters commenced to
gather at the Presbyterian church At
5:15 a goodIy number marched to the
the court house and took their positions
In lobby facing the ballot-box. where
a Sunrise Prayer meeting WAS conduct
ed by Mr. Charles N. Crittenton, the
great evangelist.
Songs and prayers were continuous.
When the time for voting arrived the
prohibitionists literally captured the
polls.
At 8 o'clock, rs or 100 children, led
by Mr.. Crittenton, Rev. A. j Reamy
and Rev. Js A. Smith, marched through
the town singing and bearing banner,
on which was printed Vote For Us
Today, 'For Our Sake Vote Against
the Open Saloon" 1t was both a
beautiful and touching sight. At the
court house they were photographed by
mr. WOrCman.
At an early hour the "wets" were
discouraged and seemingly very blue,
The partial reason for this was revealed
when it was learned that the train
bearing their band, with which they in
tended to "whoop them up" and the
one that was supposed to bring 10, 900
tickets-a duplicate of the one used by
the prohibitionists- had been delayed
for hours by burning trestle between
here and Thomasville.
Prohibition workers turned up in
every direction. They worked manful-
ly, while the women prayed and sung
An exciting incident was witnessed !
when a well known saloon man rushed |
into a crowd of negroes and Judge |
Sheffield, of Arlington, cried out:
"Shamel Shame! on white man who |
would do thing like thatw The crowd |
applauded, as an evidence of their APP |
provsl Of the aged judg's remarks.
Early IN the morning, as the tele-
grams commenced to pour in from sur
rounding towns in the county annOunc-
ing that these precincts were going
solidly for prohibition, the *wets' COM
menced to wilt and practically gave up
the fight, save for a spasmodic effort
to vote lone negro by some saloon
man.
Telegrams were received from the
w. G. T.. VI in Atlanta, Savannah,
Columbus and Americas, bearing their
prayers for Q great victory. One was
received from Mrs. Mary Harris Ar
mOur, State President of the WOman's
Christian Temperance Union, bearing
her greetings and prayers for victory.
Mr.. Tom Stuart, who trained the chill
dren for Tots in ToylRnd," wrote,
saying: II am praying that God may
make you victorious. {"
During the day the ladies served re-
freshments to the workers.
At o'clock the "wets" appeared
with great punches of tickets which
we're an exact duplicate Of the prohibi-
tion ticket.
These, however, arrived too late. A
wet" man in speaking of the matter
said: "If the trestle had not burned,
thereby delaying their man VINO was
bringing the tickets, they would have
arrived at an early hour in the morning
In time to have used them. "
A prohibitlOnist ventured to reply:
Surely the hand of God was in the
burning of the trestle." The detected
''wet" man rephed: 1T looks that
way"
Long before the polls closed here. as
report after report came in from the
different precincts bringing good news,
the wet men freely admitted they were
beaten, and some of them cOngratula-
ted the prohibitionists on their splendid
victory.
Below is found the result Of the cleo
ton, with two precincts to hear from,
which will not effect the result, but
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