Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-03
CLEVELAND REJ0lCES.
People Worked Hard for Prohibition and
are Defeated but They still Rejoice. =

People Worked Hard tor ProhDIfi0n ant
are Defeated but They still Rejoice.
Cleveland, N. c.. May 28th, 1908,
Editor CAROLINA WAToHMAN,
| A few weeks ago at the school
house in Cleveland, twenty wo-
men, young ladies, boys and men
all told met and formed an Anti
Saloon League, with Prof. Good
man as president, Mr.. Frank
Thompson as sec. and treas. All,
unaccustomed to public speaking,
were timid and truly waited one
upon another. Little talks were
made and meeting adjourned to
meet the following Thursday night
a week. From all over the state
the eyes of the people have been
turned on Rowan and Salisbury,
and really this county has been
the battle ground as It's County
seat has been the headquarters of
! the Liquor State Executive Com
mittee and Chairman, and from
the center poured forth the letter
of Hon, G. B. Watson to Mayor
Boyden. This wonderful produc.
tlon, with a letter purporting to
be circular letter sent from
the Lutheran church from New
Orleans, and some good (?) ad-
wise TO the farmers kept the mails
hot and stirred the Scotch Irish
blood IN these people and brags
from the local liquor talent pro-
claimedlong and loudthat the vets
would beat the drys three to one.
! The letters and this talk only ad-
ded to the famus, and now what
was once quite little handful
burst suddenly into a flame and
every tongue was song, an essay
or a rip snorting speech. Speak
ers who would have graced any
gathering in any large CITY came
forthand in eloquent srds paint
ed the horrors Of the liquor traffic
and girls and boys in their recitals
of poetry aid prose caused many
tear to run down the cheek.
! On the twenty-sixtis -whi wo-
men assembled in the house of
God and prayed, men worked and
voted. When the sun went down
down the vets had the day by
barely four, two of them being ex-
convicts and therefore we were
really legally defeated by only 2
votes. This close vote was far
beyond what any prohibit1onist
had expected and certainly far
short of the mark of what any one
expected, but when you defeat the
Lord and the women you have
done something.
But there was SO much Joy in
the hearts of the prohibitionists
that they could not stop until on
the evening of the 9th, they
sounded the call once more; this
time a hundred or more men, wo-
men aud children met on the pub
lie square of the now happy viii
lage of Cleveland and with the
Taylorsville band heading the
procession marched all over the
village singing songs of jubilee,
with chorus of Gloryl Glory
Halleluah while the band played
many of the late airs and now
ard then Dixie. A great tub of
lemonade was dispensed free, and
q jollier, happier, crowd has not
met in years in the splendid old
| Scotch Irish village.
| On the morning of the 28th, at
nine o'clock the crowd met again
and the band played until the
1O:45 train came carrying away
the mon that composed the band,
and thus closed an occasion that
will long be remembered especial.
ly by the children. The writer
understands that there were some
vets marched in the procession
daclaring in all the future thei1
allegiance to the principles o1
prohibition. One man. who had
said some very ugly things about
the ladies during the campaign,
publicly apologized at the depot
J and he was properly forgiven by
one of the ladies for all of them
The scene was pathetic when 6
, beautiful young lady, a kinswo
man, put her arms around hl!