The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-05
STRONG APPEAL
OF MRS. HOLMAN
OF STATE w. C. T. U.
CALLS ATTENTION TO THE IS
SUES IN CAMPAIGN.

J The following letter from the Stat
President, Mrs. Holman, is furnished
| by the Union, with the request that i
be published as an expression of the
sentiment of the members of the or
ganization: s.l
Dear comrade: For the first TINT
in twenty years there is now a good
prospect of our being able to sweep the
entire liquor traffic from the State Of
Tennessee. The question of the com
plete abolition of the liquor traffic from
this State is the issue in both the race
for Governor and in the legislative
campaign. Liquor politicians tried
to prevent this, but the question had
such Importance in the minds and
hearts of the people that it was found
! impossible to keep this issue out of
the campaign or to relegate 1t to a
place of comparative unimportance.
day stands this one important issue:
Shall the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors be prohibited in
the State of Tennessee when its Leg
islature meets in 1909?
1T will not be possible for us to Sc
cure this much to be desired result
unless men are elected to the legisla-
tive and executive offices of this State
who are in favor of such a measure.
If the friends of temperance will but
forget all mnior causes of difference
and stand together to elect the men
who stand for this issue the liquor
traffic will be swept from Tennessee
when the Legislature comes together
in 1909 We have the temperance
sentiment in the State to do it. We
can do it, and will do 1t, unless
the people who want this permit |
minor unimportant issues to divide
them.
For more than thirty years the |
Woman's Christian Temperance !
Union has stood and worked and
prayed for the complete abolition of
the liquor traffic from town, county,
state and nation. In no effort to
drive the saloon from small section
Of the country have they had other
thought than it was but a step to-
wards driving the business from the
entire State.
THE time has come to do this. We
IAN do it if our people will but stand
ogether. And l want to urge our W.
: T. T. women and all other good
women to stand by and work for the
nen who stand for the principles we '
.dvocate. We beg you to do this for {
citing personal animosities or per
onal friendship for the men who are +
skiing the people to vote for them {
or State offices and work and pray I
or the election of the men who are
4 favor of State wide prohibition. 4
1t is not the men you are y
'orking for. but for the measures i
Or which they stand Remember r
lso If the right man occupies the e
overnor's chair and the right men go
} the Legislature, we will get our
Nv, If the wrong men get these of {
es, we will never get It. =
"The race between Mr.. Carmack
nd Mr.. Patterson is especially i'm
ortant as Mr.. Carmack has announc-
1 for Statewide prohibition and is 7
liking for it from one end of the State
the other. Mr.. Patterson has
nd he viii veto any bill giving us
tate.wide prohibition unless the meas
Re s plank in the next Democratic [.
atform If Mr. Carmack is nomi. 81
ited Mr. Carmack will make the Is
atform and II will be there. But If d,
r. Patterson is nominated, Mr.. Pat. e
rson will make the platform and the ~
ate.wide prohibition plank will not le
there 81
'Denr friends Of the white ribbon IL
my we would be false to every prin. h'
pie for which We have stood since 81
= beginning Of our great organiza. dc
IN should We hesitate to stand by az
q men who stand by our measures eli
this election II is as important as vi