The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-03-31
Mr.. Hicks Writes About Those
Thirty-six Names.
To the Editor:


And the public too, for that matter:
| wish to take you all into my confidence
little, and tell you with what panied
surprise | saw in tOday's Charlotte OBJ
server an article or whatever you call it
OF which give a copy:
The undersigned citizens and taXpay-
ers of Vance county do not hesitate to
state that in their opinion local option
is to be preferred as against present pro-
hibition conditions, from the standpoint
OF sobriety, economy, good morals and
good government; that this opinion
they have heard expressed by many OF
their fellow citizens.
(Signed.)
II. NJ. Green, T. W. Davis, C.. MacNair,
j. r. Mangum, A. J. Ellington, H. W.
Petar, L. g. Woodlief, 0. A. Hyman, I.
H. Hight. Bob Day, II. &. Duke, d. f.
Aycock, J. E. Williams, George J. Row
land. Melville Dorsey, J, II. Blanks.
Charles W. Gill, J. +. kittrell, r. ]. South,
erland, b. l.. Brame s. S. Written, Ii. L..
Norvel, T. j. Easkins, f. l.. Kittrell, W.
f. Wilson, o. T. Woodlief, II. II. South
erland. John T. Jones, John H. Falkner
A. S. Rem. B. f. Rowland, George w.
Hughes, J. T. Jones' w. II. Falkner, g.
H. Wilson, H. Beacon, g. l.. Adams"
This was published in response to my
offer to give five dollars for a list of %
white men in Vance county who will
sign their names to a paper saying they
want whskey turned loose in Vance
county and make them objects of special
prayer and fast an extra meal for them
on Good Friday" also 'offered to
have their pictures taken in q group"
The card says they do not hesitate to
state Gt seems that they would hesitate
and if they didn't hesitate that they
wouldn't brag about it, that they pre-
fer local option to prohibition under
present conditions What they mean by
local option | knew not, until asked one
OF them and he said: "Dispensary." Ii
the others mean that they desire the
right to vote on the right to sell whiskey
or not let them rest assured that within
the past two years that question has
been voted on in Vance county, and only
about 400 of the l 800 voters OF Vance
county could be induced to vote for the
privilege to sell whiskey in bar-rooms or
dispensary If Mr. McNair after a two
weeks canvass, can find only these 36
men who want the case reOpened, sever
al Of them newcomers who haven't been
mere long enough TO vote, thlnk they
ought to give it up and let the subject
rest. The document doesn't exactly
come within the terms OF my offer, but
don't want to be thought even by the Sc
gentlemen to be trying to reneague, so
hereby notify each one OF them to appear
at Mr. Houffs photograph gallery on
next Friday. April first, 1910, at 2
o'clock p. NJ to have their pictures
taken in a group and the five dollars will
be forth coming. And to make some re-
turn for such heroic and patriotic action
and leadership in signing up and stand
ing up for the picture, hereby offer then
and there to pay each one of the afore-
said SO who voted for prohibition in
May, 1908, the further sum of one dollar
to be treated and regarded as a kind OF
Carnegie hero medal.
Give this article a conspicuous place in
the paper, Mr.. Editor, so they all can
see it. repeat that the minds of the
people who run the State and who have
controlling influence in the various
communities have turned away from
whiskey.
T. T. HICKS.
March 20, 1910.