Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-24
HOT CAMPAIGN
IN ROSWELL
Predicted That Prohibition
Will Carry City by Vote
of Two to One
ADDRESS BY JUDGE ". \. POPE
Mass Meeting Held Sunday and
Last Evening in National
Guard Armory.
Special to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Roswell, n. NJ, March 24.-At the
ratification mass meeting last night in
favor of the Citizens and License"
and Prohibition, the city ticket head
ed by DR.. George T. Veal for mayor,
was adopted. At the armory, nearly
thousand women and children took
part and the vote was unanimous.
The band of the New Mexico Military
Institute played on the streets and
marched to the Armory, where hun
dreds of women, headed by the local
ministers, marched around and parad-
ed the aisles of the Armory singing:
Onward Christian Soldiers" There
were many boys and girls with ban
ners: Vote for me."a"Fight for u.s."
Vote right" DR.. G. w Alexander,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, formerly of Washington, D. c.,
made the opening prayer. Many prom
inent citizens, including lawyers, ply
sicians, ministers, police judge and
business men were on the platform.
Doctor Veal, the no license candi-
date for mayor, gave clear state
ment of his policy as did former At
torney General w. C. Reid, who is the
nominee for mo License" alderman
from the second ward. Reid, who ac-
knowledges that he is Republican
scathingly attacked the Democrats and
the platform of that party in the forth
coming municipal election. The last
speaker was C. J. Hall, known as
1.-THE California Wizard" whom the
No License party had to address the
meeting. 1t is said that prohibition
will carry two TO one in Roswell ON
April 5.
Address BY Chief Justice Pope.
At Sundays meeting in the Armory
Chief Justice William H. Pope, Attor-
ney Edward S. Gibbany, lifelong
Missouri Democrat, and Mrs. C. E.
Mason wife of the editor of the Dem
ocratic Roswell Daily Record, were
the principal speakers. Chief Justice
Pope began by saying that when he
had hesitated for momenet. He had
kept free from taking part in political
matters, but when he considered that
| the present issue was not a matter
of politics, but of public morals, he
came to the conclusion that it was
not only his duty to aid as he could,
but that he would be a coward not
to do so.
He referred to the fact that great
American, man who had three times
been candidate for the presidency,
| had spoken in this very hall, and on
the question of public morals. This
man, w. J. Bryan, had earnestly coun-
selled the members of his party not to
| become entangled in the net of the
saloons, to keep the party free from
the whisky taint.
In taking up the strictly moral side
of the question, Judge Pope said that
were it not for the fact that the sa-
loon trade was recruited from the
youth of the land it would die of it.
self. This constituted one of the great
dangers of the saloon, in reaching out
for the youth of the land, both boys
and girls, affecting and running both
sexes. He appealed to the fathers
and mothers to avert this great dan
ger from Roswell.
The speaker then took up and care
fully analyzed some of the objections
advanced against prohibition. One
OF these, he said, was that prohibi-
tion did not prohibit. He asserted
that he knew the public officials OF
Roswell, both in recent years and at
present, he knew the kind of men who
constituted the juries of the district,
and he knew that if No License law
was placed on the ordinance books of
the city that these men would en-
force it. He referred to the gambling
law. One Of the objections to it,
when gambling houses were running
up and down Main street, was that ii
could not be enforced Now every.
one knows that it is enforced as 9th.
er laws are enforced.
No law prevents the crime at which
it is aimed. The laws. against mur
der do not prevent murders; laws
against other forms of crime do not
prevent these crimes entirely, but
they do cut them down to minimum
and provide punishments for their VIC
lation.
Enforce 1t.
And SO it would be with a No-Li
cense law. 1t would be enforced as
other laws are enforced. He pledged
that cases brought before the district
court would be fairly and impartially
tried, and proved violators of such {
law would be punished insofar as tht
court could see to it.
The state of Kansas was referret
/. to as a fair example of the working