The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-01

There were two rallies in Roswell
last night, one a big success and the
other a dead frost. The successful one
was the No-hcense rally at the Majes-
tic theatre and the frost was at the
Armory for the whiskey ticket
At the No-license meeting close to
900 people were gathered. and proba-
bly, 800 others were unable to gain
admittance. The building was simply
janmed, every seat being taken and
standing room s. allowed up. OF the
800 who failed to gain entrance to the
building, probably half went to the
other meeting at the Armory. and
nelped to swell the few there to the
number. by actual count, of 43S. This
means about three to one or better.
in favor of No-license.
After the singing of songs, and a
fervent invocation by Rev. e. B. Cur
rie. Chairman Fowler opened the
meeting by Introducing DR.. c. NJ.
Mayes. who. until recently, was a
member of the Democratic Central
Committee.
DR. Mayes said he was not a speech
maker and that this was his maiden
effort and tnen he proceeded to give
rafting good talk. shaking out the
musty bones from the closets of in
trigue and secret conclaves.
Briefly the Doctor stated his posi-
tion He is the son of a Confederate
soldier and is a Democrat. He does
not propose to be read out of the
Democratic party, and he will not be
anv rore than is Niagara thrown
back by a dewdrop, for rhis meeting
is the Niagara and the other the dew
drop.
1T is the whipped dog that yelps,"
the Doctor aptly remarked and ne
struck the keynote to the whole sit
uation.
Mayes said that two years ago he was
put on tne Central Committee by the
Democrats OF Roswell and had acted
as he Thought best to protect their
| interests Telling of the meetings of
the committee, he said that the first
nan to speak out was not a member
of the committee, but an -eTnissary of
the saloons "The hand of the whiskey
ring was shown in every move of the
proceedings of that committee"
1.-The finger-prints of the whiskey
ring were in the councils of that COM
mittee" He stood it as long as he
| could and then resigned wnea his
usefulness to the Democrats had end
| ed
He is vet a Democrat. But If that
he no longer is.
Tnen the Doctor proceeded to show
how Drake Bell mad been the domi-
mating influence on the other side.
A prominent candidate on the 9th
/ er ticket had told him that If his boy
came home drunk ne would blow ont
the brains of the man who sold it TO
him. and yet he was on that other
ticket.
| Taking up the slurs that have been
thrown on the medical profession and
| on the druggists of this city by the
whiskey people. DIR. Mayes denounced
them as infamous. The statement that
every drug store will have its doc
| tor" he denounced as a libel on the
drug stores and the doctors of the
city. He knew better and he believed
tne people of Roswell knew no such
thing would happen. Here the doctor
paid deserved compliment to the
physicians of Roswell.
Under the territorial law the sell
| ing OF whiskey by a prescription is
closely safe-guarded and any pnysI
clan who came in conflict with II
would lose his license.
DIR. Mayes paid the boys of the Mil
itary Institute high compliment, and
denounced the statement that under
a No-license law boot-legging would
thrive to the detriment of that insti
tuition.
| DIR. Mayes gave some figures as tf
what the wniskey money OF Roswell
would do each year He said it would
build court house and a Jail ever,
year; would build and maintain {
s150,O00 hospital; would care for the
sick and the poor: would buy and
beautify a park: feed the town fo
a month: educate every child in th'
city: pay sT5O,OOO worth of debts ;
wear: and would buy a suit of clothes
for every man every year.
Taking up the medical side, tn
Doctor asserted that THERE IS NJ
PLACE FOR wHISKEY IN NED
CINE No man can think with a brail
be-clouded with whiskey, and mucl
less can a doctor do ais work effic
identity when haEnpered with wniskey
W.liskey Injuries the digestion AM
the lungs. It overworks the heart an
brings on gin-drinkers' liver. Tn
stomach in injured and IL give
Brieht's disease.
Give the boy q chance and he wi