The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-08-30
ROBINSON TO VOTE
FOR STATEWIDE?
JUDGE BRADFORD'S BELIEF
HEAD OF ARKANSAS BAPTISTS
URGES SUPPORT OF PRO
HIBITION.

nominee for governor and an out
spoken advocate of local option, will
not vote against statewide prohibi
ton is the belief expressed by Judge
II. L. Bradford, his fellow townsman
IN an article in this weeks Baptist
Advance. Judge Bradford, who is
president Of the Arkansas State Bap-
tlst convention, offers some strong ar
sumsnts IN favor Of Act No 2. His
article IN full IS as follows:
I'm few days an election will be
held in Arkansas where the question
of statewide prohibition will be sub
mltted to the voters and we will de-
eide whether the manufacture and
sale of whisky shall cease or whether
we will continue to legalize and IL
cenSe what nine-tenths of the men
and women in the state will admit is
one OF II not the greatest curses that
this country has ever had to deal
with and we are now face to face
|
do AS for myself, while | have vot-
ed against license for the sale of whis-
ky at every opportunity that | have
ever had, | have never been an avow-
ed prohlbitionist. | have waited for
years hoping that congress would
pass an act prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors in territory where
the sale was prohibited by state laws
and have felt that when that was
done we would be ready to prohibit
is manufacture or sale in the state.
have never been aiiied or lined up
with the Anti Saloon League from
the fact that | d not approve of
some of their metuJds and from the
J fact that my observation caused me
to feel that some of their most active
would-be-leaders We're not in earnest
ana did not desire or practice what
they taught to and insisted upon 9th
ers doing.
IT the question to be voted upon at
this election was simply question
among the temperance people or the
people who have the interest of the
state at heart as to which is prefer
able just now, local option or state
WIDE prohibition, then | might vote
against act No. 2.
| But it has gone beyond that and il
is now question as to whether the
temperate, sober, religious best ele-
ment of the country or those who are
interested in the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors shall con
troll the affairs of the state. The
saue bunch who ran the saloon in the
statehouse during the last session of
the Legislature for the purpose of de-
bauching the representatives of the
people and controlling legislation, as
sisted by their hired agents, are the
people who are manufacturing senti-
ment against statewide prohibition
and for local option. They are using
all kinds of schemes and means to de-
feat act No. 2. They have had
printed upon large cards ahd circu-
lated throughout the state without
out his knowledge or consent fifty
thousand copies of the picture Of MIR.
Robinson, the Democratic nominee
for governor, and upon the same
sheet printed what they say is an ex-
tract from one of his speeches in re-
gard to local option, and with instruc-
tions how to vote to defeat the tenn
perance cause, intending by this To
make the impression that Robinson
stands with and for them.
During the campaign for governor
last winter sent out one thousand
letters to as many Baptists in Arkan-
sas in which | said that Joe T. Rob
lnson was temperance man. | say
the same thing now, knowing his
father and mother as | did and know
ing him as | have all of his life,
know that he does not and will not
stand up with the whisky gang in Ar
kansas, nor do believe that he will
vote against act No. 2.
AS far back as | have any know
ledge of such things the Baptists and
Methodists and Presbyterians and
Christians have been passing resolu-
tions condemning the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors. If you belong to any
one of these denominations you have
consented to in some way to the pass
ing of these resolutions and are re-
sponsible for them. Did you mean
what you said or were you playing