The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-06-13
AFTER THE LOCKER CLUBS
MACON is A NEW FIELD FOR
SEAB WRIGHTS ACTIVITIES.
Prohibition Leaders Are Preparing
to ''Start Something" in the
Central CITY.

to "Start Something in the
Central City.
ATLANTA. Following the out
having of the Hill City Club of Rome,
under the decision of Judge Moses
Wright upon the ground that its
method of operation was clearly
subterfuge to defeat the state prohi-
bition law, it is reported that Hon.
Seaborn Wright, the prohibition
leader, is preparing to swoop down
upon Macon, form a law and order
league there and attempt to close up
practically all the locker clubs in that
city by injunction.
Court of Appeals to Decide.
Judge Wright's decision is yet o
be passed upon by the state court of
appeals, but Seaborn Wright, who is
his brother, is confident of its AFR
nation, and according to accounts
is getting ready to stir things up in
the Central City.
To Hit Macon Next.
It is said that Mr.. Wright has Sc
lected Macon as the next point of
attack upon the theory that its clubs
are the most vulnerable in their
methods of operation. The charge is
made that the majority of the Macon
locker clubs are not social organiza-
lions at all, though operating under
the guise of such. 1t is claimed that
in reality they are one-man clubs,
which, if true, would make them
practically barrooms.
Now that Mr. Wright has succeed
ed in closing up every club and every
near beer saloon in Rome and even
in preventing the soda wateE fount-
aims from operating on Sunday he
is apparently in search of other fields
to conquer, and Macon, possibly,
looks like an easy mark,
Beginning of Campaign.
This is the beginning of cam
paign through which the extreme or
radical prohibitionists hope to dlti-
mately close every locker club and
every near beer saloon in Georgia.
They have already secured decisions
from the state court of appeals under
which any place in which intoxicat-
ing liquors are sold in violation of
the law is declared to be blind tiger
and may be proceeded against as
public nuisance. If Judge Moses
Wright's decision is sustained by the
same court it will place club in the
hands of the probibitionists which
will enable them to give no little
trouble to practically every organi-
cation in the state where liquors are
dispensed, no matter whether oper-
ated upon social basis or other
wise.
Judge Wright's decision was based
upon the service check plan of dis
pensing liquors, such as is in common
use in most of the clubs in Georgia.
About the time of the passage of
the Webb bill by congress Seaborn
Wright was quoted as saying that
by the first of July the prohibition
lists would have closed up every lock-
err club and every near beer saloon
in Georgia 1t will not, of course, be
possible for them to do this, or any,
thing like it, but it is evident that
the prohibitionists, under his leader
ship, have some plans on foot
through which they expect to get
definite results in this direction. Just
what these plans are have not been
disclosed, further than that the fight
is being made to put these institu
lions out of business upon the ground
that they are public nuisance. Mr..
Wright even succeeded in closing up
the Elks' club in Rome, although it
was operated in the same manner as
are other Elks' clubs in all parts of
the state, which have not been dis
turbed.
To Traverse State.
It is apparent that Mr. Wright is
proposing to traverse the state, not
with the Ratchet as did Carrie Ma
ton in Kansas, but with weapon in
the shape of court decisions, which
he is endeayoring to make more eff