Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
WRIGHT STOPS
/ HERE IN FRESH
RADON VETS
p,obibition Leader to Open Long
sOsakg Campaign in Augusta
and Sweep State.

S..born Wright, the noted prohibi-
~ Isaier of Rome who not only put
. .,v' present Statewide dr. law on
wv wv ssorgi9 statute books, but says
~ ,ronoses to see it enforced, stopped
n ls,r in Atlanta last night on his way
" sonth Georgia, where he begins
,o.morrow night whirlwind cam
na,gr for prohibition enforcement in
that section.
Nv Wright says Rome and Macon
10th have been closed tight as a
ANN and that the various law en-
sorrerept leagues throughout the
STATS propose to keep hammering at
tbinrs until the State is made really
'Jry" from one end to the other.
I'VE have the law to close Georgia
he have had it ever since the pres
ant Iaw was enacted" said Mr..
Wright IN the Kimball House lobby
last night,
~ have said all along, and I re-
neat now, that Georgia needs no ad-
ditional statutes All 1t needs Is en-
forcement Of the ones now on the
books And that enforcement Is forth
coming.
II shah make some eight or ten
spesches during my tour now start
Ing, and after Christmas l have ar
ranged a schedule including so Geor-
g1a towns I propose to speak In, and
I may run this list to 100 or more
before get through"
Must Obey Law.
People may as we'll understand
now as any other time that the law
abiding citizens Of Georgia propose
to see the prohibition law enforced.
We have the law, and 1t shall be
obeyed!'
Mr., Wright begins his South Geor-
gla campaign in Augusta Tomorrow
night From Augusta he goes to Sa-
vsnnah, and then to Fitzgerald,
Valdosta, cambridge, Thomasville,
Moultrie and Americas.
After Christmas his long speaking
tour starts in North Georgia and
, sweeps the State clean. There Is not
a Crossroads village" as he ex-
presses II, that he will overlook.
/. Mr. Wright says he is working in
cooperation with, and more or less
directly under the direction OF, the
Womaps Christian Temperance I'm
len of Georgia. He did not say that
his present w5~k is in no way con-
necJed with the Anti Saloon Leagues
campaign, but he would not say that
it is,
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union really is the pioneer in
, the work Of making Georgia dry"
. said Mr.. Wright, although 1t never
has received full and complete credit
for that, as It should. II is the grand
est Of all temperance organizations"
Silent on Crusade Here.
It was stated unoffiCialiy at one
time that Mr. Wright would take q
leading part in the present effort to
put the lid on" in Atlanta, but the
famous prohibition leader would not
talk Of that crusade.
He said. that the effort to put At
lanta into the really dry" column in
Georgia ought to succeed, and he ex-
pressed no doubt that it would. How
ever ne said that, at present, at
teest, the Atlanta movement is in no
way associated with himself.
hf. Wright says Rome. his home
Town IS free Of all locker clubs and
near-oeer saloons, and declares that
never again will there be one Of
either operated there. He states that
Inc law as enacted by the Legislature,
coupled with recent decision Of the
couts Of review, place in the hands
81 sincere prohibitionists perfect ma
;Ht!inery for the suppression of all VIC
Iatons OF the prohibition law, wheth-
Il mat violation comes by way of a
s Stuo' so-ealled near-beer saloon.
Ollnd tiger" or what not.
NJ Leaves for Augusta.
NJ Wright left for Augusta at
T1.omsht' His present tour will in
G.uQe at least the cities named, and
!. may be extended to cover several
mo- more before it Is ended as at present
NE ne stated that there doubtless
wouio De a number of prohibition
opedkers besides himself listed in the
h u.lPEalgn mapped after Christmas
~ mat his Individual program would
tntiuue not less than so speaking
Ia. and might run te1o0. In the
1911 naont, event, it would cover four