The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-10-16
The State Convention.

/ ROLldu WILTSHIRE temperance Union,
which was the thirty-third session, and
which met in the beautiful city Of Knox
vile, was by far the best convention in
this work ever held.
All the State officers we're present ex-
cept Mrs. Buquo Clements. Mrs. Glenn
ents. whose home is in Dickson, was at
home entertaining handsome infant
son. Though Mrs. Clements filled a
very important place and was sorely
missed, her excuse OF absence met the
approval of the convention body.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Grace Will
liams Robins, of Mckenzie, a postal
card shower was given Master Robert
Clements, Jr. So easy to digress, and
if anything can more easy than another
bring this about it is an infant.
Our president, Mrs. Silena Moore Hol-
man, though getting up in years and
carrying much responsibility, was at
her best. We think never was her ex-
ecutive power more called upon and
strongly brought to the front than ia
this convention. Mrs. Holman has
rightly earned her encomium OF The
greatest statesman in the Volunteer
State.
With us from day to day were dis
tinguished speakers from other States.
There was our distinguished and conse-
Grated Mrs. Gilreath, of Georgia. She
won the love and admiration OF all.
Then Mrs. Hollister, OF Illinois, so at
tractive in pose and exact in statements.
Two days OF the convention Mrs. Ellie
Boole, State president of New York,
was present. Mrs. Bodies sketch Of
her difficulties in getting out of Italy
after war was declared was ludicrous to
the extreme, yet in the fact that she
with hundreds of others who had al
ways travelled frst-class finally shipping
as steerage passengers the convention
was moved to compassion.
To get back to temperance themes,
Mrs. Boole said never could New York
go dry OF itself. That the w. C. I. U.
and other reform bodies OF that State
were depending on the amendment for
national prohibition, or in other words,
for assistance from sister States.
Sabbath night Hon. Seaborn Wright,
OF Georgia, speaker of national repu-
tation, addressed the convention. OF
all peculiar people, Mr.. Wright is most
peculiar. He begins in quaint and
almost too low voice to be heard, in
fact SO Disappointing one wonders how
he can be SO heralded as public speak
err. Yet as he continues it is like storm |
in the dista 4. { ~ but surely
advances upon you, gathering momen-
tum until one is overwhelmed. AS he
handles his subject, which this time
was plea for national prohibition, you
find yourself on the alert, not as to
what be is going to say but what he is
going to do. Down in a chair he will
drop, take an easy pose, converse awhile,
Jump mp, make a rousing peroration,
ETC., until you do not doubt as to why
le has considerable mention. The prob
lble reason OF this is that Mr.. Wright
las for years been in State and Legisla-
i've halls until he has acquired this easy
Jose Of addressing an audience. By the
way, we mean it appeared natural, easy
The greater part of the time was taken
ip by routine work of the delegates, of
which there we're three hundred present.
Distinguished visitors from time to
ime were introduced and heard in brief
emarks, all giving cheer and stating
he influence Of the Woman's Christian
Union along all liues of
eiorm work.
Mrs. Crozier French, State suffragist ]
resident, spoke briefly, suggesting that
s so many bodies. especially the Wom- 4
ms Federal Clubs, had come out for
uffrage, it seemed an suspicious time !
Dr. the w. G. I. u. to declare. Our
resident stated to Mrs. French that 3
nough three-fourths OF the members
'ere for suffrage, the time was not yet. r
AS to politics, Mrs. Holman instruct
4 the delegates that both parties we're I
OF on a temperance platform, leaving
s no occasion to indulge in partisan
lyor. That the Woman's Christian
Union was not only not in
olitics but desired the help of all re-
,rm bodies for passage OF laws for the A
ood OF the commonwealth. The larger
ote in the convention was for an amend
tent for national prohibition. By ac-
amation Martin was made the next
lace of meeting. Z
Lay the jest about the iulep in the
camphor-balls at last,
or the miracle has happened, and the :,
olden days are past y
hat which made Milwaukee famous 2
does not foam in Tennessee, II
nd the lid in old Missouri is as tight "
locked as can be;
nd the comic-paper Colonel and his
cronies well may sigh,
or the mint is waving gaily, and the =
South is going dryl
By the still-side on the hillside in
Kentucky all is still,
nd the only damp refreshment must
be dipt up from the rill.
awth Ca'lina's stately ruler gives his
soda-glass shove,
nd discusses local option with the So'th
Ca'lina GUY.
is useless at the fountain to be wink
full OF the eye,
Or the cocktail glass is dusty, and the
South is going dryl