The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-01-16
WELCOME
But We Will PILOT
BOAT THIS VOYAGE
SUCH WERE THE WORDS OF GUS
DYER AT THE OPERA HOUSE
SUNDAY.
COUNTY LEAGUE ORGANIZED
County Officers Elected and District
Members Named and Ratified Prior
to the Delivery Of the Address Of
the Afternoon.

put the advocates of personal liberty
to rout in his talk at the opera house
Sunday afternoon, and at the same
time sounded an alarm to the advo-
Gates of the present temperance laws,
telling them to put no man on guard
in the next legislature who did not
bear the marks of the conflict I'VE
welcome all to the 5oat who desire to
come on board, but we propose to pr
lot the craft ourselves. New converts
may shovel coal until they have prov.
en- their faith by their wrks."
w. r. Hamilton, Of the state organ
ization presided at the meeting, and
in his preliminary remarks he stated
the object and purposes OF the meet
ing, stating in his opinion the year
1914 was the most important in the
history of the organization.
Mr.. Dyer was greeted with applause
when he came forward to deliver the
address of the afternoon, and his ad-
dress was more in the nature of a
confidential talk than that of a set
speech or address.
He began by a comparison of the
past with the present and the inf1u-
ence of the saloons and intemperance
on the different conditions and times.
He cited the fact that business instI-
tutions of broad importance were fast
realizing the necessity Of restricting
their employees to absolute sobriety
and abstinence, and cited the fact
that one of the largest railroads run
ming into Chicago would not allow its
employees to enter d saloon at all,
either on or off drty, and it was upon
this fact that the speaker placed his
confidence in the complete and abso-
lutte humiliation of the saloon. Sen
timent," said the speaker, "is being
displaced by cold business conditions,
and when the business world decides
thing must go, it will 60"
In fact he stated that it was already
on it's way, and that the advocates of
no saloons only needed to stay on
guard and not to be lulled into sleep
and inactivity by the APPARENT securi-
ty of the present.
That the audience shared the opin-
ion of the SPEAKER was manifested by
frequent and hearty applause, al.
though there was no nattempt to
arouse enthusiasm. He paid a trib-
ute to men Maury county had sent to
the legislature, stating they needed NO
platform to guide them, for they were
men of morals whose hearts were in
their acts.
Prior to the speaking county and
! district organization was affected by
the election of ofpcers for the county
and the naming of district commit
teemen and the ratification of their
appointment. The county officers
chosen were:
w. T. Boaz, president, Columbia.
William Hughes, vice president
Spring Hill.
C. T. Looney, secretary and treasur
er, Columbia.
! The members of the county league
from the various districts were as
follows, the first named being the dis
trict chairman:
First district-W. H. Ladd, w. w
Eyam, E. E. Woody, A. Jack Dawson
w. M. Fly, R. D. Baker, Geo. Delk
John A. Delk, ]. H. Blackburn.
! Second district-G. c. Goodwin, M
E. Allen, J. w. c. Church, ]. X. P
Timmons, R. r. Oakley, Charles Mich
OILS, w. Eel Dodson, Thos. Taylor, M
U. Taylor, w. A Hayes, James Greg
DRY, j. N. Meroney, ]. ]. Parrish.
Third district-Horace Polk, E. H
Ayers, John Odil, w. L. Henderson
J. A. Grove, Mitt Butts, Buck Hayes
Fourth distriet-Dayis Mitchell