The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-11
TABERNACLE To Be
CENTER OF BATTLE
PROMISED SALOONS
Noted Speakers to Address
Residents Next Tuesday
Evening.
1 500 ATTEND BIG
RALLY LAST NIGHT
Prominent Men Tell Why AL
cohOl Units For
Service.

Richmond will have a vet and dry
election within the next sixty days.
This was the decision reached at the
prohibition mass meeting In the talbe--
nacle last evening when all but a few
OF the fifteen hundred prohibition
workers. according to s. Edgar Mich
olson. rose from their seats, signify
ing desire to get behind the move
ment.
When the meeting was only half
over S. Edgar Nicholson, presiding
officer, asked for a vote of the work
ers as to whether Richmond should
have a wet and dry election. He CALL
ed for rising vote Nearly everyone
in the big tabernacle was on his feet
at once, and cheers resounded through
the big building
The final decision of the question
lies with the Committee of One Hun
dred, which met in the Y. NJ c. A.
late this afternoon 1t was said that
with the sentiment as expressed at
the mass meeting. the committee
would decide in accordance with the
tabernacle vote.
seSSb"aStS ~ SAaUus
After gazing for a few moments at
the standing men and women Mr..
Nicholson last night replied, 1T is as
near unanimous as it can ever be
reached" He gave a second call for
vote whether the tabernacle should
be retained, and again the meeting
stood as to man. Thirty people told
Mr.. Nicholson they would aid in a
guarantee fund of approximately ST.
500 to retain the big structure.
Mr.. Nicholson announced that an
other mass meeting would be held
Tuesday evening in the tabernacle
Then it is suggested a prominent pro-
hibition speaker be brought here for
the engagement The program for the
meeting will be announced later, de-
clared Mr.. Nicholson.
IF you people are in earnest as you
indicate by the clapping of your hands
then We may have a whirlwind cam
be able to get the best talent in the
land to speak from this platform"
Jessup Opposes Election.
OF the nine representative citizens
who spoke at last nights meeting
only one was not in favor of a wet and
dry campaign. Wilfred Jessup, repre-
senting the attorneys. told the crowd
that in his opinion there should not
be wet and dry election.
Il wish to say to you that ! do not
represent any liquor interests. profes-
sionally or personally. I have been in
liquor fights for more than ten years
/ am not an extremist. but IL 1 did no.
give up some small pleasure to help
others in the community. then
would not be doing my duty as a citi-
zen. / never saw a statute that limited
legitimate and good business between
the hours Of O'Clock a. m. and IL
o'clock p. m. l see no complaint with
Richmond. II seems to me to be on a
higher moral and religious plane. more
temperate. and a higher citizenship ia
expressed.
"Of course the efforts and energy
used to bring about q local option
campaign and vote would not be for
nought, but / say that the results gain
ed will not be in accordance with en-
ergies expanded.
Proposes Remedy.
81 propose that a county wide edu-
cational movement be started SO that
when the county election is held next
fall. the dry forces will rise as a mass
and vote for the constitutional con-
vention. If the temperance forces are
able to get a majority. then they can
write state wife prohibition clause
in the constitution which will elini-
nate the sale of liquors without hav-
ing a constant fight within our own
city"
In reply to the talk OF Mr.. Jessup.
Mr.. Nicholson said, "If We have an
option election in the spring then the
forces will be organized more effici-
entity than to put the matter OF until
the county election and then perhaps
a year later. The best evidence and
guarantee that could be given to the
progress Of the dry forces would be
given next fall after Richmond has
voted dry this spring"
Orinker No Good.
THE manufacturer has no use for q
man who drinks" was the statement
made by H. r. Robinson. of the Robin
son & Company Threshing Machine
manufacturers. in speaking from the
stand point of manufacturer. A
manufacturer must make good, that IL
he must make dollars and cents or he
| is not a success. He must choose
sound materials to be worked up into
the finished product SO why must he
chose labor other than what Is not
sound.
| Statistics will prove without a sin
gle iota of doubt that drinking man
| is not able to produce as much labor
as a total abstainer. Even . glass
day has it's effects in the end for al.
drinkers go by the same route. l know
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