The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-25
DRYS ARE WARNED
TO Be VERY ALERT
Home and state Urges watebfnlness
! to the End That Convention
Delegates BE Net Captured.

Dallas, Texas. April s4.-Phe cur
rent issue of Home and State, off,
cial publication of the Anti Saloon
Icague of Texas which carries on
Its front page the following editorial,
which may be taken as expressing the
attitude of the league on one of the
Important pending political Issues In
the State.
Shall the liquor machine continue
to dominate the politics OF Texas?
! "On Saturday, May 6, Democratic
conventions will be held In every
voting precinct In Texas for the cleo
ton of delegates to represent the
various precincts In the Democratic
county conventions, to be held In
every county in the State on the fol-
lowing Tuesday. May 9. These
county conventions will elect dele
gates to represent the counties in
the State convention to be held in
San Antonio tive weeks later, on
Tuesday, May 80. The State conven-
tion will elect forty delegates to rep
resent the State of Texas In the ma
tional Democratic convention which
will renomInate Woodrow Wilson at
st. Louis. This State convention will
also select the national committee
man to represent Texas In the ma
/ next four years. According to law
the precinct conventions will be held
on Saturday. May 8, between 10
O'Clock A. NJ. and o'clock p. NJ, and
all Democrats who are qualified yot.
ers will be permitted to participate
There is good reason to beiisv>
! that the organized liquor traffic In
! furtherance of its persistent purpose
| to dominate Texas politics will do
! a IN En- n IT, a..
conventions and select delegates to
st. Louis of Its own choosing. In
Washington n few days ago we
learned upon reliable authority that
already n slate has been made by
the liquor machine for the delegates
at large. 1t has been bruited also
for some months that Col. Jake F.
VOTERS, who for years has headed
the liquor organization in Texas, Is
slated as national committeeman from
the State.
ut Is highly important for the
good name OF the State and for the
cause OF good government, that every
effort of the liquor traffic to DON'T
nate the San Antonio convention and
send q delegation to st. Louis Of Ats
own choosing shall be forestalled.
This can be done by the friends of
good government If they will be
| viEilant.
I'VE do not mean that the deicga-
1 ton to st. Louis should be com
posed entirely of Prohibitiopists. nor
that II should be chosen wholly upon
the prohibition issue. Inasmuch as
the question OF prohibition will in
all probability not be an issue in the
national Democratic convention. there
I can be no serious objection to send
/ ing as delegates from Texas some
clean, high-minded, honest anti Pro-
hibitionists. What we do mean TO
say is that no man should be sent as
/ a delegate from Texas whose past re-
cord shows him 10 be subservieat to
The organized HQucr traffic and I'M
der its political domination: AMI GER
tainly no man should be sent who has
ever been in any way connected with
the political payroll of the brewers
Tor liquor dealers.
/ ITO this end we urge our readers
in every voting precinct In Texas.
] preachers doctors, lawyers. business
men, farmers, union labor men. and
! all others. to be certain to go to their
respective polling places on Satur-
! day. May 6, and see to 1t that there is
offered in the precinct convention and
adopted by Ii a resolution providing
substantially as follows:
Resolved That we are opposed
TO the selection OF any man as a dele
gate from Texas to the national
Democratic convention whose past
political record shows that he is SUBJ
servient to the organized liquor traf-
| fIc in politics. and that we instruct
our delegates from this precinct TO
vote in the county convention for q
resolution instructing our county
delegates to the State convention at
San Antonio. May %. in selecting
delegates to the national convention,
to vote only for men, whether Prohi-
bitionists or -Prohihitiontsts. who
are politically independent OF the
brewers and liquor dealers, and tc
vote for no man who Is affiliated with
Its political payroll
we would urge our readers also
to see to II that men are elected as
delegates to the national convention.
who will carry out the instructions
contained in the resolutions, and that
similar instructions are offered and
adopted by each county convention
when it meets at the county seat on
May 8.
Keep this matter In mind. Talk TO
your neighbors about It, and do not
fail to be on hand and see to 1t that
all friends of good government: are
on hand when your precinct couven-
ton is called to order on Saturday,
Nav g."