The Dermott news., 1919-01-23
Results in Later Years.

1 the Prohibition convention reN1H= mated the candidates of 1s0S
 Results in Later Years.
 The candidates since lss4 and tlreir vote are as follows:
 1SsS. Clinton F. Fisk New Jer~eye and J. A. Brooks, Missouri 239"ia vafes.
 1sa2 John Bilweu. C3ilfornta aHd !. E Craa6l. FeNas. 27o.7lO votes.
 1saG. Joshua Lowering. Maryland. and Hale Jahu~en. Illinois. tae7v.s votes.
 taoa John .. Weelley. Illinois ana H. l. Metcalf, Ebode Island, 2a4lG9 votes
 1pot $. C. Swallow. Penn>Nlyarta. md George E. Carroll, Texas. #25>,2oa votes.
 laoS. Eugene W. Chain, Illinois. and Aaron <. Watkins. ohio 2.a3 22&t votes.
 fa12. Fug,ae N Clafa. Affzoua. md Aaron <. Watkins, ohjo, @a>.@-3 votes
 1a1G. l. Frank Ilanloy, Indiana and Ior lra Iam!eith. Tennessee, 41+@i4 votes.
 Women Prominent in the Fight.
 For many years che women have been prominent in the prohibition movement, for the evils of intemper- anee bore heavily on their seN. fo them must be gwen q Ncry large share i m 'he credit for the success of tie i nsbt. They started il puhH-ty=on larsr scale in 1878 in Ohio .Wth a cru- >atle to pray Che saloons eGt af exist. euee.
 This movement. inauguratcd hy a l.t- tle band of women who he'd prayer meetings in saloons when permitted and on=the payemeuts outside when not allowed to enter, spread like WHd- fire .hreHgheut tle nation and Was dcuowiratcd hy the press T "WiiriWiud from the Lord Many saloons were sWcp, out of existence, hut it soon be. came evident that prayer must h. ac. cemranied hy action 1T they Waald pre- yeut the return or The re=opcuiG- of 1 the ~alaeaS eHee closed
 Tho cal for orsau.1ation WITS i~~ue5 fram thautauqua. \. \. in Au-.~t, 1~74 The convention was held Il ! Cleveland. O. November 1Sea =iN7t. and ai chat mectIa. theFe was orcauz ized the National Womaa's Christian Temperance Unon peIesste- f,ere present from r. states.
 The plan of work Was presented ny ! Frames r. Willard and most af Che thoughts embodied iu the plan were 1 later worked out m the N Cs T. L.. At# #thiS= convention Mis- Willard af ! ferc1 also the famous resolution: Ike i solved That reeosa5eiug tlsr fact that eur cause is. and Will te. combatel ny mighty. determined and relentless 1 forces. We Will. trusting in Mn who ! k tho Prince If Peace, meet argument with argument mI Judgment with pa= tienee. denunefe'taa Nth kindness. aad u}l aur difficulties and dangers with prayer"
 Pursued Many Reads to Its Coal.
 From its very earliest years the N (. T. |. sought out variety of ave uucs through which inc children of tAe nation might hc educated in tho prta- eiples of total abstinence and tle adult Won fer the absolute prohibition ot the liquor traffic out of the Juvenile work grew the Loyal Temperance Lc- ! zion for the children. and the Young 1 Peoples branch for the young mtu and women. Later the children were en- rolled as Young Camparuers for 1 Prohibition"
 over forty departments We're organ ized and carried on to some degrye Tn 1 every state and territory, and iR from 1 ton to twenty thousand iocaI unions Among these were Temperance work in sunday schools. which. with stJeu- life teHperaliee Instruction in public schools, brought practically all the children in the nation in touch with temperance truth; medical temper i anco; mothers meetings flower mls- sion and relief eqGal suffrage: moral education and race bctterment oratori- cal and declamotory medical contests | Christian cit enship, and child wei ! fare.