The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-24

palgn OF 1900 was tour of the coun-
try by the candidates and . corps Of
speakers by special train. In 1912
the Prohibition convention renom-
mated the candidates of 1908.
Results in Later Years.
The candidates since 1884 and their
vote are as follows:
1883, Clinton b. Fisk. New Jersey,
and ]. A. Brooks. Missouri, 249, ,945
votes.
1892, John Bidwell. California. and
J. B. Cranfill. Texas. 27O.71O votes.
1896. Joshua Levering. Maryland,
and Hale Johnson. Illinois. 130.7o3
votes.
1900, John G. Woolley, Illinois, and
ii. b. Metcalf, Rhode Island. 209 469
votes.
1904, S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
and George B. Carroll, Texas. 5S,205
votes.
1908, Eugene w. Chafin Illinois, and
Aaron S. Watkins. Ohio. 3.231 votes.
1912, Eugene w. Chatn, Arizona.
| and Aaron S. Watkins. Ohio 2OS923
votes.
A'''' -. = idih hh'
DIR. Ira Landrith. Tennessee. 214,340
| votes
Women Prominent in the Fight.
| For many years the women have
been prominent in the prohibition
| movement, for the evils of intemper.
ance bore heavily on their sex. To
| them must be given u very large share
| in the credit for the success of the
fight. They started it publicly on a
large scale in 1873 in Ohio with cru.
| sade to pray the saloons out of exist.
| ence.
This movement inaugurated by lit
| tie band of women who held prayer
| meetings in saloons when permitted
and on the pavements outside when
| not allowed to enter, spread like wild
fire throughout the nation and was
| denominated by the press a ''whirlwind
from the Lord" Many saloons were
| swept out of existence, but it soon be
] came evident that prayer must be ac-
companied by action if they would pre-
vent the return or the re-opening of
| the saloons once closed.
| The call for organization was issued
| from Chautauqua, n. Y, in August
1874, The convention was held in
| Cleveland, o., November 1920. 1874
and at that meeting there was organ
lied the National Woman's Christian
| Temperance Union. Delegates were
| present from II states.
The plan of work was presented by
| Frances Il. Willard and most of the
| thoughts embodied in the, plan were
later worked out in the w. c. L. U.
| At this convention Miss Willard Of
| fered also the famous resolution: RE
solved, That recognizing the fact that
mighty, determined and relentless
| forces, we will, trusting in him who
is the Prince of Peace, meet argument
with argument, misjudgment with pa
tience, denunciation with kindness, and
all our difficulties and dangers with
prayer"
| Pursued Many Roads to Its Goal.
| From Its very earliest years the W.
G. T. U. sought out asvariety of ave-
nues through which the children Of the
nation might be educated in the prin.
cipleS Of total abstinence and the adult
won for the absolute prohibition Of
the liquor traffic. Out of the juvenile
work grew the Loyal Temperance Le
| gion for the children, and the Young
| Peoples branch for the young men and
women. Later the children were en-
rolled as Young Campaigners for
Prohibition"
Over forty departments were organ
| lied, and carried on to some degree in
every state and territory, and in from
| ten to twenty thousand local unions
Among these were Temperance work
in Sunday schools, which, with scien-
tif1c temperance instruction in public
schools, brought practically all the
children in the nation in touch with
temperance truth; medical temper
ance; mothers meetings; flower mis-.
sion and relief; equal suffrage; mora
education and race betterment oratori-
cal and declamatory medal contests:
Christian citizenship and child wei
fare.
For World Prohibition.
The Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance union was founded in 1889
by Miss Willard. 1t is organized In
40 nations, with a total membership
OF over half million.
In 1884 Miss Willard sent out from
her home office in Evanston, ILL.,, ad.
dressed to each government of the
world an appeal for total abstinence,
purity of life, and against the man
ufacture and sale Of opium. with this
call for world prohibition: 1--WE come
to you with the united voices Of repre-.
sentative women of every land, be
seeching you to raise the standard OF
the law to that of Christian morals.
to strip away the safeguards and sane.
tions of the state from the drink traffic
and to protect our homes by the total