The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-15

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speMaftf Ill was the way i delegate
'rrsF6}cd ttiS world pruhihissoa law en-
larces,lent conference In 81 nsboro
Tssesotsy sssA IN i.E + A
AN HEHADTT.ARY MiSSiOs AIRY. :
Conversation win ii dist. igulshed
looking and benign. coufatefanced
sssitor disclosed him I'd be Doctor /.
u Hitchcock. of Oklahoma, just in
11rofn leeturc organizing work for ti,c
movement in Texas, and who il 10
be enc Of the district directors su this
Istafe and he played tilc organ for the
conference choir beautifully. lie was
ia big prActicing physician. and repre-
xsi.ted Oklahoma at the great NJ. Il.
Southern conference at Asheviile. Re
turning. home, he Joined the forces of
the Anti-Saioon league OF America,
his whole heart and soul in his work
FOR helping humanity higher, and he
has been going some In that directio
ever since. He IL a native born In
dan territory man, az was his father
and mother n quartcrrb,eed Chero-
kca.
J HIS BIOGRAPHY.
! Indian educated and refined. His
tn sher was teachet ana professor
all ms NE among the Indians. His
grandfather left Massachusetts in
.S?., sent by the Presbyterian board
Of America as missionary to the In
diaHs, making the trip overland by
the tedious and dangerous methods
only possible in those days, A year
later his Hapce was sent by the
beard, as missionary, and married the
.rarson cd her arrival by. the same
SLOW hardshippy journey across the
continent. FOR over, half q century
thew preached to and taught the Red
man, and his father d.ed at eighty
SIX after spending his life teaching
and training them to higher things
rho Indian territory has always been
igoscrnmcntaily prohibition. and
-ok'ahona was horn so as n state con
SO tho sipctor and his
fsgntirg bootieggcrs, and hereditary
instinct, perhaps unconsciousiy. in
dneed him 10 become missionary far
from his birthplace. lie is dcubiS
W elccme, for his mothers paternal
ancestors We've North Carolina Ghero-
laeg transferred from the SAPPHIRE
ses.tion Of Swain county; to that dis
tant beautiful region West.
LAWYER CUTS OUT MOoNsHNE
One delegate wanter to have the
distinguished service hadge conferred
on 3x-Eniteti State District Attorney
Seawell. the good lawyer of Carthage,
for not only cutting out the moon
shine with tongue and pen but taking
an axe, and in the solitude of the
whispering pines of Moore county.
literally and bodaceousIy hacked st
out. He said that Mr.. Seawell. while
riding through tho wooded part of
one OF his farms recently. caught n
punient wh.N OF orderous atmosphr y.
that became so familiar when as dis
triet attorney he had constant con-
tact with bioekading defendants and
witnesses. he knew as soon as he
snsei1ed. what 1t ware and whar it
cum frunl."
He soon found that the source of
the aromatic disturbance was moon :
shine factory, with all equipment nee
essary for successful conversion Of
the staff of life into n fiery fuid con-
trarv to the statute and even now the
constitution in such cases naade and
provided. And 1t was a. good sized
distillery too, with a real cnrper and
every evidence OF active operations
right there on the land of this life
long ahstaiiasr and thorough believ ssr
in prohibition law enforcement
After the first flush Of indignant
mental and aversion and protest at
this outrags on his landed rights. and
his tetotal record. the jocund gentle
man saw the other side--s blockade
moonshine distillery running full
blast on Seawelrs Sandhill farmland
il was to laugh. And he did And
then he righteousiy wrenched the
worm which dieth not and is not
uuenched from its copper socket, SO
that nothing more s~uid run out in
bis absence. nc hied himself as fast
us his horse could anele through tho