Cleveland County herald., 1919-01-02


 mated the candidates of 1908.
 Results in Later Years.
 The candidates since 1884 and their vote are as follows:
 1888, Clinton B. Fisk, New Jersey, and J. A. Brooks, Missouri, 249,945 votes.
 1892, John Bidwell, California, and J. B. Cranf1ll, Texas, 270,710 votes.
 1896, Joshua Lowering, Maryland, and Hale Johnson, Illinois, 130, votes.
 1900 John G. Woolley, Illinois, and H. B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 209, 9,469 votes.
 1904, S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania, and George B. Carroll, Texas 25S, S,2O5 votes.
 1908, Eugene W. Chain, Illinois, and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253, ,231 votes.
 1912, Eugene W. Chain, Arizona, and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 20S,923 votes.
 1916, J. Frank Hanley, Indiana, and Dr. 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 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 a 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 ized the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Delegates were present from IT states.
 The plan of work was presented by Frances E. Willard and most of the thoughts embodied in the plan were later worked out in the w. c. T. U. At this convention Miss Willard Of fered also the famous resolution: "Re- solved, That recognizing the fact that our cause is, and will be, combated by 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 it's very earliest years the W. c. T. U. sought out variety 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- zion 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 iZed, 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- tific temperance instruction in public schools, brought practically all the children in the nation in touch with temperance truth; medical temper ance; mSnyrs' meetings; flower mis- sion and Hief; equal suffrage; moral education and race betterment oratori- cal and declamatory medical contests !; Christian citizenship and child wel-