The Colorado statesman., 1919-01-25

| paign of 1900 was n tour of the coun'
try by the candidates and a corps OF
speakers by special train. In 1872
the Prohibition convention renom-
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, 249,94l
votes.
1892. John Bidwell. California, and
j. B. Cranfil, Texas, 27O,T1O votes.
1896. Joshua Levering, Maryland,
and Hale Johnson, Illinois. 13O,1o3
votes
1900, John G. woolley, Illinois, and
Ii. g. Metcalf Rhode Island, 209,469
votes.
1904, S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
and George b. Carroll. Texas, 25S,2
votes
1908, Eugene w. Chafin, Illinois, and
Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253, ,231 votes.
1912, Eugene w. Chafin, Arizona,
and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 20S,923
votes.
1916, ]. 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 a very large share
in the credit for the success OF the
fight. They started it publicly on
large scale in 1878 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
denomlnated 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
e, ~, r,In
later worked out in the w. c. I. 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 its very earliest years the w
C. I. U. sought out a 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-
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
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; mothers meetings; flower mis-
sion and relief; equal suffrage; moral
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 1883
by Miss Willard. 1t is organized in
40 nations with n 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: "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 |
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