The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-31

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:
1888, Clinton B. Fisk, New Jersey,
and J. A. Brooks, Missouri, 249,945
votes.
1892, John Bidwell, California, and
J. B. Cranfill, Texas, 270,710 votes.
1896, Joshua lowering, Maryland,
and Hale Johnson, Illinois, 13o,753
votes.
1900, John G. Woolley, Illinois, and
H. B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 209,469
votes.
1904, S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
and George B. Carroll, Texas, 258,205
votes.
1908, Eugene w. Chain, Illinois, and
Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253,231 votes.
| 1912, Eugene w. Chain, Arizona,
and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, BOSSES
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 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
SADIE to pray the saloons out Of exist
ence.
This movement, inaugurated by q 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 &C
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 il
Cleveland, o., November 1920, 1874
! and at that meeting there was organ
lied the National Woman's Christian
. Temperance Union. Delegates wer'
present from IL states.
The plan of work was presented b.
Frances e. Willard and most of tn,
thoughts embodied in the plan wer,
later worked out in the w. @. t. Q
At this convention Miss Willard of
fered also the famous resolution: IRE
solved, That recognizing the fact tina
our cause is, and will be, combated b,
mighty, determined and RELENTLESS
forces, we will, trusting in him VIII,
is the Prince of Peace, meet argumen
with argument, misjudgment with pa
thence, denunciation with kindness, an
| all our difficulties and dangers wit
prayer"
Pursued Many Roads to Its Goal.
From its very earliest years the "
G. L. U. sought out variety of ave
nues through which the children of tn
nation might be educated in the prir
ciples of total abstinence and the adul
won for the absolute prohibition o
the liquor traffic Out of the juvenil
work grew the Loyal Temperance LIZ
gion for the children, and the Youn
Peoples branch for the young men an
women. Later the children were Ell
e rolled as young Campaigners 70
g prnbihit;op
E Over forty departments We're organ
i, lied, and carried on to some degree
a every state and territory, and in froI
e ten to twenty thousand local unions
2. Among these We're: Temperance wor
4, in Sunday schools, which, with scieI
IL tific temperance instruction in publ
g schools, brought practically all tn
= children in the nation in touch wit
k temperance truth; medical tempe
IS ance; mothers meetings; flower mi
d sion and relief; equal suffrage; mori
IS education and race betterment; orator
e cal and declamatory medical contests
e Christian citizenship and child we
n fare.