The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-25

the RTOnlDltlOu COllNShllph
mated the candidates Il 1908.
Results in Later Years.
The candidates since 1SS4 am their
vote are as follows
1888 Clinton b. Fist. New. Jersey,
and J , Brook, Missouri 249,94o
votes.
1892, John Bidwell, California, and
]. B. Cranfin, Texas, 270,710 votes.
1896 Joshua lowering, Maryland
and Hale johnson, Illinois, 13O''o5
! votes.
1900. John G. Eoolley, Illinois, and
T B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 2O9,4o9
votes.
1904. S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
and George B. Carroll, Texas, 25S'2oo
votes.
1908. Eugene w. Chain. Illinois, and
Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253,231 votes.
1912, Eugene w. c atm, Ariz pa,
and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 2OS,923
votes.
1916, J. Frank Hanley, Indiana, ana
DR.. Irf Landritb Tennessee, 2l4,54o
votes.
Women Promint 1t in the Fight.
For many years the women have
been prominent in the prohibition
movement, for the evils of intemper-
ance Dor heavily on their sex. To
them must be given a very large share
in the credit for the success of the
Z fight. They started it publicly on
large scale in 1873 in Ohio with cru
SADIE 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 lik wild
fre throughout the nation and was
denominated by the press "whirlwinc
from the Lord" Many Saloons were
. swept out of existence, but 1t soon be
!. came evident that prayer must be &C
!, companied by action if they would pre-
vent the return or the re-openiDg o.
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
4 and at that meeting there was organ
: lied the National Woman's Christian
q Temperance Union. Delegates wer
present from II states.
The plan of work was presented b
Frances z. Willard and most of tn
thoughts embodied in the plan wer
later worked out in the w. c. Il. |
At this convention Miss Willard OF
fered also the famous resolution: "R'
solved, That recognizing the fact tina
our cause is, and will be, cOmbated b
mighty. determined and relentles
forces, we will, trusting in him VIII
is the Prince of Peace, meet argumer
with argument misjudgment with p;
thence. denunciatiOn with kindness, an
d all our difficulties and dangers wit
3 ! nyer."
a Pursued Many Roads to Its Goal.
q From it's very earliest years the
q C. 7. U. sought out a variety of av
*j UueS lIlTOuSn WHICH TIE CIilluI eli VI u
81 nation might be educated in the pri
81 ciples of total abstinence and the adu
q won for the absolute prohibition
the liquor traffic. Out of the juveni
work grew the Loyal Temperance L
gion for the children, and the YOU
Peoples branch for the young men al
women. Later the children were e
ne rolled as Young Campaigners f
rs Prohibition"
r. Over forty departments were Orga
N, lied, and carried on to some degree
d every state and territory, and in fro
he ten to twenty thousand local unior
-. Among these were: Temperance wO
m, in Sunday schools, which, with scie
all tific temperance instruction in pub
ne schools, brought practically all
,e- children in the nation in touch wi
rk temperance truth; medical temp
les ance; mothers meetings; flower m
ad sion and relief; equal suffrage; mo-
as education and race betterment; OratO
he cal and declamatory medical confess
tie Christian citizenship, and child W
lin fare.