Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-01-29

Illinois as its standard-bearers. Ihey
polled about 1900 votes.
The feature of the Prohibition cam
paign of 1900 was tour of the coun-
try by the candidates and a corps OF
speakers by special train. In l9lz
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, 249,54o
votes.
1892. John Bidwell, California, and
J. B. Cranill, Texas, 270,710 votes.
1896, Joshua lowering, Maryland,
and Hale Johnson, Illinois, loo,'oo
votes.
1900, John G. Woolley, Illinois, and
Fl. B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 2O9,4oS
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. Chain, Arizona
and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, POSSES
votes.
1916, ]. Frank Hanley, Indiana, and
DR.. Ira Landrith, Tennessee, 214,34o
| 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 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 like wild
fire throughout the nation and was
denominated by the press "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 E. Willard and most of the
thoughts embodied in the plan were
later worked out in the w. G, L. O..
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
thence, 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.
| G.. T. 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 Lee
! gion for the children, and the Young
Peoples branch for the young men and
rolled as young Campaigners for
| Prohibition"
| Over forty departments were organ
lied, 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-
tifc 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 well
| fare.
For World Prohibition.
The Worlds Woman's Christian
! Temperance union was founded in 1888
by Miss Willard. 1t is organized in
40 nations, with a total membership
of over half a million.
In 1884 Miss Willard sent out from
her home Office in Evanston, ILL.,, adj
dressed to each government of the
world, an appeal for total abstinence,
purity of life, and against the man.
4 ufacture and sale of opium, with this
call for world prohibition eve come