The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-10-29

Delegate to State Convention Here This Week
Came Near Disrupting Organization When
Attacked Wet Record of Ohio Governor

por;-;cs came near d1sruptlng
.ba thirrv-eig11th annual conven-
.;on of the North Carolina w. c.
= n session at Elizabeth City I
.t;s week when Mrs. Ellen ]. Y.
p..vor chairman of the publ
,;-r committee OF that body, held
~ portrait OF Governor James
n Cox aud told the women in
+he convention that they could
aft afford to cast their vote for
fox because he is a "wet candi-
date
local women present made unmistak-
h1o manifestation of the fact that they
,,,Id vote for Cox wet or dry and that
tbar allegations to Democracy was not
.,,,rdarv to their allegiance to the w.
:, I |. If Governor Cox is a wet
o.nddate.'' declared Mrs. Sallie Boett-
.bar Of the local w. C. 7. o., then
ro will vote for a wet candidate IN
raxt Tuesdays election" Mrs. Boett-
obar smoke without heat, but there was
. rppSpuess in the situation like some
+brc about to snap. One prominent
rIzaheth City woman said that if
,omp one had started move to leave
rho meeting after Mrs. -Preyer's speech,
rbare wouldn't have been a corporafs
r,ard left in the First Baptist Church
auditorium where the meeting was be-
ing held.
Mrs Preyer was addressing the con-
vpntion Tuesday afternoon. In the
corrse of her address she unrolled
poSter carrying a portrait of Governor
Cox. the poster purporting to be an ap-
neal by the liquor interests in behalf OF
the Governors candidacy.
We can not afford to vote Tor this
man. declared Mrs Preyer, because
ba is a wet candidate" Il came from
Ohio she went on, ''and it is true
that Governor Cox was three times
elected Governor of that state: But he
was elected by the liquor interests.
Much more that she said is not quoted
because INlS new hoAA AO -
er present at the meeting.
Mrs. Preyer then proceeded to read
roll call of North Carolina Repre- sen
tatives in Congress and put Congress
man John H. Small in the Cox category
When she concluded her remarks
there was an ominous silence and re-
sentiment showed on the faces of 10
cal women. Anything might have hap
pened in a moment, but Mrs. Boettchel
took the situation in hand and voice.
the sentiment of the locals. >"f Gov
ernor Cox is a wet candidate, then We
shall vote for a wet candidate IN Iues
DAYS election.'' Here Mrs. L. Adelaide
Goodno, of Greensboro, the presiding
Office of the convention raped for or
der and declared that the W. q. L. U
was a non-partisan organization am
politics must not enter into its discus
sions. Some of the women have re
marked that Mrs. Goodno did not rals'
such a point of order when Mrs. Prey
er was speaking.
Mrs. Boettcher also came to the de
fese of Congressman Small and sal
that while he had voted against nation
al prohibition as a matter OF stat
rights. that she knew Mr.. Small was TO
the Volstead Act without reservations
having had such assurance from MI
Small himself She said that she wa
sure Mr. Small's successor IN once
Hallet S. Ward would likewise respee
and represent the unmistakable senti
ment of his constituents on proh1bIto
law enforcement Mrs. Boettcher mad
it clear that she thought the w. Z.
I. had the situation well in hand pol
tically thru its Representatives IN Co1
greSs regardless of whatever label on
might attempt to attach to this or thf
presidential candidate. =
No War on Tobacco Yet
Anxious males who have been expec
rg the ". c. T. U. to take their tt
barro away from them next listened
vain for the call to arms against NJ
Lady Nicotine at this convention III
convention did not take up the tooa
co evil or Indicate in any way. what 1
plans are IN this connection. Those WI
attended the convention are convince
that the w. G. T. U. yet has its han'
full in dealing with the illegal bevarat
liquor traffic and that it will be sever
years before it will have time to spa
from its liquor eradication work to wa
war on tobacco.
The work of the w. G. T. Q. is no
world wide in it's scope and its act
TitieS are no longer confined to the Uni
ed States. Having driven the brew
ai-d distiller from this country tn
must follow him to Brazil, to Africa.
China and every other corner of t
earth where he has re-established hi
self. The motto OF the w. G.
which used to be For God and Hol
and Native Land has been chang
to read: For God and Home and Eve
Land" And so with world wide pro-
ol1on as its goal and with the woo
ant S"amps full of illicit distillers a
Do"tleggers at home, the w. c. I.
mas about all it can attend to for So
years to come
To Raise Age of Consent
Ihe program of the North CAROL
w. {. t. U. for the ensuing year is
"Fated in the following resolutiC