The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-19
POOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
SAVES LIFE Of DRY
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA

Discussing his work in connection
with prohibition enforcement in Ha-
bersham county. Colonel /. G. WADE
Of CorneIia, in stlanta this week,
visiting his soa-in law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atkinson, told
how he once came near depriving
Georgia Of one of It's best loved gov
crneFs ard the prohibition movement
Of one of it's ataunchest advocates.
Colonel Wade. who IS serving as
chairman for his county IN the
weeks campaign for funds. to assist
in enforcing the prob ibition laws, IL
veteran OF The WIT between the
states having enlisted in the Union
army from Michigan when he was
fifteen years old ana the embryo gov
ernor tie~t he came rear keeping out
OF Georgia history was former gov
erUdT Mar. ffaTris wtU was 4 suidtter Of
the Confedcracy.
The incident. according TO Colonel
Wade, occurred al the battle OF
[ Mooreheld Virginia. The fedora
cavalry under General Custer attack
/ cd the Southernefs che morning be-
fore daylight. Colonel Wade. then n
private. picked oat IN the darkness
a Confederate soldier on spotted
horse. blazed away ~ him sixteen
: tAffeS ANU dthiEVShlt f1' fEtao tfh FARTi
marksman, missed We enemy every
short
When he ran fo~ governor few
years ago Colonel Wade, then head OF
the g. A. Il. veterans in Georgia
! urged them to vote for the Confed-
erat- veteran Ia tht course of the
campo ign Judge Harris visited Cor
/ neia and while taking dinner with
/ Colonel Wad, the conversation turn
! ed to the battles uf the Civil war
I Colonel Wade told Judge Harris OF
| how he. an expert with firearms. had
| fred sixteen times at the Confederate
soldier without hitting him.
! THAT was me-" exclaimed Judge
Harris in amazement.
/ Il was in that battle and rode a
/ spotted horse and you are the Yanl
/ who had those bullets singing al
around me that early morning"
/ When Judge Harris was elected
governor he appointed Colonel Wade
/ on his staff End when the governor
affixed his signature to the bill tina
made Georgia bone dry Colone
4 Wade joculariy reminded him that i
! was only Nv grace of his poor mark
manship in the uncertain light o
early morn that tue governor ther
was in position to perform this act
IN the interest OF prohibition.
Colonel Wade has been prohibi
ZIONIST since he was born. he says
and although he has never tastet
whiskey has come in contact will
I it otherwise in some of the rough
places of the West of thirty or fort,
years ago. when ne used to iv'
In the prohibition campaign ans
/ election that made North Dakot:
dry in the SOS Colonel Wade tool
an active part and his conduct wa
such that although men connecte,
with the liquor traffic many time
threatened to kin rim unless h.
ceased his activities, he was never at
tackled and most pf them were hi
friends because they knew he wa
square"
Colonel Wade. who was clos
friends Of James i Hin, the grea
railroad builder az the Northwest
came To Atlanta in 1899 to TAX,
charge of the Industrial deveiopnnen
department of the Southern railroad
Later, realizing The possibiiitie
that lay in apple ami peach orchard
in North Carolina, he moved to Cor
nelia and entered this industry. thu
opening up a new field OF unlimite,
opportunity in that section Of III,
state.