Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-10-12
Hon. Seaborn Wright's
Position on Prohibition

Declaring that he will not open cam
paign headquarters in Atlanta but
will conduct his campaign from his
home town at Rome, Seaborn Wright
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed the late Senator Thomas F.
Watson, issued a statement Saturday
in which he said that support OF the
prohibition laws would be one OF the
chief planks of his platform in his
race He reviewed his record in favor
of passage of the prohibition laws and
declared that the prohibition question
still is one Of the most vital legisla-
tive questions facing the American
people.
Mr.. Wright's statements is as fol-
lows:
81 make this announcement to sue
coed Senator Watson. | confess that
sentiment has something to do with
my action. In 1896, ran as a prohi-
bition democrat for governor of Geor-
gia, endorsed by the old populist party
on platform written by Senator Wat
son., Chancellor Walter B. Hill and
myself. | have lived to see practically
every plank in that platform of prin-
ciples moulded into law. ~
Senator Watson and Chancellor
Hill are both dead. believe the
great crusade began for the better
ment OF the common people, ought not
to end amid the wranglings Of politi-
clans. who never loved either of them.
In making this announcement for
| the senate, am going to do what
have always done, what every man
should be made to do, speak my posi-
ton plain upon questions immediately
before the American congress.
Raps Politicians
i never had any patience with poll
ticians who play for position or wran-
gle for the spells of office. They arc
the curse of democracy. Times like
these demand men in office with con-
victions of public duty. with the cour-
age to live or die for their convictions
with a smile on their faces.
What are these questions i'll their
relative order of importance which
will Immediately face the successor
of Watson?"
"First--It took the Christian men
and women of this country hundred
years of unceaSing warfare to outlaw
the legalized liquor traffic. The great
fight ended with the eighteenth con-
stitutional amednment. This amend
ment is safe. 1t will never be re-
pealed.
There is no issue before the people
as to the repeal OF the eighteenth con-
| Stitutional amndment-but-
There is an issue Immediately be-
fore the national congress which
strikes at the heart of the amendment,
through the Volstead act, providing
for the modification or repeal of this
act, defining Intoxicating liquor. This
question is a pressing issue in prac-
tically every state in the union today
The enemies OF the eighteenth am
endmcnt to the constitution are as
alive today TO destroy our great pro-
hibitory laws as ever in the past. The
danger is greater today than ever be-
lore. The people OF America face
the return of saloons in a form as in
sidious and deadly as ever before.
Would Mean Anarchy
rs there man or woman in Geor.
gia who does not know that a five
per cent beer and ten per cent wine
saloon in the hands of tn cold crimi
nal class who ran the straight saloon:
would sell "a hundred per cent liquor
adding anarchy to criminality2
During the four year term of offic,
OF the senator who will be nominated
N the coming primary, this question
will be fought out and settled all over
America.
at is possible that the Christian
men and women OF the great state
which was first in the south to pas:
prohibitory laws are blind to theil
peril. God forbid. On this ISSUE
there should be no question, no shad
ow OF doubt as to the attitude O
the men eiectd inc the coming pri
mary.