The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-23
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BY UPSH!AV
Georgi Represents
tive Calls on Govern
nlent OHhfiic. Ell Gals t Q
Take cad ii OBJ
serYance Of Law
serVance OF Law

Washington, Dec. 20.--High gov.
ernment officials, governors, judges
and members Of congress were ask
ed today by Representative Upshaw
.(Demoerat3 of Georgia, in q
speech in the house, TO emulate
Marshal Foch, who refused to
touch sntoxicants while on Ameri-
can soil out Of respect for the dry
constitution - s-s
NO longer must the higher ups
say Go, 3 shouted Mr. UpshaW:
2AsThey must say Come. Anything
less than this will be a farce and a
scandal. Timorous souls have
never inspired anybody This is
no time for pussyfoeting utter
ahees and actions ION. the part Of.
our state and national Headers. "
Mr.. Upshaw urged that the pres
ident issue a ringing Christmas
proclamation calling every citizen
and especially every oficial to to-
tai abstinence for the common
good. .s Referring to the recent
goVernor,s conf he said Let.
these governors; led by the pres.
ident and vice prsidnt OF the Unit-
ed States and all the members OF.
the cabinet, walk out in the open
and LIT their hands before nigh
heaven and take a new oath of al
legiance to the whole constitution
and the American flag. .'.s
eLet them sacredly declare said
Mr. IJpshstw. al, regardless OF
Wf1at their tastes and practices
have beer. they viii never again
build t,p sa ootlegger's barbarous
business By drinking any form OF
any amount of Illicit liquors at any
dinner at any function or in any
ballroom or any back alley Let
every every r,n,lernber Of congress and ev-
ery J5nitaa states senator follow
;s,,it. slet every state and federal
ind % nd. every prosecuting at
torneey- in America stand up like.
patriotic. men and declare they
yu;ft, never, again personally tram
ME. the constitution which they
,,havye 8 sworn to obey and defend:s
Decla1ngti1e s1pfain people
larnSh at high sounding pronnn-5
ciamentosj because they believed
that esn1any high officials believed
in that .fifalutm autoeracy which
claims the privilege Of buying and
drinking Illicit liquors themselves,
while denying the privilege to the.
poor devils down among the masses
who are foolish enough to want the
.opportunfty to buy and drink IL;
slieit liquid damnation, MI. Up
shaw said that IF these govern
;ors who put their feet under the
spreside dent.s nahogany:a at the #Wnlte
House really wish to get anywhere ysstl.
in their conferences Tor law en-
forcement, let them rei'iet'ipe, s''ll :,
what the beloved and inlmortat efl. r'l
Sam Jones. said; II you want
to reform the world, pegan on
yourself - -
Mr. UrshaW eommendeo Soii-
mander Alvin oWsieyE Eef the amer
lean Legion, who, ne SAID, hao oe-
|clared ne Would netstoacti q ll.g''l' usop
|ofs liquor while head OF the region,
and then launched on an attack on
Governor. Parker Of Louisiana, sWno
he said; had asserted at the re-
cent governors conference at
White Sulphur Springs, w a.
that prohibition IS q failure.
can not, he SAID, ciose tn.s !!
honest. desperate CHRISTMAS e8-
|hortation to the governors OF amer
lea and alrother high offlclais WITH
out the inevitab BILE observation that
conferences Of governors will be IN
a bad fia.. and will leave the pres
Efdent and his cabinet and the
whole country in bad 1xsn they
are all: with the same complaint
which aaflicts that visionary hero
tof windmills, the fantastic governor
Of Louisiana. Hitherto holding
hiru in sfiigh esteem, we have seen
him plunge from his high pedes-
tai OF state and national confidence
nv rushing to the nations capital
for hesp to free his state from the
tunaultous reign Of esgablins" and
wizards when his own repre-
congress; Protestant and Roman
flaming aaldg follies, fell declaring 5e that