POST-DISPATC- fAOE isiuirr. EOCXJIIGHAn H ' Continued from pate serea New York state and. In consequence, . the nation. The Prohibitionists polled Carrie Nation broke Into tha limni light the surprisingly large' rote of 150.623. la the faU of 1900 and mad her That the Republicans nam credited them a household word la newspaper with giving victory to the Democrats omces and most American homes. She was proved by the mora waa fact that In Mrs. David Nation of Meijlclne HFTY YEARS OLD than a hundred cities John waa St ' Mxiffe, js.aa, ana a member In good burned in effigy. - ; and regular standing W. of the C. T. The Prohibition convention inf ,1898 U. It Is said that her first husband split party over woman, INSURE. the suffrage Was Organized Po--. died of delirium tremens. , Anyway, for National YOUE' money.. uarne and The "free silver" minor- ration had another and more litical Action in 1869. ity formed a Liberal party,' with Bent-le- y apparent Incentive to use her hatchet of Nebraska and Southgate of on saloon furniture, And wield that Illinois as its standard-bearer-s, They , hatchet she did; its fame temporarily polled about 13,000 votes. ' , LIFE,: eclipsed FIRST POLLED 5,607 VOTES . that of the Father of .Els The feature of the Prohibition cam- Country. V paign of 1900 was a tour of the Carrie Nation's Little Hatchet by John P. John's Stirring Campaign the candidates and a corps of Kansas was legally a '. prohibition St state.' As a matter of fact prohibition f 1884 Great Work of Miss Wik Have the same care for your good name AFTER was but name and the saloons of the lard and he W. C. T. U. In . slate were wide open. The general Suppressing Intemperance. you leave this life as you have while in it. plan was to fine a saloon $25 a month for breaking the law; that solved the Final triumph for its "cause came" to license difficulty. In short, prohibition the national Prohibition party almost In Kansas had broken down complete at the time of its golden jubilee, It THE MOST ly in the ten years It had been noml came into existence fifty years ago ATTRACTIVE nally In force, and the state authori- next September In Farwell ball, Chi' ties had not the courage either to cago, by the act of a convention of modify the law or enforce It Carrie about 600 . delegates representing 19 Nation took the situation Into her own states. - hands. For several years the, formation of R Nation be- O Carrie first visited Kiowa such a party had been discussed LIC 'EES and broke up two saloons with her lit- cause the leaders of the Republican tle hatchet Then she went to Wichi- and Democratic parties had virtually are written by the ta and broke op two more. She was ignored the advocates of prohibition. put in Jail, kept there for several days The Good Templars, organized In 1851 as a society of total abstainers, urged such action, and other leaders believed Richmond Insurance & Realty Go. it necessary. At a state temperance convention held In Pennsylvania in 1867 the plan was first publicly broach ed, and two years later on May 29, 1869, the call for the Chicago conven By the way, why don't you start the New Year right tion was put out by the grand lodge of the Good Templars in session at Os- by investing in the Building & Loan Association? The wego, N. T. A committee to formulate the plans was named, conprlsing John Francis Murphy. 19th series of the Richmond County B. & L Asso. Russell, Detroit ; J. A. Spencer, Cleve- speakers by special train. In 1912 land, O. ; James Black, Lancaster, Pa. ; opened January 1st. It is not too late join. John N. Stearns, New York, and Dan the Prohibition convention renom to You inated the candidates of 1908. ' " lei Wllklns, Blodmlngton, 111. The con will never regret it. impulse. vention called by this committee or- Results In Later Years. Obey that ganized the party en September 1, The candidates since 1884 and their adopted a platform and appointed a vote are as follows: national committee of which John Rus 1388, Clinton B. Flsk. New Jersey, sell was chairman. and J. A. Brooks, Missouri, 249,945 First; National Ticket , votes. Nearlyr three years later, on Wash 1892. John Bldwell. California, and ington's birthday 1872, the new party J. B. Cranfill, Texas, 270,710 votes. ' & Columbus, O., to 1896, Richmond met In convention In Joshua Levering, Maryland, Insurance place a national' ticket in the field. and Hale Johnson, Illinois, 130,753 James Black was nominated for presi votes. dent and John Russell for vice presi 1900, John G. Woolley, Illinois, and Realty Company dent Mr. Black was a prominent Good H. B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 209,469 Templar and also was one of the votes. W. N. EVERETT, - A. G. Sec-Tre-es. founders of the National Temperance 1904, S. C. Swallow, Pennsylvania, President. CORPENING, .jiiiiiii mniiwuiiimuiuMjii Society mMiiiiiriiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiii,niMMr,i.aMiftto and Publication house and of and George B. Carroll, Texas, 25&205 the Camp Meeting association at votes. s Mrs.. Carrie Nation. Ocean Grove, N. J. Mr. Russell; also 1908, Eugene W. Chafin, Illinois, and DIRECTORS; '" ' :j I . .... " r a leader of the uooa Templars and a Aaron S. Watklns, Ohio, 253,231 votes. and then released. She broke up an- Methodist minister, was known as the 1912, Eugene Chafin, Arizona, saloon was W.' "W.N.Everett other and not even arrest- father of the Prohibition party, for he and Aaron S. Watklns, Ohio, 208,923 William Entwistle F. W. Leak V L. : ed. She went to Topeka and made an published a newspaper, the Peninsulai votes. John Everett .'. T. L Leak H. Watson appeal Governor Stanley. C to He told Herald, which led the way in advocat- 1916, J. Frank Hanley, Indiana, and K. L. bteele her he did not approve of her methods. ing the organization of the party foi Dr. Ira Landrlfh. Tennessee. 214,340 She also addressed both houses of the political action. votes. state legislature. She visited Chicago With all their devotion to the cause, tllv riynta and other, cities, between times contin- nniini riwmiil.nl . the Prohibition leaders had no hope oi For many years the women have uing work of smashing saloon fix- the success in the election of 1872, and been prominent in prohibition tures.,- f the "... they were not disappointed. Their movement, for the evils of intemper- 8tatea Enact Dry Laws. - i' ticket received only 5,607 votes. This ance bore heavily on their' sex. To . The activities of early these Jeaders did not discourage them, and foui them must be given very large of the prohibition movement gradually a share years later they put Green Clay Smith In the credit for the success brought nbo'ut the enactment of state of the of Kentucky and Gideon T. Stewart fight They started publicly on a legislation prohibiting or regulating it on the ticket These gentlemen re- large scale in 1873 in Ohio cru- the sale of liquor. Some of the early with a ceived 9,737 votes. General Neal Dow sade to. pray the saloons out of exist- state laws provided for local option, of Maine, who had gained fame as the ence. - which made possible local prohibition, author of the Maine Prohibition law, This movement Inaugurated by a lit s in .Connecticut in 1639. was the next presidential candidate, tle bnnd of women woo held prayer j 1837 Neal Dow, by the 1880, sec-- alarmed In with H. A. Thompson In meetings in saloons when permitted cast quantities of rum entering Maine place on the ticket They polled and on the pavements outside when through the West Indian trade, began only 10,366 votes. not allowed to enter, spread his agitation for prohibition In that like wlld St John's Hot Campaign, fire throughout the nation and was state. Stringent regulation of the When being the plans were laid for denominated by the press a Whirlwind liquor traffic was established in sever- the campaign 1884, Ek of Frances from the Many aaloona were al states, but the passage of the Maine and her fellow workers of the W, Lord' 1851 swe$t OUt Of existence, hut it soon be- prohibitory law in afforded the Q. V-- entered the field. They sent came evident that prayer must be ac- first real test of prohibition. Massa- q Republican convention a great We make it our the companied by action if they would pre- chusetts and Rhode Island in 1852 petition asking that be consideration vent, the return or the of passed laws forbidding the sale of given pleas of the temperance ad- the the saloons once closed. " jlflQf; these laws were subsequently: vocates, hut was Ignored and even business it The call for organization was Issued to serve Massachusetts adopted local thrown Into, the dirt on the floor, and from Chautauqua, N. Y in August tottpfl by towns, Iowa passed a Ml Wlllnrd promptly turned to the 1874. The convention was held in amendment n 1883; it was Prohibition party. Her help was wel- Cleveland, Novemtfer 18-2- 1874, the public well declared Told and was superseded by a comed and John P. John of Kan- 0 St and meeting organ- statute (1884). This in turn was done sas was put at the head of cold at that there was the ized away with by the famous Mulct law, water Already waa nota- the National Woman's Christian ticket he a Temperance which itself was modified.