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VOLUME EIGHT
NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE
LIQUOR LICKED-and SOME ROMANS “HOWL”
Seaborn Wright, Eloquent and Fearless Fighter of “Booze”, Leads Law and Order League Against Whiskeyized Social
Clubs —The Elks, Bless You, Raise the White Flag of Unconditional Surrender “Now and Forever.”
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less municipal Queen upon her Throne of Hillsl
The Liquorized Social (?) Clubs have been
routed. The intrepid men who led the fight,
still sleeping on their armor are “keeping their
powder dry,” while the women —the White
Ribboned hosts of the W. C. T. U., tfye white
souled guardians of our homes and our hap
piness, who scoured the city with petitions for
the closing of those dens of temptation and
drunkenness, are now harping and singing like
Miriams of old on the victory side of Egyptian
burial.
Seab Wright Led the Fight.
It was fit indeed that Seab Wright, as Presi
dent of the Law and Order League, should
lead the fight that put the locker clubs out
of business —for many a time had the great
prohibition orator, righteously boasted that:
“It is with the judges and solicitors of your
courts, gentlemen—Rome, my home town, has
no near beer saloons.”
But every time he did it, his flashing eye
would catch a blurred and horrible vision of
“0, you locker clubs!”
Seab Wright’s wrath was kindled —and he
put the match to the waking sentinels of
Rome’s fair name. Because it deals with a
nation-wide problem, the most insistent and
persistent of all economic and civic problems
today, The Golden Age reproduces for its read
ers North, South, East and West, the detailed
story of the Rome fight, as given by that superb
paper, The Rome Tribune-Herald:
SEABORN WRIGHT FILES
PETITION AGAINST LOCKERS.
Maddox Orders the Officers Arrested—Women
Circulate Petition Asking All
Clubs to Close.
At the hearing Saturday before Judge Mad
dox of the petition of 0. L. Byars, H. G. Horton,
Elwood Bluffer, H. B. Watkins, T. A. Partee,
Elijah Hardin, J. J. Haynes and C. W. Bailey,
officers and directors of the Metropolitan So
cial club, against Dick Trammell and W. H.
Trammell a suit in equity to force the Trammell
brothers, managers of the club, to open the
buffet, Seaborn Wright, president of the Law
and Order League, filed a petition asking to
be made a party to the proceedings by inter-
ET Rome howl”—the liquorized
crowd, we mean —but the real
Romans, the men who love decency
better than devilment and duty
better than dirt, are standing like
kings and princes on the Mount of
Triumph, while the regaj Georgia
city, the home of Shorter a>d cul
ture, bids fair soon to be a spot-
ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 24, 19LT
vention, and as the result, instead of the club’s
opening its buffet, Judge Maddox ordered the
sheriff to seize all liquors and alcoholic drinks
in the club rooms, keep it closed until further
orders from the court and to bring all parties
both paintiffs and defendants before him on
Oct. 27, 1912, to answer to the allegations made
in the petition of Mr. Wright. The hearing of
the equity suit was continued.
What the Petition Alleges.
The petition alleges that the club was char
tered for the social and moral uplift of its mem
bers, and that it has been run solely as a locker
club, which is alleged to have been conducted
in violation of the law; that it is’ui nuisance
and is demoralizing and hurtful. He asked
that all liquors, fixtures, books, receipts and
other data be seized ( and that the officers and
directors be arrested and brought before the
court to answer to the charge of running a
blind tiger. Moses Wright and Junius Hillyer
are attorneys for Mr. Wright. The prayers
were granted and the hearing set for October
27. It is probable however, that the date of
hearing will be changed as it is Sunday.
The League is Active.
Although he will dismiss the suit pending
against the Elks and leave the other clubs in
Rome under no restraint, it is understood that
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HON. SEABORN WRIGHT.
Who Helped Lick Liquor in Rome.
Mr. Wright expects them to stay closed inde
finitely, and that he will promptly file papers
against the first one that does open for busi
ness. He would make no definite statement
to this effect Saturday afternoon, but declared
that the Law and Order League would not al
low Locker Clubs to run in violation of the
law in Rome any more and said that all of them
have been violating the law.
Ladies Carry Petition.
Several ladies of Rome have been circulating
a petition for the past few days among the
women of Rome endorsing the resolution pass
ed- at the men’s meeting at the First Methodist
Church last Sunday asking the clubs to stop
running their locker clubs before forced to do
so. Nearly a thousand ladies of Rome have
signed the petitions which will be presented
to each club next week.
The following results have been obtained:
Mrs. L. D. Yeargan, third ward, 196 names;
Mrs. Seaborn Wright, second ward, 37 names;
Miss Battie Shropshire, second ward, 81 names;
Mrs. N. P. Bale, first ward, 80 names; Mrs.
Watson, fourth ward, 94 names; Mrs. McGhee,
fifth ward, 43 names; Mrs. S. P. Harvey, sixth
ward, 85 names; Mrs. Black, seventh ward, 107
names. The ladies have issued this statement
in connection with their work: “These names
are limited only by inability to reach the en
tire womanhood of Rome. Nine out of every
ten are thankful for the privilege of signing
them. The women of Rome do not want drink
ing in any form.”
The Day After.
Whereupon the very next day, The Tribune-
Herald told of the complete capitulation of
the Elks. Because the story is so tremendously
readable, and likewise because the Roman Elks
set such a sensible, wholesome example, to all
the other Elks of the country to stop their
legalized but none the less debaunching haunts
of drink, we also reproduce that story, with
the Elks’ resolutions, in order to give the wid
est possible publicity to this most commendable
waking up and shaking up of Rome. Here is
The Tribune-Herald’s story, headlines and all:
ELKS CLUB DECIDE TO
CLOSE THEIR LOCKERS.
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Seaborn Wright Will Withdraw Injunction
Brought Against Them—Action is Unani
mous and Taken Voluntarily
By Lodge.
Voluntarily and by unanimous vote, the
Rome Lodge of B. P. 0. Elks voted last night
(Continued on Page 5.)
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