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GOVERNOR PATTERSON’S CONVERSION—Page 4. THE DEATH OF MISS NATIONAL MODESTY—Page 13. j^^Sl^' 7 < *frlx ralk if a|L JBoWtw Vol. VIII—No. 35 Whoopee! Liquor Licked In Tennessee THE INTREPID GOVERNOR OF THE “VOLUNTEER STATE” LEADS REFORM FORCES TO A GLORIOUS VICTORY OVER THE LIQUOR CROWD—HE CALLED THREE SPECIAL SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE BEFORE THE HEROIC DEED WAS DONE—HUNDREDS OF SALOONS CLOSED AMID GENERAL REJOICING. C J OME on and let’s “sing the doxology.” . And then remembering well that mar tial air of “Bnelah Land 1 ’ let us ap‘ ply it to the ringing words of Dr. A. J. Holt, and make the second song in our jubilee of rejoicing as follows: ‘ 4 0 Tennessee ! 0 Tennessee ! The land of all the earth to me! I stand upon thy mountains high And hold communion with the sky And view the shining landscape o’er— -0 Tennessee forevermore! ” The defiant liquorized politicians have been gloriously routed and the stain of legislative defiance of law and sobriety has been wiped away. The Nashville Tennessean and The Nash ville Banner—the two great dailies of Tennes see’s capital city which do not prostitute the white virtue of their columns to liquor adver tisements and which have stood grandly side by side is supporting Governor Ben Hooper in his heroic fight for law enforcement, de serve the universal thanks of humanity. Withering “Hot Shot’’ From Gov. Cooper Gov. Ben Hooper, the plucky little little Na poleon who practiced “final perseverance” un til the Legislature saw their duty and d : d it, analyzed the battle and victory as follows: “A great victory”, said Governor Hooper. If any gang was ever beaten to a. pulp, it was the organi zation in the present legislature alleged to be reg ular democrats. They have put in nine and one-half months fighting the law enforcement measures, which I recommended to the legislature, and, with every advantage in their favor, have finally been scattered, crushed and overwhelmed. “Tonight the hired liquor lobbyist and city gun men have vanished from Capitol Hill, and the hill billies are the monarchs of all they survey. “The people of Tennessee have been granted the right to go 'into the courts with civil lawsuits and exterminate the lawless saloon. They will no longer be compelled to sit with folded hands and suppress ed indignation while faithless public officials refuse to enforce the criminal laws. “The shipment of liquor from one county to an other has been forbidden, and the federal Webb law has been made effective by prohibiting the shipment \ of liquor into the state N “Os course, we realize that the enforcement of these laws will be hindered as much as possible, and that the courts will have to pass on them, but, ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 23, 1913 ultimately, law and order will prevail. “In Kansas there are thousands of men more than thirty years old who never saw an open saloon. The boys that are being born in Tennessee now will never see one. “I regret that the removal bill did not pass. It was designed to authorize the courts to remove city and county officials who prove unfaithful to the peo ple in the discharge of their duties. The servant shall not be greater than his master. It is just as necessary to punish the law-breaking citizen by put ting him out of the business declared to be a public nuisance. GOV. BEN W. HOOPER of Tennessee The Wind-Up Comedy “The prolonged struggle over these law enforce ment measures serious as it was for nearly ten months, wound up in a farce comedy. The most subservient tool of the liquor interests in the entire legislature, when they had vainly exhausted every resourse to defeat the bills, made a grand rush for the band wagon and voted for the measures. Hav ing worn out their lungs shouting ‘hyprocrite’ at the supporters of these bills, they showed themselves to be rhe most shameless hyprocrites and political fakirs by voting for them. “When the regulars gave up the fight and began to look with eager eyes upon the band-wagon they decided to take up the hated bills, adopt them as their own and swear they had always been for them. They made advances to the independents, and here came the best joke of the session. The independ ents and republicans held a conference and unani- mously instructed the independents to assist the regulars into the ‘band-wagon’, let them introduce the bills and toot, the horns. “This reminds me of the story I once heard of an Irish saloon keeper who lived upstairs over his saloon. One morning early, before the proprietor went down, his bar tender yelled up the stairs: ‘Shall I trust Mike Flannagan for a glass of beer?’ The Irishman responded with the question, ‘Has Moike already drunk the beer?’ The answer came, ‘Yes/ and the proprietor yelled down, ‘Well, then trust him.’ “Having decided that the bills were going to pass anyhow, the regulars decided just to let them pass.” Blake’s Splendid Review. When asked by the Editor of The Golden Age for a brief “sizing up” of the Tennessee battle, W. Morgan Blake, the brilliant young political writer of The Tennessean, said: “One predominating feature stands out among the many incidents of the three sessions of our legisla ture, and that is—when right and wrong were final ly matched —and when subterfuge availed not, and .the clear distinct issues of what ought to be and what ought not to be were present —a great and overwhelming majority of the representatives of the people voted for the right. Soraeof the so called “regular democrats” voted for the law enforce ment bills, because, from a standpoint of logic and reason and the conditions existing in Tennessee, their consciences would not let them do otherwise. It was clearly the only human thing to do —this re buke to an insolent and boastful liquor interest. On the other hand a large number of the “regulars” voted for the bills, not because of any conscious be lief, but because they were whipped into line by the lash of their enraged constituncy. The voice of the people was too strong, and so the “band wagon” was loaded. To the true friends of law enforcement in the legislature, to the men who began the fight against appalling odds and carried it to a glorious consu mation —to those men will the people of Tennessee hand the laurels for the great temperance victory. And above all the storm and stress of battle stands one predominating figure—the knightly knight, the great leader, the unconquered and un conquerable Governor of Tennessee. When the sun rose on the morning of the day the law enforcement bills were passed, it was like the sun of Austerlitz for Governor Hooper. By dusk the Austrians and the Russians were routed and a glorious epoch in Tennessee history was chronicled. All honor to the victors’ W. MORGAN BLAKE. Political Writer Tennessean and American. (Continued on page 5) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY