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Vol. VIII—No. 43.
FIRST FRUITS OF AMERICA’S MIGHTIEST CONVENTION
“COMMITTEE OF ONE THOUSAND” APPOINTED BY NATIONAL ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE CONVENTION AT COLUMBUS, 0.,
MOVES ON WASHINGTON, TWO THOUSAND STRONG AND MEMORIALIZES CONGRESS FOR NATIONAL PROHIBI
TION-SENATOR SHEPPARD AND CONGRESSMAN HOBSON SELECTED TO LEAD THE VICTORIOUS CHARGE.
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0 be here is inspiration!” wrote Addie
Kathleen Verdery, a gifted Georgia
girl, when she stood for the first time
on the historic summit of Lookout
Mountain, And searching my exuberant wits
for an adequate sentence to serve me now —
a sentence to do full justice to the two mar
velous mountain-peaks of patriotic vision and
victory—the recent National Anti-Saloon
League Convention in Columbus, Ohio, and its
speedy and wonderful fruitage on December
10th and 11th in the nations capitol, I “fan
the air” in vain, as the baseball boys declare,
and when somebody who drank in the full
ness of both those gatherings stumbles upon
this story he will doubtless lay down the pa
per and say: “The editor of The Golden Age
has ‘struck out’ ”
“Columbus Discovers Washington.”
In his breezy, striking speech before the
Whiskey Fighters’ Convention in Columbus,
Hon. Don McMullan, the heroic prohibition
leader of Florida, declared: “We learn from
history that Columbus discovered America, but
when the results of this great convention of
patriots are all gathered in, it will be given
to the history of our regenerated nation that
America has ‘discovered Columbus.’ ”
There were a dozen memorable “climaxes”
in that mighty Columbus gathering —the first
when Wayne Wheeler, the genial, resourceful
leader of the Ohio League, welcomed the
amalgamated “booze fighters” of America to
the snow-haired trysting place of counsel and
coming conflict; then when Edwin C. Din
widdie, the argus-eyed legislative superintend
ent in Washington, declared that the politi
cal underbrush of years had been largely
cleared away and that Washington was ready
for the final charge; again, when Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, called by The American Issue,
“The Georgia Whirlwind,” followed the stir
ring contest of young collegians ,and stam
pedd the convention with an hour of unap
proachable woman oratory; and yet again
when Dr. P. A. Baker, the statesman-superin
tendent, gave his ringing report and received
HO! FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION—HOBSON DID NOT “ATTACK” UNDERWOOD—Page 4
ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 18, 1913
the day following suich a notable ovation of
vindication in face of the liquorized anath
emas of Ohio’s “boozecratic” governor; still
another time—two times—came when Robert
Cairus of New Jersey and Clinton Howard of
New York bankrupted the English language in
telling them untellable iniquities of the sa-
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HON. RICHARD P. HOBSON,
Who led the fight in Congress.
loon! it was another mountain peak when
Richmond P. Hobson appeared to denounce
the effort of a Columbus paper to misrepresent
his attitude in the Baker-Cox episode, and
By William D. Upshaw, Editor.
when, fired by the resolution of Don Mc-
Mullan, the great convention, several thou
sand strong, sprang to its feet and called on
Alabama to send the great prohibition Dem
ocrat to the United States Senate to help Mor
ris Sheppard and the other prohibition sena
tors to lead the constitutional amendment to
victory; an hour that can never be put into
words crowned the moving, masterful message
of ex-Gov. Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennes
see, telling of his recent conversion while men
and women cried for joy, and calling for the
national destruction of the devilish thing that
had come so near destroying his body, his
soul, his party and his state; but the unde
scribable hour of deathless dynamics and holy
enthusiasm came when Governor Frank Han
ley of Indiana read with rich, electrifying
voice the “second Declaration of Independ
ence,” declaring that we break forever with
all liquorized leadership of whatever creed
or party, and pledging to this secred purpose
“our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor.” r / >
Heaven Kissed the Scene. / I
The patriotic throng stood up and / ang
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” and why they
yet stood this “man from Georgia” waning
on his crutch, stood by Bishop Anderson and
said: “When the storming of the Bastile was
announced in Parliament, you remember how
the Great Commoner of England arose and
said: ‘How much is this the greatest day that
Liberty has ever seen!’ and standing here in
the presence of this matchless, deathless hour
I wans to say: ‘How muchc is this the greatest
day that prohibition reform has ever seen!’
Let us say to the world that in the name of
our God do we lift up our banner! Coming
from Georgia, the pioneer state in the South
to drive bar rooms from her borders —com-
ing from the “solid south” itself which, I
believe, will present a solid front in the rati
fication of a national prohibition amendment,
I feel like I want to call on our presiding
officer, Bishop Anderson, to ask the help of
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