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Vol. IX—No. 33.
NEW GLORY FOR THE OLD DOMINION
DESPITE THE LEADERSHIP OF SALOON POLITICIANS AND WHISKEYIZED “BIG DAILIES” THE HOSTS OF LIQUORDOM
ARE GLORIOUSLY ROUTED—VIRGINIA “THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS” LIFTS THE WHITE BANNER UNDER
THE VERY SHADOW OF THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
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ERILY, it is “New Glory for the Old Do
minion.” That was the subject of one of
the addresses delivered by the Editor
of The Golden Age in Norfolk during
the last week of the battle for state-wide pro
hibition —and now, thank the Lord, that “new
glory” has come in abundant measure to the
“Old Dominion”- —for Virginia is grandly
“dry”! September 22nd was a new “Fourth
of July” to the forces of civic righteousness in
Virginia, for a mighty voice of ballots, “silent
as the snowflakes, but executing the will of
God like the lightning’s flash” (in the words
of Charles S. Morris, the eloquent Virginia
negro) declared the independence of the
“mother of Presidents” from the shame and
crime of the protected saloon!
In West Virginia the captains of commerce
and the captains of politics joined the “solid
yeomanry” of the state, in following, fearless
fighting Tom Hare to victory, while in North
Carolina the Governor of the state and every
living ex-Governor, with every state and fed
eral judge worthy the name, united with the
preachers and teachers and all the leading
builders of civilization in striking the shackles
of bar-room rule from the “Old North State.”
But in Virginia the Governor was against
“state-wide,” declaring for “local option” in
stead, while a majority of the state house of
ficers, politicians, and congressmen either
stood for “local (liquor) self-government-) or,
in pitiful cowardice, side-stepped the issue.
And The Big Dailies “Sold Out.”
Another thing that made the battle hard in
Virginia was the attitude of the big dailies, es
pecially in Richmond and Norfolk. Os course
they would resent this “slanderous insinuation”
—but if they don’t like it we will withdraw
the insinuation and make the direct charge—
they sold out to liquor —for no paper that sells
the white virtue of its space to the corrupt
and corrupting liquor traffic can be induced
to dedicate its editorial and news columns to
help defeat the saloon crowd.
And these subsidized papers lent themselves
to the most shameful misrepresentations of
prohibition territory. Fake interviews with
mayors of prohibition cities were widely pub
lished. and when they were called down by
the citizens and officers in other states who
had been outraged by misrepresentations, the
denials were sometimes not published —or if
published at all, it was done grudgingly and
ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 1, 1914
without apology.
Rut thanks to The Richmond Virginian, the
glorious young daily established especially by
the reform forces of the state, the story of
these fakes and cowards was given to the
public, and they wrought “death and destruc
tion” in the ranks of liquordom. Decent men
who had thought they were for local self-gov
ernment” refused to stand for such methods.
Even Governor Stuart was constrained to pro
test against the use of his picture by the liquor
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HON. G. WALTER MAPP
crowd in a series of paid advertisements in the
Virginia papers.
Cannon Persecuted But Triumphant.
Another exasperating method of the saloon
leaders was the merciless conscienceless perse
cution of Dr. James Cannon, Superintedent of
the Virginia Anti-Saloon League.
Dr. Cannon was one of the moving spirits
in the organization of The Richmond Virgin
ian, and being a man of means he has unsel
fishly stood back of the paper and every phase
and form of the Anti-Saloon League work. He
has counted neither his purse nor his life dear
(By Wm. D. Upshaw, Editor.
to himself when the cause of God and humani
ty needed sacrifice. And for this crime in the
eyes of the liquor men Dr: Cannon has been
maligned and tarduced by character assassins
from the Potomac to the mountains and from
the mountains to the sea. But nothing
daunted Cannon continued his “Cannonading”
until the guns of the enemy were silenced and
their projectiles of malevolence were hurled
back with vigor and victory upon the ram
parts of bar-room corruption.
Hats off, “three cheers, and a tiger” for
fearless, resourceful James Cannon and his
loyal lieutenants!
John Garland Pollard and G. Walter Mapp.
It was the privilege of the writer to spend
only a few days in the Virginia campaign and
they were given to the Tidewater country un
der the splendid leadership of Hon. J. W.
Hough, Superintendent of the Norfolk district,
but during the brief time I quaffed that tonic
comradeship which came from two of Vir
ginia’s greatest young leaders in the cause of
civic righteousness —a brand of patriotic citi
zenship so rare, so unselfish and so fearless
that it gave me an immediate infusion of fire
in the heart and iron in the blood and likewise
bequeathed to me a radiant deposit of death
less and inspiring memories. The first into
whose face I looked was John Garland Pol
lard, Virginia’s plucky Attorney General, who
actually went in person on the fair grounds
at Norfolk and arrested the race-track gam
blers, capturing their “books” overturning
their tables and putting the defiant rascals
bodily out of business. I preceded Pollard at
the New Wells Theater, hurrying away to an
other engagement, and did not get to hear him
speak, but one look into his clear eyes and
calm, determined face gave me inspiration for
a life-time. The other leader who has made
history in Virginia in recent years and who will
make more mighty soon if the Lord lets him
live is State Senator G. Walter Mapp, without
whose inimitable leadership or something just
like it in the Senate the “Enabling Act” under
which the statewide election was held could
not have passed. I traveled with Senator
Mapp down to Princess Anne Court House
where, with dinner on the ground and two
speakers a piece we had a day of old-fashioned
rural felicity.”
Unselfish patriotism—uncringing fidelity to
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