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2 -rr (.LIBR/ I H - i I 0 * lr ' wiLsLli BlMrazsilt >s?wl | -> 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. [V] 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 K r H& - MB ■ .v, 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 (Continued on page 2.) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY