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WOMAN'S CRUELTY TO WOMAN.
ft is often said that women are more
cruel in their judgments of women
than are men. The sophomores of
Barnard college. New York, have evi
dently undertaken to show that the
sex can be as cruel in action a 6 in
judgment. Only women will fully ap
preciate the terrific cruelty of the
edict of those girl sophomores that
the girl freshmen must on no account
adorn themselves with rats or puffs
or braids during the present college
term. Hut the man of average obser
vation will get at least a hint of the
tragedy of the situation. While the
sophomores are going about adorned
in the glory of mountainous false hair
the freshmen will have to be content
with those simple coiffures at once so
becoming to the faces of young girls
and so out of style at present, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Think of the
horror of that to girls who are just
beginning to-understand the inexor
ableness of fashion! And when they
walk abroad for air or exercise what
sudden, sad reminders of their forlorn
condition the windows filled with
abundant hair goods of all shapes and
arrangements are sure to be! What
pangs of hopeles desperation and re
volt will wake to mar their pleasure!
Omaha dealers are said to be rush
ing butter to the cold storage ware
houses and predicting that consumers
will be pajing 50 cents a pound for
the product before Christmas. It does
not require a long head, nowadays, to
see that butter will be higher in price
in winter than in summer; in fact,
from time immemorial butter has al
ways advanced during the wintet
months. Hut when there were no cold
storage warehouses the prices of but
ler were lower at this time of the
year because there were no speculat
ors buying the product up, right and
left, rushing it to the cooler, and pre
dicting tremendous advances during
the winter. The cold storage ware
house is beneficent in many ways, but
the speculative feature of its utiliza
tion has raised the summer prices of
butter and eggs and poultry, and also
boosted the winter rates for these
products. None of these products will
ever again sell long at low prices, be
cause the moment the prices ease a
little the speculator jumps in and
clears the market of the surplus.
Twenty St. Paul (Minn.) municipal
officers and council members who
have just completed a 3,000-mile trip
through the east make interesting
comparisons between eastern and
western cities regarding different
phases of municipal progress. They
find that the "City Beautiful" idea is
n.ure clearly developed and the move
'ment more widespread in the east
than in the west, and that the move
ment to advertise cities is receiving
more widespread attention in the east,
though the point is made that in most
instances the movement is "hardly
along the same practical lines as in
the west."
The desertion at .New York of 200
seamen of Admiral Seymour's lieet
repeats what occurred at Hamilton
Roads on the occasion of the James
town exposition. The British "Jack
Tar" finds conditions ashore in the
United States so alluring that he is
tempted to abandon his ship and vio
late the obligation incurred by the ac
ceptance of the "Queens shilling."
The French fleet lost only a few men,
probably because of language difficul
ties which Britons do not encounter,
and because afflictions with are
not so readily established.
Indisputably the materials of sub
sistence cost more than a year ago.
A dispatch from Washington notes
that last year the average cost to the
government of food supplies for the
army was on the basis of 10.05 cents
lor a soldier's daily ration, whereas
now it is 21.5 cents. At this rate the
market bill for the whole army for the
current year would be $1,540,200 high
er thitii in 19<!8.
Japan has a big rice crop, and as
there are always plenty of old shoes
the time seems propitious for the
merry pea! of wedding bells.
NO "MORAL REVOLT"
STATEMENT MADE IN HARPER'S
WEEKLY RIDICULOUS.
Tariff Issue Plaved Small Part in the
State Election; of 1909—Littli
for the Democrats to
Cloat Over.
It is amusing to find Harper's Week
ly almost gloating over the recent elec
tion in Massachusetts as a moral vic
tory for the Democratic party on the
issue of tariff revision. We have not
been able to see that the tariff is
sue played a large part in the state
elections of The Democratic
party in Maryland expressly excluded
"national issues" from the recent cam
paign. The state convention probably
took that course in order to avoid the
embarrassment of drawing up a dec
laration which should approve the war
ring votes at Washington of the two
Maryland senators, one of them, Mr.
Raymer, being a free raw materials
Democrat and the other, Mr. Smith,
ardently advocating the Uailey brand
of "protective revenue" duties on raw
materials. The Democrats carried
Maryland without once mentioning the
fact that congress had revised the
tariff. They also carried Virginia—by
a reduced plurality—after a canvass
in which the tariff question was frank
ly ignored. In that state, too, the Dem
ocratic party had to consider the atti
tude assumed by the senior United
States senator, who was a candidate
for re-election. Advocating an in
crease of duty on quebracho or some
other product in which the Old Do
minion was specially interested, Dr.
Daniel declared: "I don't care wheth
er you call it for revenue or for pro
tection; I'm for it."
The Democrats lost Nebraska this
year, after electing a Democratic gov
ernor and Democratic presidential
electors in 1908. Yet we haven't no
ticed that either the Republican or the
Democratic newspapers in Nebraska
attribute that reversal to the tariff is
sue. Interest in Nebraska was con
fined to local questions, just as inter
est in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsyl
vania, New York. New Jersey. Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island was. If
there was a seething desire in the
breasts of New England voters to re
buke the Republican party for its
tariff policy, how is Harper's Weekly
going to account for the fact, that in
Rhode Island, which was treated with
just as friendly consideration as Mass
achusetts was, and should therefore
have been equally ripe for a "moral
protest," a Republican governor was
elected by the largest plurality ever
given in more than a decade? Why
should the moral revolt have manifest
ed itself in one state only, while all
others were absolutely indifferent to
its promptings?— New York Tribune.
Tariff Reform in England.
Trade circles in England are agitat
ing the necessity for "tariff reform,"
not only to strengthen the bond be
tween the various parts of the empire,
but also as a means for protecting
home industries. In former years, be
cause of the absolute preponderance
enjoyed by England, both in trade and
finance, loans to foreign countries
were succeeded by the utilization of
a large part of such loans in payment
of innumerable articles of British
manufacture, and in those days, when
bankers were accused of overfinanc
ing requirements abroad, they retort
ed that they did so'to benelit British
trade. Thsu it! former years it be
came accepted as a fact that the pros
perity in trade at home was affected
largely by orders obtained from
abroad as the result of loans placed
in -the London market. This is not
true of the present and so the Stand
ard is trying to enlist the attention
and co-operation of the over-the-sea
dominions, looking to closer aflilia
tion. Naturally, America is interested
in this possible change of present con
ditions, for Canada is now furnishing
a large market for American-made
goods. If Canadian trade be diverted
to the home country, American inter
ests would suffer.
No Central Bank.
The Sun will always oppose a cen
tral bank of issue. Such a bank is in
tended by the monetary commission.
The policy ol' that body, as now for
mally disclosed by Senator Aldrich,
points to no oth?r consummation.
It is our conviction that a central
bank of Issue bearing the same rela
tion to the money of this country that
the banks of France and of England
bear to the money of those countries,
would prove a national evil.
This government is traditionally and
temperamentally unsuited to such an
institution. If Mr. Aldrich and his as
sociates by their united genius can
fashion a central bank whose func
tions and powers shall be purely auto
matic and mechanical, well and good.
But such a bank with us is Impossible.
We have developed no class in
America from which we could create
or recruit the administration and con
trol of such an institution, while to
isolate it from our political life is hope
less. —New York Sun (Ind. Rep.).
Path through the Air.
Mr. Bryan declares that he always
feels sure of his ground when he
speaks on political questions. He
doubtless derives this sense of confi
dence from the fact that lie always
bits the earth when he comes down.
New York Mail.
Senator Jeff. Davis of Arkansas
says that in the United States senate
nre some potatoes that are speckled
and some that are rotten. He must
have been heeding that old Greek ad
monition: "Know thyself."
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909.
OFFICIALS ARE NOT INACTIVE
Rigid Investigation Into Methods of
Giant Corporations Is Going
Forward.
Government. Investigation of some of
the giant corporations which have se
cured a controlling grip on resources
and utilities did not cease when Theo
dorse Roosevelt left the White Mouse.
The machinery which he in motion
has not been stopped. The Taft ad
ministration has continued the inquest
into the methods of the sugar trust,
and lias reached results.
Wholesale frauds in evading the
payment of customs dues have been
uncovered. Cheating on a large scale
in the weighing of imported sugar has
been laid bare. The methods by which
the trust wrecked rival concerns have
been traced. And with discovery has
come action. Several officials and
employes of the sugar company have
been arrested for cheating the gov
ernment out of custom house duties.
Indictments have been brought against
some of the directors under the anti
trust laws, and civil action has been
commenced by the federal receiver of
a sugar relining company that was
forced to the wall. The facts which
are being brought to light tend to
show that the men who built up the
sugar trust were as ruthless in ac
quiring absolute control of the com
modity they manufactured as wolves
in a sheepfold.
It is not the intention of the gov
ernment officials who have been en
trusted with the prosecution to rest
content with the arrest of some of
the little fellows. They are after the
men higher up. The people, who are
forced to pay whatever prices for
sugar this $90,000,000 trust dictates,
wish thent speed and success.
Strategy in the Pacific.
Tiie decision of the joint army and
navy board to establish the Pacific
naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
instead of in the Philippines, marks
the end of the agitation for the expen
dituie of millions upon a naval base
at Olongapo or Cavite. Dispute be
tween the army and navy over the
Philippine .site, the army favoring Ca
vite. and the navy Olongapo, has thus
been compromised 011 neither. Pearl
harbor is to be made an American
Gibraltar, while the defense of the
Philippines is to be left chiefly to the
navy. This decision was based upon
the belief that the comparatively
small army maintained in the Philip
pines will be only sufficient to defend
Manila and the construction of a na
val base there which could not be so
well defended was unwise.
It has been argued that in case of
war instead of being of value to this
country our "Phlippine outpost" in
the Pacific would really be a weak
ness. This view appears to have been
accepted at last by the military ex
perts who were so anxious to spend
millions there on defensive works. On
the other hand, a strong naval base at
Pearl harbor will be of immense stra
tegic value both in the defense of the
Pacific coast and the Philippines them
selves. The dispute between the two
arms of the service over the rival
claims of Olongapo and Cavite lias
therefore had the unexpected result of
a compromise tl-at will prevent expen
ditures upon a very doubtful project.
Leading up to First Message.
The president lias taken the people
into his confidence in a way that has
not only astonished the politicians
and legislators, but confounded them.
In these pronouncements there has
been an artlesuness that has won a
great body of the citizens to the sup
port of his views. In these discussions
there have been no dramatic sur
prises, such as marked the outgivings
of his predecessor. His ideas and
suggestions have been clothed iu lan
guage that is calm, temperate and
conservative. You may hunt in vain
for epithets, phrases, as new contribu
tions to the common speech, or de
nunciation of those holding opposing
views. Yet it is a large question
whether there is in his words less
strength, or less purpose, or less de
termination to pursue tho end desired
—Brooklyn Eagle.
Shculd Be Investigated.
President Taft is not apparently
worrying over the charges made
against Secretary of the Interior Bal
linger in connection with the Alaska
eoal lands and other rich government
properties. The public, however,
would prefer to see »lie whole matter
thoroughly investigated. Mr. Glavis
and others who have made direct
charges against Ballinger should be
compelled to prove them or admit
their falsity. There is a suspicious
look about some of these rich land
deals and the people will not be sat
isfied until the whole matter is cleared
up. If there has been crooked work
those engaged in it should be brought
to book and that without long delay.
Right Place for Surgeon.
President Taft and Secretary .Meyer
agree with ex-President Roosevelt
that a hospital afloat is just as much
a hospital as a hospital ashore, and so
should be commanded by a surgeon
with a civilian sailing master and
crew, instead of by a line officer with
enlisted men. Considering that a hos
pital ship is non-combatant, there's
common sense in this decision.
Unlike the Charleston News and
Courier, the Post doesn't wish to con
ceal the real truth. A long denied
Democracy wants the offices and
wants them with a yearning that
burns with the fervid heat of the
noonday sun in August.- Houston
Post.
There is no sadder instance of im
potent and misdirected yearning re«
corded in history.
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PERSONAL.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and
her consort. Prince Henry, went to
England to visit the king and queen.
Airs. Rose Pastor Stokes, the settle
ment worker, has promised to aid the
striking shirtwaist makers in New
York. She says the girls were paid
"miserable wages."
John G. A. Leishman, the newly ap
pointed American ambassador to Italy,
has arrived at Rome.
Mrs. John Wright Hunt, wife of the
turpentine king, who eloped with
Prince Alexander, a cousin of the
czar, returned to New York without
the prince and was welcomed by her
father, Adelbert Babcock of Brook
field, N. Y.
Dr. Frederick A Cook Is seeking
needed rest 111 1 lie vicinity of New
York, but the |j._ce where he is stop
ping is guarded with great secrecy.
Some of his friends express great con
cern for his health, fearing a nervous
breakdown.
James M. Green of Trenton, N. J.,
was elected president of the Associa
tion of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools at the twenty-third annual
convention at Washington.
GENERAL NEWS.
A full set of autographs of presi
dents of the United States, from
Washington to Roosevelt, was sold in
New York for $9,300.
That Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford
shot and tried to kill Edgar S. Cooke
o! Chicago at New York several years
ago is asserted by Prosecutor Henry
Hunt of Cincinnati, after an investiga
tion in connection with the Warriner
embezzlement case.
Secretary Dickinson, in his annual
report, recommends to the president
many sweeping changes and reforms
in the army, including the centraliza
tion of troops in forts erected adja
cent to the principal cities of the Uni
ted States, the abolishment of the
Roosevelt physical tests for officers
and governmental control of wireless
telegraphy.
Robert R. Doherty, a prominent
Methodist who was one of the found
ers of the Kp worth league, is dead ot
pneumonia at his home in Jersey City,
He was 02 years old.
One human being Is killed every
hour and one injured every ten min
utes of the day on American railroads,
according to a statement of W. L.
Park, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, at
the annual meeting of the New York
and New England Association of Rail
way Surgeons.
It Is officially reported at Blueficld9,
Nicaragua, that President Zelaya is
willing to resign and leave the selec
tion of his successor to congress. The
proposition Is absurd, for the reason
that congress in reality does not exist
and his statement is regarded as
merely another Instance of Central
American diplomacy.
The Rock Island and Frisco rail
roads have dissolved the merger that
involved more than $500,000,000 and
will operate separately hereafter.
The English house of lords rejected
the budget and have referred it to the
country for its judgment on the meas
ure.
It is urged by the post-office depart
ment at Washington in an official cir
cular that persons fll:o contemplate
mailing Christmas packages for deliv
ery in rural communities post them
as early as possible to avoid conges
tion and delay at post offices supply
ing carriers on rural routes.
Hearing ot testimony offered by the
respondent in the ouster suit of the
attorney general of Missouri against
the International Harvester Company
of America was resumed at Jefferson
City, Md. About fifty witnesses, all
agents cr dealers from the northern
half of the state, were present.
One miner w«is killed and 100 res
cued with difficulty when gas exploded
in a mine near Marion, 111.
Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm was placed on
trial at Newark, N. J., charged with
the murder of her husband. Nicholas
S. Sica, indicted with her, will be
tried separately.
John A. Uruce, a lumberman of Stra
der. La., says 500,000,000 feet of lum
ber was destroyed by recent tornadoes
in the south.
Fire In the $1,000,000 mansion of
Howard Willetts at Gedney larm, near
White Plains, N. Y., did SIOO,OOO dam
age.
Tribute to the memory of the late
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
was paid by President Taft, Gov.
Hughes, tormer United States Sen
ator Charles A Towne and others at
a meeting in New York city under the
auspices or the American-Scandina
vian society.
When an auto struck a street car
squarely in the side in Portland, Ore.,
Mrs. A J. Olds of Welser, Idaho, had
her skull fractured. She is not ex
pected to live.
Coroner Malm has begun an Inquiry
into the causes of the St. Paul mine
disaster at Cherry, Hi.
The third National Corn exposition
opened at Omaha, Neb., with exhibits
by the federal government and 25
states, and a vast quantity of com
petitive entries made by grain raisers.
Representatives of many civic and
educational organizations met in New
York 10 devise a means of co-ordinat
ing civic activities and to plan more
effective methods of studying political
problems.
J. Pierpont Morgan has gained con
trol of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company with its $472,000,000 assets
through the purchase of stock held by
Thomas I'". Ryan, the latter having
bought the interests formerly owned
by James li. Hyde.
Following the abrupt termination of
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua
the government has dispatched the
cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with
700 marines on board, the cruiser A 1
bany and gunboat Yorktown to Cen
tral American waters and it is deter
mined that a stable government shall
be established and maintained in the
war-riven republic.
A delegation of Chicago business
men visited President Taft and made
a plea for the suspension of the pro
visions of the corporation tax law.
The president gave them but little
encouragement, saying lie would take
their petition under advisement.
Albert T. Patrick, the New York
lawyer under sentence of death for
slaying Millionaire Rice, has lost his
ninth fight for freedom through the
dismissal by the appellate court at
Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ
secured by liini to determine whether
he is being illegally retained by the
state.
Danger of violence in the switch
men's strike has caused the chief of
police of St. Paul, Minn., to require
all members of the day force to_ stay
on duty during a portion of the night
in order that any outbreaks in the
railroad yards may be promptly put
down.
The fight for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world between Jeffries
and Johnson will be held in the vi
cinity of San Francisco on July 4,
1910. Rickard and Gleason's bid of
SIOI,OOO and two-thirds of the moving
picture privileges to the contestants
has been formally accepted.
Woman suffrage advocates through
out New York state are raising a fund
of several thousand dollars to be used
for promoting the suffrage bill which
will be put before the legislature of
New York state this winter.
Vermont will erect a memorial to
Champlain, the explorer, and will not
join New York in such an undertak
ing.
The average temperature for No
vember in Kansas City, Mo., was 52
degrees, and the highest was SO on
November 3. This breaks all records
for the month since the weather bu
reau was established there.
Contracts are to be placed for two
submarines for the Russian navy.
They are planned to cruise in com
pany with a battleship fleet.
In the trial of James F. Bendernagel
and five other former employes of the
American Sugar Relining Company on
the charge of defrauding the govern
ment by underweights, testimony was
adduced showing that every ton of
sugar was 13 pounds short of weight
and the government stood to lose the
duty on 5,880 pounds every hour.
The National Society for the Pro
motion of Industrial Education met in
annual session in Milwaukee, dele
gates from more than twenty states
being present. Eminent educators dis
cussed every phase of trade and cor
poration schools.
Every line of industry in the north
west dependent on the movement of
supplies is seriously affected by the
strike of the railroad switchmen. Al
ready 12,000 men are idle and others
will soon be by the closing down of
(lour mills, mines and smelters.
A man. believed to be insane, 6hot
and seriously wounded Gen. Verand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental,
Paris, Just after President. Fallieres
had lett King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling
The season of heavy gold receipts
at the United States assay office in
Seattle ended with a total of $11,733,-
489 for the six months beginning June
1. This is a falling off of $5,775,141,
compared with the same period in
1908.
Twenty-three hundred switchmen
on 13 railroads between Lake Superior
and the Pacific coast have struck for
higher wages and better conditions.
Unless the strike is speedily settled a
serious interruption in traffic is likely.
The lowa Implement Dealers' asso
ciation met in its fourteenth annual
session in Des Moines.
Combined resources of all the
banks of the United States reach
more than $21,000,000,000, or about
one-fifth of the entire wealth of the
country, according to special reports
compiled for the use of the national
monetary commission.
In a pamphlet issued by the Ken
tucky department of public instruc
tion the startling fact is revealed that
there are more children of legal
school age out of the Kentucky
schools than in them.
lowa's seventh annual corn exposi
tion opened in Des Moines, with big
crowds and excellent exhibits.
Stricken with heart failure while
leading in prayer, Mrs. Louis Tim
bers, aged 66, an active church work
er, died suddenly at a revival meeting
at Oakwood, O.
Representatives of the Illinois Manu
lacturers' association presented Presi
dent Taft that organization's protest
against, the proposed federal corpora
tion tax law.
The National Association of Mve
Stock Breeders and Raisers, at its con
tention in Chicago, determined to ask
congress lor a large appropriation for
the prevention and eradication of
highly contagious animal diseases.
ShCRETARY MEYER
REPORTS JO TAR
HEAD OF UNITED STATES NAVY
OPPOSES CLOSING OF
NAVAL STATIONS.
YARDS ON SOUTHERN COASTS
Says Senior Officers of NaVy Are Too
Old for Responsibilities ar.d Ar
duous Duty Required in
Modern Battleships.
Washington, I). Despite the agi
tation to close some of the navy
yards along the southern coast, Sec
retary of the Navy Meyer will op
pose any such step for the present.
This much was made plain in his an
nual report submitted to President.
Taft. Secretary Meyer says that he
is not entirely convinced that the
government can advantageously give
up sites, in which large expenditures
have been made, until after the open
ing of the Panama canal, when it
def'nitely can ho demonstrated which
are likely to he of the greatest
value.
Naval Station at Guantanamo.
"It is not unknown in the history
of the government," says the secre
tary, "that national reservations have
been given up and later were bought
back at increased cost." Again in dis
cussing the same subject, he says
that the "completion of the Panama
canal, the development of trade in
the Gulf of Mexico and the whole
Caribbian region, and the probable in
crease of the naval establishment to
meet our national responsibilities in
that area, probably will call for sup
ply stations, in part for the heavy
fleet, but principally for the torpedo
craft and submarines and the smaller
vessels needed there."
He urges the "extreme desirability"
of developing the naval station partly
established at Guantanamo, Cuba.
The secretary reviews in detail his
proposed plan for the reorganization
of the navy, and in addition makes
many recommendations for Ihe con
duct of affairs in his department. Two
more battleships of the all-big-gun
type are recommended to lie con
structed. but. on account of the desire
to keep down the expenditures, he
asks only for a repair ship in addition
to these_two proposed giants of sea.
Ship construction at the navy yards
of the United States is opposed as a
principle by the secretary.
Senior Officers to Old for Work.
"The senior officers of our navy are
too old for the responsibilities and
arduous duty required in the modern
battleship," says the secretary. "They
are much older than similar officers
in the other principal navies of the
world. Not only is this the case, but
flag officers arrive at the grade of
rear admiral so late that even those
of longest possible service do not get
adequate training as subordinate flag
officers before assuming the chief
command."
THE WEEKLY TRADE OUTLOOK
Reports Show Rather More Irregular
ity, Varying with Sections
Reporting.
New York City.—Bradstreet's says:
Trade reports show rather more
irregularities, varying with sections
reporting. In seasonable retail
lines there is a renewal of the com
plaint of warm weather affecting sales
of wearing apparel, while bad roads
in parts of the central west and the
switchmen's strike in the northwest
causing shut downs in industry and
interfering with the movement of
crops to market and of goods to the
country, are responsible for quieter
trade and interruption to normal
every day activities. In iron and steel
trade there is some slight seasonable
slackening of demand for finished
lines of steel, following the lessened
activity in pig ir»n, but production
and shipments are very large- close
to record, in fact.
THIRTY-TWOPERiSH IN STORM
Seamen Suffer in Gale Which Blows
Over the British Isles and
France.
London, Eng.—ln a terrific gale
that raged over the British isles and
France the steamer Thistlemor went
to her doom off Appledere in Harnsta
ble bay. It is believed her entire
crew of SO men perished. Four bodies
from the steamer already have been
washed ashore. Small vessels every
where were at the mercy of the ele
ments and I.loyds reports eight of
them having been driven ashore at
various points. Their crews escaped.
The British steamer Congress, which
arrived at Falmouth, reports that dur
ing the storm her captain, the mate
and one seaman were washed over
board by mountainous seas. The sea
man was picked up but Ihe captain
and mate perished.
Minister Has Beer; Fined.
Anderson, Ind.- Rather than tell
where and how he secured a 10-
ceut bottle of beer on Sunday and
exhibited the same to liis congrega
tion Ao prove his contention that sa
loons were not closed. Rev. T. W.
firafton of the Central Christian
' hurch in this < ity was held in con
tempt of court by Special Judge Sh!i
man and was lined $!0. Rev. Mr.
Grafton said he would pay iSie tine,
but refused to tell where he got the
beer. He is a leader of the "dry"
forces in Madison county.