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Title: The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hammell, George M., 1852- ed
Subjects: Alcoholism Liquor laws
Publisher: Cincinnati, O., The Tower press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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fired the cowardly shot that ended his life.
A reporter brands the murderer as a human monster—the spawn of
the iniquitous environments of the criminal liquor traffic. Why? Be-
cause the liquor traffic refuses to obey any law which interferes with its so-
called rights. Its advocates are afraid of the open field and the fair
fight, and accomplish their purpose by inaugurating a regime of terror.
It has no real argument. It makes no defense of the saloon. After it has
been defeated at the polls, it assassinates, boycotts, runs blind-tigers, blind-
pigs, speak-easies, holes-in-the-wall, the jug trade and other dark agen-
cies. Judge Cox and Dr. Beall were killed at eight o'clock. Brannum was
arrested, and the sheriff attempted to take him to jail through the excited
crowd. Some one fired a shot and Brannum was dead.

EDWARD WARD CARMACK.
As the pages of this book are closing comes the shocking news of the
cruel assassination of E. W. Carmack, stalwart son of the South, truly
a hero and martyr of the Great Reform.
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EDWARD W. CARMACK,
Ex-United States Senator, Tennessee.

HEROES AND MARTYRS. 129

The Nashville W. C. T. U., representing the temperance women of
the entire commonwealth, voted the following resolution as an official ex-
pression of their attitude toward the assassination of the brilliant gen-
tleman who championed their cause in the arena of politics:

" On Monday, November 9, ex-Senator Edward W. Carmack, as he
quietly walked on the streets of our city, was, without the shadow of a
chance to defend himself, shot down in cold blood by the murderous hand
of an assassin for no other reason than that he stood fearlessly and squarely
for civic righteousness as opposed to political frauds and corruptions, and
for the protection of the homes of Tennessee from the blighting curse of
the legalized liquor traffic."

he Christian Advocate, Nashville, one of the official organs of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and one of the most influential relig-
ious journals in the South, paid this editorial tribute to the memory of
the dead editor:

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