Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — WOMEN PRAY AT THE POLLS. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN PRAY AT THE POLLS.

Use Their Influence for Prohibition, but l.ose the Fight. In Macon, Ga„ 500 women threw aside their domestic duties and assembled at the election precincts to use their influence for prohibition. They formed choirs and sang hymns and prayed nt the voting places, and their presence at the polls made a spectacle never before seen in the South. The battle was between white women on one side and anti-prohibitionists and negroes on the other. The women carried church organs to the middle of the street, the choirs sang, and dozens of exhorters prayed to Gfod to wipe out bar-rooms. But the women’s work was unsuccessful, as the town voted prohibition down by 1,000 majority. The women charge fraud and they propose to contest the election.