[Texas]

[Small Collection of Materials Related to an Electoral Proposition to Outlaw Saloons in Travis County, Texas]

Austin: 1916. Two documents, totaling three pages, and two printed envelopes. Minor wear and creasing, old folds. Very good. Item #3644

A small collection of materials pertaining to a campaign by the prohibitionists of Travis County, Texas, calling for votes against the "enemy of civilization, home, life and property, the SALOON...the greatest menace to Christianity and civilization by all clean thinking people...." The documents include a printed letter from the Chairman of the Travis County Local Option Campaign Committee, Austin, Texas, to campaign workers, asking them to contact voters on the enclosed list and check off those who were prohibitionists; a two-page carbon typescript, on two sheets of thin typing paper, listing voters in Webberville Voting Precinct No. 1, with their occupations (some names are checked off, but there is a pencil notation "Disregard all checks”); printed envelope to return the annotated list (unused); and an envelope in which the material was sent by the Committee to H.L. Manor of Manor, Texas. One notable feature of the Webberville voters listing is a pencil notation on the back of the second page, reading "There may be a few more Pros among the Negroes" (apparently for the anti-saloon legislation). In addition, nearly half of the names listed have "(c)" typed after their names, likely identifying them as "colored." Needless to say to anyone who has ever visited Austin's Sixth Street, the anti-saloon contingent failed.

Price: $850.00