Costs of being allied with other groups
Though Salley had earlier advocated greater involvement in partisan politics, she also asserts that the suffrage movement's association with specific issues, particularly prohibition, slowed their progress.
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Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley, September 15, 1973. Interview G-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- EULALIE SALLEY:
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Yes, and so many were against it in the beginning because they connected
us with Carrie Nation. Remember Carrie Nation and her hatchet, how she
went around?
- CONSTANCE MYERS:
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Yes. I understood that some of the other personalities in the suffrage
movement had been interested in temperance too.
- EULALIE SALLEY:
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Mrs. Catt was originally interested in temperance. That's true, she was.
Well, I never was. I'm of French descent and I was raised on wine
instead of water. My grandfather thought the water on the plantation was
contaminated. So every morning we were getting our allowance of wine for
the day. I didn't know any different.
- CONSTANCE MYERS:
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It makes for longevity, doesn't it?
- EULALIE SALLEY:
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Yes, it looks like it.
(laughing)
I guess when you're raised that way you have to get knocked in
the head with a hammer.
