Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-04
WAR ON THE Rum SHOPS.
A NATIONAL CRUSADE ORGAN
IZED AT BOSTON.

Many Leading Citizens in the Move
ment-The Banishment of the Liquor
Business the Ultimate Object of the As
sociatiOn-A Wisconsin Saloon Keeper
Retaliates for Temperance Onslaushts.
MADISON, WIS, Jan. g. John
Schlimger, President OF the Madison Sa-
loon Keepers Association, has brought
two $4,000 suits against John Olin,
Chief of the Law and Order League, and
late Prohibition candidate for Congress,
and Estes Wilson, wen-knOwn citizen.
Schlimger alleges that Olin charged in a
public speech that he had melted mob
TO violent action against the Law and
Order League spies in the city streets.
Wilson is accused of having Schlimger
falsely arrested and tried for mob leader
ship. The suits reopen the war of last
spring between the Law and Order League
and the saloon keepers, and will be pit
terly fought with prominent counsel on
each side.
THE RALLY AT BOSTON,
BOSTON, Jan. 3.-For a few weeks past
active friends OF temperance have been
busily engaged in arranging an Organiza-
ton to tide the reform over its present
critical stage. The movement eliminated
yesterday in this city, when national
league (nOn-partisan and non-sectarian)
for the suppression of the liquor traffic
was formed. The movement has been
kept from the press until now. Nov. %
was the date of the first meeting, when 1t
was decided to open correspondence
widely over the country to see what sup
port could be obtained. A platform of
principles and objects was prepared and
circulated. Numerous favorable answers
came, and many clergymen, members
,f lid
are committed to support the
movement. The States are represented
by prominent names. The objects of the
association, as set forth in the cOnstitu-
tion, are the enforcement of laws against
the liquor traffic, the withdrawal of legal
sanction from and the suppression of the
liquor traffic, with the ultimate purpose,
by constitutional and statutory provision,
to Danish it from the land. Officers were
elected, who will hold Office until the first
annual meeting, which will occur Jan.
IA, 1856, unless the time is changed by
the directors. The officers are as follows:
President, Rev. DIR. Dorchester, of Natick;
General Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Foster;
Recording Secretary, Rev. A. II. Plumb,
d. D., Boston; Treasurer, Hon. Joseph
ID. Weeks, Pittsburg; Directors, the Off
GERS, and Hon. Oliver Hoyt of COnnecti-
cut, Lewis Miller of Ohio, Hon. j. b.
FarweI of Illinois, Rev. f. E. Hale, Mrs.
Mary A. Liyermore and Mrs. Z. S. Pres
colt of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Annie
Wittenmeyer of Pennsylvania. A few
Vice Presidents were chosen. The Meth
odist denomination is more pumerously
represented than any other, although the
movement is wholly non-sectarian. 1t
was decided to issue brief statement to
the public in few days, showing the pur-
pose and scope of the movement.
PROUTRTTION ,rRTIrNTPUANT AT TpONTAS
TON.
THOMASTON, GA, Jan. 3.-The muni-
cipai election here to-day resulted in the
triumph of the Prohibition ticket by 40
majority. This places Upson the last of
the prohibition counties, as the County
Commissioners refuse to grant licenses in
the county outside of Thomastnn