Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-12
THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER.
A Call for Convensien of the Recent Pro.
hibitory Voters.

A Call for Conventicn of the Recent Pro.
hibitory Voters.
fePEcIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
PHILADELPHIA, August n-A. ]. Kynett,
President OF the Union Prohibitory League,
has issued the following call to the temperance
voters Of Pennsylvania:
Earnestly protesting against the methods
and influences SO audaciously used for the de-
feat of the prohibitory amendment on the 18th
of June; and greatly deploring the recent deci-
sion OF the Supreme Court which proves the
insecurity of existing laws; and boldly resent
ing the general dispoution of the public press
and political leaders to exult in the defeat OF
prohibinon. and to take full control OF temper
ance legislation yet only so far as 1t serves
party purposes We call upon the large and con-
servative temperance element In Pennsylvania
as represented by the 296, 617 votes in favor OF
constitutional prohibition, to assert itself at
once against such unwarranted assumptions,
corrupt methods and machine politics. With
this end In view, State Convention OF the
Union Prohibitory League is hereby called to
meet In Harrisburg Thursday, September 26,
at 10 o'clock A. M. Rhe representation as rec
ommended by said committee will consist OF
the County Chairman, permanently elected or
temporarily appointed, and three duly acered-
tied delegates from each county. Members of
the League throughout the State are requested
to meet in their organizations and elect dele
gates, reporting their names and address to the
Secretary not later than September 10"
In an address accompanying the above call
the officers of the league say: You need no
committee to tell you, but only one voice to
proclaim what you already know-the organ
lied liquor power Of the country is the most
formidable and dangerous foe we have to face.
The hope we INDUCED that the people would
arrest its progress by constitutional barriers
has proven delusve. We did not anticipate
that the great power OF the press and OF organ
lied political machinery would be enlisted in
the service Of this giant wrong for the cru
cial conflict of June Is; nor could we foresee
that the partial prohibition Of the Brooks law
would prove such an effective weapon against
the total prohibition proposed for the Constitu-
ton, or that this partial measure when SO used,
would be shattered and thrown aside as worse
than useless by the subsequent decision of the
Supreme Court If the good people of Penn
sylvania had foreseen all this. or IL constitu-
tional prohibition were now available. the State
would not long lie helpless at the feet of this
monster.
ut is not proposed to nominate candidates
for office. With three political parties in the
field to name candidates for the public service,
and the way always open for independent can
dIdates, and with facilities for getting and Civ
ing information, there will be no difficulty in
selecting candidates for our suffrages who shall
be in harmony with the purposes OF the league
We urge prompt enrolment and organization,
full representation in convention, united and
determined action, and, as the Lord livetb, the
saloon must CO."