The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-01
LIQUOR MEN MEET.
Annual Convention of State
Protective League at
Greenvil1e Today.
SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED
Blue Front Stores Denounced and
Reforms Suggested List Of
Officers and Delegates.
SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED

tive League OF new Jersey
ternoon In the Columbia Hall, Greenvliie
to prepare the way for the thirteenth an
nual convention of the League to be heil
tomorrow in the same hall.
The delegates will begin to arrive tomor
row at. the Pennsylvania Railroad depot
where they will be met by President +
MeArdle, of the Committee of Arrange
ments. They will march up montgomery
street to Franklin Hall. where the ioca
association will meet them. From thence
they will march up Newark avenue te
Jersey avenue. to York street, wnere
trolley cars will take them to the Column
bia Hall, Gator and Ocean avenues.
The convention will meet in the lodge
rooms, it will be called TO order by
President August sKoehler of Orange
President, at eleven o'clock. An address
of welcome will be read, and the Commit
tees on Rules. bylaws, Finances ano
Resolutions will be appointed, and re-
cess of enc hour allowed for the commit
tees to do their work. After recess the
convention will go into executive session
and the delegates properly accredited VIII
be allowed on the floor of the hall. These
rules will be rigidly Observed
The representation will be according to
the CONSTITUTION, as - liz "a
dent of the local association and i've
delegates for the first IS member or less
and one additional delegate for each 70
or fraction thereof. -,
No delegate of a local association will
be recognized except their association
has paid up their Semi-annual per capita
tax or other Indebtedness to the League;
Local associations are kindly requested
to forward the names of their delegates
n their per capita tax to the secre-
tary of the League.
resolutions and grievances, should be for-
warded to the Executive Board the day
Board will meet the day before the con-
yention, Wednesday, September /. 1897, at
Columbia Hall, Jersey City, at IL A. M.
Delegates elected as permanent officers
or members of the State or Executive
Committee and not reelected as delegates
to this convention are privileged to at
tend this convention and participate IN
its proceedings except to vote. .
1t is desired to make this a strictly
business convention, and associations OF
friends of delegates accompanying them
will rave to make their arrangements
subject to the order of this call, as no
delay ought to interfere with the conven-
ton.
The object of the joint conference this
afternoon was that the local associations
should prepare their views for needed re-
forms and when the State officers have
considered them they will be presented
on the floor of the convention tomorrow.
Among the many questions liable to
create discussion is that of cases of ap-
peal in matters of litigation from The
county courts to the State courts.
Many liquor dealers, especially in coun-
ties where there is a disposition to view
the traffic as something not to be even
tolerated, think hat when they begin ap-
peal from adverse and unfair decision in
the county courts to the higher courts
the State League should bear the expense.
That question will be determined.
One of the most important Ques-
lions which 1t was expected would
be discussed is that pertaining
to Sunday opening. In view of the
severe attitude of certain officers against
Sunday selling and the leniency of Others
who tolerate it, it is thought that it would
be fair all around if the League sought
by popular vote to secure legislation for
the opening of the saloon during certain
hours on Sunday, as 1t is practised in
Great Britain.
The plan would be to open the side doors
after church hours at noon. closing them
opened at six p. M. and kept open until
ten P. M. 1t is urged by the advocates
of this measure that it is impossible to
form or nothe and the best way TO meet
local leader, like P McArdle, think that
the scheme is impracticable.
President Koehler in speaking to a
News" reporter this afternoon said that
no action whatever would be taken upon
the Sunday question as the Executive
Committee had decided not to touch the
matter at all, preferring to let well
enough alone.
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cussed will be a resolution from the New
ark delegates, and it is as folIows:-
The convention shall be requested to
s TAXI agg slni,,d fra steps st against r these ss Sc
whiskey, at least they call it so, for go
cents when the government tax alone is
$1.io. THIS vile adultered stuff contains
nothing. but spirit and chemicals. some
of which are not only injurious to health
but absolute slow poison.
OF course all the meetings will be
private n tomorrow evening the local
association will entertain the delegates to
a banquet. The State officers who will
be present aare;mAugyust koehler Orange,
First Vice President; James M. Butler,
Keyport. Second Vice President; Phillip
John McEntee. Jersey City, Recording and
Corresponding Secretary; Francis Nc
CURE. Passaic. Financial Secretary; Chas.
o'Brien. Bayonne, Experimentation; F.
H. Nolan, Organizer; VIM. Peters. AS
sistant Organizer.
The member of he State Committee
BeIleville, H. I. Devine; Burlington
Bayonne. Patrick Nugent; Camden, John
Mccormack; carlstadt, John J. Dupy,
Executive member; Dover, Albert Rich
ards; Elizabeth, Joseph Drury, Executive
member; Elizabeth German), Jacob
Knob1auch; Greenville, William thinner
Charles Koehler; Hunterdon county, VIM.
Apgar, Frenchtown; Hoboken, Alfred
Biunie, Executive member and member
of Legislative Committee; Harrison, John
Ford; Hudson county, Thomas Dwyer,
Executive member: John McEntee, Mem
Der of the Legislative Committee; Hack
ensack, VIM. Getting; Jersey City Heights
lass; Monmouth. county. Edward E. En-
mons. Executive member and member of
the Legislative Committee; Mercer county
James E. Gibbons Charles c. Engel,
emb of the Legislative Committee;
Morristown, J. r. Piper; Newark, Gus
n Herman y Mreis sSss Es ss;sssss member aam and
Newark German, No. 2)-Julius Sturz-
mann. North Hudson, Henry Van
Derwyk, Executive member and member
of the Legislative Committee; New
brunswick, w. {. Jacques; Orange, John
Msnzel, Executive member; Aug. Koehler,
sale City, Michael McKeon, Executive
member and Chairman Of Legislative
Committee; Paterson (English), Cornelius
Lees; Paterson Germany, Philip Feist;
Perth Amboy, Soren Jacobson; Somerset,
j. Kenner; Summit, John McGrath;
Town of Union, Joseph Kennel. Execu-
member; West Hoboken. Albert