The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-02
THEY MEAN BUSINESS
GOOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUERs
PUSHING REFORM MOVEMENT.
MORE INDICTMENTS COMING.
IF NECESSARY THE BARTENDERS
WILL BE HAULED UP.

Members of the League Say That
Sunday Liquor Selling and Gam
bling Must GO-Are Very Well
Pleased With the Work So Far.
Not Many Saloons Were Open SUN
day-Leaguers Claim That They
Have the Sporting Element on the
Run and That Some of the Gam
bIers Will Probably BE Arrested
Soon by the Police for Vagrancy.
Fourteen saloon Men VIII Be
Tried Tomorrow.
While he does not apprehend that such
step will be necessary, Attorney II. E.
Wilson of the Good Government League,
says that if the saloon keepers persist in
violating the Sunday law, in the face of
grand jury indictments, he will present
the names of the bar-tenders who sell
liquor on Sunday, and have them indicted
along with the proprietOrs. 1t is not the
intention of the League to take this step
if it can be avoided, but Mr.. Wilson says
that it win certainly be done as last
resort.
The members of the League announced
themselves yesterday as very we'll pleased
with the progress they are making. They
say that only a few places were
open Sunday. and that slowly, but surely,
those whose custom ii has been to disre
gard the Word of God as well as the let
ter of the law. are beginning to realize
that they must close up, whether they
want to or not.
Rev. Bascom Anthony, pastor of Trinity
Methodist Church. and Mr.. Wilson had a
talk yesterday and expressed themselves
now is They have been told that the
sporting element is on the run One mem
Der OF the league is of the opinion that
the lesser lights in the gambling frater-
nity are about starving, and unless they
move upon pastures new, they will be ar
rested by the police for vagrancy
OF course, the sports object to the con-
dition of affairs, and are roasting the
town for who laid the rail-" They saw
that their rights are being trampled upon
and that the imposition is outrageous.
Business is practically at a standstiH
and nightly conferences are held, at which
the situation Is discussed. OF course the
comments on those who are shouldering
the reform movement are rather caustic
The gamblers look back a few
weeks and think of ths good things
they were permitted % enjoy, and
which but few o: them appre-
ciated. 1t would be safe to wager that
every member of the fraternity would be
villains to sign pledge TO ab-
s;ain from policy and keno IL they were
permitted to carry on the poker rooms
and run faro, roulette and crap games
Before the league began operations such
proposition would have been hooted at.
Just how long the work will keep up is
matter of conjecture.
Just what these saloon keepers who
have already been indicted on evidence
furnished by the league. are going to do
is not known. Fourteen of those against
who bills have been found, are down on
the assignment docket for Tomorrow. If
fight is made very few Of the cases viii
80 TO trial, and il is hardly probable that
those with more than two bonidde In
oictments standing against them. will
nave the nerve TO plead guilty. There is
40 doubt that the league has some of
the law-breakers guessing and retreat
ing.
The cases assigned for trial tomorrow
are those OF Alex Mendel. two charges:
j. A. Galina, two changes; Henry
Schroeder: Owen Travers three bills; Max
bhrlich. William Mccormick. A C. Rego-
poulos A. II. Wood. two counts; ID. Sill
Verstein; George Schroeder, Daniel Deig-
nan, James Whiteman, Phillip Sanders
ana Samuel Jacobs. for keeping a gam
bling house. Indictments were secured in
all of these cases through the efforts of
the GOOD Government League.