The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-17
SIGNIFICANT
Meeting of Anti Saloon League Ex-
ecutive Committee.


nessee Executive Committee wa
held in this city Tuesday. Ever,
vote was unanimous and a spiri
of determination to further pro
mote the cause of temperance leg
islation peryaded all of the discus
sions. The political situation ii
so far as the question of temper,
ance is involved in it was carefully
canvassed, with the result that two
significant utterances of the league
were prepared for publication.
The first Of these was in the nature
Of restatement of the leagues
programme for future temperance
legislation, and is as follows:
FUTURE TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.
sThe AntiSaloon League OF
Tennessee hereby restates its po-
sition on future Legislation to be
as follows: We favor the exten.
sion of the four mile law to every
city and town in the State, and, as
a companion and supplementary
measure, we favor the extension
of the four-mile law, or some
other equally effective law, to res
idence and other wards of such of
the larger cities as may not as a
whole avail themselves of the law.
"While we desire to see the
saloons banished from the whole
State, and while we demand that
every city in Tennessee shall have
the privilege which smaller towns
now enjoy, we are anxious that the
residence wards and other temper
ance communities of our principal
cities shall not be denied relief
from the presence of the saloon,
even if the city as city should
either decline to attempt or should
fail in an attempt to abolish sa
looms, hence our equal interest in
the enactment of both laws.
Although especially concerned
for these two laws, we also favor
such wholesome and vital remedial
legislation as an anti-ju law, a
no.screen law and a law divorcing
the saloon from other lines Of
business.
The second notable declaration
Of Tuesdays meeting drew the
lines very clearly and pretty close
ly as to Gubernatorial and legisla
tive candidates as follows:
AS TO CANDIDATES.
"True to its we'll known princi
Piles and record the Tennessee An
ii-Saloon League will oppose any
candidate for legislative or Guber-
Material office who has hobitualIy
antagonized the passage of the
various bills that have resulted in
the present four mile law, and
whose influence and utterances
have been antagonistic to either
the enactment or enforcement Of
this and other laws similarly moral
in purpose and effect; and we here
by urge the friends of Temperance
in all parties to seek the nomina-
ton and election of such men, and
such men only, as are known to
have been consistently friendly to
temperance legislation and as are
now cordially outspoken in favor
Of the extension Of the four mile
law to the whole State. =
The meaning Of this last mani
festo is plain, and if the present
candidates for Governor cannot
show good records as well as good
intentions on the subjects that, ac-
cordiHg to the first announcement
above, most deeply concern the
league, then there is room for
New Richmond in the Democratic
Gubernatorial tielI; and if this
New Richmond fails 10 appear,
provided the record and sentiments
of present aspirants are unsatis-
factory, then. "Well, Z said a
member of the league, worse
4',;ngs n s~ople. recent 90.
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