The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-10-03
LIQUOR WILL BE AN ISSUE.
Alleged That Saloon Interests Have
Raised Big Sum.

Legislative candidates who favor
temperance legislation. and that
already $50, 900 has been subscrib-
ed is the charge made today by
Mr.. William H. Anderson, secre-
tary of the Maryland Anti-Saloon
League.
This evidence of opposition we
believe will help US, said Ander-
son today, for it will serve to
crystalline public sentiment on
the anti saloon question, which is
bound to occupy a prominent posi-
ton during the approaching cam
paign."
Mr.. Omer F. Hershey of the law
firm of Grain & Hershey, counsel
to the brewing interests of the
city, said today, when apprised
of Mr.. Anderson's statement:
This is news to ME. I know of
no such fund, and if such move
ment was on foot I would in all
probability know about it."
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa,
yesterday stated that the Pennsyl-
vania Federation of Liquor Deal
ers, alarmed at the spread of local
option in Ohio, is preparing to
raise fund of SI5oo,ooo to defeat
any local option law at the next
session of the Legislature of that
State, In Maryland ten of the 20
counties are dry" and in two
more there Are saloons in only one
place in each county. In Wash
in9ton county both parties are
pledged to local option, and there
is strong movement on foot in
Worcester county against wet
goods.
The League purposes to mail a
list of questions to all Legislative
candidates about a month before
the election, asking their views
regarding the laws in which the
League is interested, and their re-
plies will be made public. Asked
if similar inquiries would be direct
ed to the Gubernatorial candidates,
Mr.. Anderson said:
That is not definitely settled.
1t is within the range of posi-
bility, for the statement of Mr.. J..
D. Baker, published this morning,
practically puts the question up to
both candidates.
The temperance movement has
made tremendous advances
throughout the country recently,
and is likely to figure more prom
inently than ever before in
Maryland in the approaching cam
paign, The League wants prim-
arily law which will allow the
people of any county, or part of a
county, or any portion of Balti-
more city, residential districts es-
peciallS, to close saloons by
mandatory direct majority vote,
and this will be among the ques-
tions to be put to the candidates.
The League intends, when their
replies are received and announc-
ed, to activity enter the campaign
and work against those candidates
whose views are unfavorable to
the legislation it desires. Com
mittees will be appointed in every
church congregation to get around
among the voters, and it is also
purposed to hold public meetings.
The League may also question
all candidates for the United States
Scholarships, as the National Anti
Saloon League is endeavoriug to
secure the passage by Congress of
the Littlefeld interstate liquor
shipment law, which is designed
to prevent local prohibition laws
being broken under the guise of
interstate commerce.
The nti-Saloon League has, of
course, no connection with the
Prohibitionists, the League being
entirely partisan and directing
its efforts to obtain Temperance
legislation by the various candi-
dates of the two great parties.
The Prohibitionists, on the other
hand, make their own nomina-
tons, and this year they will put