Smyrna times., 1907-04-10
TEMPERANCE FOLKS ISSUE
CALLTO OUTLINE CAMPAIGN
BIG LOCAL OPTION MEETING TO BE HELD
ATDOVER eN MONDAY APRIL THE z2nc.
Every District To.be Represented and fcepara-
tlons Made For a Vigorous Plight 10 the
ComiHg Local Option Campaign.

A call hes been issued for great
all-day state convention of temperance
workers and.aelegates from every cleo
tion district in Delaware, to be held
in Dover on Monday April 22, and to
conclude with rousing mass meeting
in Wesley Church in the evening.
The state conventions is issued by the
sub committees of the Delaware State
Temperance Alliance and the Citizens
League. The state conventions morn
ing sessions will be given over to etfec
ting permanent convention organiza-
tion. The afternoon sessions will be
taken up by the completion OF an active
state central committee and county
and hundred campaign committees,
which will have charge of the CAM
paign for no license to be decided at
the local option election in November.
Plans and methods of organizing every
precinct into strong clubs and societies
will also be discussed. In issuing the
call Chairman Watt and Lightbourne
call upon every known temerance So
ciety in the state by name, including
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, the Young Mems Christian
Associations, the Good Templars, the
Sens of Temperance and the various
law and order societies tie cooperate
and includes the Catholic Total Abb
Do,aGa.oI Snoiakiau rh n
call as issued by Rev. DIR. Robert
Watt, President of the Delaware
State Temperance Alliance, is as fol-
lows: Fellow Workers:-A convention,
under the auspices of the Delaware
State Temperance Alliance, will be held
Monday April %, in the Dover Operf
House, Dover, Del. The convention
will begin at 10 a. M, and close with a
mass meeting in the M. E. Church il
the evening. The object is to plar
for the complete organization of states
by counties, election districts, hun.
dreds, towns and hamlets. The en-
tire state must be organized, and uni
formity of organization and effort thus
secured. To accomplish this it is nee
essary that we get together in great
representative gathering. Ministers
of all creeds, representatives C tn
Anti-Saloon League, of the W. @. L
u, the State Grange, Young PeOple
Societies, and all organizations, labo
and otherwise favorable to Local Option
are entitled to representation and ar
urged to Join in this convention b.
their presence. Let nothing short o
sickness or death detain you. w
need you. The cause needs you, be o
hand. Lunch will be served in th
New Century Club Rooms on th
Green, to all visiting delegates an
visitors. Remember the date, Apr
20. Make it memorable.
The Auti-Saloon League has alread
promised its cooperation and it is pr
posed to put the night mass meetir
under the management of the Ant
Saloon League, which already hi
such strong financial backing an
powerful organization in other stat
The convention will probably be OF
of the most enthusiastic ever held in Il
state and every man in Delaware will
called upon to step up to the rae ar
be counted, or to place himself on re
ord with the liquor people. "Let hi
be a man or a mouse" said one
the leaders Immediately after t
convention call had been issued. g
he is man, he will stand up fou
square to his duty; if he be a mou
he will run away and hid G"