The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-07
Submits Legislative Program to
General Assembly and Urges
S. Members to Act
ATTITUDE AS TO POLITICS
Formal Declaration on This Sub
II; ject Made by Committee.
Convention Ends.


SONS OF good will and harmony from
j Ill the 200 delegates who attended the
convention. the Virginia Anti.Saloon
I League, which has been in session in
the First Baptist Church since Tuesday.
4 closed last night the most successful
meeting held since its organization.
Things accomplished since the last
session were declared to have been
greater than ever before, and prospects
8 for the ultimate adoption Of all the
measures advocated by the organiza-
I ton were never brighter. 1t was stated.
Morning Session.
After the usual devotional services
L In the morning, reports of the Com
rltttees on Nominations and Credentials
were read and adopted. The Rev.
u Thomas Semmes. OF Richmond, then
spoke on why Is a Union OF Christian
s md Moral Forces Necessary in This
Conflict?p telling his hearers why
d liquor, as he put it, is the clause Of
more evil than one can comprehend
from the statistics, and declaring that
& the League cannot successfully COM
hat the conditions unless the members
4 yill come out OF the pews and fight.
Is The Rev. j. w. West, field secretary
SSof the League discussed Field Day;
What It Means and said that for
y ting the objects OF the organization
4 before the greatest number of peopls
4 In the best way. the field day Is the
sss.most successful method. Mass-meet-
EEssssings and pthtk plans have failed.
u 90 lethod s'.of Pro Liquor Men in Local
sssOption Elections" were shown up and
ssseverely arraigned by facts and fig
lures brought out by the Rev. H. r.
ssHamill and the Rev. W. ". Lear, who
slssdsscribed instances OF "ballot-box
'sEEatptfing, voters bought and in fact.
sseyery trick known to machine politics."
s8s Election of Officers.
The election OF officers resulted as
81
President, the Rev. DR.. c. W. TAYLOR
81 81 Vice Presidents DR.. Chancellor
y Smith, of Lynchburg; 7. ~. D. Conway.
sstsof Eottoway5 Courthouse; Captain J. +.
81 ElKton; tie, Rsy, DR.. ": e; Campbell,
p9 R9anoke sne Hso T. = gewsrs o.
Is OF Bristol; the Rev. II. F. Atkins, OF
s;Riehmond.
gesEetary q T k dnse !, q s ,nhmona
Attorneys--Walte Sydnor. OF Rich
/: nnond; Thomas Whitehead OF Amherst.
Afternoon Session.
lss3 BY far the most important work Of
II tho day, and perhaps Of the entire con-
sssyEntion, was the presentation at the
taafternoon session OF the reports Of the
s& coInmittee on resolutions and slestsla-
sdopted.
Having made plain the leagues po-
sition in. regard TO politics, as de-
at length above; the commit I,
members To support with their votes
Md influence all the temperance meas
lures now pending in the Legislature
ii; ~ set forth IN tho report of the COM
esa nm
81 ION nll members 10 write to their Sena-
tors and Congressman TO support the
@sIdttleteid bill, the object Of which is
ssEt9 give each state police control OF
al oil the liquor shipped into 1t from
sssothsr States: to give the people OF the
DssftriGt OF Columbia the right Of 10 20,
q the issuing OF United States licenses
Twill cease In dry territory and toHsup-
port o1ll prohibiting the sale OF In
sloxtca ting liquors In the union sta
salon IN Washington.
Economic Side.
1: The, Rev; James Cannon. briefly dis
B. s4ssed The Relation Of the Anti
the views ALREADY SCI forth thhsii ii ths
d xeport Of the committee on resolutions.
He impressed upon the members the
q !!naportanfe Of aSSiing 81, IN their power
mes now before the Legislature made
Unto laws. n
b Tue q Z Rev. Z. p; MeAllistsr smoke on
& is - ne sEconoulc Sl1e OF the Saloon
VI RyopIen.'' HIS d iscussion was designed
Il i1p chow that the United States year.
Asiy ioses more BY the rayages Of the
81 llquor traffic than car ever be gained
aS ~ revenues. Statistics show, he said.
IN ut The average salary OF the saloon
As keaper is greater than the average Of
HsfSs5S py ether me 11ber of society
s5ss g n legislative PROGRAM.
Ysl The srepnrt OF the committee on Leg
ion. which was adopted, is as fol-
sIEhsreas, the present legislation Of Viz