The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-12
PROHIBlTIONISTS' ACTIVE CAMPAIGN To Work Strenuously for Ticket This Fall--Plans for Wig. .orous Work Are Out
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MEETING AT COMpoUNCE
Allied Organizations Hold Important Conference--Dates for Stew art Speeches Are An
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Bristol, Sept. l1,-Pians for com ductins vigorous campaign for the prohibition ticket, not only Tn order to keep the present no-license towns in the dry column and Co add to the number, but to fight all nominees for the general assembly who are not fa- vorable to temperance legislation, were outlined at the afternoon session of the Connecticut Citizenship and other allied organizations at Lake Compounce, the forenoon session hav- Ing been largely devoted to consider ation of the Sunday questions. The discussions of both the Sunday and temperance questions indicated that the prohibition interests will be ag- gressive at the capitol next session. State Chairman Hohenthal of South Manchester. called attention 10 what he claimed were factional fights with in the republican ranks, the indecision of prominent democrats to accept nominations for state offices which were chasing them from one part of the state to the other. and the addl- tional fact. which he said had been communicated to him. that the negro voters of the state have declared that as they will repudiate certain candi- dates on both the republican and dem ocratic state tickets they are open to conviction as to the wisdom of their voting for the prohibition nominees. MT. Hohenthal said it was the duty of every one interested In good govern nent to take advantage of the oppor- tunity to roll up great vote for the prohibition ticket. He then anhounc- ed the dates of speeches of oliver Stewart, the nominee for vice. presl- dent, in this state from September 20 to 2I in the interest of the .io-llcense campaign. On the 29th he will speak twice in New Haven and that evening in Ansonia; the next day. conduct an open air noon meeting in Bridgeport, and the evening he will be in Yales- vile On the 22nd he will nave open air meetings al Meriden. and an even ing meeting at New Haven On the 93rd, Mir Stewart will be in Stamford and South Norwalk, and in ,he even- Ing at Guilford On the 2ith he goes to the Goshen picnic and then down 10 Reynolds Bridge, and Thomaston. The next day he will be in Waterbury and Stafford Springs On the 2sth he goes to Thompsonville. Hartford and Wethersheld. and on his closing day will make several addresses in and near South Manchester. MT Stewart will return to the state on October 24 10 speak in senatorial districts, which the prohibition party selects as 8 fighting ground against nominees for the legislature.
 Mir. Hohenthal said that the ground Of attack upon the old parties will be their failure to recognize the liouor question in their platform. and to de- clare their attitude upon it." He de- olared that Mir. Bryan through his si- lenee had shown his unvillingness "a take sides against the liuuor traffic
 in spite of the great uprising in the democratic southern states In favor of prohibition
 All the afternoon speeches were viz. orous, and the gathering being the largest at field day here 1t was en. thusiastic