The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-20
Aroused by Work of Temper ance Men, They Deter mine on Serious Or
 ganization.
MUCH VIGOROUS SPEAKING
Session Held Here Attracts Members from All Over the State for a Great Discuss
 sion.

If ever the scheme of organize ton was pounded into d crowd of men, it was pounded into a crowd of men In the Steinert Atheneum yesterday after noon, when the New Haven Liquor Dealers held their annual meeting
 It was organize from start to finish. and q press committee was named to see that all of the accusations of the prohibitionists were properly con- futed and ushered into the realm of discussion
 The atmospheric wave that now seems to be travelling the country, ap- parently prompted the New Haven dealers in the ardent desire to become a constituent part of the body strenu- ous. So it was that they met yester- day afternoon in the old Turn hall,
 Ostensibly it was a meeting for the installation of officers but it was q meeting surcharged with a disposition to do.
 The press committee placed in power will see that prohibition proposals are thoroughly combate through the press.
 Several addresses were made at the meeting, and some of them rang bell like and with warning. The evidences of the meeting were that the dis pensers of the decotions that populate new world, were preparing to fight the foe.
 1 One of the speakers told about s1,lOO,OO0 having been raised to further the cause of temperance; another said pleas for temperance to the number of $500 a week were sent into Hartford l homes.
 The meeting was largely attended and alarm permeated every utterance
 It seems to be case of united Vt stand or divided we fall"
 The addresses made were largely O the cardiment of teamwork. And 1 was decided that everyone should sticl together. Il seems to be a case o1 congregated force against congregatet force.
 Bills that are bound to be introduc- ed in the next general assembly against certain habits of saloons will encounter technical If not general opposition. Although the meeting oi yesterday in Court street was sdver- tised as meeting of the New Haven dealers. it took on readily state i'm portance: as witness the presence oi Hartford. Bridgeport and Waterbury expousers of the trade. i In fact, the New Haven meeting was the first gun, without smokeless powder, to challenge the fire of the enemy
 I The doors were closed, but it be. came known that the tide of the speeches was to shake hands and hold fast together. So completely was the scheme to organize paraded tha Charles J Donahue, who ran for con, gressman-at-large last November or the democratic ticket. and who wa. reelected state president of the Fed eration of Labor at Bridgeport, wa, invited to make an address. MT, Don ahue merely talked about the efficien cy of organization
 But Waterbury sent down M Dorman. the local president of tn, bTdSS 1itN \ liuuDI utdltlS dSSutld tion. James Duggan, the secretary also came down.
 Martin Hanley, state organizer, wa also on hand. So was Leo F. Guet helm. of Hartford.
 Frank P. Quinn. president fof tn, State Liquor Dealers association, in stalled the officers. The officers installed were the fol lowing named.
 President-Charles T. Scholl.
 president-Patrick Moran. Financial secretary I Stanford
 Recording secretary-Thomas Fitzsimmons.
 Treasurer-Adam Ziegler.
 rgeant-at-arms-P. B Gillern The members of the association en joyed dinner after the meeting.
 The press committee appointed r T F. Fitzsimmons. Jacob Christina