Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-22

Brethren. Bishop Courtney of New
York of the Episcopal church and Dr.
Smith 4. Ford. Dr.. Edgar p. Hill and
Or Vim. y. Shepard of Chicago.
PaSEisar lsIpliticag had9no place. Men
Eof al pafies wel& there; Republicans
|of tHe North and Democrats off, the
South and Republicans. and Democrats
East and West We're united upon the
saloon proposition. Ex-Governor Han
y Of Indiana was present during many
of the day sessions and spoke at mass
meetings every night in different sec
tons of the city. Hon. Seaborn
Wright of Georgia gave similar service.
Maine people will remember him as
the southern orator who thrilled his
Portland audience at the last memorial
occasion of Neal Dows birthday.
Judge Covington also from Georgia
woke the echoes whenever he appeared
before the Conference or Convention
Hon. John Marshall, 1st Assistant At
torney General of Kansas contributed
a valuable paper on the Constitution
ality of Interstate Commerce laws at
fecting the liquor traffic The inimit
able George, +. Stuart of Tennessee in
Il way never to be forgotten developed,
sent home and clinched the conviction
that the Anti-Saloon Movement is not
a wave, not tide-but n natural and
inevitable product of our progressive
Christian Civilization. This is evident
ly the southern point of view. For
this reason the defeat in Alabama in
some respects harmful to the cause.
| erit1 a f.
tect upon the Southern men, Seaborn
Wright said distinctly, There will be
no backward step. The saloon will
never reappear in Alabama
John G. Mooley was there, once
presidential! candidate of the prohib-
ition party, now Superintendent Of the
Anti Saloon League of the Hawaiian
Islands. He has no regrets 10 of1er
for being a prohibitionist. A row had
to be made and it was well made. He
slories in the part he took in making
| it. Now he wants to get with the
biggest bunch of prOhibitionlsts to
| help them fight it out with the enemy
to the finish.
The Womans' Christian Temperance
Union as the greatest of all temper
ance societies was accorded place OF
honor on the program. Mrs. Florence
Id. Richards Of Ohio spoke eloquently
of woman's part in the great move
ment.
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States
Government We're there in the persons
of Lieutenant Hobson, Congressman
from Alabama, James NJ. Miller, Con
gresham from Kansas and VIM. ~
Johnson who has made record as
Government enforcement officer.
The Press was there. From our own
State Editor Norton of the Portland
Express read a paper which won inc
cordial approval of the Convention.
The interdenominational character OF
the Movement was evident When INC
doors of over 400 Chicago churcnes
were opened to League speakers on
Sunday and again when Father Peter
|J. O'Callighan, National President OIL
1.-The catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America and Father Ward OF Beiolt
Wisconsin occupied the Convention
nlatform in Orchestra Hall for a full
evening. These men spoke with srea'
frankness of the problem from the
Catholic point of view and inspired III
their hearers a bright hope for the
future from the leadership OF the Cath-
Ole church.
The roll call of states from Ala
hama to Wyoming was record OF
such progress in saloon aoolisl'fneht
as no preceding two years mas ever
witnessed. We can but wonder Whetn-
er the next two years will produce
record of such continuous ana trluHi-
plant victory.
An invitation for the next Confer
ence and Convention to be held IN
1911 was received from Rochester, n.
V sent bv the Mayor of the city and
endorsed by various organizations; an
other equally urgent from San Fran
cisco and a third from Atlantic Clly'
| NeM Jersey