Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-03
Charges on Legislature at Olym-
pia in Special Train
With 100 Men
CHASED By A LIQUOR SPECIAL
Evangelist Addresses Public Meetings
and Legislature in Washington
State Capital, Urging the Local OPP
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County for Liquor Regulation.
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in the thick of the local option fight
| in the state Of Washington, and left
| here Sunday night in a special train
accompanied by body guard of loo
business and church men, to address
the legislature and public meetings at
! the state capital He was chased
across the state to Olympia by an
other special train carrying the liquor
men. who hurried to tPe state mouse
with petitions which they had been
circulating. and who endeavored to
get to Olympia ahead of the evange,-
list. The Falconer- McMasters local op-
ton bill, making the county the unit
of temperance legislation, has stirred
the whole state into political excite
ment.
Tried to Corner the Halls.
The announcement from Spokane
that BILLY" Sunday was coming to
the capital in the interests of the local
option bill caused CONSERVATION in the
ranks Of the saloon men at Olympia
and those who went home for Sun
day hurried back in an effort to offset
the influence of the famous evangelist
and, if possible, to prevent him being
given hearing before the judiciary
committee, where the bill was tied up.
An attempt was also made by the
saloon men to induce the theater man
agement to cancel the engagement for
/ Int hnS wa
slow, as a contract had already been
made for the theater for the evangelist
for Monday afternoon and evening.
Some of the anti-option senators
urged the senate judiciary committee
to report the option bill back to the
senate Monday in advance OF the ar
rival of the Spokane special. The Dill
was sent to the committee by the ad-
verse majority for mutilation by
amendment, but in the face of the ris-
ing storm Of public wrath, the mem-
bers of the committee were reluctant
to go on with the task.
Money for Train Guaranteed.
Before a packed house at the taber-
nacle Saturday night it was announced
that more than $1,000 toward the $1,000
necessary to run the special train al
ready had been guaranteed and that
eighty-five or more men had agreed TO
go. A v. Bradrick, one of the leaders
in the movement presented Sunday
with tickets for the stateroom on the
Pullman, allowing him to take three or
his party with him. Most of the min
listers in the larger churches went,
their congregations paying their ex-
penses. Sunday refused to address any
gathering at Olympia in the open air,
on account Of the injury it would do
his voice.
"MeI" Trotter Substitutes.
While he is gone services in the tab
ernacle will be conducted by "Mel'
Trotter, an evangelist of note in the
middle west who is here to help with
the last week of the Sunday revivals.
Trotter was given his first introduce
ton to a Spokane audience by mere
ly making his appearance on the plat
form.
"Trotters an old barber, so all the
BARRIERS ought to come out Monday
might to hear him. said Sunday. "1f
go to a new town and want to find
out everything that's going on, can
get it all from four kinds of people
the BARRIERS the hack drivers, the
travelling men and the cops"
A thousand railroad men and their
families were guests of Sunday Satur-
day night, being given a section OF re-
served seats. To these Sunday said:
81 am glad to say a word of welcome
to the railroad men. There are three
classes of men who come nearer to my
heart than any others-the old soldiers,
the railroad men and the ball players.
NV father was an old soldier. and
earned nv living for long time eth
err as a railroad man or a ball player"
Sunday gave his idea of heaven in
his sermon on Heaven" speaking
without any text.