Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-20

making their deals and alliances for the votes of the men who are to rep resent your towns.
 After Voters of the Small Towns.
 With these two men seeking for votes in the legislature, it will be of men go to Hartford next January, and the conflict will be in our small towns. The membership in the state senate Is another vital question of which the towns of New Haven, Hartford. Wa terbury, Bridgeport New Britain and Meriden will furnish fourteen mem bers. while Norwich. New London, Stamford, Greenwich and Danbury have a prepondering vote in choosing five more; this number is sufficient to hinder or pass any measure they unite upon. Here is where the railroad. tel ephone and liquor lobby put in their a small number of votes to pass or re- ject a bill once it has left the house. 10000 Prohibition ovtes Next Election
 For those who desire prohibition leg islation for the liquor traffic, we sub init that the surest and quickest way to get is to give our party ticket 10,000 votes in the next election. With both the. republican and democratic parties committed to the license policy, with the political leaders either in open al- liance or in sympathy and co-opera- tion with the brewers and liquor deal- CTS or else silent on the question, there is little likelihood of any great ad- vance on prohibition lines. The truth is that if a state prohibition bill were passed it would be largely discredited by many-of the officials being recreant to their oath of office in enforcing the same. But a. vote of 10000 for the prohibition ticket in Connecticut will insure some radical and strong meas ureS being passed So my friends let our motto be Prohibition with prohi- bition officials to enforce the law" and see to it that your town does it's share which should be about four times as many votes cast in 1908 for the prohi- bition ticket
 With such a vote we would have no trouble in urging and securing coun- ty prohibition law, under which prob ably one-haf if not two- thirds of our counties would vote dry. This law should not be an option law, but a, prohibition law by which the brewery and distillery as well as the saloon would be permanently prohibited. 9th CT laws that could be passed would close saloons on holidays as in Mas sachusetts; would keep them closed until a. m-; would secure the .re- peal of the judges certificate law by which law breaking saloon keepers get a new lease of life; but for the man who believes license is wrong in prin- ciple there is no other alternative than to vote for candidates and party that are in harmony with those views. and not throw your votes away by voting for an otherwise good man who is the candidate of a party whose policy and purpose is to license and protect the most infquitous traffic under the American flag
 So, my friends, go back to your town determined to work and vote for the election of men who will vote to pro- hibit the traffic, rather than permit 1t for money to continue it's awful work.
 The afternoon session closed with prayer by MT. Curry.
 Evening Session.
 For the meeting in the evening, Rev. c. A -Northrop presided. An opening selection was played by the Parker or chestra, Louis A. Frazier offered pray CT, and Stephen D. Peckham rendered a solo. MT. Peckham also aread his instructive paper upon The Loyal Cit izen and His Politics, and this was followed by an address by State Chairman Hohenthal, who spoke par ticularly upon the aid that was accru- ing to prohibition cause through the recent scientific findings upon the na- ture of alcohol, as shown in the re- ports from the medical congress in London recently. Both speakers were applauded
 Another selection by the Parker or chestra was followed by an address by Mr. Dorman upon the topic Some the Liquor Problem Puts Up to Us. He said that it had come to be question of killing the liquor