The Detroit times., 1910-03-04

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The progress being made in
! Michigan is very satisfactory"
The resignation of Supt. George w
MORROW, OF the Michigan Anti Saloon
league, will not be accepted.
In the conference held in the
league headquarters. Thursday morn
ing, at which National Supt. Purley
A. Baker, Supt Morrow, the Rev. c.
j. Tannar and the Rev. J. c. Pinker-
ton, were present. Supt. Morrow was
completely exonerated with regard to
the Jackson county colonization
charges. He will, therefore, continue
IN active charge OF the anti-saloon
work in Michigan, and the men who
are ar the head OF the movement be-
lieve that the result OF the charges
will be to strengthen the league In the
state rather than otherwise.
There was entire agreement among
| the members OF the Michigan Anti
| Saloon league executive committee
as TO the action taken. J. l.. Hud
son was not present but had expressed
his views previously In a talk with
the Revs Tannar and Pinkerton. he
Rev. +. f. Day. ofAlbion, was unable
10 be present. but sent a letter warm
! ly indorsing Supt. Morrow.
At the conclusion of the inquiry Or.
Baker gave out tie following state
ment:
| have today met with Rev G..
j. Tannar and Rev. j. {. Pinker-
ton, of the headquarters commit
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league. Dr. +. h. Day being de-
tanned by funeral, | talked with
him over the phone J. l.. Hud-
son was also absent I'm the east,
but before going made his wishes
known to the members OF the
committee that could be present.
After careful and full In
ycstigation, the National Anti
Saloon league concurs III every
particular in the findings OF the
| state headquarters committee
with reference to the letter writ
ten by Mr. Morrow TO one f. j.
Brewer. a detective Neither the
! State nor National league is will
ling to accept Mr. Morrow's resig-
nation The correspondence from
the Jackson county committee,
leading up TO the writing OF the
| letter. with the report made TO
Superintendent Morrow by the
detective when he had completed
| the work he had been employed
! TO do for. the Jackson County
! Committee. is conclusive evidence
that Superintendent Morrow had
no thought of colonizing dry vot-
ers when he wrote the letter.
! THE letter was dictated into
graphophonc, transcribed and sent
out without being read by Mr.
Morrow. In the light Of all the
evidence before the committee,
there can be no doubt that there
we're omissions in the letter
which may or may not have been
dictated TO the machine, that
gave TO it an entirely different
meaning from that intended by
superintendent Morrow.
II is quite remarkable that
petective Brewer does not pro-
duce any witnesses to prove that
he had himself approached any
ono 70 carry out the instruction
Of Superin endent Morrow's letter
as NO now construes it.. IL cannot
no that ne had conscientious
scruples against doing that sort
of work for in that event he
would hardly have held the let
ter for a year before disposing OF
n. Not only does he not offer
any witnesses, hut maintains
very discreet silence himself.
Had | known before coming
here that this man was once as
sociated with one Charles X.
Mabee OF Detroit. we would not
have taken the time necessary 10
come here 20 investigate. The
headauarters committee of the
Michigan league have made the
only report on this affair that
could be made by any fairminded
committee after a careful investi-
cation Of all the facts
Mr.. Morrow has given II years
of continuous, honorable and eff
fective service to the Anti-Saloon
league movement, and that counts
for something with men who
stand for right things. This at
tack was timed with the hope
that IL would do the largest pos
sible damage Co the great cam
paign that is now on in this state
| FOiluUdltlN lulb sOil VI ldtAltS
practiced by the liquor interests
have become 80 well-known and
are so universally expected that
the people know how to estimate
them Mr. Morrow is engaged in
reform work against n most des
perate and dispicable foe, and
this sort OF thing goes with the
job.
(Signed) "P. A. BAKER.
General Superintendent
Now that he has been completely ex-
onerated by both the state and ma
fional anti-saloon organizations. Supt.
10. w. Morrow will redouble his
efforts I'm Michigan
The fight is on this year in 81
counties, and do not believe that the
liauor men have ghost OF show IN
any one Of the Ten counties in which
the question is mp for fesubmission.
saws Morrow. we shall make a good
showing i'm the % counties where local
option is being submitted FOR the first
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