The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

GOOi0 u y OLGGhs
Temperance worker who goes TO
Kentucky.
Leaving his tempcrance-working as
sociates III various stages of mystified
uncertainty, Louis S. Fuller superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon league in
Utah, has gone To Louisville, KY,
where, it is believed, he will remain.
1t is expected that Mr.. Fuller will
abandon the work he commenced in
Utah less than two years ago on a To-
cal option basis and then switched in
the heat OF the campaign of 1908 to
champion statewide prohibition.
Mrs. Fuller last night said that her
husband was not yet ready to announce
the shift from Utah TO Kentucky, but
that the power to change him lay with
the Anti SalOon League of America,
under whose direction Mr.. Fuller
worked
The Rev. Francis Burgette Short.
president of the Utah league, could not
be reached last night
Samuel Russell, secretary. said that
he hadn't seen Mr.. Fuller for months,
and that he supposed" the league in
Utah was still intact"
Inc REV. +. A. clmphln Sdlu last
night that he didn't know Fuller had
gone away, wasn't advised of his in
tended change, but supposed that if he
did so To Kentucky it was to get the
benefit of a more helpful climate than
Mr.. Fuller encountered in Utah. His
health, added Mr.. Simpkin, has been
bad.
Mrs. Fuller stated asst night that her
husband had gone to Kentucky last
Monday to look over the situation, but
that he would not announce mis- decision
of remaining for some time. She said
1t was not the wish of Mr.. Fuller that
the announcement of his resignation
from the Utah field be made until he
was ready 70 make it.
Directors to Meet.
1t is believed that within a few DAYS
the directors Of the league will be called
together, bu- tie difficulty CT the stu
alton seems to lie in the fact that in
formation concerning the personnel OF
the directorate has gone to Kentucky
with Mr.. Fuller. Neither Mr.. Simpkin,
Mr.. Russell, Mrs Fuller nor others
could name more than one or two of
those interested in the work.
Secretary Russell came nearer to ex-
pressing the condition when he said
that "he supposed the league was still
intact"
The impression among the prohibit
tionists and other temperance workers
in Utah is that MIR. Fuller lIas lost the
trail which he ssruck when he came to
Utah. An ardent local OptiOnist. he be-
came a factor IN the campaign two
years ago, Only to switch at its very
climax and come out flat-foOtedly for
statewide prohibition. He was seem
said the Rev. p. A. Simpkin, one of the
less radical .lembers of the movement
The divine declined to state by whom
Mr.. Fuller was SEEN"
Switching from local option to abso-
lutte prohibition, Mr.. Fuller and the
workers with Linn were sadly defeated,
and some of the members Of the league
who withdrew in disgust stated that
the whole campaisn had been badly
managed One after anoth ar. the direo-
tors withdrew until at this time hardly
a member of the ministerial force in
salt Lake can name more than two
interested directors.
Mr.. Fuller was out of harmony with
the moving spirits of the organization.
and since the last session of the legis-
lature the Utah Anti-SaloOn league has
slipped from one to another stage of
deepest lethargy. In Kentucky, how
ever. where Mr.. Fuller may remain
permanently. a great many of the coun-
ties have adopted local option. and the
movement is further advanced than it
ever was in Utah.
On Account of Health.
MIR. Fuller's transfer" said the Rev.
r. A. Simpkin, a prominent member
the the league, last night, lis probably
because of his health, which has been
OF the very poorest for some time past.
Mr. Fuller came to Salt Lake in the
1all Of 1908 as a national worker for
the Anti-SalOOn League of America, 10
organize the Utah branch. This he
did, and also formed branch leagues
for Wyoming and Idaho.
Through his efforts much of the
temperance agitation of the last two
years in Utah was crystallized. He has
been persistent and faithful worker |
along temperance lines. and while there
nave been one or two occasions when /
there has been some friction in regard |
10 certain details of policy that Mr. |
Fuller carried out, that have some 1
times caused slight embarrassment tenn 1
porarily to some of those workers as
ISOLATED with him, still his services
have been of immense formative and /
educational value in these internoun- |
tain states
When the great agitation of a year
ago last fall was under way, the lead
ing temperance workers of the state
were with MIR. Fuller pledged to a local
option bill for this state While the
campaign, however, was az its height
Mr.. Fuller was persuaded to go to work
and pledge himself TO a statewide pro-
hibition movement"