The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-24
By ALEXANDER FORWARD.
Especial to The Tlmes-pispatch.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
Newport News. Va, February o3.-As
the net result OF the tenth annual con-
vention OF the Anti Saloon League ~
Virginia. which adjourned tonight. the
league reaffirms It's demand for a bill
permitting the people to cali an cleo
+, ton, by petition, on the subject Of
Statewide prohibition, and it calls on
the General Assembly to prohibit the
intrastate shipments OF intoxicating
liquor. into dry territory
In other words. It maintains its
| position of ono year ago, in the de-
fenso Of which 1t was defeated he
fore the Legislature OF 1910. and In adj
dition 1t seeks to restrict. for the pres
ent- tho jug trade in this State.
Governor Mann. who presided at the
final meeting. sharply defended his at
tltude towards the Strobe Myers bill, {
on the ground that he could not sup
port measure which he believed to
be a mistake, and which would have
caused a violation OF his pledges to
the people Of the State publicly ex-
| pressed. ri
organ for Virginia. r. S. Barbour, OF
South Boston. tonight offered to do
nate $1,000 to the cause. provided four
| other men or churches would do the
same. There was no response.
| Dr.. f. T. Wexford, Of Newport News.
was elected president. but his accept
ance is doubtful Rev. James Cannon
| Is retained on the important commit,
| tees
Richard Evelyn Byrd. Speaker OF the
House Of Delegates. day vigorously
denied that any three men in this
State control the actions Of the Legis-
/ lature. and said the manly thing for
Professor Jordan to do was to nams
! them The latter did not do so, though
| saying he still believed there are such
men with influence which could have
| given the "dry" people the legislation
| they wanted. 4
| Mr.. Byrd also had something to say
about MIR. GLASS; position of last
night, putting the blame for the de-
fects In the registration laws rather
on the Constitutional Convention.
of which Mr. Glass was member, than
on the Legislature, which the Lynch-
burg man denounced last night. Mr..
Byrd at time expressed an opinion
on prohibition.
DIR. Hatcher Protests.
Over the solemn protest Of DIR. g. c..
Hatcher, OF Broad Street A1ethodisn.
Church. or Richmond, and a little band
! or cool headed. falr-minded men VINO
stood with him for sanity and Justice
+, the Anti Saloon League OF Virginia to-
day went On record as classifying
some Of the newspapers, which ac-
aproned bartender. and denouncing
some of the papcrs'' which oppose tho
prohibition method of dealing with the
| liquor question, as partners In the
business of the saloon
Led by hot-headod men. who see no
argument which does not coincide
with their own theories. and by
| men whose minds have been poisoned
until they suspect the motives of men
las pure as they the delegates did
| that which DIR. Hatcher warned them
would inevitably hurt the cause, for
which they gathered in the city OF
Newport News They Endorsed what
| the Broad Street pastor characterized
as wholesale vituperation and de-
nuncia:ion.' and what he haty said
was not true, when applied 70 tbs
wet newspapers OF Virginia asa
whole as stated in the report at
They listened to Or. Cannon. preSt-E
| dent OF the Richmond VirSintan. WHEN
| he said that he wrote the report OF the
| Legislative committee himself, and than
he believed i, 10 be true. Thec ac-
carried away by personal feeling or
an:mus. They backed him up In his
Might on newspapers which do not
agree with him when he said that he ID
tween the wet newspapers and the
They believed Thomas Whitehead.
| of Amherst; when he said that DR.. cam
aon and Mr.. McAlistor have hoen
abused. slanderced and viiifisd, ana
report only referred TO those papers
| which have been guilty OF slapders.s
! This In the very teeth OF tha words y 8