Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-11
Anti-SaIoon League Plans a
Nationwide Campaign.
IN ALL STATE PLATFORMS
Convention Beginning Here Today to
Prepare Plan of Battle.
DELEGATES NUMBER ABOUT 700
Abolition of Interstate Traffic One
of Principal Objects to Be
Worked For.

| Plans for organizing a prohibition
platform in each state to make the aboli-
ton Of the saloon the national issue dur
ing the next presidential campaign will
be formulated by the delegates to the
| fourteenth annual convention of the Anti
Saloon League Of America. which will
open tonight at 80 o'clock at the CAL
vary Baptist Church.
| Immediately following the convention
proper. which closes Thursday afternoon,
a national conference to consider the
growing evils of the interstate liquor
| traffic will be held the same day at the
Calvary Baptist Church for a two-day
| session.
; The call for the conference has been
signed by nearly 200 prominent men from
| thirty-four states, including governors.
ex-gOverners and other officials and men
| notable in public and professional life.
Addresses will be made by United States
have taken active steps in the fight for
prohibition and the conference will close
with a banquet.
While the convention proper will not
| convene until tonight, when about 700
delegates and paid workers from practi-
cally every state in the Union will at
tend, a meeting of the national board of
trustees is to be held at o'clock this
afternoon at the Calvary Baptist Church,
when subjects coming before the con-
Program in Detail.
Tonights OPENING of the convention by
Rev. =. y. Baker. president. will merely
serve as n formal presentation of the
paramount questions that will be thrashed
out during the remaining three days of
the convention. Ii will begin with song
service. led by Prof. +. o. Excel OF
Chicago. and the exercises will consist
of but one address, by John q. Wooley.
state superintendent of Wisconsin, on
prohibition With the People Behind 1t.
An extensive program will be arranged
for tomorrow session, which will open
at $50 o'clock in the morning at the
First Presbyterian Church, John Marshall
place between & and d streets northwest,
where the sessions will be held with the
exception of Wednesday evening.
Prof. Excel will open the session with
a song and devotional service to be fol-
lowed by the appointment of committees.
President Baker will make his annual
address and Bishop Luther Il. Wilson will
address the convention on Foreign Mis-
sions and the Liquor Traffic and Rev.
Holmer V. Clyde Stuntz of New York will
report for the delegates to the Hague
Conference"
The afternoon session will be devoted to
the reports of the committee on creden-
tials, the report of the general superin-
tendent, the Legislative superintendent
and Interstate commerce legislation The
Charles Curtis of Kansas and Represent
ative Morris Sheppard of Texas. Another
meeting of the board of trustees will be
held at 4:;D o'clock. with the evening ses-
sion at Z 30 o'clock, Representative Rich
mond Pearson Hobson of Alabama will
make the principal address.
Wednesday morning there will be adj
dresses by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts Of
eument.' and Rev. Father William
Organ of Denver. on "A United Enemy, y
and Rev. DR. Howard II. Russell of
Westerville, Ohio, on The Lincoln Le-
gion.
Senator George T.. Cotterill of Seattle,
Wash, will speak at the afternoon SEES
sion Wednesday at 40 O'Clock, while
Joseph Gibson, president of the Ontario
branch of the Dominion Alliance. will
give greetings from Canada. Fillmore
Condit of New York will discuss the re-
laton of the saloon to insanity. and Rev.
DR. Joseph Clark of Columbus. Ohio. 1.-The
ultimate victory III the making.
Election Wednesday Afternoon.
The election of officers, which promises
to be a spirited fight, will be held also
Wednesday afternoon. and it is expected
that several noticeable changes will be
seen as a result of the election.
Ernest II. Cherrington. editor of the
American Issue, and +. j. Yo,ingdahl of
Minnesota will he the speakers Wednes-
day evening at 1:;D o'clock at the Calvary
Bantist Church.
The session Thursday morning which
will continue at the First Presbyterian
Church, will be addressed by Rev DR.. J.
II. Gamb~ell 81 Dallas Tex. who will tell
how prohibition was lost and won in
Texas: Rev. DR.. Erwin S. Chapman of Los
Angeles. Cal, whose subject is THE Mas
ter Motive and Ernest a. Scrogin of
Chicago.
In the afternoon there will be addresses
by q. Rowland Munroe of Newark. n. j.;
on .'Temperance in the United States
Army; Rev. DR.. Wilbur F. Berry OF Wa
tervlIle. Me. who Will speak on "Tne
Maine Campaign. and Judge \. Il. Blair
of Portsmouth. Ohio.
There will be banquet at o'clock
Thursday evening at the National Hotel,
when several hundred delegates will be
present and addresses will be made by
members of Congress and other officials
who will be asked. Ex-Gov. j. Frank
Hanlv Of indiana Will be one of fac
speakers. This banquet will be attended
by the delegates to the national confer
ence. also.
The session Friday of the NJ tional con-
ference at the Calvary Baptist Church
will be addressed by men and women in
terested in the question of securing such
congressional action as will give relief to
the several states from what is consid-
cred the evils of the interstate liquor
traffic.
Bryan as Prohibition Candidate.
Spirited addresses on the prohibition
movement and outlines of the coming
campaign against liquor by the Anti-Sa-
loon League of America were made yes
terday by superintendent and workers of
the league at the various churches in the
city.
Rev. T.. :. Chapman of Los Angeles
Cal, who was the principal speaker of
the day addressed a large congregation
at the Luther Pace Memorial Church,
and scored the capital for the large num-
Der of saloons and other resorts where
young men and women are tempted He
named william Jennings Bryan as the
fittest man TO lead the fight to abolish
saloons. especially in Washington, and
urged Congress to pay less attention to
the tariff until ii has abolished the sa-
loon all over the country.
Other addresses were made by John G.
Willie Of Iowa. President Wilson Of the
District Anti-Saloon League and Rev.
+. c. Inglehart of New York. who spoke
at the Foundry NJ f. Church. Mr.. Ingle-
hart made vigorous appeal for .prohi-
bition and advocated the nomination OF
William Jennings Bryan for President. in