The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-04-20
MAINE GOOD TEMPLARS.

Hold Their Annual Session in Lewiston.
The 53rd annual session of the grand
lodge of Maine, Good Templars, was
opened in Lewiston at 10 a. m. April 18th
Grand lodge degrees were conferred at
the forenoon session. The afternoon
was taken up with the appointment and
reports of committees, seating of dele
gates and degree work. The district and
grand lodge degrees were conferred.
Following the address at public meet
ing this evening by W. 0. Wylie, the in
ternational degree was worked. The
following resolutions were adopted:
The Grand Lodge of Maine, International
Order of Good Templars, has no apologies to
make for the position it has taken in recent
years. Consistently, in season and out of sea-
son, this Grand Lodge'h has resolved against re-
submission 1t has no regrets for any words
spoken or resolutions passed along this line
But in spite of efforts to prevent it, the
question has been placed before the people,
therefore:
Resolved, THAT while we have full faith in
the integrity and manhood of the majority of
the voters of the State yet we must realize
that very many of these voters have come
upon the stage of action since prohibition be-
came part Of the constitution and that they
know very little of conditions preceding them
These voters, many of them, do not know
what safeguard it has been to the temper
ance cause, to have this matter in the consti-
tuition, where it could not be disturbed by any
transitory ebullition of those who desire to
have the State flooded with intoxicating liq-
uors. To those voters we appeal in the name
of the home to vote with US for the retention
of the prohibition amendment in the constitu-
ton.
Resolved, THAT we appreciate to the fullest
extent the grand army of volunteers who have
already enlisted in this campaign, and who are
working with wise and efficient counsellors to
see to it that the question shall be fairly and
squarely placed before the people in every
community in the State.
Resolved, THAT believing prohibition and
Maine have been and will continue to be
synonymous, we hurl back the slanderous
statements that our people are tired of pro-
has been failure; that Maine wants local op-
ton; we hurl these statements back to those
who have SO long maliciously uttered Them
Resolved, THAT we call upon the 10000
members who have taken the pledge at our
altar of faith and have subscribed to our dec
laration of principles to rally to our assistance
rendering the victory more secure.
Resolved, "That believing as we do that the
souls of young and old in our communities are
of more importance-of more value to our COM
monweath-than all the dollars which greedy
and avaricious saloon keepers could gather
from the sale of intoxicating liquors-while
the seeds of vice and death are sown broad
cast-we pledge ourselves to an unceasing
warfare against taking prohibition from our
State constitution against the evils that spring
from local option-against the decentralization
of the open saloon and in favor of the church
and the home, SO long as God shall give us help
and hope"
At Thursdays session officers were
elected as follows:
Grand chief templar, Edward H.
Emery, Sanford; grand vice-templar,
Mrs. Martha H. Cayting, Bangor; grand
counselor, w. l. Stirling, Waterville;
grand secretary, Oliver S. Norton, Port
land; grand treasurer, c. Clifton Lufkin,
Rockland; grand electoral superinten-
dent, Thomas Connelley, South Bidde-
ford; grand superintendent of juvenile
work, Mrs. Bessie S. Drysdale. Wood
Portland; grand marshal, Walter S.
Trask, South jefferson.
Delegates to the grand lodge sessions
to be held in Brooklyn, N. Y, were elect
ed as follows:
Mrs. L. C. Darlington, Brooklyn; Miss
Annie Jones, Miss Lillian B. Mora,
Portland; Mrs. H. M. C. Estes, Water
vile; w. A. Rideout, Calais, and U. A.
Game, West Kennebunk.
Alternates: Mr.. and Mrs. George H.
Varney of Portland; F. H. Goldthwaite,
South Biddeford; w. S. Sylvester, Lew
iston; Mrs. j. N. Newcomb, Westbrook
and Charles D. Wilson, Portland.
w. A. Rideout of Calais was elected
delegate to the international supreme
lodge, a session of which will be held at
Hamburg, Germany, in June, with
Charles A. Maxwell of Portland as al
ternate.