Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-04-08
1EWS OF THE OLD DOMINION.
POLITICS BARRED.
President Bowers Prevents Their In
lection in Conference.

Lynchburg, Va, april Sit was
only through the s.rictcst adherence
to parliamentary rules and enabled
President Bowers 10 prevent the IN
lection of politics into a lively dis
cussion yesterday afternoon in the
Methodist Protestant Conference.
The committee on moral reforms sub
mitted it's report which contained a
clause endorsing the Anti-Saloon
League, and the methods of Mr..
Anderson to bring about the desired
local option measure and urging the
ministers and laymen Of the church
to use their power at the polls and
10 support the senatorial and ieglS-
lative candidates who make clear
their intention 20 stand by this mea-
sure. Before this report could be
acvtad upon, Rev. c. /. Elderdice
offered substitute which read as
follows:
eve urge the Anti-saloon League
to al once start a fight for prohl-
amendment to the State Con
h and to concentrate its ef-
" to this end, believing that state
wide prohibition is Infinitely more
preferable to local option and equ-
ally as obtainable"
Things were set in motion for a
gD:r:Jed discussion on the question as
10 which was the more desirable and
easier obtained-Fe wait two years
for The local option question to be
brought up, Or TO launch the state
widc prohibition movement at once,
The discussion was getting very
warm when President Bowers called
halt. and said that while he had
no disposition ITO suppress the elo-
oucrce. he must insist upon ruling
! that politics and TOO spirited debates
be eliminated from the session.
'Thase Subjects" he said, invariably
precpitate THE members, in hot dis
cus.ions, and while I am in synpa-
! thy with them myself, they must
ncn break out in The conference
| rocrl."
Eav. F. T.Tagg, editor Of the
! Methodist Protestant, vigorously OPP
posed the substitute, and begged his
brc: hren to let the Anti-Saloon Lea
rue and Mr.. Anderson go ahead with
their plans, which, he belieYed,were
the most available and would prove
the most effective for the present
nec:'s. "!All the other conferences
! have unanimously endorsed thI
met cod Of the league" said Or. Tagg
"I.ct US not go astray but get be
! hind the other forces so that We may
present a solid phalanX for the de-
sfruetion Of this monster"
A.r:er several speeches adverse t.
the substitute, it was defeated and
The original paper adopted.
The question Of meeting p!acs
for next year was brought UP early
| in ;hc morning session when Rev
l.. :. Bennett, pastor OF the Milford
| (Dela). charge, said he would like TO
l;ncw if the conference would &C
cert the invitation he had extended
As here was no other invitation or
the 5ab!e, the Milford invitation was
voted on, and was accepted by a
unanimous standing vote. Mr.. Ben
! re-. said that they had just complet-
ID = handsome new church~a+ cost
Ct $4,000. As-Ih>-" :, recent
urAaL--- .e than LOCO souls
.-.ren converted, and the church
has a membership Of over 500, all
this success coming 20 them within
the pa4h two years and bringing the
charge up from an obscure one to one
81 Inc most influential in the Con-
ference. The conference will meet
on Inc first Wednesday in Apll!
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