The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-12
GOVERNORS DAY
At National Antl-SalOon Con.
vention in Columbus.
Gov. Hodges Speech Featurs
of Occasion.
kANsAH GIVES THE FIGURES
Puts to Route Garbled, Mis-
leading Deductions.
Enemies Of Prohibition Can AL.
ways Twist Real Facts.

Enemies Of Prohibition Can Al.
ways Twist Real Facts.
Columbus. Ohio. Nov. 1.-THE pre-
diction that the manufacture and sale
Of alcoholic liquors would be prohib-
tied before 1920 was ventured today
by Joshua Levering Of Baltimore In
an address before the convention Of
the anti-saloon league.
''The country IL aroused and w
can see the dawn Of victory" said
Mr.. Levering.
Nothing can stem its progrees."
This was governors day in the CON-
vention. Nine governors and former
governors were present
Columbus, Ohio. Nov. 13.-Today's
session OF the anti-saloon league ma
tional convention was to be known a.
GOVERNOR day. Notwithstanding the
governors present were not to be hon.
ored from the platform until even-
ing. The program for that period
called for addresses by Governor
Hodges of Kansas and Governor
Hanna OF North Dakota
Former Speaker Malcolm r. Pat
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principal speaker at the afternoon
session. Twice elected governor Of
Tennessee as q wet" Mr.. Patterson
came to Columbus in a special car
accompanied by Governor Ben W.
Hopper who succeeded him as Ten
nessee's chief executive to give his
endorsement to q nationwide pro-
gram that would have for its aim the
elimination Of the saloon.
Glow H0i7Ress Sueech
Speaking before the Anti-saloon
League of America at it's national
convention in Columbus. Ohio. today.
Governor George H. Hodges advocat-
ed the cause of nationwide prohtbi-
ton, pointing to Kansas as the state
which had blazed the way for the
stamping cut of the liquor traffic OF
the country. Governor Hodges paid
high tribute to the endorsement Of
| the prohibitory liquor law in Kansas.
/, and asserted that Kanaas II not only
! dry, but that the bootleggers. joint
| lists and liquor dealers have been put
out of business by virtue OF the strict
enforcement of the law in this state.
Not only will Governor Hodges well
| come the adoption by congress of a
resolution favoring national prohibi-
ton, he said, but II he should be gov
ernor at the time. declared he would
at once call the state legislature to-
gether in special session to ratify the
constitutional amendment Hodges
paid tribute to former Governor John
p. st. John and the men and women
who fought for the enactment of the
prohibitory law. Referring to tho
Billiard gubernatorial fight in Kan
sas last year. Hodges said that the en-
tire resubmission vote of the state.
some 10000 had been cast for Bill
lard and that with women voting In
the Sunfower state resubmission
would never again be a political issue.
The Kansas executive referred strong
ly to comparative crime records In
championing the cause of national
prohibition and suffrage and told the
delegates to the Ohio convention thae
Kansas had paved the way both Tor
national suffrage and the stamping
out of the saloon.
In his speech, Governor Hodges
said in part:
wouId Cau Legislature Together.
..when the resolution passes congroes
by the necessary ma5ortty-and 1t VIII
soon-that prohibits the sale. mAnu-
facture for sale importation for sale
Of beverages containing alcohol in these
United States, and all territories under
it's Jurisdiction, II ann governor OF
Kansas, 1 will Immediately convene the
legislature in special session IL neces-
sary, for the purpose OF rattfying tho
amendment.
kansas leads in the night against
the liquor trafiic and Kansas win b the
first state to concur in the amendmo0e
for national prohibition. Az executive
Of our great commonwealth, hope to
have the happy privilege accorded me
OF calling our legislature together for
such q humane purpose during my ten
ure Of office. Such an official act Will
meet the approval Of 80 per cent Of the