Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-09-08
GREAT CROWD
HEAR CHAF|N
Largest Audience Of the
Campaign at Court House
Plaza Sunday Afternoon
to Hear Arguments for
Prohibition Amendment

The biggest and most enthusiastic
meeting of the campaign and the one
in which the attendants seemed most
to be in accord with the purpose of the
meeting was that held at the court
house plaza on Sunday afternoon. 1t
was a temperance meeting addressed
by Hon. Eugene W. Chafin, indepen-
dent prohibition candidate for United
States senator, though the meeting had
NOT been called in his interest.
! Throughout his address he did not re-
| fer to his candidacy but confined his
remarks to the subject of temperance,
the proposed prohibition amendment
and to those who were opposing it.
There was an attendance of $500.
| That was more than the management
of the meeting had expected. All the
seats of the Y. NJ. C. A. out door court
and the city hall plaza had been
| brought in and still there We're not
| enough. The crowd, nearly half wo
men, is said to have been twice as great
as any candidate had succeeded in
| bringing out at a mass meeting in the
| course of the campaign.
| The meeting was held at four o'clock
| in the afternoon. Half an hour be-
fore that large crowd had assembled
at the First NJ. E. church to march to
the speaking place. The procession
was headed by Stanley Howard the
flagbearer, followed by the ministers
| of the various churches. The process
| sion was three blocks in length The
march was enlivened by the singing of
Rally, Rally All Ye Freemen, the
Whiskey Shops Must Go"
Charles ]. Hall presided over the
meeting and introduced Mr.. Chafin
| who read one of the communications
| sent out by the SO-called protective
association which he said was screen
one of the many screens of the Royal
| Arch an organization of saloon keepers
| whose batteries are always masked
| Mr.. Chafin said that he had sent per-
sonal letters to all the members of the
protective association asking them to
meet him in joint debate but he had
received no replies. If, said the speak
er, any of the association We're pres
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the roStrum.
On the economic side of the liquor
question, Mr.. Chafin replied to the
argument that the saloon keepers keel
money in circulation. He said:
Vote the saloons out of Arizona
and thus stop this Wanted circulation
and | will send to my friend (for he is
my friend), Carter Harrison of Chica-
go and have him send us down a dozen
husky thugs and they will do more tC
keep your money in circulation thar
what is more, their operations would
be gentle as compared with what the
saloons do, for is there a father OIL
mother in sound of my voice who
would not sooner have boy brought
home slugged and robbed thar
brought home drunk
The speaker predicted that the pro-
hibition amendment would be carried
by an overwhelming majority. He be-
lieved that il would be endorsed by ev-
cry county in the state His belief wa.
not based on his wish but on his OBJ
servations and investigation in every
county for he had canvassed them all
Applause at the words of the speaker
was liberal throughout the discourse
Several solos were rendered by Mis-!
Cecil Pearl Buckingham