The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-27
ROBERT B. GLENN
OPENS CAMPAIGN
Prohibition Address at Academy
of Music Stirs Audi
encc.
PREDICTS "DRY" VICTORY
Will Circulate Petition for sigma
lures When Enabling Act
Takes Effect.
PREDICTS "DRY" VICTORY


auditorium and galleries of the Ac;id-
envy of Music yesterday afternoon to
hear former Governor Robert Is. Glenn.
OF North Carolina, open the local
anti saloon campaign with an address
on THE Issue Of the Age" An orator
by nature and prediction and tenn
pcrnncc speaker for many years. the
well-known North Carolinian preached
n prohibition sermon that stirred tho
big audience TO It's depths.
Fully one-third Of tho crowd We're
women. ON the stage with the speak
cr were seated half q hundred of the
city's prominent anti-saloon workers,
including Superintendent James Can
non. IT., OF the Anti-Saloon League of
Virginia, who generated the four-ycar
movement, which resulted last Feb
ruary in the passage of tho enabling
act by the General Assembly. Mrs.
Virginia May Jobson, president of the
local branch of the Prohibition League
Of America, occupied seat In one Of
the lower boxes.
Lieutenant Governor J. Taylor FL
Tyson, whose vote for the compromise
committee report In the State Senate
broke the deadlock on the enabling
act, presided over the big meeting. lie
presented Attorney q eneral John Car
land Pollard. who introduced the
speaker.
Stlrs Hearers to Action.
NE. 1icnn belongs To the nOrtatOry
school of orators, and his address was
frankly designed to stir his hearers
into action. He painted a black pie
ture of the misery. poverty and degrad-
alton. which. he said. follow In the
wake of the rumselling business, de-
nounclng the commerce In intoxicating
liquors In unsparing language.
The State that gave to the nation a
Patrick Henry with his message OF
freedom. Thomas Jefferson with his
genius for government, Il Robert l..
Lee with his matchless character. and
now again the greatest President that
the country has ever had, said Mr..
Glenn, can i'll afford to permit de-
basing business In liquor to destroy
it, homes and debauch It's youth. He
urged Nirginians to buckle on their
arinor and declare war against rum
not against tho men engaged In the
business. but the business itself-cnd
TO adopt as their battle-cry Nirginia's
own motto: sic Scmper Tyrannis"
The speaker aroused the crowd to a
high pitch of enthusiasm with a re-
ciIal of the progress OF the prohibit
ton cause in the United States. Be-
fore the year 1920, he predicted, every
state In the Union will have outlawed
the saloon. Tho State of Virginia, he
said, will on September % of this year
declare State wide prohibition by
majority OF $4,000 votes.
In it's fight against liquor. said Mr..
Glenn. Virginia will have the SYM
patty and active help OF her sister
state on the southern border. North
Carolina, he said, Will send It's speak
crs to preach the gospel of prohibition
AMI will send its money to aid in edu-
eating the masses to the evils of liquor.
His state, he said. will watch with
anxiety the result Of next September's
election because most OF North Caro-
lina's curse and shame arises from the
liquor that Is shipped into it's borders
from the Virginia cities near It's north
crn boundary.
at the climax of the speakers ap-
peal for cooperation in lighting the
saloon evil the sushers distributed sim
ultaneously in every part of tho house
subscription cards, which the individ-
uals were requested to sign after writ
IMP down the amount they were Will
Ing to contribute to the cause. Mr..
Glenn held the card up and explained
its significance. The same card, he
said, made North Carolina dry by 4o.-
zoe majority. and Will make Alabama
and Arkansas dry this year. At a
mass meeting in Norfolk last Sunday.
he said. the audience subscribed s1.1oo.
The amount subscribed at vest erday's
meeting WAS not announced. A large
percentage of the crowd responded to
the appeal. many OF them returning the
cards with contributions in cash.
Opens state Campaign.
AT the request of the speaker tho
audience arose at the conclusion of his
address and sang one stanza of Amer
lea" Everybody Joined in the nation
81 hymn, and the gathering took on
the appearance OF giant revival Mr.
Glenn left Immediately after the speak
ing TO fll an appointment In Newport
News.
The Academy of Music rally yester-
day formally opened tho campaign.
which VIII be directed from Richmond.
to secure the success of State
prohibition Al the election on Sep
TENDER ~. The preliminary machinery
OF the campaign has been in motion
for some time AT the headquarters of
The Anti-Saloon League OF Virginia.
Seventh and Grace Streets. n force OF
stenoSraphers has for weeks been en-
gagged In preparing and sending out
campaign literature.
The enabling act becomes law on
June 2. Under it's provisions the Gov
erhor Is directed to call q special cleo
| ton on the wet and dry issue as soon
rs petition signed Ivy one fourth as
many voters as participated in the last
general election Is presented to him
! ASKING that such an election he held
| The work of securing the necessary
| signatures. II is expected, will begin rs
soon as the enabling act becomes law.