Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-03

ton, Pa; Pennsylvania State Sabbath
School Association, the Rev. w. G.
Nyce, president of the Chester County
Association, st. Peters. Pa; Young
Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor, the Rev. W. F. Klein, Read
ing. Pa, president Berks County
Christian Endeavor Union; Church
and Inter-county Societies, Professor
Charles Scanlon, A. NJ, Pittsburgh,
general secretary Inter church Fed
Grafton; International Order Good
Templars, Ellwood Nichols, Hamor-
ton, Pa, grand chief templar Penn
sylvania Lodge: The Pennsylvania
Grange, John A. McSparran, Lancas-
ter county.
The sessions of the morning opened
with an address on some important
moves to make to secure proper anti
liquor legislation by G. f. Swift, Bea-
yer county member of the State Leg
islature, which was followed by an
address by DR.. Homer w. Tope, Phila-
delphia district superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, who spoke on the
apparent harmony that prevailed
among the anti-liquor forces, and said
that this meeting to-day was a notice
that there is no division among the
antf-liquor forces. The Rev. H. M.
Chalfant, d. D., of the Pennsylvania
Anti-Saloon League, followed with an
address, In which he said that the
most important action in q whole
nationwide prohibition campaign was
the winning of a step forward in
Pennsylvania. He pointed out that the
liquor forces must concentrate on one
issued and urged that the issue to
be presented this year before the
Legislature and before the voters
should be county local option.
The convention, in turning down
the plans for new organization, con-
firmed the assertion, yesterday of the
Rev. ]. H. Daugherty, pastor of the
Ridge Avenue Methodist church
where the convention is meeting that
there are too many organizations. He
said that the abundance of organiza-
tions is draining the churches. "They
are being organized to DEATH" he
added
Brumbaugh Letter Read
Assurance that DIR. Martin G. Brum-
baugh, candidate for Governor, would
favor q local option law was the fea-
ture of the meeting yesterday after
noon. 1t was not until the Rev. John
Watchorn. of Philadelphia, had ap-
pealed for definite assurance in this
connection. mentioning DR.. Brum-
baugh's name and alluding to the in
DIR. L. A. Moore produced letter
from the gubernatorial candidate in
which Brumbaugh declares that IL
elected he will consider it his duty to
use every honorable means to bring
about the passage of a local option
law"
Prolonged cheers greeted this an
nouncement and it was clear that the
Rev. Mr.. Watchorn's objection that
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pray, nor to have a candidate promise
to sign local option bill if passed,
but that a candidate must come for
ward with q pledge also to fight ac-
lively for the BILL" was fully met by
DR.. Brumbaugh's attitude.
Big Parade Planned
At this afternoons session it is ex-
pected officers will be elected, while
the feature tonight will be a great
parade, terminating in a combined
mass meeting at the Chestnut Street
Auditorium. The parade will form in
Fourth and Market streets and move
as follows: Market to Walnut, to
Third, to Market, to Sixth, to Reilly,
to Second and to the auditorium.
Big Mass Meetings
Two big mass meetings last night
drew crowds of enthusiastic anti-rum
WI heIs' at tle itiuse Avenue Meth
odist Church Bishop w. NJ. Stanford
of the Evangelical Church presided.
He sounded keynote by declaring
the only way we can successfully
combat the liquor traffic is by taking
legislation In our hands," This can
be done, the bishop said. "by pledging
ourselves to elect judges who will ac-
complish the object of the anti-liquor
workers." The second meeting was
held in the Fourth Reformed Church.
Last evening the Rev. DR.. Silas c.
Swallow entertained number of
prominent Harrisburgers and out-of-
town guests at an anti-liquor sympos-
ium in which the relation of the liquor
traffic to various phases of life was set
forth.