The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-09
WHO Is ME. CABlaA WORRYING roR2


financed hy tbp licensed liquor traffic Judge
teoreo l. Christian. chairman. and other officials
Of the league have slrenuously denied any con-
neeaiou with She saloon clement which itself
tas claimed THE SelfGese7nment League as its
slneSirablo aid" At Ats organization meeting
ne Local SelfGoyernment League boasted
s.renaously If its complete divorce from the
LIQUOR crowd II declared there were no liquor
Jefferson It's platform At the Academy OF Music
meeting but when its temperance platform was
put fory1 the liquor dealers quickly mounted ii
ana are riding it in to the flush.
AS the end Of the campaign comes nearer
ccnyl,4ion-of the partnership between the liquor
trafHc apd the Local achievement League
te being more and more firmly established in the
tubiie mind The mere presence at the league
headquarters Of Pleasant A.. Holt and Eddie
H.raeh well known agents Of, the liquor traffic
empoyed by II in many antiprohibiton and anti
local option campaigns throughout the country, is
sufficient evidence. Ostensihy these men are en-
nloyed by the Local sefGovernment League:
actually their allegiance. as everybody knows. is
to the national liquor dealers The tremendous
campaign fund that has been and is being ox-
nended by the liquor interests nobody dreams has
been nut up by any save the liquor men, who
are and have been carrying on their nefarious
campaign under tho cloak Of the Local Self
Government League.
Now comes again Mr.. Royal f. Cabell. who,
next to the has-been Methodist steward, WAS the
SITS n he n Ora
tina, adorned the stage at the Academy of Music
meeting Mr.. Cabell, it viii be remembered,
made the major address At that meeting. an
address that has been widely and extensively
circulated throughout the State. generously
Illustrated with a likeness OF "Our Roy" and
gladly paid for out OF the Golfers Of the State
and national liquor dealers. Mr.. Cabell's liquor
campaign document has been subjected to such
numerous corrections and the criticisms Of its
figures and deductions have been so searching
and ennghtentng that Mr.. Cabell evidently de-
sires TO come again. This time Mr. Cablel con
frffsntes an essay that IS aimed at an attempt
to break down the force OF what William Allen
White wrote about Kansas in the Saturday Even
ing Post few weeks ago. The essay takes up
tbs question Of divorce church membership and
crime in Kansas. and was given to the press
yesterday.
In Richmond the headquarters, the center. and
tie hnb of the Virginia Association for Local
sAlf-Goyernment. this document published in
tire liquor dealers favorite the Richmond Epen-
ing Journal yesterday afternoon. is introduced
IS follows:
In view Of the many conflicting reports as to
conditions in Kansas after thirty-four years Of
prohibition. and especially tn answer to an article
by william Allen white in the Saturday Evening
4losr, The Virginia Association for Local Self
Government has obtained from Royal T. Cabel1
expert stadstician and former United States conn
missioner of internal revenue authoritative
analysis u official records NJ Washington show
.ra1 ipst where Kansas stands compared with
license States.
The same article. identical in phrasing quota,
ton and figures. carb4tim, ct Htcrdti1a, ct pune.
faatfm. was printed yesterday in rival liquor
aheet the Roanoke Times, but in this instance
tie essay appears under a Louisville. Ky, date
line Louisville by the way, Is the stronghold
Of tbs liquor interests Of the South and Middle
West The Roanoke Times correspondent in the
liquor dealers headquarters sends out the same
story that is given out here by the Local Self
Government League. with one notable difference
This difference is in the introduction and reads
as follows: louisville. Ky, Sept. 6. In view
OF the many, 80 etc. THE NATIONAL MODEL
LICENSE LEAGUE has obtained from Royal e.
Iabeil expert statistician. etc"
The National Model License League is an or
ganization Of liquor dealers; In fact. IT Is the
king pin Of the liquor dealers organizations Of
which the Virginia Association for Local Self
Government, all unbeknown to its honorable
II sice-presidents and members. is but satellite.
What have the National Model License League
End the Virginia Association for Loyal Self
Government In common that they should be pub
fishing the same literature, in the same State,
by the same author, for the same purpose?
How It is that Mr.. Royal E. eabeii. expert