The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-08
JOHN LIS TELEGRAM
Anglers GEN. MILES
Former Army Head Says Ex-
Prizcfighter Is Still Seek
ing NOtOriety.
ANTI-SALOON ROW GROWS

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j., July Some
persons never W a habit Of going
10 any end for the sake OF notoriety,'
asserted Gen. Nelson a. Miles here to-
day in reply to the statement of John
l.. Sullivan In which the ex-prizelghter
said in a telegram received here last
night that Gen. Miles was ian arrogant,
prejudiced. s~elf-centred. strutting old
peacock now in his dotage."
Tho M~iles-Sullivan controversy was
the principal topic of conversation to-
day among the 5000 delegates attend
ing the sessions here OF the American
Anti-Saloon League. Not only does 1t
appear that a serious break among the
delegates is imminent.
The former general in chief OF the
United States army showed his anger
over the publication Of the Sullivan tele-
gram to-day. So tense is the situation
that formal denials of the receipt Of the
telegram were prepared by Ernest Char
rington, one OF the officers of the league.
but w. T.. Johnson, another officer. came
along and verified the text as published.
at was very good of the gentlemen
20 Justify me 20 thoroughly" said Gen.
Miles. ~ have nothing to do with the
arrangement OF the platform that's all
I have to say. Nothing except Of course
that ] haven't changed my mind"
The General. who gained much OF his
fame as an Indian fighter. glared at a
newspaper containing the telegram and
then hurled 1t into a chair as he ended
the interview.
Massachusetts was a speaker to-day.
His subject was THE Failure of Regula-
tion in MASSACHUSETTS,"
Referring to license, Mr.. Foss as
serted that 1t was "A colossal failure in
checking drunkenness. In spite Of local
option. he said, there had been an
increase OF IS per cent. in drunkenness
in the last decade and during the same
period only "A 90 per cent. increase in
the population of Massachusetts.
Matthew S. Hughes of Pasadena, Cal,
said:
las long as one state in the Union
has the privilege of liquor traffic, you
can never STAMP out the drink habit"
Mrs. Florence u. Richard of Column
bus, Ohio. the only woman speaker on
the convention programme, forecast that
New Jersey would adopt the equal suf-
frage amendment next fall. and that
wherever women get the ballot they
will wipe out liquor
Father John ]. Curran of Wilkes
barre, Pa, presiding for the Catholic
Protective League, which is meeting
with the Anti-Saloon League on individ-
ual representation and not by church
sanction. said the reason Roman Cath
olics had stood aloof from prohibition
and conventions was thai
they usually waited for the Pope to
take the lead in all such matters.
Tanning the Tiger was the subject
Of William II. Anderson OF New YORK.
State superintendent for the league.
81 WAS offered the privilege of chang
ing M subject to "Caging the Tiger he
eaid was not the tiger that We en-
counto. Il at first. but rather an ele-
plant. which acted like a donkey. 1t is
not tigers that we have been most con-
verned with but Barnes.
I'VE now have the liquor traffic on the
run and its political allies on the de-
fensive. Recognizing that the Anti-Sa-
loon League with the help of the nation
wide sentiment is now on a winning
basis even in the Empire State, the
liquor tratiickers earnestly desire to Sc
cure some kind OF protection in the new
constitution now being framed at AL
bany.
"Tammany is "A liuuor organization
straight out and doesn't care who knows
It. The Republican organization is
about az bad, except that it does care
who knows It and is trying to keep the
fact from a lot of good church people
up State"