Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
GREAT DEMONSTRATION
FOR LOCAL OPTION
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L from E1rSt rage.
gresham w. D. B. Ainey. Montrose;
Seorge b. Reimensnyder, Sunbury; +.
II. Rockwell, eX-member Of the House,
Wellsboro; ex-Congressmen Andrew r..
BTodbeck. Hanover; Frank L. Der
shem. Lewisburg; Robert E. Diefen-
QerIer Jenkintown; M. Clyde Kelley,
Braddoek; Fred IL. Lewis, Allentown;
Charles e. Patton. Curwensville: A. r.
Rupley. Carlisle; Henry w. Temple,
Washington and A. II. Walters Johns
town; Edwin p. Young, Towanda; e.
q. Wallower. Harrisburg; the Rev. DR..
Z. M. Boswell, Philadelphia: the Rev.
DR.. Floyd w. Toml<ins, Philadelphia;
the Rev. DR.. John r. Davies, Phila-
deiphia; c. Tyson Kratz, Norristown;
w. III. Spencer ,eX-district attorney,
Williamsport; David E. Small, York;
Or. Isaac Sharpless. president of
Haverford College; the Rev. DR.. John
K. McClurkin, Pittsburgh; John A.
McSparran, master of the Pennsylva-
MIA state Grange; the Rev. DR.. George
w. shelton, pastor of the Second Pres
6yterfan Church, Pittsburgh: w. u.
t'ollansbee, Pittsburgh; DR.. c. C. Ellis,
Jnniata College, Huntington; County
commissioner j. Denny O'Neil, Pitts
burgh; w. G. Landes, general secre-
tary or the Pennsylvania State Sab
bath School Association, Philadelphia,
and Francis Is. Reeves, president of
the Girard National Bank, Philadel-
phia.
In accepting the invitation to ad-
dress the conferences in the Chestnut
street Auditorium. A. Mitchell Palmer
addressed the following letter to the
local option committee to-day:
My dear sir: Your letter of the
thirty-first ultimo is received. l shall
pc very glad TO speak at the local op-
uon conference in the Chestnut Street
auditorium on Tuesday, April 6, If I
can possibly arrange to be there. L anu
ieaVlng home on Saturday and 1t may
ne olfncult TO arrange to get back to
harrisburg so soon, but ! will do it il
possible. Being deeply interested in
the success of the Governors plan, l
am ANXIOUS TO do everything l can to
help: Sincerely yours,
(Signed) "A. Mitchell Palmer"
me committee statement says: 1T
is estimated that ten thousand sup
porters of the Williams county local
opuon bill from all parts of Pennsyl-
Nania Will come to Harrisburg to-
morrow to participate in the demon
stratlon IN behalf of the Governors
measure Special trains and special
cars Will bring the delegations to the
capitol City The majority of these
delegations have reported to head
quarters that they will arrive in Har-
rlsburg tomorrow morning in time
TO take part in the first conference in
tne Chestnut Street auditorium at 10
CLOCK. The hearing on the bill will
take place at 2.30 o'clock in the after
noon, and the evening meeting will be
held in the Chestnut tsreet auditorium
at o'clock.
The Governor will sound the kew
note OF the meeting in his speech in
the auditorium tomorrow evening. 1t
VIII be emphasized particularly by the
speakers at the conferences that
local option is only another name for
local self government. 1t means the
rlsht OF the voters in a county to vote
directly on the question as to whether
or not licenses for the sale of intoXi-
eating liquors shall be granted in
their county,
1t Is the plan of the committee that
the program snail consist of a num-
Der of short addresses on Local on :
tion. The details of this nrogra m
Will be determined upon tonight at a
conference of the committee members
from all parts of the State in the
Commonwealth Hotel, at O'Clock.
This meeting will be we'll attended,
according to reports, which have been
received at headquarters. There will
be tremendous influx of local on
uonists tomorrow. Special trains will
bring delegations from Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh. 1t is stated in Phila-
delphia that their delegation will num-
Der three thousand. and from Pitts
DurSh, it is reported that there will
be at least five hundred on the spe-
clal train coming from that city
There will be special cars from Beav-
er, Mercer, Chester, Lycoming, Sny-
der Blair, York, Montgomery, Bucks,
Union, northumberland, Jefferson, In
diana and Delaware and Washington
counties. The visitors will be well
coined by a Harrisburg committee
headed by E. n. Wallower, one of the
leading residents of the city. Ar
rangements have been made for "a
band, and it is likely that this band
will meet delegations at the station
and escort them to the auditorium.
In the event that there is an overflow
attendance, open air meetings will be
held"