The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-05
10000 COMING IN
OPT|ONISTS' ARMY

man Charles E. Patton, Curwensville;
Congressman A. R. Ripley, Carlisle;
Congressman Henry W. Temple, Wash.
ington; Congressman A. H. Walters,
Johnstown; Edwin P. Young, Towanda.
E. q. Wallower, Harrisburg; the Rev.
DR.. c. NJ. Boswell, Philadelphia; tho
Rev. DR.. Floyd w. Tomkins, Philadel-
phia; the Rev. DR.. John r. Davies,
Philadelphia; c. Tyson Kratz, attorney,
Norristown; W. H. Spencer, former Dis
trict Attorney, Williamsport; David E.
Small, York; DIR. Isaac Sharpless,
president of Haverford College, Haver-
ford; the Rev. DR.. John X. McClurkin,
Pittsburgh; John A. McSparran, Mas
ter of the Pennsylvania State Grange,
Furniss; the Rev. DR.. George w. Shell
ton, pastor of Second Presbyterian
church, Pittsburgh; w. W. Follansbee,
secretary of the Follansbee Tin Plate
Company, Pittsburgh; DR.. c. c. Ellis,
Juniata College, Huntingdon; J. Denny
o Neil, County Commissioner, Pitts
burgh W. G. Landes, general secretary
of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath
School Association, Philadelphia, and
Francis B. Reeves, president of the Gil
rard National Bank, Philadelphia.
Palmer Hopes to Be Here
In accepting the invitation to ad-
dress the conferences A. Mitchell Pal
mer addressed the following letter to
the Local Option Committee
81 shall be very glad to speak at
the local option conference in the
Chestnut street auditorium on Tuesday,
April 6, if l can possibly arrange to be
there. l am leaving home on Saturday
and it may be difficult to arrange to get
back to Harrisburg so soon, but will
do it if possible. Being deeply inter
ested in the success of the Governor s
plan, l am anxious to do everything l
can to help"
The local option committee state
ment follows:
els is estimated that ten thousand
supporters of the Williams county local
option bill from all parts of Pennsyl-
vania will come to Harrisburg to-mor-
row to participate in the demonstration
in behalf of the Governor measure.
Special trains and special cars will
bring the delegations to the Capitol
City. The majority of these delega-
tions have reported to headquarters
that they will arrive in Harrisburg to-
morrow morning in time to take part in
the first conference in the Chestnut
street auditorium at 10 o'clock. The
hearing on the bill will take place at
2.30 clock in the afternoon and the
evening meeting will be held in the
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Many Special Trains
"The Governor will sound the key
note of the meeting in his speech in the
auditorium tomorrow evening. 1t will
be emphasized particularly by the
speakers at the conferences that local
option is only another name for local
self government.
SIT is the plan of the committee
that the program shall consist of a
number of small addresses on local op.
tion. The details of this program will
be determined up tonight at a confer
ence of the committee members from
all parts of the State in the Common
wealth Hotel. This meeting will be
well attended, according to reports,
which have been received at headuuar-
tiers.
Special trains will bring delegations
from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. 1t
is stated in Philadelphia that their
delegation will number three thousand,
and from Pittsburgh, it is reported,
that there will be at least FIVE hundred
on the special train coming from that
city. There will be special cars from
Beaver, Mercer, Chester, Lycoming,
Snyder, Blair, York, Montgomery,
Bucks, Union, Northumberland, Jeffer.
son, Indiana and Delaware and Wash
ington counties.
The visitors will be welcomed by
Harrisburg committee headed by E.
Y. Wallower, one of the leading resi-.
dents of the city. Arrangements have
been made for band and it is likely
that this band viii meet delegations
at the station and escort them to the
auditorium. In the event that there is
an overflow attendance, open air meet
ings will be held"
Committee Will Meet Tonight
The local option committee of ar
rangements will meet tonight at the
| Commonwealth hotel to complete the de.
tails of the program for tomorrow s
demonstration at various points in the
city. Speakers will be selected to ap.
pear before the Law and Order Commit.
tee of the House and to present the ar.
gument of the friends of local option,
and those who are to make addresses
before the meetings in Chestnut street
hall tomorrow morning and tomorrow
evening will be chosen. Governor
Brumbaugh will make the principal
speech in the evening.
Governor Brumbaugh has sent let.
ter to Judges of the State and to many
attorneys asking them to aid him in his
fight for local option. He particularly
asks those Judges who will come UP foi
reelection in the next three years to
assist in the local option work. A simi
lar letter has been addressed to promi.
nent attorneys throughout the State
asking them to take part in the cam
paign in the Legislature.
The Governor Letter
The letter of the Governor to the
attorneys follows:
Your district will in the immediate
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