Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-11
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
DRY" ARMY JUBLANT
IN BELIEF OF VICTORY
Court Cannot Fail, They
Declare, to Throw Out
224 Applications for Lii
censes Opposed by
Blanket Remonstrance.

Montgomery County will be dry" fol
the next year II the coup executed by
| the No-Llccnso campaign yesterday Il
| sustained by the court. A blanket remon.
STRANGE has been filed against all the 22l
applications for licenses on the ground
| that the advertising was defective, and In
| violation OF an act of Assembly.
| The dry" forces are jubllant today and
| assert that the court cannot fail to throw
! out all the applications. They point TO
the action OF the courts in Tioga County,
| where the case was somewhat analogous
to this ono in Montgomery County. IT,,
| liquor interests profess TO sec no danger
In the situation and say that there was
no illesality In the advertising and that
licenses will be granted as usual.
The case revolves about the provision
of the act of May 13, 1887 This DEGREES
that all licenses must be advertised three
times In two newspapers designated by
the court and that the advertisement must
appear mot less than 10 nor more than
20 days" before the time set by the court
for the opening of the hearings In the
general attack made yesterday by George
Wanger, attorney for the dry inter-
csts. Il Is declared that the first ADVERTISE
ment of the license was made "a days
before the date set for hearings.
LIQUOR INTERESTS DEFENSE.
It is pointed out by attorneys repre-
SentllB tne llquOr interests that While the
first Insertion occurred q days before the
date set for the opening of the hearings
four insertions of the list were ordered
instead of three, as required by law
They assert, therefore, that three inser-
tions, as required by law, we're published
In accordance with tho act of Assembly,
the first not more than %, and the last
not less than 10, days before the opening
of the court.
It will be contended by the legal rep
resentatives of the licensees that the first
Insertion can be dsregarded and that the
remaining three insertions are in strict
accord with the letter of the law The
first advertisement, they will contend, was
merely superhuous notification to the
public and need not invaldate the legal
requirements.
The general belief among those lawyers
whose interests are on neither side Is
that the court will not sustain the ex-
ceptions filed In the No-License Cam
paign. They point out that the Mont
gomery County Court already has ruled
that there may be what appears to be an
illegality and yet the case can be legally
sustained.
ANOTHER ANGLE OF ATTACK.
In addition to the general assault upon
the entire number of applications for
licenses, no less than 70 are attacked
also because or the lnsumciency OF the
petitions for re-grant. 1t is alleged that
specific violations of the act of the AS
sembly has been made in each case, and
that therefore. the court has no jurisdic-
ton and cannot. under the law, hear such
applications. 1t is stated further that re-
cent rulings Of the Supreme and Superior
Courts sustain this contention.
II is clear that, no matter what the |
the action OF the dry in
terests has stirred the county as it has |
not been stirred for many years. Even
while the liquor interests profess to treat !
the matter with Indifference, there Is
grave apprehension that the growing SEN
timent against the saloon may be felt by
the court, and the hair-splitting decision |
that will be handed down may be against |
the applicants, This would mean the |
closing of some of the oldest and most |
widely known hotels in and about Norris |
town, and the discontinuance OF many |
automobile road houses.