The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-03-18
he MADE ARIZONA DRY.
6. f. Rinehart, of Tucson, Arizona,
Visited in Leon and Spoke at the
N. f. Church Last Sunday.

| VI. L. CNECVU ldSt SoNudys
sG. F. Rinehart, of Tuscon, Ari-
zona, dropped into Leon last Satur-
day morning for a short visit with
| his aughter, Mrs. James Mansfield,
and other relatives in this city. lie
was returning from Chicago, where
he had closed a big contract at fine
salary to take charge OF the dry cam-
paign in that city. Mr.. Rinehart has
visited in Leon on several occasions,
being the husband of an old time
Leon girl Miss Sue Young, daugh-
ter of the late Major j. l.. Young. He
went to Arizona several years ago for
the benefit of Mrs. Rinehart's health
and her many friends here will be
pleased to hear that she is pronounc-
ed cured of her tubercular trouble,
and that she expects to come to Leon
soon for a visit.
When it was known on Saturday,
that Mr.. Rinehart was in town the
people felt that it would be a privi-
| lege out of the ordinary for them
to hear him speak. could he be in
duced to do so, on the subject to
which he is now devOting his atten-
tion and he kindly consented at some
disarrangement OF his plans to COM
ply with the urgent invitation. And
the full house and close attention ac-
corded him Sunday morning at the
NJ. E. church testified to the appreci-
alton of his kindness.
The address was pronounced by all
to be the strongest plea for national
prohibition ever heard in Leon. Mr..
Rinehart is G. pleasing and forceful
speaker who impresses his hearers
from the first moment with his sim
cerity of purpose and holds their
closest attention throughout with the
strength of his plea and the elo-
quence of it's presentation These
gifts coupled with a splendid plat
form personality fit him most worth
lily for his chosen work.
1t were useless to try to report
such an address but it will be long
remembered with pleasure and profit
by those SO fortunate as to have
heard it.
Mr.. Rinehart visited with old
friends in Des Moines last Friday,
and the Register and Leader of Sat
urday had the following interview
with him:
Chicago will be dry after April B.,
1916" said G.. F. Rinehart, superin-
tendent of the Chicago Dry Fedora
ton, in Des Moines yesterday.
Mr.. Rinehart was recently called
Ito Chicago from Tucson, Arizona, to
take charge of the campaign to make
the Windy City also dry NJ
He wass in charge OF the move
ment to secure prohibition in Ari-
IONA and with campaign fund Of
only $4,000 put that state squarely
into the dry column. In Chicago he
expects a much hotter fight but he
is perfectly confident that the dry
sentiment is strong enough to put it
over.
1T is not a childs undertaking.
he said yesterday There is ter
rieory thirty miles long and seven
miles wide, with almost 5000, 900
people in it, probably majority of
whom have personal liberty notions,
and served by about 5000 saloons
lie of s3,20o,00O.
There are 160 societies and civic
bodies and organizations interested
in the dry campaign. 1t is possible
that they will raise a fund of $780,
900, possibly 100000, with which
to organize the fight. But on the
other side the, whisky interests will
raise S5,OOO,O0O or $7,0OO,OOO or
whatever they think is needed to de-
feat the proposition. The whisky
people have control of politics in that
great city, and have had control so
long that they feel the political ma
chinery is theirs.
''You can see that we have some
problems to solve and some work to
do. But we are going to do it. The
first thing that we did twenty-five
days ago, was to get together. For
years the different dry organizations
have not been able to get along har-
moniously, but that is all changed.
We are working as one force against
the common enemy. That was one
secret of our success in Arizona, by
the way.
Il am perfectly confident of the
outcome. The liquor business is an
outlaw. Public sentiment is against
it, What we need to do is to or
ganize that sentiment and see that
lit has fair and free chance to eX-
press itself.
1--WE are going to do great work
in Chicago. The track has been
cleared for Billy Sunday and he will
help us next winter The newspapers
have agreed to fair and free pub
lie discussion of the question in their
columns. and that Is all we ask.
Publicity. public debate and organi-
cation will result in great victory"
The fight in Chicago, Mr.. Rinehart
believes, will be the effective means
of forcing national prohibition to the
front as an issue in 1916, and at the
latest 1920.
Il believe that the attention of the
whole country will be so centered on
the Chicago contest he said, that
lit will lead one of the big political
parties to make prohibition a nation
al issue in 1915. The people are
ready for it. They want it, They want
"a chance to stand for it. They want
candidates that are for prohibition
and not afraid to stand up and be
counted. The big fight in Chicago is
bound to fire their enthusiasm and
am going to be disappointed if it
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