Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-17
FH,TY' SUNDAY PIANIST
SAYS LIQUOR MEN DID
NOT GET HIM TO QUIT
Rentley D. Ackley Who
charged Evangelist With
Plagiarism, Denies Story
THAT Saloonkeeper Was
Rack of Resignation.

49,, n Ackley, pianist OF the BILLY"
ben revival party, who accompanied
slnuS, announcement that he would resign
Dis ~ accusation that the baseball
Win iis, was guilty of plagiarism in his
sfans declares that "the boss may try
fernly.uit a ON the liquor people or anybody
% pus wants to-" BY "the Boss" he
nssns 'Bllly' Sunday u- .
mes. ms,.., it,s all bosh about the liquor In
p s having anything to do with my
ieis.s..,,natlon to quit the Sunday OUTFIT
.,Id "Nobody Influenced me- one way
y the other" 80 900 .o,a 60
~ had something to do with AcKley
s.,lslon TO resign as pianist lor tne
a.i nartv, centre in the personality OF
we. .arponrIetor Of Tammany House, sa-
w south Camden, one William II.
RVn Ite visited the tabernacle in this
tel's, VA later expressed himself as being
CIV ~. rteased with Mr.. Sunday, which
pa.sil,, was highly gratifying to the
nnbsrs ns.ab of the Sunday organization.
nenls1f,id en- friends of Ackley say Fenley abused
,s. conAdence the pianist reposed In the
s',oonkeeper in regard to difficulties be-
ss1.sn Ackley and Rodeheaver, the from
sons player at the revival meetings. IL
po Acklev believed he was not paid
ssr,stentiv and that Rodeheaver was
trosid This complaint would never
W. come out, II is declared, IL 1t had
y, hson for Fenley. and AcRley's friends
V.,sre that the saloon man associated
M Tho Sunday people only to betray
them. ,.,. .,.. -
-. known Ackley for five years, though
~ nlanist says he never saw the man
ssiore he walked into the Tabernacle
mls year Fenley said today that an
s,iele in a morning newspaper, which
IA that Fenley boasted of using Ackley
!, order to boost the liquor interests,
VS. grossly exaggerated.
Fsnley is vice president of the New Jer-
.sv gaioonkeepers' Association and sec
,etary of the organization OF the Cam
den saloonkeepers.
+, was intimated in this article that
r,nley had tried to pick out "the weak
"a spot in the Sunday organization" in
crder 10 get before the public damaging
s,orles about "Billy" Sunday and his
men.
Arkley maintains that he has never
hsen TO Fenley's saloon. Fenley was
quoted as saying he (Fenley) was the
ouly man who ever smoked In BILLY"
sundays house on Spring Garden street,
and that he had seen Ackley smoking a
while he was deceived in Fenley, Billy
sunday was as much deceived as he
vas,
'The story that represented the liquor
interests in obtaining information about
the Sunday people is absolutely without
foundation" said Fenley, this afternoon
This talk Of any betrayal is preposter-
GUS Mr.. Ackley will bear me out when
saw that he not only permitted me to
give out the news of his resignation, but
. that I also attempted to persuade him
4 from resigning his position as private
secretary to Mr.. Sunday"
"Bllly' Sunday, who Is taking va
cation on his Hood River appleranch in
Oregon, said In a telegram received in
this city that If Ackley thought he could
better himself, It was his privilege, and
he wished him well.
u believe he is making the mistake OF
his life" he added IT am not afraid oi
any so-called disclosures. Let them
come. l would not be surprised to fine
that the liquor interests are back Of the
whole affair"