Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-08
ANTT-RUM CONTEST
OPENS HERE TONIGHT
First Gun in Local Option
Struggle to Be Fired at
Many Church Meetings.

! The opening gun in the Statewide cam
paign to support Governor Brumbaugh "
| his fight for local option will be hred To-
night, when more than 5000 churchmen
and women workers will attend Jolnl
meetings in u OF the city's largest
churches and unite against the liquor
forces To supplement the Inauguration
OF the movement, thousands OF printed
lists Of Philadelphia Senators and REPRE-
sentatives have been distributed ana the
mails are flooded with communications
outlining the plans for the fight
More than 200 churches and Biole
classes OF this city have already united
against the liquor traffic and Governor
Brumbaugh returned to Harrisburg today
with the promise OF Statewide temper
ance support Liquor dealers have be-
come alarmed over the uprising or the
people and will exert every effort to have
the Brumbaugh- Williams measure Killed
by the Law and order Committee.
The sentiment in Philadelphia viii
crystaIize tonight I'm the most representa-
tive movement ever attempted here to
place the city on the side of temperance
in the fight against rum. More than
10000 postcards have been signed and
stamped and are ready to be mailed to
the State representatives. Many OF the
most noted temperance speakers in the
country will address tonight's meetings,
1aIuS announcing Nub bdNlltllleS "N'S
distributed at services in the churches or
virtually all the Christian denominations
yesterday, and 1t Is expected that more
than half of the church workers OF the
city will turn out for the monster dem
onstration.
While the Governor and his aides are
battling against the liquor men, Phila-
delphia church members will pledge
their support to the local option forces.
A L TNTsG GHi-
dent of the Retail Liquor Dealers As
sociation, has completed plans for re-
measure increased the enthusi-
asms of the temperance advocates, and
tonight's meetings are expected to voice
the greatest protest against liquor in the
history of the State.
The meetings for the opening of the
are scheduled as follows:
Richmond Presbyterian Church, Richmond
street below Ann-Speaker. the Rev. Fl. II.
'halfont. editor Of the American Issue.
Trinity Presbyterian Church. Frankford ave-
luc and Cambria street-Speaker the Rev. Dr.
?. j. Moore. State superintendent Anti-Saloon
Fourth Reformed Church. Manayunk and
.everng streets, ROXborough-Speaker the
st. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church. Broad
mo NenaGgo streets-Speaker. tho Rev. Or.
West Hope Presbyterian Church. Preston and
aspen streets-Speakers, William H. Berry and
nc ormHnt6wn KSH on cI9y EsrFgsoR M g RsUeaker Homer
V. Tope district superintendent Anti-suoon
Ien que,
Bethel Lutheran Church, 9TH and Sedgley |
treets-Speater; the Rev. George d. Kuns, |
hartman Church Federation on Temperance.
seventh United Presbyterian Church, Ortho- |
OK and Leiper streets-Speaker. the Rev. e. j. |
,enke.
Third Baptist Church, Broad and Ritner |
trRcts-Speaker. the Rev. f.. Wallace.
TwentY-ninth Street Methodist Episcopal |
hurch 10Th and York streets-Speaker. the |
ev. G. II. Yeomans.
Spring Garden Street Methodist Episcopal
hurch. 10Th and Spring Garden streets
peaker, the Rev. Titus Asher Hess.
CASTOR Presbyterian Church, 1Ith street
nd Lehigh avenue 49, Speaker. the Rev. John
'atchOUn.