The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-16
WllLACY TO SPEAK
At CONVENTION Of
PROHIBITION FOLK.
Former Wet Texan win Ap.
pear on Platform at In
dianapolis Meeting.
CHAMPION OF POLICY
HE ONCE OPPOSED
ALI Traffic Associations Grant
Reduced Rates-Automobile
Parties Also Will Be Fea-
ture,

Westervifie. Ohio. June fS.-Thess
In charge OF the program Of the Anti
saloon League OF Americas conven.
ton to be held in Indianapolis June
1879, report that one of the strong
est speakers on the program will be
State Senator John L. willacy. OF
Texas. Not only will he make a great
speech. the program committee an.
nounces, but the fact that formerly
he was the foe OF prohibition and tina
Anti-Saloon League will make his ap.
pearance on the platform doubly in
teresting.
Willacy for long time honestly
and fearlessly fought prohibition. Fl
nally. however. he came to be one Of
the foremost champions.
His participation in the program
will be parallel to that OF Major
Dan Morgan Smith. of Chicago, who,
for a number of years, was general
counsel of the Model License League,
but who decided. after much invests
CATION and experience, that propibi.
ton was the only solution of the H..
quor traffic.
1t Is pointed out by league leaders
that the convention, coming on the
heels of the national GATHERINGS Of
| the political parties in Chicago and
st. Louis. is fact that will oon-
tribute to the attendance on thu
league meeting. and the attention
that will be paid to It. The omni-
partisan. non-partisan character OF
the league Ia well known. The or
ganization has never sought to ac-
complish Its purpose through party
| help or party endorsement.
| But the individual candidate is sup
ported or opposed. regardless Of hia
party affiiiation, accordingly as he
favors or opposes the things for which
the league stands.
VIII he Given "Once-Ov
| BY the time the league opens its
sessions the great political campaign
| of 1915 will be in full swing. The at
tention of the temperance forces will
be drawn to every candidate for Of.
flee, from the greatest to the least,
and none will escape the "once over
of the careful voter.
All traffic associations have now
announced rate OF two cents a mile
to and from Indianapolis for trc con-
vention
superintendent of a number Of
state leagues are arranging caravan
series of automobiles from principal
! points in their States to Indiana polls.
than zoo machines. Cincinnati, To.
ledo, Columbus, FIT Wayne st. Louis
and other cities will make great use
Of sasoline-driven eonveyances
Every church, every young people's
society and every temperance organ
ization Ia entitled to send a delegate.
The workers conference. to be at
tended by Anti-Saloon League work.
ers from all States. and Of ali ranks,
will be opened June al 1t will con.
clude June %. On Sunday. June rs.
there will be a big mass meeting OF
men in Tomlinson hall, to be ad.
dressed by DIR. P. A. Baker and Sen.
ator Wesley l.. Jones, of Washington.
Sunday evening there will BIS rally
under the auspices of the young peo-
pies societies. The speaker will be
Daniel A. Polling. of Boston. citizen
ship secretary OF the United Societies
of Christian Endeavor. DIR. Howard
H. Russell will preside.
The convention proper will open
Monday. June rs. There will be 4
round-table discussion daily, and
morning, afternoon and evening sss.
sions of the convention.