Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-26
BREWERS HOTEL
USED TO LURE
PRESBYTERTANS
Assembly After Voting for
Dallas in 1917 Learns
Sad Fact
ITS NAME KEPT SECRET
Palatial Hostelry, Which Can
House Convention, Built by
Adolphus Busch
BY FRED e. BAER.
Eventno LEDGER star Correspondent

EveNfno Ledger star Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 26--when
Dallas today won from st. Louis the privi-
leges of entertaining the 1917 General AS
Orator A. c. Bigger didn't tell quite all he
knew,
Mr. Biggers chlefest argument the one
that probably did more than any other to
cause the assembly to override the Assembly
Committee and declare for Dallas was an
emphatic declaration that his town had a
hotel so big. 80 fine, that 1t could house
all the delegates. and entertain them mag
nificently in its auditorium which seats
1000
And now for the denoument.
That great fine hotel which Mr. Bigger
didn't name, Is known as the Adolphus,
and the man who built 1t was Adolphus
Busch, the late millionaire brewer Of st.
Louis.
The assembly only last night went on
record as favoring in the future the visit
ing only of temperance cities and, II that
couldn't be done. to have the delegates
'.put up" at strictly temperance hotels.
The Adolphus, in Dallas, is still owned
and operated by the Busch estate, and the
Anheuser-Busch Brewery products are there
sold
The news of what the General Assembly
has voted itself into hasn't circulated very
far as yet within the membership of the
convention. But one man who heard 1t re-
marked, rather cynically. when you con-
slider the situation. well st. Louis lost out,
but still st. Louis money is in the running"
Mr. Bigger, who led the attack on the
committees recommendation Of St Louis
as the next convention city, that finally won
for Dallas said of the Adolphus. which he
didn't name.
1T is such fine MOTEL. go we'll fitted for
the purposes OF this assembly that nearly
the whole of Dallas could be wiped away by
utt- NbA anI nplN hpta Nnyoa
left standing, the needs of the assembly
could be served"
The decision was made today, after invi-
tations from Atlantic City, Columbus, o.,
ST. Louis and Saratoga Springs had been
considered.
It was the first time since the assembly
convened 10 days ago that the delegates
overrode the program prepared for them.
The committee, including ,.oderator Mar
quis, strongly recommended st. Louis. say
ing it would cost s2s,000 more to hold the
convention in Dallas.
The vote for Dallas was 365; for st.
Louis, 259.
Choosing Dallas was tremendous lot of
fun for the commissioners. st. Louis
the only serious contender and that cty's
claim was made by the Rev. W. r. King,
OF st. Louis. Dallas had business men put
forward her claim. And how they did it
Their Southwestern grim determination and
one joke told by San Antonio minister
w0n the assemhly.
Every time the moderator tried to close
the discussion with a committee plea for
st. Louis another Dallas man would bob
up with an argument The Dallas men
we're in no wise orators, but they certainly
could argue The delegates didn't mind
the extra S2s,0O0 that will have to be spent
to go to Texas, not after the entertainment
thew got in listening to the Dallas pleaders.
PROFESSOR A PLEADER
Prof A. C. Biggers was one of them;
n. c., Sherrard, of Pittsburgh, was another,
anc the Rev. Dr. James NJ. TODD, of San
Antonio a third. There were countless
nthers who tried. but never got a chance
20 speak. Doctor Todd, a tried and true
Texan, forgot once that he was speaking
FOR Dallas and started talking about San
Antonio. That lapse and his joke must have
gained so votes alone for Texas.
Moderator Marquis couldn't determine the
result by the usual yea and nay vote and
had to take a count, He was plainly sur
prised, and so was the stated clerk, Dr.
William H. Roberts, of Philadelphia, that
the committees recomme me ndations had been
overruled, They had counted st. Louis as
selected and had made all arrangements
accordingly. even to the naming of SUBJ
committees.
The Presbyterian Church has never gone
on record about equal suffrage, and 1t is
being faced with the necessity of declaring
itself right now. How the leaders can dodge
it. they don't know. They do know pretty
surely that they can't dodge II at all
The Rev. Walter e. spoonts, the author
Of the resolution which will bring the
suffrage question before the General As
Bembly, has linked 1t so cleverly with the
prohibition question that the anti-suffrag-
lists are in a panic. He comes from Jack
sonyille. Ill. and the resolution which he
Is going to jam down the throats OF the
Presbyterian organization, which has been
running the assembly, or make them reject
II, is as follows:
sswhereas. Believing that Christian wives
and mothers should be given an equal right
TO assist in the great fight against the
liquor traffic;
'sWhereas. That in every State where the
women had chance to vote on the saloon
question, the number OF saloons has greatly
decreased;
BE it resolved, therefore, that we, the
commissioners TO the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the United
States OF America, place ourselves on record
as believing in the justice and righteousness
Of giving women the right Of equal suf-
frage."
Suffrage has been a moot topic too long
70 permit OF any ignorance on the part OF
any considerable number of the commits
eaoners, and committee will be able 70
persuade the body of 800 men that il must
90 as advised
There win be debate. plenty OF II, and
vita nrs. The anti-suffragists will have
their pleaders and the conservatives have
remarkably able men. But there are MANY
young men from the Middle and Far West
II this assembly who won't be talked down
when the topic Is something they Know
shout And suffrage is where they come In
p say what the result viii be Is too much
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