Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-19
''BILLY" TALKS FOR
THE DRY CAMPAIGN
Reaches Omaha at Midnight
and Takes Early Train
for Lincoln.
AT AUDITORIUM LAST NIGHT

friends and admirers in true Roose-
veltian style and displaying Saga
more Hill smile, Rev. Billy" Sunday,
after a night, or rather, morning tor
he arrived at midnight from the west,
spent in Omaha, departed for Lin
coin over the Burlington at 9:lo
o'clock yesterday morning.
Punctuating his remarks with fire.
uuent references to the success OF the
"dry" movement in Nebraska, the ia
nous ball player-evangelist declared
that he was feeling bully" and that
he looked forward with pleasure to
speaking in Omaha again.
Take Detectives Along.
In the party going to Lincoln Friday
morning were Mr.. Sunday and four
Omahans, F. D. Wead, Elmer
Thomas, James Allan and George
Stryker, the latter two being private
detectives. Why the detectives are
accompanying the Sundays to the
state capital was not divulged.
He arrived in Omaha at midnight
with "Ma" Sunday and in a taxi, &C,
companied by DR.. w. F. Callfas, 9o5
Mercer Park boulevard, drove straight
to the Callfas home. where he retired
Immediately.
"I'm too tired to talk now" SUM-
day exclaimed, running nimbly from
the train to a waiting taxicab, when
reporters approached him.
Vases No Time.
He smiled tn famous Sunday smile
and the machine whisked away. he
was at the depot less than two min
utes and fewer than half a dozen
friends met him.
Sunday spoke at North Platte yes
terday afternoon to nearly 1000 peo-
Die, delivering his famous "Boozer
sermon. In the evening a big crowd
heard the same sermon at Grand
Island. This noon at Lincoln he
will give the lecture again and to-
night Omaha will hear him at the
Auditorium. His anti-liquor crusade
in Nebraska will consist Of only these
four speeches.
At North Platte a girl was engaged
to call up every telephone subscriber
and urge attendance at the Sunday
address.
DR.. w. F. Callfas and Mrs. Callfas
went to the Sunday farm in Oregon
to accompany the evangelist to Ne.
braska. Mrs. Callfas, with "Bilr
Sunday, jr., and Paul Sunday, arrived
in Omaha yesterday morning. Mrs
Sunday will stay here all lay.
Goes East Tonight.
Tonight at midnight, inmediatel,
after the lecture at the Auditorium
the Sunday party will leave over th'
Burlington for Chicago, and thence 4
Winona Lake to spend the Sabbath
The next week Sunday will spend Il
The east visiting with Teddy Roose
yclt, after which he will open hi
meetings at Detroit.
Aside from two speeches in Ore
gon, delivered against the liquor in
tcrests, Sunday has done no speakinI
during the summer, but instead de
voted his time to recreation and farm
work.
Crowd at Grand Island.
Grand Island, Neb, Aug. IL
Especial Telegram. )-"The saloon
would shut the mouth Of ever,
preacher OF the country IL they ha
their way, but friends, you have go
your eyes on one preacher who wi
fight them till hell freezes over an
then get pair of skates and chas
them on the ice" yelled Rev. "Billy
Sunday to the first audience which h
ever addressed in Grand Island, an
which gathered more than three thor
sand strong at Lakeview park thi
evening to hear the noted evangeli.
deliver lecture on Booze"
The Rev. Billy" scored the Fro,
perity league, stating that ii was IA
from being what the name inplie'
and paid his compliments to tf
editors OF the state who would allc'
the business managers to dictate
them and were afraid to write ed
torials against the liquor evil. H
complimented Grand Island and tol
Of the wondrous crops he had see
while coming to this city.
Farmer Would Gain.
The evangelist averred that
could close every brewery and di
tillery in the country and that the ia
mer would even then receive more {,
his corn, due to the increased demar
from men who now spent their 81
tenance for booze. II Grand Islande
who value their wives and daughte
would only stop and think TIL
would not hesitate in casting tn.
votes for the dry side of the que
ton. When it came to marryu
ones daughter to man whose on
real estate was found under his Fl
ger nails and who did not posse
enough money to buy birdseed for
cuckoo clock, then let them vote I
4 continuance of the liquor traffic.
The doom Of the saloon was seal
and he would never be satisfied wi
fhe liouor traffic until he beheld