The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-25
Last Month of Fight For State.
wide Prohibition Will Be
One of Speaking.
PLENTY OF ORGANIZERS
AT WORK IN FIELD
Funds Are Being Raised-Ex-
penses Are Heavy, But Dry
Dollar Will Do Work of $40
Spent by Wet Bunch.

Mitchell S. D. Sspt. 2%-The Office
force Of ths South Dakota Anti-Sa-
loon League In busy organizing q force
of one thousand South Dakota speak
ers to campaign throughout the State
during the last month of the cam
paign,
These speakers are lawyers. mar
chants- school teachers, preachers
farmers and women Thsy will speak
In churches. halls. school houses and
on the stree. corners In q supreme ef-
fort to put South Dakota In tho dry
column by such an Overwhelming ma
;ority that the outside brewery cor
porations will not be tempted to stir
the matter up again for decade and
thus keep their plotters and rough
necks away from the borders OF the
state- The foremost mon in the State
viii take part College prestdsnts,
bankers. worktngmen. farmers and
everybody who understands the value
OF clean State are AL getting into
the game.
VIII be Given Free.
These speeches will be given by pa
trIotic people without money and with
out price In a concerted effort TO drive
out from the State forever the forei gn
alcoholic oppressor.
ed under the management OF cam
patEn COMMITTEES headed by Colonel
Charles A. Howard, of Aberdeen,
president OF the Aberdeen Gas and
Light Company and president Of the
Aberdeen street Railway Company aa
president. Rev. H. E. Rasmussen, pas
tor Of the Norwegian Lutheran Church
Of Canto as vice-presidsnt and Rev
j S. Hoagland. pastor OF the First
Methodist Church. of Mitchell as SEQ
rotary. The office and active field
work is in charge of r. N. Holsaple
superintendent of the league
A suite of four large office rooms
In the Western National Bank Build
ing. of this city. is filled with seven
teen clerks and workers conducting
the correspondence. sending out liter
allure and supplies. The first install.
ment OF two cent stamped envelopes
have arrived from Washington ITS. o0(
OF them.
0rwanixers I'm the Field.
For months. the work Of campaign
organization has been going on. unit
the greater part of the State has beer
organized for the closing week Of the
great contest
Il. E. Hunt and Frank Mitchell. botf
Of Mitchell. are leading In the actua
organization work in the field Mex
week. Charles Mix County will b,
| organized. Next Sunday. the annua
Anti-Saloon League Field Day" will
be pulled of at Aberdeen. Six Of tn,
strongest speakers In the State viii
occupy the principal pulpits Of tina
| city In the morning. These are Rev
J. s. Hoag1and. Prof Fl. 1. Jones Franz
w. Mitchell and r. NJ Holsaple, O
Mitchell, G. r. Malone and o. G. Christ
| gau, a prominent Lutheran preache
from Chicago
In the evening. n union mass meet
| ing will be addressed by J. s. Hoaa
land and r. N Holsaple. The othe
| speakers In the evening will fill tn
pulpits In neighboring towns. On th
| same occasion. the county organiza
ton will be perfected and put to work
c. c. Jesse a prominent Chautauqui
speaker from Valparaiso Indiana, 4
now on the State and will speak ever,
night until election.
DIR. Bane to Speak.
DR.. A. B. Bane, financial secretar,
of the Anti-Saloon League Of America
| VIII speak in the large eenters on DC
tober 10 to 1s. but the cities have no
yet been selected.
Wayne b. Wheeler. attorney for tn
national league. will devote the sec
ond week in October to speaking /,
| the State
Two German Lutherans of nationa
! reputation and now speaking in tn
State and will continue their canvas
/ until the day OF election. These are c
@. Christghu. of Chicago, and Rev. II
/ W, Blancke OF Davenport. Iowa
F. L. Watkins. superintendent of tn
1 North Dakota Enforcement League
who has played such havoc with at
tempts TO introduce blind plugging int
| this State Will speak to South Dako
ia audiences during the first week II
! october and tell the people how Mort
Dakota prospers without being bur
dened with the lawless liquor shops.
Rev. Father Patrick j. Murphy o
palhart, Texas, will put in the entir
month of October in the State. Fa
| Their Murphy has already spoken muol
in the State and Is we'll known. H
Is very popular, not only among tn
Catholics but among the Protestant
as well
Rev. ], w. Potter, d. D., of Ander
son Indiana, will put In ten days /,
/ the State in October ]. w. Finwall
of Bismark. North Dakota, is alread,
| at work In the State and will continue
until November Z
| f. c. Dinwiddie legislative superin
| tendent of the Anti Saloon League o
| America, and who has charge of tn,
league operations at Washington. II
! expected in the State for a time II
October and will take lively hand II
the fray
f. p. Nash. for several years con
! nected with the Narregang Investmen
Company Of Aberdeen. South Dakota
Is In the field as financial agent. rails
| Ing funds to carry on the expenses o
this campaign which are heavy. 1t 1,
conceded, however that a dollar will
paign than twenty will go in work FOL
the saloon interests.
WINE IMPORTA HAIRED.