Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-20
'NOISELESS' FIGHT
AGAINST RUM TO
BE WAGED HERE
Little Public Speaking in
Battle for No-License
Legislature
WILL BACK BRUMBAUGH
Campaign to Follow Governors
Declaration of Vigorous War
fare on Liquor Traffic

A "nOiseless" campaign for the election
Of local option members OF the Legislature
from the residential sections Of Philadel-
phia will be launched within few days.
following Governor Brumbaugh's declara-
tion OF uncompromising warfare on the
liquor traffic. which he made in Pitts
burgh yesterday.
Few, IL any. public demonstrations,
mass-meetlngs and speeches In favor Of
local option will be included in the pro.
gram for the anti-liquor fight in this
city, according to the plan of campaign
announced today at the Philadelphia
headquarters of the Local option Com
mittee of Pennsylvania.
For the first time in the history Of the
local option fight in Pennsylvania all Of
the ant.liquor forces are united and
these will work quietly during the primary
campaign for the nomination of Repub.
icans in this city who are pledged to the
enactment of local option law at the
next session OF the Legislature.
Working with the Local option Com
mittee Of Pennsylvania, which was or
ganized by the Governor to conduct the
fight for local option law, are the Anti
Saloon League of Pennsylvania. the
League of Protestant Churches, the Mems
Bible Glass Federation and other church
organizations, and committee OF law.
yers and physicians.
These organizations are planning to con-
duct in Philadelphia the same kind of
campaign they have launched throughout
the State. except that there will be few
public meetings and little speech making
In their campaign here
A concerted effort will be made by these
affiliated organizations to elect only OPP
ton members of the Legislature from the
residential districts. They will contine
their fight mostly to the outlying districts,
where they will quietly, but actively sup
n H.. g ,tNN N,.,., -lag.
favor local option law They look for
a substantial increase over last year in
the number OF local option Representatives
from Philadelphia. When the Governors
bill was voted on n year ago, II received
rs votes for 1t. only five being from
Philadelphia.
Eight legislative districts. from which
15 of the Al Representatives from this
city are to be elected. have been selected
in which the strongest fight against the
liquor forces will be waged. They are
Germantown, 18th district, 22d and 42d
Wards; Manayunk, 18th district, 2lst
Ward the two West Philadelphia dis
tricts. the nth. comprising the 24th. 34th
and 44th Wards. and the 2lst comprising
the 27th and 4Oth Wards: Frankford, 18th
district. 23d, S5th and 4lst Wards the
18th district. 2Sth and 37th Wards; 22d
district. the 32d Ward, and the 5th dis
trict the 26th. 36th and 4Sth Wards.
The Governor declared uncompromising
warfare on the liquor traffic at four re-
ligious meetings In Pittsburgh. THE
saloon is the enemy of the people, and enc
mics must be uprooted." he said. He
made a plea for high ideals in legisla-
ton.
The Governors most direct slap at a
''rum-soaked" State was made at a meet
ing of the Mems Bible Glass Federation of
the North BorOughs, at the Bellevue Meth
odst Episcopal Church. Speaking on the
duties of the citizen, he said:
1t is the duty of every citizen OF the
Commonwealth to vote so that ii shall
no longer be said that II Is subsidized
owned or controlled by other interests
than those which call for decent living
We hold our citizenship too cheap
Let US turn our eyes toward the light
II we look toward the darkness we will
find the unclean things, You don't have
TO belong TO a rum-soaked institution TO
get enjoyment out of life. Legislation
should be intrusted to men who have
high ideals, who lead clean lives and
who have the welfare of the community
at heart
]. Denny O'Neil followed the Governor
and said that before the coming cam
paign ended Governor Brumbaugh prob
ably would have some disclosures to make
which would startle the citizens of the
State. Mr.. O'Neil was asked later as to
the nature of these disclosures. He said
IL would devolve upon the Governor to
make them public and the intimation was
given in the nature of a warning to the
liquor interests that Governor Brumbaugh
was we'll fortified with facts which the
opposition would do all in their power 10
keep from being made public.