The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-29
SEND CIRCULAR
 FOR NO LICENSE
 TO VOTERS HERE
Committee of Eighty Ap- peals to Citizens For
 Referendum.

Is the city hall machine going to make no-icense the dominant issue In the forthcoming campaign? This question was upon the lips of most interested persons, today, who had received a circular letter, sent out over the signatures of a committee of 50, making an appeal for signatures to petition for a referendum.
 These names were like a cold wa ter douche to men in the liquor busi- ness who have been adherents of the city hall organization ever since it was founded.
 Included in the list of no-license ad- vocates they discovered the name Of the official head of the police depart ment, and the name of the official head of the department of education.
 Fire Commissioner John A. Leon ard and Police Commissioner Stanley are signers, silent but powerful evil dences of recent political strategy. The petition is also heavily laden with representatives of the manufac- turing clement C. B. Bilton, presi- dent of the Bridgeport Manufacturers asSociation is a signer. Walter B. Lashar, one of the most successful manufacturers in America, has put his name down. Moses Manwaring, city treasurer, and banker, is also a signer. Here is the letter. with its sigma lures: Ninety-one Connecticut towns have already voted No license. Of the towns bordering Bridgeport, Trumbull and Easton are dry; Stratford and Fair | field vote on the question this falli also sixty-four other Conectnicut ci- | ties and towns. This leaves two wet 1 towns now eligible to vote on the H. cense question which have not joined | in the "No License movement. One l of these towns is Bridgeport. We have not taken a vote on the license question since 1910. Isn't f l time we did 1 One of our allies found it necessar, to put a ten mile no-liquor zone around it's principal munition-makinf l city. Can Americas chief munition making city stand for liquor, lose th' food that goes into it, and unfit he 1 men for work when America need | every ounce of strength to win thu | war?
 United States and Connecticut stat utes recently passed and armed witf teeth, help to enforce no license, al other towns have learned. Sign and mail today the enclosed card and you will be given chance to vote No License on Tuesday, No Evember 6, 1917. Yours very truly, | Albert Ashleya Jr., I c. M. Bassett, E Conrad Boyle + Lou P. Bristol I A. William Bell | Frances J. Brennan I F. L. Bradbury f John B. BoSie .l ;Wm. B. Boardman 4 - pr. Henry Blodgett Il Stanley H. Bullard ,1 c. B. Bilton # John A. Bilton .l Charles W. Broadfield
 Matthew J. Bowen + c. B. Buckingham ;I William F. Card Il Herbert A. Chaffee T Edward B. Chaffee William F. Chatlos ,t Everette B. Cortright Gilbert FAyette
 John Flynn Dr. J. Formiche1la F. G. Finney William H. Griffith George G.. Goulden |. C. w. Gibbs William T. Hincks
 Elmer H. Ravens Daniel E. Johnson, Jr. William W. Jones
 George T. Kelly Andrew Katrinak
 Edward Heating John A. Leonard Robert G. Lyons E. Walter B. Lashar W. Seymour Lacy , Clark P. Lane. Jr. John M. Lipovsky Benjamin B. Lewis Dr. Andrew McQueeney 3 D. E. McNamara ] Moses W. Manwaring, B. Michniewicz 7 Neil Muirhead t T. B. MacFarlane l T. J. McNamara @ Jacob Nillson VI Oscar Olson t | J. M. Otis e Dr. N. T. Pratt r. William B Phillips v Frank B. Plumb V R. w. Parrott | s. c. Parker eI James Rooney T Joseph Saksa r Adolf Sherman Q William Boyd Spencer
 Dr. B. L. Smykowski
 Samuel J. Slawson
 Dr. Ed. Sylvester Smith
 August Soderholm
 J. H. Sunden } William F. Severn
 John c. Stanley 7 Ben. Stewart y James Telford I J. A. Hilton n George c. Waldo, Jr. v Lucien T. Warner & J. H. Whitcomb fe 8 John H. Wade a Dwight Wheeler