Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-03
BEAT BONNIWELL,
NEW ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE WARCRY
DR.. Smith Urges All Friends
of Temperance to Unite
Against Rum Candidate

The district superintendent of the
Harrisburg district of the Anti-Sa-
loon League of Pennsylvania has re-
ceived the following authoritative
statement from Charles F. Swift,
d. D., the state superintendent. DR..
Swift says:
ITO answer large number of in
quiries coming from all over the
state as to the position of the Anti
Saloon League in the coming cleo
ton. DR.. C. F. Swift state superin-
tendent, makes the following state
ment:
with the excitement of the pri-
maSy contest over, and the smoke
of bN>tle clearing away the Anti-Sa-
loon League finds itself in splendid
shape to enter the contest in the
fall election with every promise of
victory.
Clear of Entanglements
while all the results of the pri-
maries are not as some good people
had hoped they would be, yet the
field is now cleared and the sue
succful nominees in all parties have
been named and the league is in the
field with candidates for governor
down pledged to ratification. We are
receiving congratulations from all
sides that during the primary con-
test the league kept itself clear from
all factional, partisan and entangling
alliances.
The lines now seem to be clearly
drawn insofar as the question for
which the league stands and for
x.yl,s sa1, - fe. 0d
That of ratification of the prohibi-
tion amendment.
BEAT Bonniwell'
The Anti-Saloon League expects to
prosecute even more vigorous cam
paign at the fall election in the sup
port of candidates pledged for ratifi-
cation that it did in the spring pri-
maries. Our slogan now is Beat
Bonniwell' We therefore call upon
all true and loyal friends of our
cause to get ready for action and
swing into line for final and decis-
i've victory for ratification.
"Since it is a foregone conclusion
that thirty-siX states of the union
will ratify the prohibition amend
ment early in 1919, it is hardly rea-
sonable to conclude that any large
number of loyal patriotic citizens of
our Commonwealth will go on rec
ord as refusing to join the large ma
jority of the states which will ratify
the amendment that seeks the high
est good >of the greatest number OF
homes and people.
The pennsylvania League, under
the direction of its appointed au-
thorities, will conduct campaign in
every county and district in the state
where it is necessary, in the inter-
est of candidates who are pledged
to ratification, and will do all in its
power to place the Keystone state
among the thirty-siX which will
ratify the amendment at the next
meeting of the Legislature and which
will also enact such laws as will
make the amendment effective"
Support Sproul
Support Sproul and defeat Bonni-
WELL" was the slogan of the Rev. DR..
John Watchorn, chairman of the Co
operative Temperance Committee of
the Anti-Saloon League and of the
Dry Federation of Pennsylvania, in
an address yesterday afternoon be-
fore the Mems Bible Union of the
Erie Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia. DR.. Watch
orn said that an independent move
ment in the Republican party should
not be tolerated, as the only way
to secure the ratification of the ma
tional prohibition amendment is for
all the temperance forces in the state
to rally behind William c. Sproul
the Republican gubernatorial nomi-
nee. who has given his written
pledge to support it."