Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-17
.EX-PRESIDENT TAFT
WRITES GOVERNOR.
Urges Him To Attend Meeting
Of Governors And Ex-Gov-
ernors In Philadelphia.
TO APPOINT DELEGATES.
To Convention On win The
War For Permanent Peace" d"
State Delegation Not
Yet Appointed.

| Ex-President Taft has written a
personal letter to Governor Emerson
c. Harrington uring him to attend a
meeting of Governors and ex-Gover-
nors to be held in independence Hall,
| Philadelphia, on the afternoon Of Fri
| day, May II, in connection with the
! convention on win The War For
Permanent Peace" The Governor is
requested. also, to appoint a delega-
ton of prominent citizens to repre-
/ sent his State at this convention.
Governor Harrington has not yet APP
pointed the local delegation.
Mr.. Taft and a committee of distin-
guished Americans, including Cardi-
nal Gibbons, Alton b. Parker, DIR.
Anna Howard Shaw, Samuel Com
pers, Senator John Sharp Williams,
President Lowell of Harvard, Mrs. T.
j. Preston, Jr formerly Mrs. Grover
Cleveland), and others, recently call
ed this convention to be held under
the auspices of the League to Enforce
Peace, of which Mr.. Taft is President.
independence Hall, where the Cover
nors and ex-Governors will confer,
was the scene of the formation of the
League on June II, 1916.
The convention will be in session
three days, May 16, II and 1S The
keynote will be ito mobilize the mind
and fighting spirit of the nation by
showing the big prize for which the
free and peace-loving nations are
sacrificing life and treasure" Among
the speakers already announced are:
Mr. Taft, Charles e. Hughes, Dr.
Henry van Dyke, formerly Minister
to Holland; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
DR.. A. Lawrence Lowell, President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
University, Senator John Sharp Will
Jams, DR.. Talcott Williams, Dean of
the Pulitzer School of Journalism of
Columbia; W. Morgan Shuster of New
York, and William English Walling,
the well known internationalist.
In addition to these the foremost
representatives of the allied nations
now in this country have been invit-
ed to speak at an Allied War Dinner,
which will conclude the convention on
the evening of May 18th
In his letter to the Governor Mr..
Taft says:
"A special session of present and
former Governors of State is planned
to meet in Independence Hall, Phila-
delphia, on the afternoon of Friday,
May 18th, as a feature of the conven-
ton on win The War For Perma-
nent Peace" which will be held from
Thursday to Saturday of that week
under the auspices of the League to
Enforce Peace, of which 1 am presi-
dent. / have the honor to invite you
TO be present.
The purpose in calling this con-
vention is to sustain the determina-
tion of our people to fight until
Prussian militarism has been defeat
ed, confirm opposition to a premature
peace, and focus attention upon the
only advantage the American people
are hoping to gain from the war-a
permanent peace guaranteed by a
League of Nations. The efforts of
Germany and Austria to arouse paci-
/ fist sentiment in this country and
among our allies make it a patriotic
duty to do everything possible to
counteract this influence.
Our Executive Committee wishes
me to invite you to appoint a number
of official representatives of your
State TO attend the convention"