Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
DRYS WILL HOLD
Big GATHERINGS
IN HARRISBURG
Legislature to Be, Impressed
With Popularity of Prohibi-
ton Amendment


: In connection with the Legisla-
ture's opening and the Inauguration
! of Governor Sproul, the ratification
forces OF the state are descending
upon Harrisburg IN such a manner
as to let the country be heard from.
Wednesday Jan. 22, practically all
the temperance and uplift agencies
will meet in the annual Dry FEEDER
alton convention at the Chestnut
Street Auditorium, with all day and
evening sessions. Indicative of the |
size of this demonstration is the
fact that twenty thousand creden- |
tial cards are being sent out, and |
the fact that prohibition interest is |
at high tide. BY that time, if the |
required thirty-six states have not |
ratified, interest will be all the more |
acute; and il they have, the ques- |
ton of what Pennsylvania will do, |
and the natural jubilation over as
sured victory in the nation, will |
make a situation equally interesting. |
On that same day, and the even
ing preceding, the State Anti-Saloon |
League will hold its annual meeting |
of trustees at the Penn Harris. At |
4 o'clock dinner, on Tuesday-in-
auguration day-the day before the |
convention, there will be good
fellowship conference of the states
uplift leaders, "a delegation of five
from each designated TO attend. +
Through arrangement with Grace
Methodist church this preliminary
g.thering will likely take place
th're, the table to be set by one of
Its ,uxiliaries.
Sn'day, January 26, is annual
heid tey of the Anti-Saloon League
IN IlaEisburg, and on Tuesday
tollowns William Jennings Bryan,
VINO ~ Sme time has been presi-
deht OF th National Dry Fedora |
ton, will spak under the auspices
OF the Ahu-Saoon League in Chest
NUT street Auotorium, at s p. NJ,
WIN ex-doFerho' Frank B. Willis,
of Ohio.
Ratification yo,e
AS W. uVIyr Vicnsrn'an cne ai,aI bpqced plans of
is accepted by all the. agencias
ratification will not come, in the
Legislature until it re-conSnes ali
these manifestations of the nnhI;c
will are we'll timed by the 1rvsH
Ratification arguments will be ,re-
sented by the nations best speIS-
ers, including many from PennsS
vania anu Harrisburg. Strong pres.l
sure has been brought to bear to
secure the presence of Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, a
flood of requests going to him from
rank and file of the prohibition peo-
pie. s
Governor Sproul has ex-
pressed his willingness to accept the
invitation earnestly rendered him, if
his newly assumed duties will pos
sibly allow. Congressman Simeon
d. Fess, of Ohio, and M. Clyde
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, have agreed
to speak. =
Such well-known temperance ad-
vocates as Hanly, Howard, Tope,
Woodfin, Mary Harris Armour. Mrs.
Richards, president of Ohio w. C.
II. u. are on the program. Mr. and
Mrs. Frank NJ. Waring, of Washing
ton, will render solos and direct the
singing. The Commonwealth Band,
of Harrisburg, will play. Local min
listers, the Revs. Robert Bagnell, s.
w. Herman, l.. S. Nudge and others,
have been assigned places on the
program.
The local executive committee is
made up of the Rev. e. r. Worrell,
DID, the Rev. Harvey Klaer and
Miss Ella Broomell. Mrs. Harry
Leonard and Mrs. M. NJ. Steese are
on the decoration and entertain
ment committee. A monster Bible
class turnout is being planned for
the evening of the Federation con-
vention by the Rev. Harvey Klaer,
through Mr.. o. =. Beckley, leader
for this section.
The Rev.. DR., John Royal Harris,
of Pittsburgh. state superintendent
of the Dry Federation, has been in
the city the last few days working
out details of the convention, and
is high in his appreciation of Har-
risburg courtesy and enterprise. He
and the local committeeman say
that though this is convention
city, it will see something it is not
used to in the swooping down upon
the capital of, these ratification hosts
at this time.