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The Montgomery Times from Montgomery, Alabama • 2

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i THE TIMES: FRIDAY, SEPTEMEH 24, 1909. TWO ANTiaFKItOPHAN AWAKDS 4- TtH AMP HI CAN ANTa Saner; TtH AMmiCA CHICAGO'S AUDITORIUM IS TO BE A RITZ HOTEL TME BEST 7TmflWKPAl BY EVERY TESTlAliliilteYU 'v i. i -7 "1 PROHIBITION PARTY 41 YEARS OLD TODAY prohibition national convention and for a time withdrew to make a uuw prohibition party called the nailoual party. 'Jhe latter, however, developed but Utile strength aud nearly alt returned to the prohibition ranks. In the last four yeans there has been a woudertul spread of prohibition sentiment.

Many slates have forbidden the manufacture and sale of liquor, aud in many others the liquor traffic has been filially re BICYCLES Awat! romliome when rou can lind auce (variety at our Mi-re lor the tame rnc les cxpreia charge? We are aecnt lor the RAMBLER. RAY-CYCLE, YALE aiidotlier brandaiiom G20.00UP- WF. ALSO HAVE SOME SECOND HAND WHEELS FKOM 10 UP. CHICAGO. 111..

Sept. 24. It 1 stricted. Dr. Pettus B.

Crum, DENTIST. NI-822-K3 PIRST NATIONAL BANK BLO'Q. Montgomery, Ala. Ha; just returned from stay in the West lor rest and vacation, ll now ready lor duty. Office Hours: 9 to 11, 2 to 4 Just forty years ago today that iloo delegates from nineteen states gutii-ered la this city, at Furwell hull, and organized the iiroliibiuou party, I GK.V.

(ill A NT AN AISSTAIXKU. CHICAGO. Sept. because ol PHONE 38. 7 N.

COURT. CHICAGO. 111., Sept. 24. More than $300, OHO will be upent in remodeling the Auditorium Hotel, following the leasing of the historic hon-telry to the Kile Hotel concern for a long term of yearn, beginning October 1.

The papers and plans are being drawn In New York city at the office of Architect Watrous. The Auditorium lease Is one of the most important moves In a Ku-ropean-Amcrlean chain of hotels. The Kitz concern already has hotels In Paris, London and Naples, mid a hotel Is being built for it In New York. H. C.

Frlck. the steel magnate, has agreed to build a hotel for it in Pittsburg. The signing of the Auditorium louse will mark Its entry into Chicago. Philadelphia, St. Louis, Los Angelis and boston will be included in the ltitz chain.

Agent Harris, for the Ititz concern, according to word from New York, sailed today for Ktuope to have the papers signed by his principals. EXCURSION TONEWY0.1K, N. Y. which is holding a celebration today In honor of the event. The gut-Bit.

of honor include the nine surviviug (standard bearers of the inohiliitum party presidential cauiiiuib'm. They are: John IiuBsell, "Ice president, 1872; John B. St. 'Jolin, president, 1SS4; Dr. J.

B. Carnllll, vice president, 1892; Joshua Levering, president, 1896; John G. Woolley, president, VIA- his fame as an entertainer and popularity in tho army, much surprise has been occasioned by the revelation ot the fact that General Fred D. Grant, who is one of llie gut-sis of honor at the prohibition celebration and who will lead the big parade tomorrow, is total abstainer. Add res lug a union rally of temperance people at Willard hall, General Grant said: "1 tried to drink with extreme moderation, because I knew that alcohol is the worst poison that a man can take into his system, but 1 found that it was an absolute Impossibility i The Western Railway of Ala.

-account- 1900; Dr. S. C. Swallow, president, 1904; George W. Carroll, vice president, 1904.

Eugene W. Cliatln, presi i. dent, 1908; Aaron S. Watkins to drink moderately, because moderate drinking is a practical impos HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION S33.85-ROUND Dates of sale, Sept. 23rd to 30th inc.

Return Limit leaving New York, Oct. 10th. For information and reservations, apply to O. F. REDD, C.

P. Exchange Hotel Building. sibility 1 because an absolute teetotaller a crank, if you please. will not allow it even in my "Drink is the greatest curse, be president, 1908. Many persons attending the anniversary celebration will remain over until tomorrow to witness or participate In a unique demonstration arranged by the temperance and prohibition forces of Chicago, and which, it expected, will in size and significance, eclipse any similar event In the history of the party.

A monster parade, with from cause practically all the crime and all disaster are the result of it. Ninety Mil i fw i'i fi i 1 1 ijw i -1 11 0 five per cent, of desertions and acts of lawlessness in the army are due to drink "if I could, by offering my body 000 to friends of the cause as a sacrifice, free this country from the fell cancer the demon drink I'd thank the Almighty for the privi lege of doing it. in line, is scheduled for tomorrow, of which the grand marshal will be Major-General Frederick Grant Saturday evening, Chicago's famous auditorium will be the scene of a great prohibition mass meeting, at which Seaborn Wright, the noted southern leader, will be the principal If I had the greatest, appointive power in the country, no man would get even the smallest appointment COME TO NEW MEXICO Where you can file upon 320 acres of land as homestead, or, having used homestead right, where you can file on 160 acres under Reclamation Act; good level land, deep rich soil, plenty of wood and water and close to railroad town. Send 25c for late map and copy of land laws. MUSQUERO LAND COMPANY, from me unless he showed proof of his absolute teetotalism.

As it is, of speaker, and a chorus choir of a thousand young people's voices will be my own the members of my staff, not one of them touches a drop. They know bettor." heard in special music. Tie prohibition party was born in the darkest hour of the civil war, POSTMASTERS MEET. Mrs. Jane Gordon Sarlori Pcrin, one time belle of Philadelphia who committed suicide at London, residence of her sister by shoot when on July 1, 1862, congress officially recognized the liquor traffic through the adoption of the internal MACOX, Sept.

23. Georgia revenue law. it has presented ten New Mexico. Musquero, presidential tickets to the America classes commenced their annual ing, but whose self-destruction is doubted by Lawrence Perin, her husband, who is living at the Waldorf Astoria, in New York. The dead i woman was 23 years old and her marriage to Lawrence Perin, a million-.

aire, was a sensatiua of the 1904 season at Xarragansett and New York. people, and ot Its candidates two of lluuMWuiw.iajaww ap.jjipjaMia convention here today, having nctn granted leave of absence by the postmaster general. f-- its nominee were southerners Green Clay Smith (1876) from Kentucky, and Joshua Levering (1896) from Maryland. It has nominated four candidates for vice president from the south, William Daniel (1884) was from Maryland, John A. Brooks (1888) from Missouri, J.

B. Craafiil (1892 from Texas, and George W. Carroll (1904) from The keynote of the convention at Chicago, held in Farwell hall, September 1 1869, was "Come ye out Trom among them and be ye separate," as the first step toward an effective union of all voters for the overthrow of the liquor traffic. This convention was preceded by the formation of several state prohibition Darties; Illinois and Michigan in 1867, and Ohio in 186.9. John Russell was the temporary chairman of the 1869 convention, which adopted name of the national prohibition party appointed a national committee, of which John Russell was and Gideon T.

Stewart sec retary. 1 The first presidential convention of party was held February 22, 1872, In Columbus, and nominated James Black and John Russell respectively, for president and vice president. The ticket in 1872 revived 5,607 votes. The second national convention, held in 1876, at Cleveland, nominated Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, and Gideon T. Stewart, of Ohio, for president and vice president, changed the name of the party to the national prohibition! reform party, and in the ensuing election secured 9,731 votes.

In 1880 the prohibitionists atj Cleveland, called General Neal Dow, of Maine, law fame, to be itsj presidential standard bearer and Henry Adams Thompson to be his associate on the ticket. The party received 10,366 votes in the election. In 1RS1 the home protection party was formed by a coterie of prohibition leaders, including Frances Willard, Colonel Bain and John B. Finch, which in 1882, in a joint convention at Chicago, was merged with the prohibition party under the name of the prohibition home protection with Gideon T. Stewart as its national chairman.

The campaign of 1884, led by St. John, and Daniel, followed and the prohibition party from November 4, 1884, entered unon an era nf na ri fsrt spar -pgsv 1 A Every Gas Range is Guaranteed. tional influence and agitation. The national campaign of 18RS was led by General Fisk and John A. Brooks.

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