Word: anti-salooner
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...still the Wet cry of "sumptuary legislation," a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald...
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...days later, the New Jersey Democrats, traditionally Wet, issued their platform. Said they: "We congratulate our opponents upon their public espousal of this fundamental Democratic doctrine" [States Rights]. Rev. James K. Shields, Superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, warned his fellow Drys that traditional, militant Wets were not so much a danger to their credo as "the Morrow type . . . much more to be feared: the quiet, dignified, scholarly churchman of evangelical persuasion, who never rants but nevertheless stands for the action that would be fatal to the 18th Amendment...
...Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled for their political lives. The Anti-Saloon League, realizing that Candidate Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut Wet stand (TIME, May 26) would make him a prime U. S. anti-Prohibition leader in Congress, waged a win-or-die fight for his biggest opponent, roused Protestant ministers and Y. M. C. A. men, made much...
...remained for the Dry partisan Christian Century last week to inform its small portion of the reading public that on June 3, in Los Angeles, the Rev. Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie, onetime officer of the Anti-Saloon League, was awarded $150,000 damages against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. All Los Angeles dailies of June 3 and 4 spurned the story, as did most of the news services...