Why did E F Acheson stay quiet on local option
A critical examination questions E F Acheson’s long silence on the local option issue over fourteen years. It challenges him to point to fourteen genuine accomplishments or one per year while in Congress and questions his credit for river improvements. It notes the repeal of the local option law in Carrol township and Monongahela that led to fourteen additional saloons in Washington county.
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Congress
Carrol Township
Monongahela
Washington County
Acheson’s temperance plea mocked by Prohibitionists
The Charleroi Mirror ridicules Congressman Acheson as temperance efforts fail to sway voters. It accuses him of past liquor ties and suggests his loud rhetoric backfires, with Prohibitionists deeming him untrustworthy on the issue. The piece portrays him as a dubious civic leader due to a long silence on temperance.
Letter from Mik Tener on local option liquor laws
A letter from John K. Tener of Charleroi Pennsylvania dated March 16, 1908 explains his stance on liquor licensing and local option. He supports allowing the people in designated areas to vote on licenses and backs the state legislature’s local option bill, noting Charleroi’s tradition of minimal licenses controlled by experienced hotel operators and his desire to avoid political manipulation.
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Thomas D. Brown
New Brighton
Charleroi
John K. Tener
FREAK BILLS Achesons liquor abstinence bill ridiculed
The Ambridge Economy Citizen ridicules Representative Achesons proposal to give promotion preference to total abstainers from liquor in US military service. It notes Civil War generals would have been affected and suggests broad prohibition for brewers would complete the collection of so called freaks.
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Acheson
United States
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John Jh. Tener
E. F. Acheson
Agheson
Congressman Acheson
Prohibitionists
Temperance People of
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Temperance
Liquor Interests
Ness
Mik
Charleroi, Pa
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Hooker
Meade
Reynolds
Doubleday
Sickles
Logan
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Winfield Scott
and Zachary Taylor
Ing
Ambridge
Citi
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