ORDERED TO MOVE.
POLICE AND PROHIBITIONISTS. (DI TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,) Chrlstohuroh, September 2. Mr. Palmer, Mrs. Harrison Lee, and Mr. M'Combs, local No-License workers, came into conflict with the polico yesterday afternoon in Cathedral Square. A sergeant of polico and a constable ordered Mr. Palmer to move from, in front of the United Service Hotel, where he was delivering an address from a buggy, to a spot out of the way of the traffic. The horse and trap were moved along a little further, but just as Mrs. Harrison Lee roso to speak the representatives of tho law reappoared, and once more ordered tho speakers to. move away. Mr. J. M'Combs hotly defended the speakers, and objected to being ' ordered to move from a spot at which religious and other political speakers could lecture unmolested. Mr. Palmer rose, after a brief discussion with tho police, and said that the objection had not come from the United Service Hotel, the proprietor of which had invited him to speak from, tho balcony. The police officers, after finally asking the speakers to move, took the names of several of them. It may Be mentioned that thero is a good deal of traffic through that part of tho square in tho daytime, whereas the speakers would have interfered with no one if they had crossed into another corner, of the square, j
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 7
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228ORDERED TO MOVE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 7
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