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Fort Worth Gazette
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
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The American Protective Association, active in state politics, plans to influence the national presidential campaign by advocating re-enactment of anti-sectarian platform planks from 1876 and launching an educational outreach to voters. Meetings are set in Washington starting March 24.
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ANNOUNCES ITS INTENTION TO ENTER THE NATIONAL FIELD.
A Meeting to be Held In Washington Preliminary-to Meeting of Supreme Council.
Washington, March 21.-The American Protective association which has been a factor in politics of several states for a number of years has announced its intention to enter upon the field of national politics in the coming presidential campaign. Its first move toward this crusade will be taken at a meeting of the supreme advisory board to meet in Washington on Tuesday, March 24. This meeting is preliminary to the sessions of the supreme council, which will be held here in May. Prominent members of the order from every congressional district in the country will take part in the deliberations of the supreme council and will determine the part which this organization will take in the campaign. It is a part of the program to insist on the re-enactment in party platforms this year of the planks of the Republican and Democratic platforms of 1876, in which both parties declared against sectarian appropriations from public moneys or property. Another feature of the program with which the advisory board will deal is what political leaders of the A. P. A. call a campaign of education. They declare that their literature shall reach every postoffice in the country and every voter before election day.
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Washington
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March 21
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The American Protective Association announces its intention to enter national politics in the upcoming presidential campaign. A meeting of the supreme advisory board is scheduled for March 24 in Washington, preliminary to the supreme council sessions in May. The organization plans to influence party platforms to re-enact 1876 planks against sectarian appropriations and conduct a nationwide educational campaign via literature to every post office and voter.