The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-08-26

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them they will be ready for him.
Seneca County. I"
By the following bold announcement il
viii be seen that our friends in this county
have commenced the campaign in good
earnest. May success crown their noble
efforts The meetings were commenced on
the 21stand continued till the 2eth inst
Maine Lato Campaiga-TAe ,oar azreaSy
begaR,--Maine Law meetings will be held
in the following named places to be ad-
dressed by Parker Earle, Esq, a distin-
guished Maine Law advocate who was en-.
gagged in the Maine Law contest in Michi-
gan, and is now in the employ of the State
Central Temperance committee, for the
purpose of canvassing the State
Stem town, Sat. afternoon, 9th
Fort Seneca, Saturday night, Z 9th
Bettsville, Sunday, II A. NJ, 28th
Bascom, g night, @ 28th
Meetings appointed for the afternoon in
the above list will convene at each place at
two'o'clock, and those at night at half-past
seven o'clock, P M. i
Let the friends of Temperance in the
several townships in which the meetings
are here announced, take special care to
have full notice and ample arrangements
made for holding the meetings, The time
demands at the hands of sobriety and
order-loving citizens, incorporating firm
ness and energy, O, X. Watson, N. Redd,
G. j, Keen, --Braden, D. w. Eastman, J.
W, Patterson, D. K. Burg, Charles Foster,
s. H. Kisinger, Central Committee.
Tiffn, Aug. Is, 1853.
We extract tRFfollowing from the Tifin
Wing. which shows the complexion of the
contest in Seneca county
"a Contest for Lquor.--A fierce contest
is now waging in this county between the
Temperance and the Anti Temperance
Democrats, The one party desire the
election to the State Legislature Of a strictly
Temperance man-one who would favor a
prOhibitOry law, having for its object the
\ prevention of the mandatory and sale of
/. all liquors to be used as a beverage within
the State. The other party wishes the
election of man of opposite views-one
who will favor liquor.selling and liquor
\ drinking, The Temperance faction is COM
Il posed Of some of the best men of the party
II being principally farmers, taxpayers,
A and men of morality. The other party is
mostly made up of fOfiee-seeking politicians,
II liquor-sellers and liquor-drinkers. Our
II sympathies are all with the Temperance
H portion, and we would be glad If they
H could succeed, +" @
Il We consider the prospects of the friends
in Seneca encouraging. All it wants is
frmness Don't let the cry, " It's all a
Democratic trick" or cts only Whig
move" or " Its only an under. ground road
of the Free-Soilers,' throw your Maine
Law locomotive off the track,
\ Tell the old broken-down ofice.seekers
and old fogies to clear the track, for the
4 people of Ohio intend to take an excursion
on the second Tuesday in October, on that
huge locomotive called the Maine Law,
H Belmont County.
/ By the following it will be seen that the
4 people of Belmont are preparing for the con-
test, and the friends in Ohio may calculate
that they will send petition to Columbus
in boots next winter;
| "The Buckeye Broad-Axe is coming
\ The executive committee of this county are
hereby requested to meet in MorristoWn, at
Mrs, Prices house, on Saturday the Doth
inst, at o'clock, P, M. for the purpose of
districting the county, for the labors of H.
Chacne, Esq, who will commence lectur-
ing on Temperance about the Oath inst,
\ throughout every township in the county,
Il By order of the Chairman"
II r TOwnship Meetiag--It is requested that
1 the friends Of Temperance in Belmont
county, will meet in their respective town
ships, on Saturday the 9th inst, at the
| usual places of holding their elections, at
| o'clock, P, M, for the purpose of raising
H State fund. The amount assessed upon
this county is $500, and by raising said
H fund we will be furnished with the best
\ orators of the day, to speak in favor Of the
II Maine Law. The sum asked will be but
i $l6,75 from each township in the county.
H Certainly that sum can be raised and more
H if required. The sectetaries Of said meet
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