The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-08
Tempernnce Reform

There are said to be already $780,
600 signers of the Murphy pledge.
The Local Option bill was defeat
ed in the Pennsylvania legislature.
Up TO date oyer 5000 persons
have signed the blue ribbon pledge
in Terre Haute, Ind.
The temperance reform has reached
Yankton, d. T., and 300 red ribbon
ties are reported.
The red ribbon movement has Ia
ken Chesterfield, ILL.,, by storm, and
remarkable reformation is reported.
A rough estimate is made that
10000 persons in Illinois have
sIgned the temperance pledge the
past year.
It is suggested that the chamber
of the United States Senate, by all
accounts, 10 about as eligible a iield
for Murphy to labor in as any in the
country.
The Fennsylvania Prohibitionists
will hold State convention May
%, to nominate candidates for
Governor and other State offices to
be filed at the election in Novem-
Der.
The Ohio Prohibitionists held a
State convention at Columbus, last
week. The platform adopted is q
curious medley of political notions
OF which the prohibition of liquor
selling Is only an incident.
About one third OF the voters of
Wheeling, West Virginia, have
aigned the Murphy pledge during
the past year, and the first anniver-
sary Of the beginning of the move
ment was celebrated with q grand
jubilee few nights ago.
The tidal wave of the red ribbon
temperance reform has reached and
overflowed Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The
results SO far are over 200 sig
natures to the pledge. AT Sioux
City, Iowa, 1000 have signed the
pledge.
The temperance movement seems
to have made q complete capture of
the State of Iowa, and a movement,
which the Des Moines Register says
will be successful, is now being
made in the legislature, to amend
the prohibitory law OF that State so
a. to include wine and beer as well
as the stronger liquors.
A telegram from Washington city
says: 1.-THE Murphy temperance
movement here is accomplishing
great good, although it's effects up
on Congressman have not yet been
marked. Since Francis Murphy
came here all liquors, and even ale
and beer, have been excluded from
the Capitol restaurants, making IL
necessary for Senators to keep their
private hasks of liquor in their COM
mittee rooms and in the cloak
rooms, Several of the lowest class
OF rum shops In the north part OF
the city have been closed"
A Joplin, No., correspondent
writes: "In November last, j. II.
Dunlap, Esq, the accredited repre-
sentative Of the National Christian
Temperance Union came to Jop-
lin, Mo-, and inaugurated the MUIR
ply movement, securing the coop
Grafton of most of the churches, and
over 1000 signatures to the pledge.
From thence the work extended 20
Webb City, Carthage, Short Greek,
Baxter Springs, Columbus, ETC., re-
sultong In 5000 more signatures In
these various places. At present
Mr.. Dunlap is at work in Spring
neld about 5000 there are pledged
to drink strong drink no more"
The Springfield, Mass, Republi-
can referring to disgraceful spFees
OF certain United States Senators on
the night when the silver bill was
passed says The fact is that IL Is
becoming unpopular for e public
man In this country to be in the
habit OF getting drunk, and this
alone marks great advance in pub
lie sentiment. Mr., Thurman OF o.,
for example. has suffered q genuine
fall In public esteem within the past
week. For the fret time in the his
tory OF the country the three high
est officers of the nation decline to
offer intoxicating liquors TO their
guests, and they are respected for IL.
There arc come bummers Ia Con-
gress who would be good subjects
for Murphy, but II they persist IN
making fools OF themselves, they
will have an account 10 settle with
their constituents. The day has
passed when il Is a good election
eeEing argument for q man In this
country that Ia gets drunk"