National Republican., 1878-01-07
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
The Dashnways In Lincoln Han.

Inc Dashnways IN Lincoln HAL
The largest temperance meeting held in Wash.
ington for years assembled at Lincoln Hall last
night, under the auspices of the popular Dashawsy
Reform Club. Fully l,ooo people were gathered
at an carly hour and at eight o'clock q large num-
Der were unable TO obtain seats.
The meeting was opened with prayer by Brother
Reynolds, followed with the song, Hold the fort,'
by the audience.
Colonel John +. Hoy q reformed man, who has
been conducting successful campaign for several
weeks In Baltimore during which upwards Of 20,-
900 have signed the pledge, was introduced and re.
celvcd IA warm greetlng. lie spoke with remark
able power about lhfeC.quarters of an hour, max.
The BarscT faniIy, whose o, @ sweet singing Is al
ways admired had kindly volunteered to assist the
boys" and gave several Of their best selections
during the even ing, which were received with
great approval. D. " Bruce appeared in the reg.
ulation uniform" of the topper, and reclted with
pleasing effect the poem, ent'tled Il Have Drank
Mr.. J. II. Duunng then introduced Charley NJ.
Nye, who Is great tayorite with every one and
which he Is held. Charles was In his happiest
mood, inspired no doubt by the great audience be.
iore him and spoke With telling effect
scrption of how he has been saved by the grace Of
God aud The aid Of the temperance workers.
At this point Mr.. Dunning took charge, and. call
ing the audience to their feet, requested them to
sing In the Sweet Bye and Bye and at intervals
made cheering appeals for signers, and Bud
on S he platform and sRoSsd S sei%nH S as they they
came iOrwnrd In great numbers. 4 half hour was
spent in this most interesting part of the meeting,
during which lJ0 signed the pledge
Mr. James Lee. Of South Washington and others
made brief terSe remarks, the dONoORy was then
sung. and Rey. Mr. Kramer pronounced the bene-
dictDn and closed, few minutes past Ten o'clock,
the largest and most successful meeting held In a
| long time.
This meeting establishes two facts: The temper.
ance movement is growing immensely popular in
our midst, and the Dashaways have become, by
their lslnteresed labors the avorites Of our peO'
| pie. The meetings will he continued hereafter
every sunday evening In Lincoln Hall, and will be
conducted principally BY the popular trio, Williams
| Nye and Dunning.
Tho Franklin Temperance Legion.
During the last fortnight efforts have been made
toward organizing a typographical abstinence
cub. The results, as made manifest In the largJ
.heeting at Lincoln Hall Saturday night are most
encouraging The hall was filed with ladies and
gentlemen, tic typos OF the city forming IOrty
Of the aulicncc. Mr.. william II. Norton, of Colum
ba typographical Union called the meeting to
| order, and upon his nomination the following gen
| tlcmcn were elected officers Of the meeting
| Hon. John d. Defrecs, president; Messrs. Nat
| Davidson j. Henry BOner. II. o. NOyes II. J. Kehr
and John R. bradley, .vlceprcsidents; c. II. nav
| and W. u. Beycr. secretaries
Mr., Dcrecs, upon taking the chair, stated that h,
was in thorough sympathy with the movement and
! hOpCl 10 see good results from H.
| Thu first speaker was Mr.. Andrew J. Bowen, whC
| related the circumstances under which the Typo
| graphical Temperance Legion uf Baltimore aud o
| which Mr. Bowen Is the president which now mum
| herrd l2i members, was organized. lie also gay,
| m intcrc.tinE account of his own expert
enCs IN Temperance and intcmrernnCe including
the swallOsiug Of several large estates
Colonel John r. Hoy made n few remarks, ant
introduced Rev. J. Mex. Reilly, who delivered tn,
most eloquent address of thG sraEOn.
Hon. HinIm Price, of Iowa, followed with forci
bic and Characteristic temperance speech.
At this point Mr.. Bowen announced that the oh
ject Of the meeting was the Organization u Ia
Franklin Temperance Legion cs..s.ny conslstin
OF journolists. printer and 6ook.binders, and h
nominated HM.s ucfrces for president.
i Mr. De!rees was unanimously elected, and Mr.. {
| II. DAVIS was elected temporary secretary.
Mr.. c. NJ. Nye made pointed and yigIrou
speech, aud was folHyed by Mr. Noah Gill, pres
dent, and Mr.. Deply, treasurer of the Baltimof
Da,haway Club, who both related brief but intel
estng experiences
At The close the audience sang the doxology, an,
, bonediction was pronounced by Rev NJ. Reil!
During the speech. making the pledge was circu
, lated, and l4O signatures were reported. ou
name being that OF lady compositor at the Coy
ernment Printing Ofice