Litchfield enquirer., 1880-02-05
judgment for the plaintiff. HickoA & Kellogg for plaintiff Kilbourn for delft.

l judgment for the plaintiff. HickoA & Kellogg
 for plaintiff; Kilbourn for delft.
 - Litc..tield people &natnrally take a good
 deal of interest in the career or fife Rev. Leon i ard w. Bacon. former pastor of he Congrcga-
 tienal church in this place, and now in charge
 reco;lect the Bacon Richards difficulty in this place, so very characteristic of Mr. Bacdn's
 modes of proceeding. He was undoubtedly
 right in his criticisms of Dr. Richards; never-
 theless he so managed the matter as to set the
 community by the ears and raise up a very
 strong public opinion in favor of his opponent.
 Just such has been the result of his Norwich
 pastorate. Coming out first ill the role of
 prosecutor of Sunday travel, he made fierce
 attack which proved a complete failure Re-
 gently, he made very bitter speech in pub
 lic hall in that city, charging the selectmen of
 the town and the commissioners of the county
 with knowingly granting licenses to keepers of disorderly houses in Norwich. Some of the
 town officers were present and attempted to interrupt the speaker with denials and the
 meeting broke mp in disorder. A local paper printed 10, 900 copies of the speech, the circu-
 lation of which Mir. Bacon attempted to pre- vent by copyrighting his address, but the sales went on in spite of it. He is one of the most pucky, honest, and conscientious men we ever knew, but so cumulative in temperament that he has generally succeeded only Tn making his cause unpopular, when unquestionably in the right.
 On Saturday evening, MT. David H. Beach delivered his lecture on Temperance to about 900 people in Armory Hall. It was an address of very great merit, expressed in lan- guage of great force and beauty, and delivered with an earnestness that indicated settled con, viction. The argument was for strict Prohi- bitIon. Without that, he urged that Temperance could never be made to last. Waves of ex- citement would for time bring men up to the total abstinence standard, but they would soon fall back. So long as Iquor was openly sold, under legal license, SO long would the business 1 of drunkard making go on practically un- checked. Temptation came too close; no | drunkard could reform with bottle of rum | in his pocket. The only way to stop the bus mess was to treat It as the crime it really is.
 As the franchise now is, argued he, that is inn possible. The liquor interest is too strong political force to be overthrown by man alone. He needs the added moral force of woman. The speaker dwelt upon the change that would certainly be wrought by woman sut- frage in the morality of politics. He drew a comical picture of the Democratic party, devoted to the immigrant; of the Republican,. devoted to the negro; while both were too to give the conscientious, cultivat- ed American woman a vote! This reform, he insisted, was the key of the whole temper ance question. What was needed was not women crusaders, but women voters. No doubt they shrank from it; but once give tn em the chance to vote against rum, and the country would be astonished to see how cour- ageously and how effectively they would &C., complish their work.
 The audience was extremely attentive, to what was certainly most eff tective address on the need of woman suffrage l to compl etc the work so often begun, but nev- CT finished, of making this Total Abstinence