Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-09-15
A METHODIST'S OPINION
OF the Republican Party and Press.

tor Of an NJ. E. church in Cincinnati.
He took prominent part in the Love-
land Convention, which nominated
Honest Abel Ludlow se-of Springfield
for Governor. For this action he has
been viciously abused by the Cincinnati
Gazette and denounced by the Cincinnati
Commercial as a "bummer," ,""tlunatic, ~
fanatic" etc.
The reverend gentleman opened the
campaign for the temperance people the
other night, at Lytle Hall, in Cincinnati,
and the following are some choice ex-
tracts from his speech:
HE WILL NEVER VOTE THE REPUBLICAN
TICKET AGAIN.
If the temperance cause had an organ
some of the ISLANDERS which have been
circulated since the Loveland Camp
Meeting could be refuted in print. Not
having such an organ, we must refute
the falshood from the platform. am
not a politician, and God helping me I
never will be. I might say that was
born Republican. but don't know that
it is any to my credit just now. Laugh
ter. l have always voted the Republi-
can ticket, but will never do it again.
Applause. The temperance people
must fight hard to establish their princi-
pies. 1t has always been the case with
new parties, that the people and press
have fought them with the cry that it is
not time just yet to organize new par
ty."
REPUBLICAN PRTENTIONs.
"The Republicans then pretended to us
that if they were put into power, they
would give us what we asked. We help
ed to elect a Republican Legislature.
Then we sent in our petition. They put
us of until after the Presidential elec-
tion last fall, promising great things for
last winter. 1t was no better last win
ter, and the Republican Legislature went
out of power without having passed one
law in our cause.
HE PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO JOHN SHERMAN.
'The only plea that can come to us in
favor of whiskey traffic is that there is
revenue in it. Senator Sherman said the
other day that the revenue on liquor is
paying the interest on the National debt.
Who is paying this interest? Is it the
distiller or statesmen of the liquorf No;
it is paid by the poorer people, whom it
is running, whose families it is starving,
and from whom it is taking the clothes
off their backs. I say shame on aGov-
ernment which boasts that the interest
on its debt is being paid by robbing its
poor families and wrecking thousands of
homes. IApplanse. The time will come
when the Government will pay in judg.
ment for this. God will see this wrong
righted.
THE PREACHERS AND THE POLITICIANS.
''The worst they can say about our
cause is that it is Methodist preachers
movement. Let them say it. If they
can't say anything worse, it will not
hurt our cause. The time was when the
politicians were not so sneering in theil
remarks about the preachers. They
knew that the preachers of the North
eighteen years ago, by unanimous
voice, did mnch to hold the North to-
gether. Now, these same politicians and
papers which were then denouncing
Copperheads, are now denouncing the
Temperance people in the same spir-
it,"
DRIVING REPUBLICANS OUT OF THEIR PAR
TY.
'iThe Gazette says that the ministers at
the, Loveland Convention attempted to
represent the Methodist church in the
movement. Now, the Gazette either
knew that this was false statement or
it did not know it. If it did not know
it, it ought not to have said it. This
sort Of thing is driving ten men from the
Republican ranks where it is bringing
one back. III Applause The Gazette 5
columns are full of postal card comniu-
nications against our Convention. But
there are none Of them signed with