The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-01
THE LOyELAND CONVENTION.
What Methodist Minister who was
Present has to Say about 1t.

A prominent Methodist Episcopal
minister who was in attendance at the
Loveland Convention, and who was
formerly settled over Church in this
city and is universally respected and
highly esteemed by the people of all
Churches and classes, in private let
ter to a citizen of Springfield, expresses
himself in regard to that affair as fol-
lows: -,-. Fl. ~ y. d..
have this to say in regard to the new
political Prohibition party organized at
Loveland, July 10th, 1881. selected that
day and date to go and see the place and at
| tend the so-caIled Convention. With the
exception OF a very apIs address from Mrs
Foster, q lady lawyer OF Iowa, the whole ex-
ercises of the day were very unsatisfactory
to me. am glad that you have SO correct an
idea of my character as to guess that could
not endorse, or, in any way support the do
ings of the Convention. The English Ian
guage does not come sufficiently to my aid
to enable me tc express the profound dis
gust entertain for the whole thing. From
my standpoint 1t was sheer folly, conglom-
Grafton of inharmonious material, a cut and
dried affair, intolerant, fanatical, self-com-
placent and tumultuous. Solemnly repu-
diate the whole thing, as saw and heard 1t,
the object, the spirit, the leaders, the pro-
positions, the miserable divisions, the false
charges against Governor Foster, and the out
rageous arraignment of the grand old Repub-
lican party, the spiteful temper Of men
whose profession and ecclesiastical position
would lead one te expect something nobler
and better. To my mind and in my opinion
| the whole thing was disgraceful farce; not
! but some good persons were there, and men
who wished to make some wise and weighty
deliverance upon the great subject of tenn
perance, especially in its right to civil sup
port, aud our political duty toward 1t not
but that the cause is one of unspeakablY
great and practical moment; not but that to-
tai abstinence from the use of all intoxicat-
ing beverages, and absolute prohibition of the
traffic in liquors for purposes of beverage
aud dissipation are the very foundation
principles for the overthrow Of the giant
crime of the age. These things are certainly
so; but for a good and great cause like this
of temperance to be cursed by such a course
as was taken by the Convention at Loveland
Is pitiable Illustration of how good cause
| can Oe injured Oy lts progressed Out unWlse
and fanatical friends. shall certainly do and
say what can against the socalled political
temperance party. We have no use for 1t, as
think, and its career must be more or less
| mischevious. .r. .a.
Only think Of the great Republican party
and its record of twenty years; think Of what
it has done and the good noble men Of it,
for our great land, and then think of the
grand Republican Ohio, through the war
and since, the grand work it has done for it
self and the Union, the noble Presidents and
great men it has put in Office, of it's latest
| GIFT, the good and great Garfield. Think
in its ranks; how onr purest, noblest ankle
ties, heartfelt sympathies have been identih-
ed with this party Of magnificent record, and
then take course imperilling its standing
how we have worked and prayed and voted
in the State and Union is, I think, both fool
hardy and criminal May heaven defeat the
follies of men. 1 cannot believe that many
of our ministers viii at all favor the Love-
and folly.-Springfeld Republic.