The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-28
A KISSING BEE.
MOVING osouLNroRY SCENE
At the Opening Of the WOAsaI National Chris
tIAn TsapsransS COnVSAtIOH, At WaiAInTsOa.
DutIfal DaughtsrI HOAOFing Their Meth
sn Before the WOrld-Ths New Party

sn Before the WOrld-Ths New Party
WAsmSGToS, October 27.-At the open
Of the Women's National Christian Tenn
perance Union, yesterday, on the motion
Of AIrs, Foster, Of Ohio, the mother OF Miss
Willard was invited to the platform. as
were also Miss Clara Barton, the Florence
Nightingale Of America, and Miss Susan B.
Anthony. After the latter appeared and
took her seat, u scene followed such rs Is
not often seen in any convention. Mrs.
Morrison, a delicate looking lady, belong
ing to the Indiana delegation, rose in her
seat, and Us she advanced toward the
platform, said; II rise to q question Of
privileges privilege which | know you will
ill grant" Ascending the platform she said
very earnestly, II want, in the presence Of
this flag referring to the stars and stripes,
which every breeze loves to kiss, In the
presence Of this picture Of this great man
lGurheld), who, in the proudest moment OF
his life, turned aside to kiss his mother
and his wife; 10 in the presence OF these
three women miss Willard's mother, Miss
Barton and Miss Anthony, representing
the motherhood, representing all that Is
angelic in women, and representing us, TO
kiss Miss Anthony" and suiting the action
TO the word, Miss Morrison pounCed upon
Miss Anthony, and before that lady was
aware had pumped kiss on her mouth,
which made u "smack" that could be heard
all over the church.
Miss Willard, then rising, said she did
not know that the good women Of Illinois
had brought their mothers with them, but
they had brought her mother here, and
when the Western delegation stepped off
the cars last night her mother was there,
and she had been told that she was the
brightest Of all Of them. Her mother, she
said, was entering her seyenty.eighth year.
Then, taking her mother by the hand, Miss
Willard said, with trembling lip and
broken voice, "lIere is u dear heart that
never failed me-"
She then paid an eloquent tribute to the
aged mother that stood beside her. The
scene in the church was remarkable-nOt
an eye was dry, and many ladies' actually
cried aloud ut the touching scene. When
Miss Willard had concluded, her aged
mother, her voice trembling with age and
emotion, said: "Iadies OF the convention,
| | thank you for the honor you have confer.
red upon my dear daughter, and l thank
you for the honors you have paid me In In.
viting' me to the platform" She then
kissed her daughter, an act which sent a
fresh thrill OF emotion through the conven'
ton.
President Willard, however, having
Cloked down the feeling in her own throat,
made great effort, and put u sudden
period TO these few minutes Of sentiment
by saying, ina very prosy, business like,
linsentimental way, awe shall hear now
the report OF the Executive Committee
Miss Willard, In her annual address, noted
the advance Of the temperance question In
the politics Of the country, and congratu.
lated her hearers on what she says looks to-
ward the establishment Of a new party;
and upon this subject she says: "But this
new purty Can not bear the name OF Re.
publican or Democrat. Neither the victor
nor vanquished would accept the old war
cry Of section. Besides, the Party Of
moral ideas has ceased TO havea distinctive
policy. waists early motto'F Free Territory?'
We have realized II. Later, did II de.
clare that the Union must b0 preserved and
slavery abolished? Both have been done.
Did Il demand negro eniranChisement and
the passage Of bill OF civil rights2 Both are
accomplished facts SO far as they can be
until education completes the desired work.
Was the redemption Of our financial pledges
essential to good iaithP That noble record
OF the Republican party cannot be erased,
and II we contemplate the questions still
unsettled-as Civil service refOrm-both
parties claim to desire it-or national fund
Tor Southern education, each deems It
necessary. But when we name the
greatest issue now pending on this
or any continent the prohibition
OF the manufacture and sale OF
Intoxicating liquors as O drink-bohold,
the Republicans Of Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont vote for II, and the Repub-
lcans Of North Carolina, Ohio and Illinois
against It, while the Democrats Of Kansas
oppose and those Of South Carolina favor II.
Now blame neither party for this incon-
sistenCy. 1t Is simply the handwriting on
the wall which tells that both arc weighed
in the balance and found wanting. For
they are formed OF men, who while they
thought alike and fought alike on many
great questions, on this greatest OF all ques.
lions are hopelessly divided, and "a house
divided against itself can not stand"