The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-21
GOVERNOR ST. JOHN.
He Is Repudlated by the Temperance Men OF
His Own State of Kansas.


Topeka Special to Chicago News.
The Kansas State Temperance Union met in
its third annual session to-day with nearly two
hundred delegates and members in attendance,
including Ex-Governor St John and wife The
annual reports of the president and secretary
showed total membership of l00 600 gain of
10000 during the year. This includes churches,
Sunday schools, lodges, and individual member
ship, the latter numbering about $4,000. The
treasurers report shows 1000 collected and
expended by the union during the past year,
large part being used to carry cases through the
State Supreme Court. Upon the question of
prohibition and the Republican party President
A. B. Campbell spoke as follows:
Il cannot forbear congratulating the Prohibi-
tionists upon the fact that when the issue
between the Republican and the Democratic
parties was sharply defined in Kansas-the
former representing law and order and loyalty
to the Constitution as the people need it, the
latter representing lawlessness, and crime, and
dlsoyalty to the Constitutions; the former repre-
senting the home, the latter the saloon-the
Prohlbltionists almost universally stand by the
party in and through which they had labored for
success III the past, and in and through which
they might reasonably hope for success in the
future Out of more than 100 900 Prohibition
voters there were only found 4,43l willing to
stab the party o. progress and reform and assist
the most corrupt political organization in this or
any other land to the control of the Nation.
The man who desires the Republican party of
Kansas to engage in the third-party prohibitory
movement does so to the great injury of prohl-
bition In the State He gives strength
to the arm of the party that would strike
death-blow to the cause of prohibition
without twinge of conscience. The man who
advocates reSubmission and other patent rene
dies to doctor up this matter is simply advo-
eating che destruction of the Republicans in
Kansas. The clamor against this prohibitory
amendment and for resubmission comes from
the men who want to get rid lof it. The make
up OF the Republican party in Kansas will not
nlp Of holt IO,,1f Il Dlio nc
question. Every saloon-keeper in Kansas
fought the Republican party in our last election,
and if the leaders of the Republican party
prehend the situation there viii not be saloon
IN Kansas or saloon keeper out of jail to fight
the Republican party two years hence. Prohi-
bltionlsts must stand by the Republican party;
every other party and faction is our enemy. No
State can afford to surrender to the spirit of re-
this spirit, which demands the repeal of consti-
tutional and statutory laws because the criminal
classes refuse obedience to them
The resolutions adopted declared that the Re
publican party of Kansas, in adopting plat
form that was satisfactory to Prohibitionsts,
and electing State Offices and Legislature
pledged to carry out the Constitution so that
the effects of prohibition may be fully realized,
has done all that reasonable Prohibitionists can
demand, and is at this time entitled to the cor
dial support of temperance men. One resolution
read as follows:
Resolved, That as long as the attitude OF the two
leading parties in the State remains unchanged,
unaterably opposed to the formation or main
tenance of an independent Prohibition party and we
cordially invite those who have separated from to
return and act with us in future.
All the resolutions were passed without dis
cussion except the last, against the adoption of
which ST. John made speech. In the course
of his remarks he said:
II am not here to defend third party OF any
other party, but am here to enter a protest
against the resolution now under consideration
mi T1cln and | icn
to saying that no man can be a Prohibitl9nist
who is not Republican. Cries of sit down."
go on" Get out. This union was not or
ganized in the interest of any party. [Greatcon-
fusion. If it is to be Republican organization
| will get out. A voice. Get out, then; you
have been in too long now.' 1 have been en-
gagged in this work for nearly forty years, and
by the help Of God l shall stay In it, AS Pro
hibtionist am willing to unite with every
temperance organization in the whole coun-
try for the suppression of the dram
shop but If l have got to surrender any
rights as American citizen and vote accord
ing to the dictates of the Republican party, or
any other party, will step out. l have yet to
hear of reason why L should not vote as 1
please, and propose to vote az my conscience
tells me- Cries of "Bosh,n go it, old man."
Stuff v Gentlemen, you may call it bosh, but
it is principle-the same principle that led me in
1852 to vote for John G. Fremont, and men said
it was bosh then. You parade the street., and
hang and burn us in effigy, but you can't burn
up conscience. lGreat confusion, lasting sew
eral minutes. For me- as an American citizen,
there is no fear of any party now no more than
there was when 1 voted for Fremont. There
was God then and there is a God now and to
Him shall look and know that the Prohibition
party of this country will triumph in the end A"
st. Johns speech was replied to by President
Campbell, who said he considered it an insult to
the convention as not single member of it had
participated in the efigyburning or was response
BILE for it. After long discussion the resolution
yUae dad To Ind foil A.
invite ali to join US in the work" The conyen.
ton shortly afterward adjourned. St John was
much agitated during the delivery of his speech
There a bitter feeling among the majority
of the members against him for his course in the
recent campaign, and it was rumored he would
be asked to resign his membership, but no such
step was taken. The Ex-Governor did not appear
at the evening meeting.
Grover Cleveland and His Fiance,