New-York tribune., 1884-02-04
ONE OPINION OF aBILLY" MCGLORY.
TIE WORK OF WENDELL PHILLIPS AND JOHN KELLY
THE TFNIPFRANCF CAUSE.

rur WORK OF WENDELL PHILLIPS AND JOHN KELLY
IN THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
The announcement of Brick" Pomeroy as a
sneaker drew a large audience to the Manhattan
Temperance Association yesterday afternoon. in
Cooper Union Hail. Mr. Gibbs, the president, made
brief mention of an interview that he had had WIN
q RllyD Mc(ilory in the TOmbs. The pentent
Iouof-dealer he said. had expressed to him ms con-
triton and need of sympathy, and had explained
that he so bound around INTO net, Oy capIIal-
lists most of them respectable men IN soclctI that
he had been unable to break loose His wife sent
gift of 81 o TO the association: God bless Billy
McGloryw exclaimed Mr.. Gibbs; lie has great
soulw
Mr. Pomeroy said:
In days used ot to ySts TSse, Tor s1es 5ee
iben' 7 have thought more seriously the
matter and have to the conclusion that the best
party e IS Ss %ens Painy ' It Viii be- the party or the
Republican party; but TemPer9nmee nee party Il % must be-
ties in the field; the Republican, ana the DE De9ocIatlc'
both in the liquor dGt bf to he ceSr G l Let ms not
desst from our great work in this city nRt ny the e. only
Board OF Aldermen or the Legislature
The meeting of the American Temperance Union,
at Chickerng Hall; was well attended yesterday
afternoon After short address by the heV GeCrge
the Rev. George Corey spoke Among otheT thihgs lie
said
one of the celebrated and at the same time one OF
re yas n time in his tie when he dared in the face OF
the most determined opposition. 10 nt up his voice
against the evil of human slavery. lie could not Oe
silenced when slavery had been crushed out OF exs-
fence i'm our own country then he champOned the cause
f emperance and struck heavy blows againstthe liquor
traffic No man the worth OF his support to
The Slorions cause . John Kelly has had his
ewes opened late and glad of it, 1t unfair for
his enemies him of making crusade against
the l0uor dives merely for the purpose Of political pre-
fernent hope day viii come when John Kelly VIII
deliver temperance speech from this platform
At temperance meeting held in the evening, at
Go.pel Union Hall in SiXth-ave, under the dlrec-
ton of the Rev. G. G. G0ss, Mr. Gibbs gave des-
cription of the work of the Cooper Union meetings.
John Kelly" he said, ''has broken the shackles
on this temperance question; and now that he mas
moved, the Democratic party, which has been long
known as the rum party of this city, will be ready
10 make a move. The Democratic press is now free
TO speak" He told the story of his having written
q letter to McGiOry, and said: -
In answer to my letter his wife called on me the morn
ing after M receipt She told me that those were the first
kind words that had been spoken TO him since his tIG
bles Wien / called McGiOry in the Tombs, he SAID
with tears i'm his eyes: MIR. Gibbs until few years
ago never touched drop OF liquor. went into the
bueiess of bad advisers, and since then nave
been IN able exricate myself Capitalists nave held
me DOWN and all have heard IL Money! Money! MI
Gibbs II / come out from tins prison. promise you 70
give an this business TO into respectable work ana 10
30 whatever YOU saw" And no meant i'll tell you
Waati II we get Billy McGlory ont OF prison and set
lin TO work these dives will make things hot Tor
fle deus uf yicel