Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
In the Name of Temperance.

In the Name of Temperance.
In the name of Temperance, two years
ago, Judge Foraker was defeated, and
Judge HOadly, the regular attorney of
the Liquor Dealers Association, was
elected Governor of Ohio.
In the name of Temperance, two years
ago, free whisky Legislature was elect
ed, and that Legislature distinguished
itself by selling seat in the U. s. Sen
ate for Standard Oil Doodle.
In the name of Temperance, two years
ago, two Democratic Judges Of the Su-
preme Court were elected for the pur+
pose of destroying the only practical
and efficient Temperance law Ohio has
had on the statute books for 50 years;
and as a result there is now absolute
free whisky.
In the name of Temperance, Mrs.
Woodbridge, President of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, has eulo>
gized the Democracy and denounced
John Sherman, Gen. GrosvenoT, Major
Butterworth and other Republican Lead
ers.
In the name of Temperance, a third
party Political Prohibition Convention
was held in Springfield, o., last Wednes-
day and Thursday, and full State tick
ct was nominated. There is no pretense
that this ticket can possibly be elected,
but the object, in the name of Temper
ance, is to smash" the Republican party.
to defeat Foraker, and to continue in
power the most corrupt and incompe-
tent administration Ohio has ever had.
In the name Of Temperance, Rev. DR..
Leonard, nominated for Governor by the
Political ProhibitiOnists, stumped Ohio
last fall against Blaine, and, so far as
was in his power, contributed to the
election of Grover Cleveland, who was
at that time attorney for the Liquor
Dealers League at Buffalo, n. Y, and
was supported for tie Presidency by ev>
cry liquor journal in the United States.
DR.. Leonard, we say. contributed so
far as was in his power to the election of
Grover Cleveland, inasmuch as be tried
to persuade Republicans to vote for st.
John instead of Blaine, when he knew
that st. John had not the ghost of
chance.
In tie name of Temperance, st. John
sneaked around in the close States and
worked to keep Republicans from voting
for Blaine. If st. John was honestly
desirious of merely polling as large
Prohibition vote as possible, why did he
not labor in the Southern States, where,
he claims, there is such predominatiDg
prohibition sentiment?
In the name of Temperance, a few
weeks ago, Mr. Ludlow. the Springfield
Prohibitienist, invited St. John to "eome
over and help US" at the third party con-
vention. In the name of Temperance.
st. John replied that he would come for
500 and the payment of his expenses.
In the name of Temperance. St. John
delivered at Springfield abusive speeches
against the Republican party, and prais-
ed Cleveland and the Democracy.
And in the name of Temperance st.
John used the following language: This
attempt of the Republican party to keep
up sectional hate should be frowDed
down. All the war issues are dead. The
negroes down South have the right. OF
MY OWN PERSONAL OBSERVA-
TON AND KNOWLEDGEI ASSERT
THAT THE SOCIAL AND POLITI>
CAL CIVILIZATION OF OFDANVILLE.
VA, AND OF COPlAH COUNTY,
MISS. Is AS HIGH AND AS CRED
TABLE AS IN ANY LOCALITIES
IN THE UNITED STATES. AND
THAT THE CHARGE THAT THERE
Is ANY BULLDOZING, FRAUD, IN
OR VIOLENCE AT
THE POLLS THERE IS FALSET
The suppression of Republican votes
in Danville, Va, and Copiah county,
Miss, by fraud and murder, is openly
confessed and boldly justified. Why,
even President Cleveland has convicted
st. John of being liar, by drawing the
line of murder" as a recommendation for
political office. aud the Ney case in
question occurred in Copiah county,
Miss, last fall.
1t was bad enough for st. John to put
in his scratch to beat Blaine; it is bad
enough for ST. John to slobber over
Cleveland as the quiutessenee of virtue;
but il is infamous that any one. for "one
hundred dollars and expenses" should
so brutally lie about the greatest outage
On American citizenship.
And this is the man that the Political
and the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union have brought to
Ohio to organize faDatical crusade
against that gallant soldier and pure
and reputable citizen, Judge Forakerl
Verify, the fOllies perpetrated under the
yuise of Temperance are as great as the
crimes committed IN the name of liberty.
If st. John is mad in his belly-cTawl~
Eg to the BouTbonism of the South,
there is method in his madness. He and
his friends have fixed up ticket for
1888. and it reads ''St. John, of Kansas,
for President, and C0lquitt, of Georgia,
for Vice President. Gin. Com. Gazette.