Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-27
DIR. A. B. LEONARD,
THE CAMP MEETING ALE STORY.
Affidavit of G.. w. Gladden-Humilia-
ting Position of the Prohibition
Candidate.
DECATUR, Ind, August 10, 1885.
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DECATUR, Ind, August 10, 1885.
To the Editor of the Commercial Gazette:
notice in the Enquirer Of August IS,
1885, telegram from DR.. A. B. Leonard,
dated Uhrichsville, August IL, in which
DIR. Leonard, Prohibition candidate for
Governor for the Democratic Aid Soeie-
ty, said ''the camp meeting story in the
Commercial Gazette of to-day was an
Infamous lie" signed A. B. Leonard
Now wish to say the camp meeting
story is true, verbatim, as published be-
low. During the first summer of DR..
Leoanard's pastorate at st. Johns NJ. E.
Church, Cincinnati, Ohio Brother Leon
ard was at my house to dinner (his fam+
lily, 1 think, had gone to Kansas on a Wis.,
it, when he took something like an in
ward spasm, caused by that terrible dis
ease dyspepsia. helped him from the
table to the parlOr, and he laid down on
the sofa, and after he got able l said to
him: Brother Leonard, let me take you
in my buggy to DR.. o. E. Newton" (since
deceased). He consented. The Doctor
examined him ahd said: "Mr. Leonard,
can cure you, but you won't take the
medicine You are temperance man,
Prohibitionist, and you won't take my
medicine" Brother Leonard replied,
Il will take anything that will cure me-"
Dr.. Newton turned around to me and
said, go to Walkers brewery and get
him dozen bottles of old stock ale, the
oldest they have got" 1 went to Mr..
Walkers brewery and told him what
wanted the ale for. Mr.. Walker sent
one of his men into the cellar to a eer~
tian corner, and he brought up dozen
bottles of the finest, oldest and bitterest
ale he had. 1t was five or six years old,
Mr.. Walker said. 1 put the bottles in a
basket and covered them up and drove
home. DIR. Newton told Brother Leon
ard that he did not want him to eat a
single square meal at the table, but that
he should have some bread toasted
until it was quite brown. and then soak
the toast in say half tumbler of the ale
several times a day. Brother Leonard
said. Il will do it." The physician told
Brother Leonard if he would follow his
advice his dyspepsia would be cured.
Shortly after this, the Dayton camp
meeting came on, and Brother Leonard
came to me and said, What are we got
ing to do?" We had both made up our
minds to 60 Ireplied, 81 will fix that
all right" My wife went to work and
toasted him lot Of bread, and l put
three bottles of the ale in my grip sack.
My wife did up the toast, and we started
to the Dayton camp meeting. Brother
Leonard and 1 would get up early in the
morning. and 1 would take the grip sack
containing the ale and toast, and we
would go away out in the woods where
no one would see us. and L would take
out the ale and toast, and Brother Leon
ard would take about half tumbler of
ale and soak the toast in it, and would
eat the toast and sip the ale. We would
be there for half an hour at time. This
would do three times a day while we
staid there, which was three or four
days, and we did this believing it was
right, and 1 know it did him much good.
DR.. Leonard has no better friend than l
am, for l always esteemed him very
highly, and 1 am exceedingly sorry that
he has stepped down from his high CALI
ing as minister of Christ and gone into
the low cesspools of politics. This is his
great mistake. G. W. GLADDEN..
P.S.-It would have been infinitely
better for DR.. Leonard to have come cut
like a Christian gentleman and told the
whole truth about his ale>drinking at
camp meeting and at my house, when
he did it by the advice of physician,
instead of branding the whole story as
an infamous lie, when he knows in his
own soul it is as true as the Gospel that
he breaches. G.w.G.
State of Indiana, Adams county, S.:
Personally appeared before the UNDER
signed, Notary Public for said county,
George W. GLADDEN., whe, being duly
sworn upon his oath, says that the above
and foregoing statement is true to the
best of his knowledge and belief.
G. w. GLADDEN..
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of August, A. D. 1885.
R. S. PETERSON, Notary Public.
DIR. LeOnard's Infamous Lie"
URICHsvILLE, o., August II.
| To the Editor of the Commercial Gazette:
The camp meeting sle-drinking story
in your issue of to day is an infamous
| lie. 4. B. LEONARD.
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