Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-10

the southern people. No wonder
Mr.. HALsTEAD denounces LEoNARI
and ST.. JOHN. Better still, and omi
nous Of the fate Of the bloody-shir'
shriekers, is the statement Of their Ohio
organ that the State Temperance Con
yention "time and again during the two
DAVIS session gufiawed at references ia
the efforts Of the Republican party ia
secure the civil and legal equality Of the
freedmen" Was ever such a thing
heard Of before? What more speaking
comment could be made upon the
conduct Of the Republican party
How natural that the voters who have
been listening for twenty years to these
stories Of blood and thunder should
laugh in the faces Of the blOody-shirt
shriekers. Surely it is a hopeful indi-
cation. And it was not the only one ;
for a Georgia lady-Speaker land ladies
always figure in Prohibition conven-
tions) told the same convention that in
the far South the white Republicans
we're a set Of scamps, while every
honorable and Christian white man
was Democrat"
We begin to like the Ohio Prohibition
Convention that nominated DR.. LEON
ARD.
What is to be the result? We don't
know. 1t is too soon for anybody to
know. We quote from Springfield
(Ohio) letter in the Commercial Gazette
the following speculations:
General Cary. Charles Rowland,
and other Democrats, boast that the
political ProhibitionistS will poll fifty
thousand votes in Ohio this fall, and
with a chuckle it is announced that most
of them will come from the Republican
party, and that, therefore, Foraker is
bound to be beaten, and that John Sher-
man is doomed TO be left at home. And
in order to bring this about the, Metho-
dist Church is to be worked through
DR.. Leonard, 0berlin College, and the
Western Reserve through Professor
Frost for Lieutenant-GOvernor), the
Quakers through A. 4. Clevenger for
Attorney-GcneraD, and churches in
general. prayer-meetings, and Sunday
schools through the political branch of
the Wonen's Christian Temperance
Union, which has attached itself to the
St. Johnny party in order to defeat the
Republican party
The most significant fact we can
mention in this connection is that the
Rev. j. II. BAYLIss, Of the Cincinnati
Christian Adrocdte, talked to an inter.
viewer as follows:
"You are a ProhibtOnist, Doc.
tori"
Thoroughly and unequivocally.
may say that my feeling on this subject
is intense. But as to third party be,
ing formed as a method to accomplish
/ the results to be SO ardently desired,
have grave doubts as to its efficacy.
am not clear on the subject, and desire
to say no more, only | regret that suci
an issue has come
1t will not require much persuasion
to bring that man and his paper up t.
the support of DR.. LEONARD, and i
that is done, good-by to the Republi
cans in Ohio.
Rev. Dir. j. j. HIGHT, also of tn
Christian Adrocdte, said
81 regard the nomination Of DR.
Leonard as a very strong one. He is
man of purest character, Of fine ability
and is thoroughly sincere. | do no
think that either the Democratic or tn,
Republican candidate for Governo
would dare 60 before the people o
Ohio and divide time with him in dis
cussion of the prohibition issue--an,
that is, | suppose, the only one he vii
discuss. l do not know what tn
effect Of DR.. Leonard's nomins
ton will be on the success
of the Republican ticket. lie will un
doubtedly command all the forme
strength of the Prohibition politics
party, and will draw from both Of tn
old parties, but it does not follow ths
the Republican party will be defeated
Gubernatorial elections in Ohio are YER
uncertain. The Prohibition part
movement is not at all, nor to any Q,
tent intended to be, in the interest (
the Democratic party; it is a SINGER
rebellion of good men against the d,
miuion Of the saloon, who can find L
, hopes Of relief in the license doctrin,
Of the Democratic party or the tax
ton and regulation doctrines of the R
publican party. They believe that N
thing but prohibition will prohibit"
The Republicans Of Ohio have a hal
> row to weed. We rejoice over the
trials and troubles.