The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-01

not loved, and the little plot of st. John would
have been failure had the national committee
valued him at his own figures.
He was put off courteously by the committee,
who evidently did not appreciate him as being so
dangerous as he afterwards proved. Rule or
ruin now became his aim. The world knows
now ne helped put party in power which had
always opposed temperance patriotism,
tine advancement of the race, ne three watch
words ne had used to make himself the apostle
OF prohibition. The people of Kansas do not
care whether he took money from the Demo
Gratis or not. He has been TT ID at the bar of
public opinion as traitor to the principles
ne nad protested, to the party which
had lifted him from an obscurity which
would now be as welcome as ii was profound
be has been condemned. The decision is final
clal ostracism and political death. So far as
this State is concerned the judgement has been
executed Benedict Arnold could scarcely have
been more lonely man. Excluded from pro-
hlbltlon meetings, spurned from Republican
councils, how can he affiliate with the whisky
interests or the Democrats who used him as
tool to accomplish their designs, but threw him
away as useless thing when he had served
their purpose? The following is letter written
him by Prohibitionist, but accidentally not
sent, and SO came into my possession
ATcHIsoN, Kan, Nov, 1884.
John P. st. John:
Your picture is conspicuously posted in every sa-
loon in Atchison. The Kansas City. Times applauds
the copperhead Democracy and the rebel Democracy
are now your friends and defenders.
The religious and Christian people of the North
have prayed for different result of your teaching
They are overwhelmed with chagrin and modification
at your course
They Join with the saloon-keepers in defend
ing you. You have thrown yourself into their arms
and you must submit to their caresses.
Your friends spurn you:
Last October, at the meeting of the Kansas
State Temperance Union, St John, who was
for four years its president, entered. He sat
unnoticed, except by very few of his own sort
The man whose presence had before stirred en-
thuSiastic rapture in such assemblies now sat
deserted, unnoticed, unhonored, silent spec
tator A resolution, Resolved, That we, the
Prohibitionists OF Kansas, will stand by the he
publican party as long as the Republican party
stands by US, y brought him to his feet and with
his face ablaze with wrath, with clenched fists,
he Moderated loudly against the resolution.
While he spoke, taunts, sneers, hisses curses,
were hurled at him, and without further argu-
ment the resolution was carried by an over
whelming majority.
He went out of the convention fouted
secuted, scorned, hated, desolate man. No man
since Richard III, who saw even his dog 60
to his rival Bolingbroke, ever stood 80 deserted
among former friends. His rancor against the
Republican party has not yet abated. He is
doing what he can to start third party IN
Kansas, which he we'll knows is to hand the State
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prohibition.
That he has had wrongs no one denies. The
Republican party should either have prevented
his nomination for third term or being nom
mated, he should have been elected. Then, also,
he should have been sent to Chicago to the Re-
publican convention. If he had been elected he
would have been Republican Governor during
the time of the Pittsburg convention. Does
any sane man think if he had been Governor at
that time that he would have deserted the partyl
Anyone can think of ways by which ne could
have conducted his presidential campaign to in
sure victory and not defeat to the Republican
party, the only party in which prohibition can
have any hope of success, and still have been
consistent with his former professions.
One more proof that he is purely self
seeker is that st. John sent to John A. Martin,
Republican nominee for Governor, about this
proposition:
Appoint my wife trustee to the State charitable in
situations, appoint my partners brother-in-aw
steward of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Olathe
and will use my influence with the Prohibitionsts
that they do not indorse the Greenback candidate.
Colonel Martin scorned the proposition and
was triumphantly elected.
st. John now affliates with such Democrats
as will receive him, with soreheads and i'm
practicable whisky Republicans but against his
name will evermore be written that word of
desolatior 'Ichabod." MRS. JOHN DAVID.