The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-24
u. L. SEE AT BATTLE-GROUND.
lie Attends the Camp Meeting and Learns
Many Things About New Party.

Correspondence of the indianapolis Journal
BATTLE GROUND, July 23-"Call this camp
meeting, do you? 1t isn't the kind was raised
on" said an octogenarian, yesterday, to your
youthful correspondent, as he looked around
upon the cluster of beautiful cottages with here
and there groups of persons evidently enjoying
| themselves, not in any rrelgious way, but not
in very religious manner, according to the old
mans notions, as he proceeded to contrast this
meeting with meeting nearhere fifty years ago
Evidently the old brother was younger then
than now, but still he is not downright croaker,
and he enters with becoming zest upon the new
order Of things
If the manager would call 1t an ASSEMBLY" a
la Acton, the true intent and meaning Of the
affair would be better understood. It's literary
and social characteristics are its most prominent
features, embracing a daily lyceum,
under the management of two prom
islng young men, Rev. j. H. Siddall
and Rev. P. W. Olmstead, in which, for an
hour, every morning, such themes as "Longfel-
low" THE Sum-" "Plant Life" and Martin
Luther" are discussed, after we'll prepared
paper on the theme has been read Of course
"-AS ~ wv
sister, hence this morning service was an
nounced for the Tabernacle for their entertain
ment and profit while from thirty to fifty at
tended the lyceum. The programme for the
season embraces some Of the best thinkers and
most abstruse subjects of the day, and these
people listen, and learn, and pay expenses with
out any help from Sunday excursion trains. The
daily excursion trains of the week are withdrawn
for Sunday, and Sunday becomes one Of the
most quiet and enjoyable days of the seven.
The sensation Of this week, so far, yesterday,
was Temperance day" Intent on no common
talent for the occasion, they had secured Rev.
DR.. Leonard, the prohibition candidate for Gov
ern0r of Ohio. The engagement was made be-
fore his nomination, else it would not have been
made at all, for the management is not willing
to be complicated with party politics. but they
knew his sentiments all the same, and expected
just such speech as he gave them and it
brlstled all over with third partyism a neces-
slty. The wonder was the evident satisfaction
with which it was received. This was the more
Illuminating to your correspondent because only
year ago he had labored to protect them from
this heresv, and, as he supposed, with unusual
success. Either the greater ability of Dr.
Leonard or a change in their views gave his
speech such a reception as to indicate little less
than revolution; but in private conversation
with his disciples of last year. your correspondent
discovered that their enthusiastic Endorsement
OF the speech, while under the excitement Of
the thunder of Leonards oratory, had
many mental reservations and provisos and they
are third party men only if prohibition cannot
be obtained otherwise. There is no mistaking
the sentiment as to prohibition, the difference
beng only as TO the how
The management had also secured Doctor
Marine, Of indianapolis whose known hostility
TO q third party was presumed to be guarantee
against any winking at that heresy. But what
could any man do, coming after such a speech as
Doctor Leonard had just made, in which he had
explored the earth. hell heaven and statiStics
Tor arguments bearing on the moral religious
and economic features of the question, and every
other feature, If it has any other Nobody but
Doctor Marine could have done anything; and
even he tioundered around worse than usual in
MS introduction, but soon struck out in
defense OF the political party of the future-or,
rather the political parties. He conceded the
essential identity Of tho "Mossbackr partv-ycs.
tterday, to day, ana forever the same; the home
Tor certain element, opposed to Sabbath
ana temperance, while the winning
parties of the future would crystalline
around living issues. both moral and material