The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-26
TUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

those who had, in fact. captured itbe-
fore 1t met.
rue 1NFoRxAL-coSrIRRS
When 1t was decided that the Anti
Third Party men should leave ina body
the Rev. B. B. Evans, bright young
Methodist Protestant clergyman OF Grail
ion, extended public invitation to the
seesders to meet in his church. This
sSSa rise to the impression that the meet.
ing did take place in the NJ. ?. Church.
Those who remained elsewhere have sup.
piled the proceedings OF that gathering
from their own imagination. In writing
history it Is well to be accurate about 1t.
Tho secelers were In room in the Ar
Iiineton Hotel. It was thought best to
have IN informal moderator and the
Hon. Fontain Smith, Of Marion county,
consented to acti in that capacity. There
was no secretary, there We're no minutes
taken, and so there isno record Of the pro-
ceedings. There was q very full inter
change OF opinion, and without taking
any formal action, the general feeling was
| INF fsyer Of organization under the aus
Ipices Of the National League for the Sup
preston Of the Liquor Traffic, whose plan
OF movement Is by non-partisaa effort.
The Rev. George E. Elite, OF Wheeling, is
Vice President Of this organization for
West Virginia. a
The men who took part in this confer
encs did not hesitate to express their dis.
gust OF the Third Party movement. The
politicians who had engineered that
scheme were freely denounced as tricksters
who had set the convention up for a pur-
pose, and the g1ileless ones who had gone
In with them as too easily deceived TO be
Of service to any party.
An OLD srAoER's VIEW.
A venerable gentleman whose lie has
been devoted to the temperance cause TN
burdened himself to the INrELIlaEScEa in
this way:
HHistory will record the lamentable fact
OF the sly underhanded management Of a
fnger.numhered handful Of Third Party
politicians In the disruption OF the West
Virginia State Temperance Society, The
state Temperance Convention, one year
ago, at Pafkersbarg, voted sq9srely net 70
act in concert with the National Third
Party, which held Its convention at Pitts
burgh about the same time. Money was
naid and subscribed liberally for liqui-
dating Indebtedness incurred in running
the State Temperance Society and sus-
tanning Rev. ]. Warner, State Temper
auce Lecturer, and its paper, the. Ffees6ds.
| The funds invested have been ulegiti-
mately employed TO some extent to hatch
out a third political party, the outcome OF
which was revealed In the Grafton Com
yeniion OF 1885. Had the call for the an-
nnal meeting been made fairly, ,andsquarely
statcd that an effort would be made 70
orranize third party, delegates would
have clearly known the leading object ol
the meeting, and in fair issue would
have abided by the decision;
nThs trap was sprung by the maior part
OF the Committee on Resolutions, who
were uncompromisingly committed to q
Third Party Temperance Organization, no
doubt before the Convention met. How
much more honorable In them and ad'
iSsntageous 70 the cause Of temperance
| IL would have been to have waived sach q
movement Till another annual meeting. "
would have given time for deliberatton
and counsel aud well digested measures
Iior the continuance Of the State society,
| provided Third Party should hs organ
txed. Asit was, the old time temperance
friends had no time 70 rally and organize
their fordos at a time when they proposed
to take cars for home. They are doubly
numerous In this State aud VIII, no doubt,
in due time, remarshall their forces and
1 reorganize Tor more effective onslaught
i unon the LIQUOR rtraffic; the most damnable,
4 n this Ein.ltricken, sin. cursed world. j
have not pSrtInle OF Q doubt but that q
STATE Temperance non:pattisap organiza.
lion can accomplish double the amount el
good in copsuminatina ita heneheent mis.
Sion. than partisan organization yoke1
lLopether with woman suffrage. How
Imuch better for men Of all parties 20 unite
h n sleeting eandIdstss tor our State and
nationsI legislatures Who a.e honestly and
sacredly pledged to temperance, enan y g
waste our money, time and enetgisss s ~
nominating and voting Tor men ~ 4hta
Party politicians without elecnpg any
body, but indirectly defeating the best
candidates"
\ EYgEcr on THE RRPrlLIcAN PARTY. !,
Another gentleman, a Methodist preach
or and q very active temperance man
sald: 81 feel relieved to get out Of that
company, but / cannot look With satisiac'
tion'on the present condition Of things
Those mon will do harm with their Third
. Party. They will not greatly Interfere
|, with either OF the existing parties, bul
/. they will postpone the day of constttu
, tional prohibition In West Virginia. Yot
. will see that they Will array against then
good men OF both parties who hitherto
baye been In iayor ot prohibition AMI
/ they will arouse Tie strong resent
|, lment Of men who are not Pro
Lhibitionists, but have been witinl
: n olive snhrnission aiohance. From thosl