The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-25

Satl0n grew 80 pleasant Iual aiuoel
forgot the object of our meeting. Gen.
eraI Lee at that time was accompanied
by one of his staff officers, Colonel
Marshall. I had all my staff with me, a
good portion of whom were in the room
during the whole of the interview.
CRUSHING THE WORM.
Sam Jones Thro.ting the Whlskey Stills.
atlanta Consultation.
The greatest temperance rally probably
ever seen in the city was that at the
opera house last night, under the auspices
of the Convention.
The house was filled to its utmost ca.
pacity and the enthusiasm was high. It
was largely due, however, to the remark
able speech which was delivered by the
Rev. Sam Jones, the famous revivalist.
His striking originality and his strong
powers of expression were brought out
into effective play and almost every mo.
ment during the hour which he occu.
pied IN his remarks he was interrupted
by the applause or the laughter of his
hearers. Mr.. Jones handled whiskey in
way that showed his complete detesta.
tation of it and his sentiments were
made magnetic by the manner of their
expression.
he said: "I believe liquor is a good
thing in its place, and I believe its place
is in hell. Applause. If I was in hell
never will on this earth drink it again"
Speaking of the good that could be ac-
complished by prohibition and the diff
culties that stood in the way of obtain.
ing it, he said: "The main trouble is
with these little politicians. They say it
won't do to bring this question into
politics. They say it will hurt your
party. If your party has got to ride into
power on whiskey barrel, then | say it
ought to be hurt. Applause. I am a
Democrat. I was born Democrat, but
if you make Democracy mean opposition
to sumptuary laws and friendship to
liquor, then I am anything but Demo.
crat. Great cheering. After all, this
thing of politics is just question of the
Gins" and "outs." If the Radicals get
iu four years from now they will adopt
the good old Democracy. "Turn the
rascals out" Laughter. Some fellows
say don't mix politics and religion.
When you hear fellow talk that way
you may know he hasn't got any religion
to mix. Laughter. I would mix re-
ligion with politics, but not politics with
religion. A little religion will help
politics. It will make it clean and
decent. Laughter. We want truth,
justice and temperance mixed with poll.
tics in this State. Applause. Ispoke
to the Legislature of Tennessee on this
subject the other day. They are talking
about q constitutional amendment on
the liquor question up there. We want
this question cleared up beyond the reach
of these little crossroads judges who
hop up every now and then and gay
something is unconstitutional. Laugh.
ter. We want to do away with such
Judges and put decent men of brains and
character in their places. You can't re.
form Stale with swill tub for Cover.
nor and g lot of old wash tubs sitting on
the bench. Applause and laughter.
You can't reform State until you send
good men to the Legislature. Some men
come to every Legislature that meets in
Georgia that amt fit to 60 to the chain.
gang. Great laughter and applause.
An old skunk of a thing staggering
around on both sides of the streets at
once is a beautiful representative"
Laughter. There is not purer,
nobler man in Georgia than your Cover.
nor. Cheers. There are no better
men in Georgia than your Supreme
Court Judges Applause. / told them
in Tennessee, the other day, that you
had for Chief Justice in Georgia man
who would sit up all night talking to a
penitent at the altar. Georgia is all
right at the top and at the bottom. We
want to get all right in the middle, ap-
plause,] and if you refuse to help sup.
press the infamous wrong that is being
done by whiskey, you are rotten your
self. Laughter. Some of you here
don't know me. l speak plainly. 1 use
words you can understand. Now you
can take the Latin word decayed and it
won't phase fellow. If you take the
good old Anglo.Saxon word "rotten" you
can cut his head off. Laughter. You
see, I choose my words. Laughter.
Of course there are always some little
spelling book critics sitting around, who
will go back on q fellows grammar. l
wouldn't mind being swallowed by q
whale, but would hate to be nibbled to
death by minnows. Laughter and
cheers.
You have hundred counties in Geor-
gia where the liquor traffic is crippled.
In eighty counties there is prohibition.
I say look out for your drug stores.
Lookout for your little simlin.headed
doctors. Laughter. Some of them
fill their saddIe-bags with liquor and
become travelling bar-rooms. Laugh
ter. God pity doctor that will pre-
scribe liquor for man I might pre-.
scribe it for a poor, dying woman, but |
would not give it to man until he was
dead. Applause. Whiskey is not
good for one thing in this world for
which there is something else that is bet
ter. Applause. If the time ever
comes when they say to me, "You'll die
if you don't drink whiskey," will say,
"Get my shroud ready" Applause.
mean to die sober. If a fellow gets so
low that nothing but liquor will save
him, am ready to preach his funeral.
Applause. And have text that III
make him hope on. Laughter. [
didn't mean to talk here more than half
an hour. If any Of you fellows get
tired you know the way home. We
wouldn't have missed you if you hadn't
come at all.
I rejoice tonight that in more than
two. thirds of the counties of this State
whiskey can't be sold at all. Applause.
1 am glad the Legislature is going to
give us general local option law. Ap.
plause. If we don't turn whiskey out
of every county in this State at the first
election we will try it again. [Cheers.
I had great trial not long ago. have
been poor man all my life, and when