West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-10-28
FORWARD, MARCH,!
"We Propose to Move Immediate.
ly on your Works.
The Future of the Prohibition
Party.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY,

back" the Temperance Reform for
at least twenty years. The results
of the recent Ohio election prove
that statement to be utterly false
and reveals the fact that the young
party is erect, vigorous, aggressive,
we'll equipped, and possesses the ele-
ments of rapid and substantial
growth.
At this center of classic and
Christian education-the Athens
of the West-any wide-awake man
has rare opportunities for noting
the progress of popular sentiment,
and for feeling the public pulse in
regard to this great cause.
One significant fact is demonstra-
ted by the campaign in Ohio, and
that is the Third Party has come
and come to stay. It's principles
like the eternal truth of God shall
finally triumph over all opposition
and conquer every foe.
The platform of the Prohibition
party this year is one of the best
and noblest declarations OF moral
principles of general reform, that
any political organization ever
adopted. The first time in our his
tory a political platform reached
the height of the pulpit. 1t came
up to the high standard of every
religious denomination in this
country. Nearly identical with
the resolutions adopted by the Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, it appealed to
the hearts and consciences of all the
members of that mighty and in
fluential body.
In brief, no Christian citizen
could " ish for better, purer, and
cleaner platform, than the one on
which our gallant and magnificent
leader, our eloquent and fearless
champion, DR.. A. B. Leonard,
fought his manly battle against
the combined powers of the whisky
oligarchy,
The election is over, but the ir-
repressible conflict is still raging
with undated energy. The un-
iversal feeling in the hearts of our
friends is "ForaOard, along the HneI
We can congratulate ourselves
on the size of the Prohibition vote,
under such complicated conditions.
The vote will not fall below thirty
thousand. In this County (Dela-
ware alone, we made net gain
of three hundred. A large number
of our bright and intelligent stu
dents voted this year for "God and
Home and Native Land"
I present the following reasons
for my belief that the Prohibition
Party is the only hope Of Temper
ance people for the speedy and sue
cessful overthrow of the Rum Pow
er in this Nation.
In Ohio the case stands exactly
in this condition. The Democratic
party is the open and avowed enc
my to Prohibition, First last and
all the time" Whisky and Democra-
cy were married long years ago and
no application for divorce has
ever been filed.
The Republican party captured
a large part Of the saloon vote and
thus succeeded in winning the
election. Judge Foraker owes
office to the wine bibber and beer
bummers of this State.
Unalterably committed to "regu-
lation by taxation" the &c. 0. p.
will' refuse to submit Prohibito-
ry amendment to the people this
winter. If it fails to do this, it's
doom is sealed forever. Many
honest Christian voters supported
it in the fond hope that it would
gu bmit the amendment. ~
But the signs of the times obvi-
ously show that the hope is ground
less.
The Third Party is the only one
which is pledged to the protection of
the home against the saloon. 1t will
surely and inevitably draw to its
ranks the moral and religious ele-
ments of society, and in the near
future will become the greatest
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