Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-24
THE pROHIR. my

suffers from Too Much watsr-sIm At
tendance at the wiIwam Last Night
Thompson ON tho Bushnell Isttsr-i'e"u-
champ Makes nm Hours speech.
By o'clock last evening IL looked very
much rs though the excess of cold water were
going to knock out the Prohibitionists and
their mass meeting M the Wigwam. The
committeeman consulted fifteen minutes
abou, postponng the meeting indefinitely, but
finally determined to go on with II because it
was shame TO waste so much free adyertis-
ing as had been given this meeting. The
Big Six was put Mt the Main street
entrance where the sweet strains
cnticcd stragglers in out of the wet until $50,
at which time Wilbur Colyn called to order
the scattered sprinkling OF humanity that
occupied the front seats, aud the meeting be-
gan. After the opening music. and prayer
by Rev. J. B. Walker, Of the N. =. church,
Il. $. Thompson, chairman of the Prohibition
Executive COMMITTEES, devoted thirty-fv
minutes to the discussion of Bushnell's let
ter. Tho whole tenor of this address was TO
~
between the Prohibition and Republican par
ties, and that the Republicans are afraid TO
come out from behind the tree and knock the
chip off the Prohibition shoulder. He
attacked the letter in four sections,
and evidently considered each point
settled when he had assured the audience that
Captain Bushnell was mistaken. In the first
place he maintained that there is qucs-
ton at issue between the two parties, the tax
alton vs.. the prohibition of the liquor traffic.
He argued that in promulgating and sustain
ing the Scott law the Republican party had
irrctrievably committed itself to taxation;
that taxation was the enemy Of prohibition,
and therefore there is a fight between
the two parties.
His next point was lengthy denial that
Dr.. Leonard had ever said "thc frat step to-
ward prohibition is TO kill the Republican
party" He asserted that this was malicious
statement on the part Of the Republican pa
pers that printed reports of the speech.
His third point was to deny the assertion
in the letter that the Prohibition party is the
ally of the Democracy. He elaborated at
who could believe that such is the case and
went on to explain that the Prohibition party
is straight out-and-out; that it is down on
licensing the traffic just as much az taxing it;
and that therefore it's antagonism is Just as
bitter toward the licensing Democrats us to-
ward the taxing Republicans.
His last point of attack WAS the following
sentence Of the letter: "To have discussion,
therefore, between Judge Foraker and the
Rev. DR.. Leonard would be to have the cand-
date of one OF the great parties of the State
debating with the nominee of what ia only
an attempted diversion in favor of the other
great party of the State This he inter-
prctcd to mean that Judge Foraker can
not possibly debate with Dr. Leonard
because DR.. Leonard is the opponentand no.
the defender of the Republican party. He
expressed sorrow for the Judges inability to
debate with anyone who is not OF his own
way of thinking, and grew quite facetious on
the subject.
Then followed more music, after which Mr..
Colvin introduced Lou J. Beauchamp, the
orator OF the evening. Beauchamp immc-
dately started in on a rattling haranguc just
as though he were talking to full house, and
kept it up for just sixty minutes. There was
nothing new in his speech, the whole being
devoted to proving the necessity OF prohi-
bi'lon party and its consequent right to
exist.
After he had finished no time was left for
further speechiiyingan the meeting djourned
with the benediction.