Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
TEMPERANCE TICKET
GEORGE W. WELLS DIssBErs AND
RESIGNS.


! Temperance state nnd coum<s
!, TickcIs-OTTicers Eiecsea.
The State Temperance Alliance re-
! sumed its session at 2 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon week, in st. Paul's NJ Z.
: Church. The attendance was larger than
at the morning session.
I The Rev. d. @. Babcock Of Philade1-
phia, agent of the Pennsylvania Stats
/ Temperance Union, was again present, aud
I was given the privilege of the floor. M
, Henry w. Morrow arose to u question
of privilege, in order to explain the mea1-
, ing of his remarks, made at the morning
session, relative to a clique controlling
the alliance. He said that what be meant
was, without any disrespect, that the
Methodist influence dominated the alli-
ance too strongly, and that IL would be
better to have other denominations repre-
sented among the officers.
The Rev f. w. McSorley referred 10
the remark of Mrs. Campbell, the elo-
quent and tir.less temperance worker,
who, when reminded by a friend that she
was burning her candle at both ends. .
REPLIED Sister If you will light your
candle and place it alongside OF mine, /
will extllguish tue light NJ one end Of
miue.' He said if the other deDomina.
tions would light their candles and place
themselves in line, one end of the
Methodist candle would be extinguished.
| Applause greeted this sentiment.
Theauditing committee reported that the
treasurer's accounts showed balance Of
45 cents, with an unpaid bill Of $3. 20 for
the printing necessary in issuing the call
for this meeting. The report was adopted
The Rev. DR.. Babcock, agent OF the
1 ,ex-l1Vn 10 AaE. ~
was introduced and spoke briefly in favor
| of prohibition.
The nominating committee reported the
following as officers for the ensuing year
President, r. M. Cooper; Vice Presi-
dent, Alfred Gawthrop, New Castle
county; g. H. Register, Kent; II. @.
Lewis, Sussex Recording Secretary, the
Rev. o. g. Buddington, Corresponding,
the Rev. t. E. Terry; Treasurer, George
w. Todd.
Central committee-NewC Castle county,
William L. White, the Rev. Eli Menden-
hall, George w. Wells and Thomas
McCorkle, Jr.; Kent, the Rev. J. b.
Quigg, j. Y. Stewart, W. M. Brown
Sussex, the Rev. H. G. Weatcn, William
B. Records, Jacob Williams.
The Rev. t. E. Martindale, who was
named by the committee for the position
of recording secretary, declined, ard the
Rev. o. G. Buddington, pastor of
Bethany Baptist Church, this city,was
named in his place by the Rev. e. L.
Hubbard andaccepted. The committees
report was then adopted.
The committee on resolutions reported :
the following:
WHEREAS, The friends OF local option and
prohibition In the State OF Delaware. by Pc
EE. ho- -.4zl-k r
have sought In vain to secure protection
from the legalized traffic In intoxicating
liquors as beverages, and from the exces-
sive burdens 1t imposes upon taxpayers
and the multiplied grievances It fnfiicts
upon society, and as 1t has been clearly
shown that only party supremacy and
neither justice nor the general welfare has
been respected In the enactment, admins
tration and enforcement of law in the State
on this subject; therefore, the State Tenn
perance Alliance, met In annual session,
hereby agrees In the adoption OF the follow
ing resolutions:
1. 1t is too evident that until the friends
OF prohibition are as ready to sacrifice party
affiliations as the members and friends OF
liquor Leagues, that politicians, contending
for party supremacy, will not respect their
desires or demands.
2. As local option has been refused to the
people OF the State persistently and steadily,
and as 1t is only to secure prohibition We
have sought local option, we deem It our
duty ut this time to set up our standard,
and to contend In the future, by every
legitimate and proper means, for the enact
ment Of both statutory and constitutional
prohibition.
8. 1t Is no longer the suggestion of wis
dom or prudence that the friends Of prohi-
bition should hesitate to organize for
determined appeal to the ballot-box, and
we, therefore, instruct the central execu-
tive committee TO consider, to devise and
execute the required measures to this end.
The preamble and the first and second
resolutions were adopted without discus
sion, but the third was debated at length.
The Rev. L. e. Martindale opened by in
quiring what it involved. Frank Whelau,
member of the committee, said his inn
preston was that the alliance was to
start Prohibition party in Delaware.
The Rev. j. B. Quigg said it maazss
state and county conventions, the nomi-
nation of candidates for every position
to be filled at the approaching election
and united, determined effort to elect
them. He followed with IN earnest APP
peal for prohibition campaign.
Solomon Hersey challenged the meeting
to name any state where temperance
ticket had resulted in securing prohibition
or local option. They had been instituted,
he claimed, by the Democratic party in
Maine, Maryland, Georgia and Virginia,
and by the Republican party in Kansas,
Iowa and New Jersey. Temperance legis-
lation had always come from the old
parties and always will. Votes were
wanted to elect the temperance ticket,
but you will never get them. The place
to make them effective is at the party
primaries, in selecting good candidates
for the party tickets, instead of wasting
the strength of the temperance sentiment
on temperance tickets.
George w. Wells offered a substitute
that ''if either of the old parties incor-
porates the principles of prohibition or
local option in its platform, ii will be our
duty TO support the candidates of that
party, but it was rejected by decisive
vote.
J. Alexander Fulton spoke at length
against third party movement, and the
Rev. 0. G. Buddington, the Rev. Charles
Moore, Alfred Gawthrop and others,
earnestly supported the resolution.
The Rev. DR.. Babcock of Philadelphia,
supported the resolution, and spoke of
the hypocrisy of both the great parties.
Both, he said, were in the control of the
rum interests. He gave some amusing
incidents of the happenings at party
caucuses, to show how distasteful it would
be for good temperance men to attend
them in order to attempt to secure proper
candidates. He said the last national
Republican convention refused to con-
slider resolution in favor of submit
ting the question of prohibition to
a vote of the people, while the Demo-
cratic convention declared against sumpt-
uary legislation. He also alluded to the
manner in which James G. Blaine, the
Republican candidate for President,
lodged the vote on the prohibitory amend
ment at the state election in Maine prior
TO the Presidential contest. DR.. Babcock
said he had always been an ardent Repub-
fcan, but at the election in 1884 he voted
for st. John and would do so again. His
speech was vigorously applauded.
The third resolution was then adopted
without any dissenting votes.
Resolutions thanking the people OF
Wilmington for their hospitable reception
of the delegates, the p, w. Il B. r.. II.
company for reduced rates of fare, and
the pastor and officers of st. PauPs M.
E. Church for the use Of the edifice for
the sessions of the alliance were also
adopted.
George W. Wells, in view of the adop-
tion of the third resolution, rendered his
resignation of all official positions in the
alliance, as he wished to keep himself
from all obligations, and be free to act in
the future as circumstances might sug-
gest. His resignation was quickly ac-