Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-07-23

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I'll belong to no party under
heaven that champions the liquor
interest by such a plank in its |
platform as that. Applause. es-
pecially from the Republicans
Sumptuary laws don't mean person.
al liberty. It means friendship to
liquor; that is what it means, and
I dare any of you Democrats to
deny it. Applause. I am with
the Democratic party like | used
to be with the old sinner. l have
been of them; I have been there;
you can't get round me. Laughter:
A voice = "That's the way to find
it out. Mr.. Jones" And I want
it understood that nothing | say
on the platform in Missouri is to
be considered in the interest OF the
Republican party. l never be-
longed to that party. Applause
from the Democratic side. And
glory be to God, | never will.
! Tumultuous applause from the
Bourbon side.
And / tell you another thing, all
the political devilment that is
done in this country is covered by
party influence andparty power.
Do you know that? 1t is
mighty conveninient. to burn
their letters occasionally [ applause
and laughter . and there are some
features and some facts brought
out in Washington, and frequently
in the different States in this
Union, that you will not find any
! political paper that will touch
them at all They are good judges
of what to publish, do you know
that? Now the politicians, they
may say, and they do say, "We are
opposed to prohibition, because the
Prohibition party has power, or
will have power to defeat us Demo-
Gratis or us Republicans" Well,
, look-a-here, am by my Democracy
and Republicanism, if 1 am a true
man, just like I am by my religion
my Methodism, if you please, and
, if anybody asks you what 1 am,
religiously, you tell them I am a
, Methodist shouting all over, and
{ if anybody asks you what [ am
, politically, you tell them I'm a
Mugwump. Laughter. I I'm lust
, waiting for the right sort of a par
5 ty to pick out. I don't know
: whether the Prohibition party is
the right one or not. | said yes
: terday when man offers himself
: for President of the United States
5 and wants me to vote for him be-
} cause he is a prohibitionist that
], amt no sign I'll vote for him-if
r all he's got is that he is a Prohi-
> bitionist. I would just as well
have an old swill-tub for President
: of the United States, drunk every
day, as to have sober fool there.
A fool has no sense, drunk or
7 sober. We don't want that one.
5 Applause. And then, another
l thing, prohibition is only one
| qualification of a gooJ officer.
When a man offers himself as
/ a candidate and claims my vote, [
: want him to be a man all over. If
| he is simply Prohibitionist, but
> | say this much-if he is friend
[ of liquor, 1 don't care what else he
| is, he will never get my vote, so
help me God. [Applause. [ won't
, vote for any man for any Office
| in the world, from dog-pelter up,
{ that will drink whisky. You old
| stinking devil, you what are you
: fit for, to run around through this
t country claiming to bea candidate
for the sufferages of the people,
, with your old breath smelling like
a still-house. You need to be
l taken out and bucked down over
a log and hit hundred lashes be-
| fore breakfast every morning;
coming out here offering yourself
as a candidate when you are just
t sweating with whisky. [ Laughter. ]
, If my old dog was to go and vote
: for you and come back into my
| yard l would kill him. Laughter.
[ have stood in different cities of
7 the Union and said. You have
5 got men in your Legislatures
} nagging along the streets here and
: nagging up through the corridors
Y of this capitol here, drunk, and
you send them here to make laws
for decent people. Said I, you
3 amt got all the bad people in the
3 chain gang, you trifing hound of
, the devil, you. And if you want
l decent laws in State, you have
D got to send decent men to make
laws, and you've got to have de-
} cent men TO execute those laws.
t God give US sober men.
Y You take old Georgia. I'm
f proud of her, Ii anybody asks
r you where 1 live, you tell them
, live in Georgia. Do you hear:
l I'm proud of that. Our Governor
t is constitutional teetotaller; he
:, won't touch it in any shape OF
4 form. He is a deacon in the
e Baptist Church, and loves God
n and keeps his commandments.