Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-02

have no political ambition now n
reaches above an earnest and faithful adj
hesion to the cause of Christianity and the
blotting out Of every dram shop in the
nation.
SIT is always q pleasure for
me TO be able to say anything
based upon the principles of justice and
right-which pleases an audience, and l
am gratiiied at being placed in that posi-
ton tonight. On the principle of the
boy who always ate the pumpkin pie first
because he was afraid lie might die before
he came to the thing he liked most IN the
world, | will address myself first to a sub
iect which | have on my mind.
The speaker then explained that Il col
lection would be taken up ut the close of
| the meeting and expressed the hope that
no one wOnld dodge the issue by leaving
before his remarks were ut an end. That
| done. he said he would address himself to
! the main question before him.
1--WE are often reminded" he said,
that this work is progressing rather slow
In: Let me tell you that we are now get
ting onto the limited express, which stops
ut few statiOnS,-wo are running ut the
rate Of forty miles an hour, and will con-
| tinue on until we are finally landed at our
journeys end in the grand union depot OF
total prohibition. The OidslOw party trains
have been side-tracked, and tho way Is
clear for the new movement"
He recalled an incident of an old Maine
church deacon, who fifty years Of age, came
To the conclusion that the liquor
| traffic was a bad thing, and that ii VAS
his duty to put himself upon the side Of
riuht. Imbued with this idea the old fell
low held II convention by himself, chose
| himself chairman, passed u resolution set
ting forth that it was cXpedient to put Il
prohibition ticket in the field, and accord
ingly, ut the ensuing election, he wrote
out what he thought was 4 proper ticket,
marched up to the polls and deposited ms
ticket in the box, amid cries, OF Make
way for the Prohibition party" HcaL
after wear. the old Deacon, in his spade
| tailed coat and bell-crOwned hat, walked
ND to the polls, often between files OF men
who laughed at him as he passed along,
and deposited his Prohibition vote. But
the Lord permitted the old Deacon to live
until he saw the people of the State OF
Maine pass 4 pTOhibitOry statute, and III
ISL, the people, by u majority OF 42,OOO,
reiterated the sentiment expressed in that
law, and later endorsed, in State COnVcn-
ton, the utterances of that grand old man,
Neal Dow.
$50 it is" said he, "all over the cOun-
try. From the Atlantic to the Pacific VT
find the people-in the language of the old
war song, 600, 900 strong-making way
for the grand old Prohibition party,
the party of the future. Applause.
And in doing so they are leaving the
old political parties, and rs a natural con-
sequence we are not without vlllitlcatlon
and abuse, and there are even heard threat
enings against our lives and property. II
is, perhaps. noticed that the old party
leaders are feeling 4 bit uneasy-lying
awake at night and knawing q file and be,
rating somebody for what they don't just
exactly know.
II noticed this morning in the Wheeling
hie7iqeacer-an excellent paper, edited by
a statesman, but for ali that the editor
don't feel exactly easy about this temper
anre moyemcnt-an article in which thI
editor tries to whistle while passing
through the Republican graveyard. Zap,
plauSe. A~parlgraph in the editorial col
umns of this paper says:
'sMr. Wolfe. who has already nominated him
self aS the Prohibition candidate for Governor @
Pennsylvania, viii probably regard The snblnlS
sion plank of the Harrisburg Convention ~
knocking him ont on the first round"
That will be terrible for Mr.. Wolfe,
won't 1t? The idea ofknoc&ing a man out
in the first round! Now, lei me say to the
editor of the ~IHtcLigcarer, that it is no
the practice of the ProhibitiOnists, us it i:
of the Republicans, 70 nominate them
selves. The PrOhibitiOniSts receive their
nominations from II regularly constituted
convention, coming mp from the people,
and the Prohibition party of Pennsylvania
is abundantly able, when the time comes,
to nominate a ticket which will make il
mighty interesting for the old parties ii
that State. Applause, 1t puts me III
mind of the fellow who held an Antagonist
down by inserting his nose between his
teeth. Applause. But let rs sec If there
Is a single line of prohibition in the Penn,
sylvania platform. l contend that there i
not solitary prohibition sentiment in it
Hear it
.ReSyrof. That II is the opinion M judgment
OF this convention that the Legislature OF the
| state should at once adopt measures providing
for the submission OF this question 10 a vote a
the people in accordance with the true spirit n
our free institutions.
"Now on it's face that sounds gradd,
don't it? But when it is examined il
amounts to nothing. Who was asking the
Republican convention for anything OF
that kind? What the people of Pennsyl.
.yania asked. if anything, was that the par
7 ty would pledge itSelf TO give and enforce
prohibition, and not to express an opinion,
Mark the fox in the platform, that the
Legislature of the State should do some.
thing. What Legislature? Certainly moi
some future Assembly. The resolution pal
pably refers to the present legislature
bOdyi which adjourned weeks ago, and
which will never again assemble to enact
a statute! Applause. A wonderful thing,
isn't il? II demands that n Legislature
which is dead and gone shall submit q
question to the people! What hypocrisy
And vet the editor of the Iatoliigeace' says
that resolution will knock Wolfe out in
one round That resolution can't knock
ANYBODY out and the people won't be fooled
by it. THERE'S nothing in it. If you will re.
IStc udJ' Su1f nhVAVPOtSu
the resolution, as published in the Pittsburg
Dispatch and other journals, You will see
he says it doesn't mean prohibition. Dc
they take us for a lot of fools? He says it
only refers to the right the people have
under the constitution. lfthat is so, what
is the use Of the convention referring to it:
The truth is, il Is only the same old at
tempt to chlorOform the people and put
them TO sleep until after the next election"
Applause.
The speaker referred to the right of peti-
ton, and said paper petitions were worth
nothing-they were east under foot The
tonly way to do, both in Pennsylvania and