The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-28

ommouate all who would hear
Great crowds gathered on the nnh
lie square, and listened with CON-
teous order to the plain trutb
Rev. I. K. Funk, ID, of the Vo;e n'
M. J. Tanning, of Michigan ana
myself spoke the first night and
Gov. st. John the second, Tbara
were at least 5000 people VIII
heard st. John-some said soon
I never saw a more attentive mas
of listeners, and the majority stand.
ing. He dealt in State facts large.
ly, and answered with much forcs
the claim put forth that morning
in local paper, that the Republi,'
can party was the mother of Probi.
bition. He grew sarcastic, as ba
commonly does, but not bitter, and
his closing appeals to the audience
coming warm and quivering from
his loyal heart, awoke spontaneous
outbursts of applause. The time
is coming. and is not far distant
when Kansas will honor John p
St. John more highly than she vet
has done.
Mrs. M. T. Lathrap made one of
her fearless speeches Wednesday
afternoon, in which she went down
deep into the logic of governmental
relations, and showed how needfuli is
a party in power that shall sympa.
thize with the moral issue of today.
The whole attitude of government
must be changed toward the liquor
traffic, she held i; and this change
can come only through the domi.
nant party. Mrs. Lathrap is now
for the first time in Kansas, and
will remain some days, going
hence to camp engagements in III
I leave this State the 23d for two
weeks in Illinois.
What is the actual outlook here?
I have not been about yet in the
state sufficient to form an intelli-
gent opinion. At the convention
different expressions were heard
concerning our probable party vote,
but I heard none that put it less
than 10000. Last night in this
town, where [ spoke to a fine audi
ence, one leading sympathizer
said the vote would not run under
10000, and he believed it would
reach 10000 He even felt hope
full of Branscombe's election; but
he is too sanguine. Still, he was a
Blainite in 1884, and there, where
then but few St. John ballots were
cast, they now count over eighty.
Many Republicans were at my
meeting last night, and listened
as if under conviction. There is a
strong undercurrent of political
change-no doubt of that. 1t has
been quickened by the renomina-
ton of Martin, and will grow
stronger and swifter until election.
Men of shrewd observation say
Martin must lose at least $1,000
votes this year as compared with
'84. He and Col. D. R. Anthony
have an old feud, and Anthony
now is publishing in his Leaven-
worth paper some salient facts
Anthony says the Republican pro-
hibitory plank is hypocritical
pretense, and that Martin is oppos-
ed to enforcing Prohibition. An
thony cites the defeat of the
"Search and Seizure" resolution to
prove there is no honest purpose
to make Prohibition prohibit in full
measure and Anthony is Repub-
Ecan. 1t looks as if he might
make political life burden for
Gov. Martin from now on; and if
he doesn't I've an idea the Prohibi-
tionists will. They have difficult
ties to overcome, one must confess,
Kansas Republicans look no farther
than their own boundaries. With
Prohibition fairly enforced in town
and county they are content. The
national need is little thought of
by them and their party has cred
it, in their eyes, for all the good
accomplished. They admit that to
some extent the Democratic saloon,
under Click, has multiplied as
the Republican party drugstore
under Martin but they believe all
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