Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-20
SHERMAN.
Gov. Brooks, the Great Apostle Of
Temperance, Says Local Option
Is Failure.
The Citizens Of sherman want Go be
Counted in with Fort Worth on
the Extension.
special 10 tho Gazette,


courthouse, but the weather was too bad,
and only few Of those who felt inspired
by feeling of enthusiasm were brave
enough TO face the mud ane slop.
The most important Of these meetings
was a special meeting of the council TO
consider the question 81 waterwOrks.
After a preliminary examination Of the
grounds by an expert In this line 81 busi-
ness, agd substantial assurance that the
prospect was favorable In all respects Tor
as good q system as the wants 81 the city
would require for many years 20 come,
IL was ordered tnat the city advertise
for bids on plans and specifications, and
proceed at once 10 get the business Ia
proper shape TO subEit it TO vote OF tho
people.
We know enough OF the spirit Of i'm
prpement, now rife In sherman, TO fore
tell with certainty that any reasonable
plan ut any reasonable cost viii be- ap.
proved at the polls, and II That Is all that
Is needed we Will have water IN abundance
before the let OF January, 1887
We understand IL Is also contemplated
TO attach an electric light apparatus to
the power required In the water-works,
and by this means secure well-Hghted
city at about half the usual cost for such
a luxury.
The second attraction was lecture on
prohibition from distinguished Mis-
souri, politician whom we introduced yes
terday as Gov John A. Brooks, but
whose claim TO the distinguished prefix
hae no greater authority than that which
comes from having been a candidate for
that exalted Office on the prohibition
ticket and coming within about hum
bred thousand votes OF an election. The
governor (f) began his remarks In the
presence OF an audience that numbered
exactly two dozen earnest men, when
this scribe looked In upon them, and held
this audience IN close attention on the
wisdom OF his uttcrances for over an
hour. He Is a novelty In
the way OF "A temperance speaker In that
he boldly asserted the fact that local.op
tlon and prohibition as they exist In d.
vers sections Of the South, and IN Kan
sss, Iowa and Maine, arc Il grand failure,
and do not prevent the sale of intoXicat-
ing liquors nor in any great degree re-
strain drunkenness where tried. He SAID
that all efforts 20 secure prohibition by
nOn-partisau influence or through the eS
listing organizations known a. the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties had been
signal failures and would continue TO be-
failures I'LL tho end OF time because both
these parties we're dominated by the
autocrats OF the bonded whisky Rug
and did not dare 10 make "a square and
honest light against intemperancc.
As test Of this sentiment he called on
any Democrat Ia the select audience be-
fore him WHO was willing 90 vote against
the nominee Of his party in favor OF u
prohlbltionist 10 hold up his hand, and
not an arm was raised, He then asked
any Republican who would vote against
his party candidate for prohibIiionist to
lift his hand aud two horny hands went
up before the astonished eyes of the
house.
One OF these Republicans dates his
conversion 10 tho doctrine of that party
as fur back as the Chicago conycn-
ton, when Thurman OF Ohio was
not nominated for president instead Of
Cleveland. aud the other has been astral
die of every political hobby, incuding
greenbackistn, tho labor party aud pre-
hlbiuon, that has showed It's head In
these parts for the past eight years The
speaker then gave Senators Coke aud
Vest aud Congressman Mills as examples
of how the Democrats thought and felt
on the subject, and said they only dt-
fored from the leading Republicans In the
fact that they were honest aud bold
enough To tell the truth aud truly define
the position OF the national Democratic
party on this subject, He reviewed
the status OF parties IN Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa, Maine aud
New York. and asserted that none had
dealt honestly with the temperance pco-
pie, but had held MP the golden fruit If
promise to their lips time after time, only
70 let II turn 10 ashes of disappointment
t..4 a a. 4 B.
what he hvSitated 20 say IN Missouri
that he did not want Il prohibtory amend
ment submitted To the people now, aud
thought 1t would result In defeat, until a
separate organization, Gemented by the
one grand idea OF reform, had been
raised up aud educated 10 lght It's bat
Ties successfully against all other
parties. lie likened the present temper
ancc party To the aholitonlst
who cast few thousand votes
many years age for Mr., Burney for presi-
dent oI The UUited States, and quoted
from MIR. Calhoun the thought that $50
long as these people talked there was no
danger IN them, but since they have
begun 10 vote, we must prepare for war I"
He said the Republican party had It's
origin In a great moral idea, which had
been carried TO It's Legitimate result, and
the Issue ot November, 1851, had sealed
its doom and heralded It's death 1t
could never win another national victory
except ON q moral Issue, and the leaders
were not brave enough To adopt
temperance as their war cry,
Hence the Republican party
wac no longer TO be relied
upon for good, nor feared because OF ito
power To do evil The speaker WAS Que
Of list OF the ablest advocates Of tem-
perance who had been appointed 60 the
late council In New Yo X To take the
stump In the South, and this state, Louls-
lana aud Arkansas had been designated
AZ his ded. Their purpose was to organ
ize separate party from the earnest pro-
hibitlonists of both the old parties, and
go into future political contests unlram-
meled by any alliances, hut a. make the
ilght boldly aud win In the end lie said
that he had agreed TO lecture at
$50 night, and looked Ia
the general headquarters for his
pay, but thought the people
whom he addressed ought to contribute
that amount and II any more was dropped
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