The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-02

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open 10 bark At what \ calls tho third
party, There Is no third party N this
movement there are only tFopartiea-
the Republican and Democrat parties for
the liquor traffic and the Prohibition party
against IL
The lNgELLlaREcER says the Pr0hibi,
tionists In Pennsylvania can only succeed
in defeating General Beaver, who % q
plops man, and seating q Democrat, am
willing 70 admit oil the INTELLIdRAoRR
says about General Beaver, OandoT CONF
pels rs 10 say that Governor Pattison 10
also pious man, But over In Ohio the
people are not ready to forget that Gen.
eFal Beaver supported Foraker, who said
that taxation Of the liquor traffic was eter-
nal and ran ON q platform which openly
bid for the liquor vote, and that the Re-
puhlicans, when they came into power,
Ie-enacted the Scott law, the most in
famous law ever devised, They call II the
Dow law now, and they have tackled on q
provision that the people OF town can
permit the saloons to do business openly
on Sunday II they wish.
THINNING OUT.
So far through the speech people had
been quietly dropping out from the rear
II the crowd, AS the capitol clock struck
0 at least o hundred people rose all over
the house to 60 out, The speaker shouted,
"The collection has not begun, and then
added at the suggestion Of Mr., j, M.
Richards; "That was not q fire alarm,
The clock simply struck 9.n
About one hundred more people rose
and started out, and for few minutes
groups OF ten or twelve followed AZ brief
intervals, Throughout the speech other
people left, and at Its conclusion probably
not over 700 people remained,
Mr.. st, John recalled the disfavor with
which the Abolition party met even from
such men as Abraham Lincoln, and said
about 1909, when the Prohibition cyclone
sweeps the land, present opponents would
go around hunting people to make all,
davlt that they were charter members oil
the Prohibition party. And in that day
the editor OF the INTRLLIaEScRR will con-
yeniently lose his files, and have nothing
to show his former position, and you could
not build a stone fence high enough, even
with q baibsd wire on top Of 1t, TO keep
the editor Of the lNTRLLIGENcER from seal
Ing the wall and getting into the Prohibi-
ton party.
The day was coming when the old par
ties would stand aside aud the prohibition
movement would place It's Abraham Lin
coin in power.
THE CORN MARKET.
The argument that the abolition Of the
liquor traffic would iniure the market Tor
corn was set up and knocked down, and
the plea that the laboring man needed q
stimulant was ridiCuled, The speaker
said he was once poor workingman, and
he was just as honest and good man and
engaged in as noble cause then as now.
A voice: Eyes; and d. aight more"l
A hog will not touch whisky or beer
his self.respect forbids. laughter,
A man may, but to the credit OF the hog
be it said he will not, He once took q
contract to cut !, 900 cords OF wood, and he
finished 1t. He always finished what he
undertook. He would finish this yet
Applause. Laboring men we're impoV-
erished by the liquor traffic. yet the plea
Is set up that we need the revenue from
1t. $4,000, on an average, was spent
annually In the saloons OF Wheeling
eight hundred homes every twelve
months worse than thrown away, and
you talk about the laboring man being
interested in the liquor traffic. The city
that licenses the most saloons invariably
has the nearest sidewalks; but 1t Is
more Greditable 70 walk boottop deep in
mud than to walk over elegant psyements
made with the price Of souls, Cheers
The revenue from your saloons is about
dollar to each Of you per year. Think oil
III A Wheeling boy for a dollarl Why,
l paid So 80 for a banquet chicken few
days ago. l might have saved 1t and
bought two Wheeling boys and had fifty
cents to spare
These old parties are already coming TO
the conclusion that they have been max
ing mistake, but II Ia too late. These
Prohibition ducks have Just found out
that they are good swimmers and they
have taken to the water, and the Repub.
lican hen Is dashing TO and fro on the
bank and cluCking Tor US 10 come out.
But we are In the water to stay.
The speaker finished about 10 O'Clock,
after several funny stories, and the collec-
ton and some music concluded the ex.
erCises.