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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
ECHOES FROM WRIT.
How Mrs. McClurkin Wins the
People.

Wart Transcript.
Saturday and Sunday evening
last our people were well epter.
tanned at the M. E. Church, by Mrs.
McClurkin, upon the question Of
Home against the Saloon.
We have heard many lectures
upon this question, and also many
speeches on temperance, but we
are bound to say in all candor that
we never heard one equaling either
of the two lectures delivered here
by this eloquent lady speaker.
She captivated her audience at
the outset, and held them spell
bound by her vivid and lifelike IL
Illustrations and eloquent appeals to
the close.
Her exposition of the pending
Amendment was certainly sutfl-
cient to convince any man that the
whole principle is absolutely right
and that to vote against it is NOR
ally wrong, Her argument put a
final quietus upon the saying-"the
Amendment is partisan ques-
tion," in the minds of all who
heard her.
Altogether it rarely falls to the
lot of man to be SO grandly enter
tanned as we were at the time
stated, and we can only wish that
each county il our State contained
Mrs. McClurkin; as certain as
that could be true, then just that
certain this little State would roll
up an unheard of majority for the
Amendment.
At the close of her meeting Sat.
urday evening quite d number OF
new names were added to the
Amendment Club at this place,
which now contains over tlttY
names. C1t256n'
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
Terra Atlas Cake.

Terra Alta furnished this year
as it did last, all the cake for the
Lawn Fete during the Interstate
Conference. And we record with
pride the fact that it was elegant
cake. Terra Alta never does
things by halves. Mrs. e. F. Nine
of Keyser and Mrs, Lucy Elliott OF
Terra Alta took charge Of affairs
the evening of the Fete. Whilst
every body else was satisfied, they
declare that now that they have
"the hang of things" another year
it will be very different, and more
deserving of the name "Fete."
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
MOrrlstOWn League.

Rev. H. Cofer, president of the
Writ County Amendment League,
in company with Rev. G. E. Clark,
went to Morristown for the purpose
of organizing an auxiliary league
at that place. They met a good
audience and after short speeches
by Rev. Clark and Rev. Coffield,
they effected an organization with
a membership of 81. MIR. Joe,
Davis was elected President, Rev.
Kiger, Vice President and S. c..
Cant, Secretary.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
Hurricanes Rally.
Mrs. McCIurkin's Campaign IN Mason
and Cdbeu.
GUYANDoTTE, W. Va.
July, 80, 1883. /

EDITOR FREEMAN
The Amendment question il hav
ing some attention in this part Of
the State. The friends Of the
cause in Teay's Valley, in and
around Hurricane, Putnam county
arranged for an all day meetins
last Saturday, 3 miles above Hur.
ricane.
Revs. Walker and jackson of
Huntington and I were invited tn
be with them. We went and
found a good crowd of leading man
and women assem- bled in a pleas.
ant grove ready to hear. Thew
surely heard. Rev. W. P. Walker
spoke about one hour in the fore.
noon, and I think that more inter.
esting and we'll received facts and
figures will not be given in the
same length of time in many day.
Then a most excellent dinner was
enjoyed on the ground.
At 30 we came together again
and listened to another very inter.
esting address of about the same
length by Rev. H. G. Jackson.
Good order prevailed throughout
the day. A vote at close showed
the Amendment had large ma.
jority in the crowd. There will be
no trouble about the Amendment
if the matter is properly presented.
| find everywhere l 60 that the
enemies to this cause are those who
misunderstood as to "Third Party"
Woman's Suffrage or something
else.
There are voters enough who
wish to know the truth, to carry
the Amendment without any
trouble.
Mrs. McClurkin's appointments
on my mission field are completed
as follows:
Lower Green Bottom ,.......... Aug. 10.
Oak Hill Church. ....,.l,
Center School House ............." ...,.......2.
Upper Green Bottom CONFERENCE.-The. ....3.
Guyandotte .........4.
l promise big crowds at all these
places.
You may think that you gave
an inch and l took mile.
Well / did as you told me. Six
of the appointments are back five
or six miles in places which much
need stirring,
Yours for battle,
w. A. NICHOLAS.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

1t takes executive ability as we'll
as a big house to entertain fifteen
people during Temperance meet
ings for stretch of days. And yet
we have a white ribboner who did
all this gracefully, graciously
and to the delight of every guest.
She is so modest we hardly dare
mention her name. If the Tenn
perance Republicans and Demo
Gratis of West Virginia wouldn't
throw away their votes this fall,
she would preside over the guber-
national mansion during the next
term.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
SissOnYille Amendment Club.
They Want More Literature.
EDITOR FREEMAN

EDITOR FREEMAN:
Our Temperance League, organ
lied some weeks ago by Mrs. Jennie
McClurkin, has been doing very
good work. We need more litera-
ture and I trust our Executive
Committee will take steps to obtain
it soon. The kind of work we
have is mostly that of persuad.
ing Temperance people that the
Amendment is the proper remedy
and to enlist their active support
for it. Instead Of standing should.
er to shoulder against the enemy.
we have to spend most of our time
and energy in trying to rally our
own forces. Our last meeting was
addressed by Bro. Lynch, who in
the course of his remarks pictured
some of the great evils of intern
perance and congratulated the
country on the fact that it is fast
becoming State and National is.
sue and bids fair to enlist all tenn
perance people to work together
He was followed by Bro. P. S. Shir-
ley who in his usual earnest and
eloquent manner said many good
things for the Amendment.
b. c. FISHER, Sec.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

We found a warm friend of the
w. c, T. U. in the person Of Mr.. w.
3. Turner of Piedmont. Perhaps
the bond of sympathy is strength,
9ned by the fact that he has not
been over from Scotland long en-
ough to cast a ballot, and like us
women ne must make up this lack
by doing double work.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
THE BATTLE In KANAW HA.
The Home and Saloon in Mortal
Conflict.
Mink Shoals Club ossailed by Whisky
RoSderS.
GLEN Elk. Aug. 3 8

GLEN ELK. aug. 3 90.
EDITOR FREEMAN
The good work done by Mrs. Nc
Clurkin at the Upper Glen Elk
School House is bearing it's legiti-
mate fruit. Our Amendment Club
now numbers NINETY TWO and there
is an increasing interest in the
cause of Home The trustees of
the School House have locked the
doors against ue, but the Union
Church has been opened to US and
in that we have held two meetings,
getting at one meeting twenty two
mem bers and at the other eleven.
SO you see the "lock out" was to
our advantage but then you know
that the whisky men are liable to
make mistakes and that was one of
them. We understand that one of
the trustees said the reason that
the doors were locked against US
was that st. John defeated Blaine
four years ago. Isn't that going
back long ways for an excuse for
little whisky deviltry?
The matter has been explained 50
often bo;h by visiting and local
peakers that any man but an idiot
knows that in the Amendment
Leagues we are not working on
party lines at all but for the
amendment, and thus we intend to
work till the going down Of the sun
on that November day when we
will proclaim to the world that
MountaiueerS ore forever free from the
legalized rum curse. Now, Dear
readers of the FREEMAN, you ought
to come down and see the bees
working in our Amendment Hive.
We have no drones. Come around,
Mr. Editor, and wewiIl give you a
royal welcome to our circle.
Mrs McClurkin, when in this
Valley, organized an Amendment
Club at Mink Shoals, four miles up
Elk River, but few days ago one
of the red nosed sons of Gambrinus
made raid on the little Amend.
ment flock of workers, so that the
organization is almost broken up;
but we the Glen Elk Club are
going up to Mink Shoals and Rally
the forces again and help them to
fight the hosts of Satan, who now
have club Of twenty five members
all working against the Amend
ment. 1t is a remarkable fact that
none of said members OF the anti
club are Americans except the
leader referred to. If he will fur
nish the names Of the members of
his Satanic Majesty's Club we (the
Glen Elk CLUB will gladly send
them to the FREEMAN for publica.
ton.
We expect to have a grand rally
some time in September, an all
day out door meeting and we want
all the speakers and workers posi-
BILE. Let everybody consider them
selves invited. Will inform the
FREEMAN as to dates &c in due
time.
Yours for the Amendment,
GIEN EIV
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

A New York paper has for It's
motto this truth; Liberty is not
License" By remembering this
definition much of the fear lest our
liberty be curtailed would be dis
missed. Most of the difficulty OF
personal liberty men arises from a
very confused notion of what per-
sonal liberty is.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
A Bit of Good Advice.

We give you bit of good advice
which one of our exchanges dealt
out recently to its patrons:
"Don't wait for first class speak
err to do the converting in your
neighborhood. Lend your paper,
or better, get your neighbor to take
one. You can make vote or two
yourself before fall if you start out
to do it,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

The Leon W. G. T. U. have or
organized a Loyal Legion. 1t mum
bers nineteen members with prom,
Use OF more. Mrs. Kate King is
the Leader with Miss Dora Sulli,
van and Sallie Lusk as assistants.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

Mrs. E. J. Stone of Wheeling,
stood by the Interstate Conference
royalty, making up the entire def
cit; and a portion of the Committee
to our knowledge, blessed her with
tears in their eyes.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
WEDNESDAY, AUG. s, 1888.

There are two conspiracies rife
in our midst, one of silence, the
other OF Misrepresentation pertain
ing to all matters in the interest of
the prohibition OF liquor traffic,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

The Keyser W. G. 7. U. have
& large, airy and pleasantly fitted
Headquarters which will hold
about 200 people. They sub,let the
uee of their room TO the Good Tenn
plars, and a Literary Society.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

The "Keyser Camp" was a pay
ing Investment. The dividends
will be declared at the polls in
November.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

The Executive Committees OF
the Amendment Clubs near St.
Adams are arranging for grand
rally in the near future. Mrs.
McClurkin, Rev. Walker AID Prof.
Hodges have been invited to be
present as the orators OF the occa-
sion.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

The diligence displayed by the
State Journal in seeking to SOW dis
sension and strife among the Tenn
perance forces ia worthy of better
cause.
The Misrepresentation and per-
sonaIities to which it resorts to
produce this discord is unworthy of
SO good man as it's editor.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
The Journals Assaults.
Why all These Walls Of Wrath?

and has unbottled its walls OF
wrath, pouring their concentrated
venom on the head of the President
of the State w. C. T. U.
The sum of our offending seems
to have been in the fact that we
were one Of the majority who, in
our last State Convention, passed
the following resolution
Resolved THAT we work in every
righteous way with all VINO will
cooperate with US tor the ratifica-
ton of the Amendment; and as a
Constitutional Amendment, to be
effective, must have a favorable
political force back of it to enforce
it, 80 we declare our allegiance to
the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and give our
sympathy to that party which de-
clares for the Home and Against
the Saloon.
The Journal does not attack our
position, showing it to be untenable
and inconsistent. 1t evidently re-
CARDS the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union a dangerous foe to
both the liquor traffic and its polit-
ical allies, and hopes to cripple its
effectiveness by producing OLSEN
sions in its ranks.
To this end it wilfully misquotes
and perverts the utterances of its
chief executive, indulging in per-
sonal aspersions that violate every
principal of journalistic courtesy.
In Its issue of August [, it quotes US
as making three distinct statements
not one of which we uttered, and
in answer to our denial through
its columns the editor says: owe
should have qualified our remarks
by adding, in effect the president
said so and So, but in hasty proof
reading we did not notice the omis-
SION" We more than suspect the
omission was in the Copy" rather
than in the proof Why did not
the Editor of the Journal give our
aO0rds rather than has differences
Manifestly because they could not
be made to serve his purpose in
stirring up feeling of bitterness
in those whom he believed could
be "riled" by has differences.
The White Ribponere of West
Virginia know better than the
Editor of the State Journal the polit.
ical opinions of their President
POLICY" has never dictated hel
attitude or actions. She has stood
upon the floor of each State Con.
vention for several years, uttering
the same sentiments and pleading
that the attitude she declared be-
fore the Prohibition Convention
might be that assumed by the w
G. 7. U. In her remarks before
the Prohibition Convention she
stated that this was not the unan.
imous opinion of the Union, but
that the dissenting minority OBJ
jected upon the grounds of expe
diency, rather than opposition tc
the principles of the Prohibition
party. She stated that the w. G.
t. U. stood ready to cooperate
with all parties and organizations
that would work for the Amend
ment.
Evidently the Editor of the Jour-
nal does not understand the morals
of the W, c. T. y. He does not re-
allze that women, differing as tC
methods, can each go on in hel
own way, working for one and the
same end. AS proof of this fact
we point him to the past achieve
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
West Virginia W. c. T. u.

President--MRs. JANE A. JOHNSON, Park
.ersburg, W. Va.
Vice President-Mrs. j. A. Smith, New
Cumberland.
Cor. sec--Miss Maud Montgomery, P ark
ere ourg.
Fec. Sec.-M1SS Mamie CaluefOu, rdlr-
Treas.--Mrs. Henry Hubbard, Wheeling.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
First District-Mrs. e. &. Swaney, New
Gu m berland.
Second District-MrS. Lucy Elliott, Terra
Alta.
Third District-Mrs W. L. Moore,
Fourth Dstrlct-Miss Minnie Hutchinson,
Par kersburg
sUPEgINTENDENTS OF DEPARTMENTS.
Temperance Literature-Mrs NV Hobson,
Pa int Creek.
uvenile Work-Mrs. NJ. A. Summers,
Sal EN-.
Pic kens, Peel Tree, Barbour County.
IS cientific Instruction-Mrs. ii. Duval,
In fuencing the Press-Mrs. e. F. Nine,
Keyser.
Prison and Jail work-Mrs, NJ. W. Rider,
Guyandotte.
Railroad Work-Mrs. Mary j. Raymond,
Grafton.
Evangelistic work-Mrs. j. P. Thatcher,
M OundSville.
Legislation and Petition-Mrs. Addie H
Merrick, Parkersburg.
Flower Missionaries Flora b. Siler
Berkeley Springs.
State and County Fairs-Mrs. j. P. Sis
son, Roney's Point, Ohio County.
Work among Colored People-Mrs. M. M
Snow, Parkersburg, w. Va.
Day Of Prayer-Mrs. c. j. Trippet, Prunty-
town.
Soldiers and Sailors-Mrs Thomas Swim.
burn, Charleston.
Hygiene and Heredity-Dr. Harriet B
Jones, Wheeling.
social PurityNMiss Eva Johnson, Sisters
willie.
Evangelist of Social Purity Department.
Miss Lizzie Boyd, Wheeling.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08

Help the W.C.T.U
m AInend ment Cam
paign Work.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
National Won,an's Christian Tempe
dnee Union.

p resident-MIss FRANCES E. WILLARD,
Ev anston, Ill.
Cor. Sec.-Mrs. G. B. Bnell, 16I La Sail
st., Chicago, Ill.
Rec. Sec.-Mrs. Mary A Woodbridge Ma
VIENNA, ..
Asst Rec. Sec.--Mrs. l.. M. N. Stevens
Stroudwater, Me.
Treas-Miss Esther Pugh, Natl Head
quarters, 1871 La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill
southern Sec.-Mrs. g. H. Mcleod, 2o7
Mosher st., Baltimore.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-08
Worlds Womam's Christian Temper
Gnce U1olon.

President-Mrs. Margaret Lucas. Char
.otte St., Bedford Square, London, England.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs Mary Glenn
ent Leavitt, Box 2647, San Francisco, Cal.
American Committee-The five General
OH GERS of the National w. G. T. U.
cretaries-England, Mrs. Mary Whitall
,Oostelloe, 30 Grosyenor Road, Westminster,
g. W., London, England.
America, Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith
1858 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurers-England,M Mrs James Gregson
Hearts Hill, Debden Green, Loughton
England.
merca-Miss Esther Pugh, l6l La Sale
St., Chicago, Ill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
A 0nnASInN.

DIR. III. u. Leonard, in his letter printed in
the Journal yesterday, gives strong and pa
triotic reasons for his determination to sup
port Harrison and Morton. DR.. Leonard WIS
the National Greenback Labor candidate for
Governor in this State in 1884. He was an
earnest and enthusiastic Greenbacker as long
as that issue was before the people. and is stil
unwilling TO do anything or lend bis influence
to any movement that would endaneer the
present status of our currency or tend to I'M
settle the basis on which the greenback ques-
ton is settled. Holding these views DR..
Leonard places his opposition to the free
trade policy of the Democracy on the ground
that it would tend to pauperize the Nation,
deplete the country of gold, reduce the price
of labor and the products of labor. cause gold
to appreciate and greenbacks to deprec;ate,
and finally result in general bankruptcy. In
other words, DIR. Leonard regards free trade
in its logical sequences az an insid;ous attack
on the greenback and the national credit.
ITO my mind, be SAYS, mo argument can
be stronger in favor of protection than the
protection Of our money" For a man who
fought through tLs greenback war and who
still believes, as all do now, that it is of the
utmost importance to maintain the par value
of the greenbacks, this is a natural view.
There is no flaw in DIR. Leonard's argument.
Free trade. or any approach TO it, would tend
to deplete the United States of gold and
produce the very results he predicts. To
quote again from his letter, cit would be
burning the candle at both ends by shipping
out our gold and reducing the power of the
wage-earner TO earn money" Whatever the
advocates of free trade and of tariff for revenue
only may be aiming at, we believe this would
inevitably be one Of the results of their policy,
and we fully agree with DIR. Leonard when he
says: II can imagine no scheme SO certain to
invite financial ruin. destroy the equilibrium
of our currency. and supplant an apparent
surplus by a deficit" DR.. Leonard's lette,
does him credit as q man of firm conviction
and keen foresight, for, so far as known, the
monetary and financial disasters involved in
free trade have nowhere else been so clearly
poiuted out as they are in his letter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04
"THH BOYS ARE BADLY PRESSED

Idh BUYS Ah6 6dUI1 fh6SS6U.'
The disclosures made by DR.. Kyle in re-
gard to the affairs in the Insane Hospital are
simply astounding. The r~ascality Of the
ringsters who have been prostituting and
plundering that institution is only eoualed by
their audacity. 1t really looks as if they were
determined to join Sim Coy at Michigan City.
One would have supposed that the damaging
disclosures brought out by the legislative in
vestigation and the storm of popular indigna-
ticn against the Harrison gang would have
frightened and checked them. 1t seems net.
DR.. Kyte's sworn statement. filed with the
rying things with higher hand than ever.
As book-keeper and confidential clerk to the
board and superintendent, DR.. Kyle was in q
position to know nearly all that was going on,
aud there can be little doubt as to the truth
of his statement. If anything could add to
the damning proofs of corruption in the rres-
ent management of the hospital this state
ment does it. The loan by the board Of
ST.. 900 to John Z. Sullivan out of the hos
pital funds. with the accompanying remark
by DR.. Harrison ''that the boys were pretty
badly pressed" was a corrupt If not felonious
act. and establishes beyond a doubt the guilty
connection between members of the ring.
But even worse than this was the payment
out of the hospital funds of the attorreys'
fees for defending the trustees in the legisla-
tive investigation last year. These fees were
paid 70 two attorneys and amounted in
the aggregate to $780, 3. The method
by which it was done is explained by
DR.. Kyle. The whole transaction was dishon-
est and corrupt. The manner In which it
was done savors Of the crooked methods of
criminals. The payment of these lawyers
fees out Of the contingent fund of the hos
pital was a robbery of the people, and the
method by which it was done amounts to NAL
f~easance in Office. 1t was accomplished by
false entries and forced balances, whereby the
peoples money, appropriated for the legiti-
mate expenses of the hospital, were made to
pay a private debt of the trustees and trans
ferred from the public treasury to the peck
cts of the ring lawyers.
Still another corrupt transaction disclosed
by DR.. Kyle was ordering the payment of
$16S.S7 for ten thousand copies of the Senate
commuters report withdrawing the trus-
tees in the hospital investigation last year.
This report was never ordered nor auth orized
to be printed in that shape. - done for
political purposes. The voucher was made
out 'fOr stationery" Its payment was an
act of dishonesty and corruption.
Altogether DR.. Kyte's statement discloses
one Of the worst outrages in the long list Of
outrages perpetrated by the present Demo
cratic managers of the hospital. 1t is high
time, indeed, for the people to rise in their
might and clean out this nest of unclean
birds,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-04

IT is cruel not to let John Chinaman 90 to
indianapolis to shake hands with Mr.. Harri-
son. A delegation of Cinnamon from the
Pacific coast would add greatly to the feat
ures of the campaign in the Hoosier capital.
-Courier-Journal.
The above item causes the Journal to make
a remark. 1t is we'll known that it was one of
the brilliant conceptions of the Democratic
managers to hire a lot of Chinese, and have
them make a call upon General Harrison.
The scheme was started in this city, but was
not carried out. The Journal has informa-
ton that one of tho eleventh-hour plans of
Colonel Brice's Campaign Of intellect is to
have a Chinese demonstration of som sort in
San Francisco. 1t is possible that the Cour-
ier-Journals paragraph is to pave the way for
whatever shape the Democrats may conclude
to give it. The Journal knew of this brilliant
electioneering idea some time ago; the para
graph we have quoted is the first intimation
that it is still incubating.
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Arthur.

Col. c. c. MATsON has been posing with
friend. 1t hardly consists with this claim to
say, as he did at Greencastle, that 'the G.. A.
r. wants the earth"
Neither was it quite in keeping with the
character Of a loyal Union soldier to say, as
Colonel Matson did at Greencastle, II am not
ashamed to say I am in favor of giving all ex-
confederates their share of the spoils of this
government in every particular" Does Col
onel Matson regret the little part he took in
the wari 1t was not so great that he need
apologize for it.