Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-11
SAM SMALL SMITES.
HE SHAKES UP THE TWO GREAT POL
 ITIcAL PARTIES.

ItlSAI CAn IlG0s
 Tho Evangelist, However, Thinks the
 Prohibition will be the Party Some Day. Republican Hypocrisy Laid Bare and 8 Republican Editor Ridiculed.
 The weather last evening was not con- ducive to total abstinence. There was chill in the steady down pour of rain and occasional gust of wind that inspired the use of corn juice and endeared the state of Kentucky to the shivering pedestrian. The Rev Sam Small, as he chooses to call him. self, was among this shivering humanity, but he did not drop into one of the elegant | ly furnished and brilliantly illuminated 1 life praservers,' as was his wont, on his way to city ball. Bundled up i'll long heavy overcoat, he kept WarIn without the aid of spiritucus beverages and wet his whistle with a little aqua pura as he stepped before his audience twenty minutes behind the time announced for the com mencement of his address on temperance. There were only about 200 people ill the audience but the speaker got good deal of enthusiasm out of them before he closed. MT Smalls treatment of the subject was
 
 first visit here. Instead of dealing out to his audience his early disgraceful career he treated the question in a political sense and showed himself capable of handling it from that standpoint
 In introducing the subject MT Small took occasion to say that he was mindful of the good wishes that followed him from the city on the occasion of his last visit here and that he was glad to return. Then he began logical and merciless arraignment of whisky rings, the church and the demo- cratic and republican parties. The inhu- ence of the whisky rings, he said, warped and minimized civilization. The division in the church of Christ was more respon- sible for the perpetuation of the liquor traffic than the division ill political parties and in many places the devil had ma jority in the churches, and preachers were padlocked because they were afraid they would be out of a job if they fired at this work. If the government should be run in harmony with Gods laws the politicians would have to get out of office or else take course in theology. I am in favor, said the speaker, of dividing the churches, splitting them wide open and kicking out the barrooms, and if some of us don't we shall go to hell in bundle. But they say it is not a political question. I thank God, exclaimed the Georgia evangelist, we have got question that has moral feature
 MT. Small next addressed himself briefly to the newspapers, and coming down to the political aspects of the question said it was only a grand expediency. It was a principal that the organic law could put into operation, and that by some great na- tional party that had control of the central government. What party have we got The democratic party. Is there anybody who thinks. he asked, that the democratic party will embrace prohibition Let him stand up here tonight i! 1 should like his photograph for a curiosity, and I have no doubt Barnum would be on his track in a few days. The democrats have control of the national government and half the states of the union. We have not had one thing from the democratic party, but it has been consistent. It has never been in favor of prohibition, and has never fa- vored the principles advocated in it, and, in fact, does not propose to do it. The president sitting in the White house is a good advertisement of 8 brewery He takes a nip himself, which is not singular in the line of presidents. Further, the grand mogul of the whisky ring at Buffalo was once client of the president. The president ill his last message favored re- taining the tax on whisky, thus giving it cohesion and power. He is to-day the
  speaker followed this up with an attack on Speaker Carlisle because he is a repre- sentative from the Bourbon state and de- tended the whisky interests in that section and because he placed Mills and other out and out democrats at the head of import ant committees. Continuing, however, he said the democratic party in it's govern. ment of the states had a favorable record in regard to the liquor traffic, in support of which he cited that in many of the counties in the southern states no license prevailed. Of the 119 counties in Ken lucky, 76 had no license. In Massachu- setts there was one saloon to every 16O people, while in South Carolina there was only to every 750 people. In the south there was more prohibition than in the north and less liquor drank in the south per capita than in the north.
 Coming down to the republican party he asked, "What has it done against it! He then read from an editorial in the Water bury Republican criticising his remarks about the party and stating that it had freed 100000 slaves, maintained the honor of the nation, refunded the national debt, etc. ,and asking Where was Sam Small all these yearss l have hesitancy in saying, said the speaker, that I was grow ing up with the country, preparing myself diligently to enjoy all these blessings. would not, he continued, pluck one flower from the glorious republican statemanship nor belittle that grand rec ord. was born and reared on southern soil, educated in southern college, my parents were southerners by births and my father the owner slaves, but thank God I was saved from slavery. l thank God for Abraham Lincoln [appiause] and the pro- clamation he signed. But the negroes were not the only slaves that were set free. The white man has been freer man ever since have read history and found out that the republicans did not save the country by u jug full Laughter and applause1 A good many democrats assisted in that sav- ing business, democrats from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and every northern state, and they fought braveiy and gallantly and their names are emblaz- oned on the pages of American history [applause e71d with the cheek supplied the l latter day republicans they claim the vic tory of the awful conflict. But if it were true that they saved the Union it was not