The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-18

HIS SPEECH A HARMLESS TRADE
AGAINST THE DEMOCRACY.

AGAINST THE DEMOCRACY.
Some of the Men Who Were on the
Platform-Speaker Carlisle Called
the Tool of the Whisky Ring-Geor-
gia's Congressional Delegation At
tackled.
ATLANTA, GA, April .7-Evangelist
Small opened his third party TRADE, which
has been advertised so long, tonight at
DeGives Opera House. There was good
attendance, mostly of those who came as
lockers on and few ladies' On the stage
were seated Evangelist Small, J. K. Wood
ward, G. n Hurtel of the Atlanta Journal,
Prof. Scomp of Emory College. Prof. H.
NJ. Sessions of Atlanta (colored) University,
G. D. Barker Rev. W. Sid Stevens, w. b.
Smith, Edward Murray and DR.. Perkins.
Evangelist Small was the principal speaker.
He began by touching upon his past career
in Atlanta and of the great harm whisky
had done to him III his early life
He said the time had come when
prohibition was coming into politics and it
was going to stay IL til victory was crowned
He pronounced it the ghost of Banquo at
the feet Of the OLD parties. In reszrd to
the election of 1884 he said President Cleve
land was elected by the Prohibition party,
and this year he would again be elected by
that party drawing from the Republicans
enough votes to keep them from electing
President Six months after the November
election, the evangelist predicted there
would be no Republican party, as decay
would set in after the defeat lie said the
Prohibition party had been organized in
Georgia for a purpose and it had come to
stay, regardless of Democratic bulldoZing.
A QUEER QUESTION.
What is the Democratic partyl asked the
evangelist Is it ice Brown! The State
Democratic Conventions for years have de-
manded the repeal of the internal revenue,
and so has the Legislature. Senator Col
quit is a Prohibitionist. He is in favor Of
tue internal revenue laws. Does he or Sem
ator Brown represent the Democratic party
of Georgia! Mr.. Small was especially de-
nunclatory of the internal revenue laws as
giving cohesion to the manufacturer of
liquor. There were ten congressman from
Geo gia who steadily voted to perpetuate
the infamous law in opposition to the ex-
pressed wishes of the people of this State.
The Democratic party was the whisky
party of the country, and Speaker Car
Isle was the tool of the brewers
and the Kentucky whisky ring
4. .. Mills, who defeated prohibition in
Texas, was going to reform the tariff, and
for no other reason but to keep the whisky
distillers from Icing bothered. The speech
was closed with prediction of a brilliant
victory for the national prohibition move
ment by the end of the nineteenth century
He read the following as the programme
on which the party would go actually to
work in Georgia by holding a State cOnven-
ton next Tuesday; I'VE contend for a
statutory prohibition law with effective
methods of enforcement for the State of
al.
of the State pruhibitory OF the liquor traffic
an amendment to the constitution of the
United 5 at7s prohibiting manufacture
supply, sale, importation or expectation of
all alcoholic beverages; a national commits
sion 10 inquire into and report upon stats
tics an effects of the alcoholic liquor traffic;
total abolition Of the internal revenuo sys-
tenn of the United States; immediate pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic throughout all
the territory under the exclusive jurisdic-
ton of the United States government, in
GLIDING military posts, reservations,
soldiers homes, etc; teaching in the
public schools of scientific truths
concerning the nature and eff
fects OF alcoholic beverages; substantial
national aid to public education and public
improvements; practical and fair protec-
ton to home industry against foreign cheap
production and pauper labor; protection to
the honest free labor of the State and nation
against convict competition and the pro-
duct of prison labor"
Copies Of the platform we're distributed
through the audience but received few sig
natures
Prof. Scomp, of Emory College, made
short speech on the evils of whisky drink
ing, after which the audience dispersed
The exercises were devoid Of enthusiasm
A noteworthy fact was that not promi-
nent temperance man of Atlanta was to be
found having any connection with Smalls
TRADE against the Democracy