St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-04
TO SPLIT REPUBLICANS.
That Is What the Prohibitinnists Expect
to Do.
A. NOTABLE ADDRESS MADE
By DR.. Brooks, Their Vice Presidential
Candidate---0ld Parties
Roasted.

The First Free Baptist church was
remarkably well filled last evening, on
the occasion of the address by DR..
Thomas A. Brooks, of Missouri. the
candidate for vice president of the
United States on the Prohibition
ticket. The audience was made up
mainly of ladies and gentlemen
prominently identified with the Pro
hibitiOn movement In Minneapolis
and few young men who had
dropped in out of mere curiosity. On
the raised pulpit were seated S. b. Will
Jams, the president of the evening, NJ.
w. Lawrence and few more we'll
known temperance men. The Fisk
eral campaign songs. Small white
roses, the emblem of the Prohibition
party, ornamented the bGttonholes of
those on the stage. Just before intro
ducing the speaker of the evening Mr..
Williams unrolIed and held alOft pic
ture of Gen. Fisk, the cold-water candi-
date for president. The picture was
greeted with applause. AS soon as
the noise had subsidized Mr.. Williams in
troduced DR.. Brooks, who was met with
tempest of applause. The doctor is
tetll. llCoN -oOG iudii VI udi IL
and firm, determined look in his face,
which is nearly hidden by heavy whis-
kers. slightly gray. His thick, black
hair he wears brushed back from his
high, broad forehead. His voice, while
somewhat low, is pleasing, and every
word comes forth clear and distinct.
He might pass for a board of trade man
or minister.
Everyone knows we ProhibitiOnists
are right" said he, in opening his adj
dress, land l will say right here that we
will poll larger vote this fall than ever
before. | do not come before you this
evening to denounce the Republican or
the Democratic party, for l would avoid
coming in contact with them, were it
possible for me to do so. | am willing
to give the two great parties all the
credit they deserve, for once | was
Democrat and rank one, too. That
was before | knew any better; but here
let me say that l always did
know too much to be Republican.
L was once slave holder in the South,
and my sympathies were with the
South when the war began. But now
that the great stuggle is over am we'll
satisfied with the result, as are all other
Southern men, be they Democrats or
Republicans. Some Republican orators
try to make you believe that this is not
so, and tell you that the South is only
waiting for chance to rise up i'll open
rebellion again, but L tell you it is lie,
and is said for the purpose of injuring
the Democratic party.
The speaker referred to the time when
the slaves were liberated, and said it
had caused him to lose every cent he
had in the world. But those times were
gone and he was glad of it, and now the
blue and the gray were joined in one
common army to defend any and all
sections of the country from the inroads
of the whisky men. Now what we want
is two OF three firSt-claSS funerals,
by means of which Sherman, Foraker
and others can go to heaven, and so'be
relieved from bringing up old dead
issues. 1t is not time for us now to for
get the war. Do you want to hand the
memory of it down to your children as
terrible legacy of blood and murder?
At the conclusion of the war; /
be, but am all over it now, and l love
the Northern soldier who put down the
rebellion. How do you Christian Re-
publicans hope to go to heaven when
you hate the Democrats worse than you
hate the devil. The Democratic party
has done good deal of good in this
world, and many good men have been
Democrats. What do you Democrats
and Republicans think of the present
the past is settled and gone forever
What is the issue between the two great
parties to-day?
A voice from the audience-One party
is in and the other party is out.
The real answer, continued the
speaker, is that both sides want the
offices. | expected to hear some one
say the tariff. Let me tell you that the
tariff is going to divide the Republicans
before this campaign is over. Even some
of our prominent newspapers are already
beginning to see things Alright, and TAX
ing sides on the question. This tariff
question is purely local one, aud
divided on it. While you are talking so
much about protection did it ever occur
to you that you must protect your boys
and girls ana your homes? You Demo-
Gratis and Republicans say that the pro-
hibition questions are all little side
shows. Well, yes, they are little
side shows if you call home, wife,
children, morality, Christianity and
eternity sideshOws. You say our
question is not an important one,
when this country is hanging by a
single thread which may break at any
moment and let us drop into the bot
tomless pit of death without warning.
If You. will elect our Prohibition candi-
date, l will pledge yOu my word that
no more votes will be counted out, as
you Republicans counted the Prohibi-
ton vote out in Michigan, and the
negro votes have been counted out
down South. You Republicans are all
such good men. Oh, you, you are so full
of meanneSs that you do not
know what to do to let some of it es-
cape. Down South the Democrats
charge the Prohibitionists with being
in league with the Republicans to de-
feat the Democrats, and up here the
Republicans declare we are in league
with the Democrats to beat the Repub-
licans. You can take your choice, but
| will tell you that both Democrats and
Republicans are badly scared. We
don't care which party we break up,
and break up so badly that it
will never be found again, so long as we
can elect our candidates and get in, so
we can drive whisky out, and thus pro-
tect our homes. The speaker then drew
picture of the two great parties, claim
ing that the Prohibitionists could expect
nothing from them. The only way to
do was to elect straight Prohibition
ticket and keep none but ProhibitiqGABaS
i'll Office.