The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-11

lie sentiment 1 am sure that
would have been more dignified
and statesmanlike than his vile in
situations and inuendo against the
motives of the writer and those
whose patriotic and Christian con-
victions compelled them to leave
the old parties whose political deg
radiation, as | said in my last,
threatens the very life of the Ma
ton.
As to Making 1t Hot.
Another thing in the Judges ar
ticle that strikes us as very re-
markable is where his great solici.
tude for Third party people impels
him to declare that he will do
everything he can to prevent their
destruction, and in the next breath
declares "The true and tried friends
Of the Amendment will make it hot
for your Third party" Well,
Judge, if there's one thing more
than another shown in your last, it
is that they have already made it
too hot for you.
Calm down and cool off or you
will be clean out of adjectives be-
fore the campaign is half through.
AS to making it hot for us, all
we've ever asked of your "tried and
true friends" party leaders, is to
meet US before the great jury of our
fellow citizens to discuss prohi-
bition in all its bearings. So far
this has been cowardly refused.
We renew the challenge, and will,
if accepted, -cheerfully abide the
decision of your and our rightful
sovereigns, in whose patriotism
and honesty we have unbounded
faith. Are you afraid to trust
them? The Judge does himself no
credit where he charges that the
real friends of the Amendment
protest against the offensive man.
ner in which parade myself before
the public. There is not Cat least
in my judgmenD the slightest
ground for or truth in this i'll. man
nered charge, as the public will see
by referring to my articles. l wrote
in a courteous and unassuming
manner, claiming nothing for my.
self that I did not accord to my
fellow Prohibitionists. And 1 did
not, like the Judge in his last, put in
lot of stuff about his having done
more for the Amendment than all
the Third party people of the State
the absurdity and falsity of which
has caused t. ose conversant with
his whole ca, or to write and tell
me many thi GO directly the oppo-
site, which, b, cause of their person.
atty, | prefer not to reiterate.
did say the truth, and reiterate
from my last, that the Judges
Christian patriotism permits him
to march to the polls and cast for
the rulers of this Christian land
the same ballot voted by his rum
selling fellow Democrats" and re-
ferred to him simply as a represen.
tative of those who in remaining
in and upholding such a party
were, as we would tell jury, parti.
ceps c,smainas- parties to the crime
of UNFOLDING and continuing the
curse of the liquor traffic. And
having nowhere denied the charge
of aiding and supporting a party
favoring and upho.ding the great
crime, l take it he may be fairly
charged with continuing what
seems to me to be his league with
hell and covenant with DEATH"
while he goes out of his way to
Witty and abuse those whose con.
sciences will not longer permit
them to continue their wallowing
in the miro. 1t was such incon-
sistency and abominable action
upon the part of protested Christian
teachers and preachers who perse-
cuted the abolition fathers who
were laboring, suffering and dying
to rid this fair land of the foul stain