Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-24
JONES AND SMALL.
BOTH DELIVER DISC0URSEs AT THE CAMP
GROUNDS, YESTERDAY.
Mr.. Jones Takes the moral Side Of the Third PART
Movement and Leaves Politics
TO Mr.. Small.

and as a consequence the audience was
large one, the attendance exceeding tina;
of shy other day during the meeting except
last Sunday. The people came from all
the surrounding country, large number
going down from this city, while Bellaire,
Bridgeport and Martins Ferry contributed
their quotas. Among the more prominent
Third party people present were l. NJ.
Johnston, of the Freeman. of Parkersburg.
The platform of the auditorium was artis-
tically and appropriately decorated with
banners, notices, flags and flowers, and
was much admired by the audience. Both
Rev. Jones and Rev. Small spoke, the
former in the morning, and the latter in
the afternoon. Both discourses savored
strongly of Third partyism, this being par
ticularly noticeable of Mr.. Small's re-
marks, he taking no text from the Scrip
lures.
The morning exercises were opened by
Prof. Excel, who led the choir in q num-
Der of hymns, among them the New
Battle Hymn" which was sung to the air
of Marching Through Georgia" The
hymns and songs had been printed upon
slips of paper, which were distributed to
the audience.
In his opening prayer Mr.. Jones paid
particular attention to the needs OF the
h.k aos1 kat he
posed to attend to the moral aspects of the
situation, leaving the political side to Mr..
Small, rs the latter had "for long time
run with the Democrats down in Georgia,
and had made speeches, drank whisky,
and stuffed ballot boxes with them until
he was u thorough politician"
Mr.. Jones said he did not claim to be
'better up" in morals than Mr.. Small, and
really preferred to take the political side
himself, because he Thought there was
more fuu in it." He despised dull meet
ing. Some OF his auditors might get mad,
but he warned them that if any Of them
"did get mad and got on their hind feet,
they might strike the ground at the
rate OF mile minute" He said "this is
our day, and we propose to have it. Some
of this crowd will get mad at anything
YOU might say. This is called free coun-
try. We call il the land of the free and
the home of the brave There is still one
vet of grovelipg slaves in this country, and
they march the downward way to the sa-
loon. Go discuss the political and moral
questions of the day. We must take
sides. | am on Gods side in this
question. You may 90 up to Gods court
and whisper in HIS ear, and on whatever
side He is on, You may put me down,
and will stay right there. On Whatever
side Christ, and the women and children
are on, l am there all the time. All /
wish to know when / 90 into u body il,
who has the amen corner You 20 to u
political meeting held by either of the old
parties, and you will find the amen cor
ner, filled with the old rei-nosed bloats OF
the brazsn demagOgues.
when i look around me, / think
have pretty good crowd. have minis.
tiers, lawyers, teachers and newspaper re-
porters. tit was a meeting of one of the
old parties, all the old bloats and bull
necked saloOn-keepers would be here, hol-
lerin' to kill. When l holler, want to
know who am hollerin' with.
There are not enough devils in hell nor
men on earth to stop my throat on this
question. No, my countrymen, if We
can't agree, let MS ogree to disagree"
Mr.. Jones then selected az the founda-
tion of his discourse Gal. vi, T.
'Be We not discouraged, God is not.
Whatsoever ye SOW, that shall ye reap"
He said:-
'Many men in this world seem to think
all God asks of a man is to be honest.
may be honest in my opinion, but it don I
change il from what it is. But let me say
this on the moral side of this question
and it would have been just as true if So
crates had said it: What you SOW in ma.
ture you will reap, and You know more: it
will multiply according to the nature OF
the seeds you SOW. The same thing is true
in moral sense. Whatever You SOW,
that shall you reap. Each of you are
going through life with basket
of moral truths on each arm,
and a hand down in each basket, throw
ing them right and left. II we
SOW saloons, we will reap honest, upright
men. Mop Every man of you says
Jones, that is lie ON the face of it. II
you SOW whisky and bar-rooms, you will
reap drunkards, Just as sure as you reap
potatoes from potatoes Aud when you
reap them, what will you do with them?
Will you make ministers, and lawyers out
of them? Some one says, send them to
the Legislature but you have enough of
that kind there now. Send them 10 the
penitentisry.' But that is full, and if all
were there that break the laws, and should
90 there, q forty acre fisld would not hold
the building.
"You say you would vote for the amend
ment, but prohibition don't prohibit.
Nor does high license regulate, nor re.
strsining laws restrain. / would rather
my town would license a mad dog than II
saloon. l am not after Democrats or r 3
publicans. They, as u rule, are good TEL
lows. am with them like the fellow who
saw deer running by like sin and failed
to raise his gun to shoot. When asked
why, he said: 4 thought that If let that
fellow go he would kill himself
"Some of you Republicans over there ssy
the Democratic party Is the whisky party.
They don't deny it. Tney say: If you
don't believe it, look at their red noses; but
my party is an honest, upright moral,
temperate party, who had possession OF this
Government for twenty-five years before
through necessity made it necessary to hand
it over to the Democrats, aud when they go,
it they foundit whisky soaked from Maine
to California. Give me an honest man,
every time, who will come right out and say
l sm guilty.
mo; we have men who still make and
vote for whisky. II God puts the man that
sells whisky in. hell, He will as Justly put
in any one who has anything to do with il
If wished 10 sell whisky / would 90 70
some town with a good Democrat fol
Mayor, and good Presbyterian elders or
Methodist class leaders for 3 Council, and
get my license; and would hold To them
in death and take them b,fore the bar OF
God and say; You fellows gave me Ii.
censs to do this thing
THE time has come when being temper.
snce man don't amount to much, and from
this time on am for prohibition first, last
and all the time"
Large additions were made to the crowd
in the afternoon, partly the result of delay.
ed trains Mr. Wooiburn, of Cameron, led
the singing. Rev. Small led in prayer, ask.
ing the Lord to assist every man to decide