The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-18
THE EXODUS COMMENCED.
GOOD MEN AND TRUE TAKING TO
THE PROHIBITION WOODS.

East, West, North and South Give of
Their Best to Build the Party of the
Nation Get Aboard the Ark While
You Can.
Father Horace Waters has prophesied
the election of Prohibition president in
1892, but it looks now as though the old
veteran had put off the day of our glory
four years too late Every day brings
news of fresh accessions to our ranks,
men and women leaving both the old
parties, tired and Disguised with their
continued iniquity.
4, The Meriden Conn., Journal Qnd.) says
that ex-Mayor Lewis Of that city and the
Rev. Messrs. Wheelock and McGrew, Re-
publicans, all of whom voted for Blaine in
1884, have been driven away from the
party by the free whisky plank, and will
this year vote the Prohibition ticket.
California gives of her best in Mission
airy Van Meter, who thus writes to
friend in the east
= $50 drunken rabble must go to select
our chief magistrate, and blab mouthed,
blackguard infdel is to make the nomi-
mating speech! I've crossed the Rubicon
today have heretofore been stalwart
ILepuDuCdu, DuU L WILL u6NeF NOtG Will u
party represented by such a set. I will
vote with any party, regardless of name,
that will crush alcohol"
Rev, Thomas K. Beecher, of E1nira, n
Y, D brother OF the late Henry Ward
Beecher has come out for Fisk and Brooks
He has heretofore usually been identified
with the Greenback party. Last fall he
headed the Greenback state ticket,
T., I1I;,o;e Po1, w II po1oe 1,,oO Iy,,orr,,,
and very popular among 1.-THE farmers of
that state declares his allegiance to the
true nti-monopo1y party, the peoples
Prohibition party.
The farmers of southern illinois are
organized under the name of the Farm
ers' Mutual Benefit association" and
probably no other man has so great an in
f1uence among the members of this associ-
alton as Rev. Mr. Boles. There was a
strong effort made few months ago to
induce him to become the Republican can
didate for congress in the Twentieth dis
trict.
Mrs. Helen NJ Cougar, of Indiana, who
was one of the few w. G. T. U. women
who spoke for Blaine and Logan, has re-
pudiated the Republican party since the
Chicago convention.
The churches never rang cut more
clearly upon this great politico-moral
question as now, The Free Baptists of
Wisconsin. at their yearly meeting held
recently, declared as follows:
"Inasmuch us the saloon has invaded
the home and the church and threatens
the nations life, therefore,
''REsotvED, /, That It becomes the duty
of all Christian men and all lowers Of
home and native land to combine in the
use of all means possible 10 stay it's on
ward march, and never to rest short of
the entire overthrow and extrpation of
the saloon life.
80 That prohibition being the only
road to victory for the real friends of
freedom, and inasmuch as both the old
political parties treat temperance men
with contempt passing the temperance
issue in silence, we therefore wash our
hands of this ii1n1iquity, and cutting
loose from all utilization with them re
new our allegiance to Prohibition.
"3 That in Gen. Fisk we recognize the
Christian gentleman and statesman, and
recommend his election to the presidency"
The Eastern Michigan Christian con-
ference has adopted a report on Moral Re-
form which repeats the celebrated Ian
guage of the Methodist general confer
ence, declaring against all laws licensing,
taxing or regulating the drink traffic, and
asserting that church members should
not permit themselves to be controlled by
party organizations managed in the inter
ests of the liquor traffic" The following
additional declaration is made:
eve believe the time has come when
Christian me:l and all good citizens should
rise above sectional jealousy, and give
their support to any party, policy or
measure which has for it's object the pro-
lection of our homes, by the destruction
of the unholy traffic.
No clergyman in the Congregational
denomination in this country stands so
high as the Rev Dr. Richard S. Storrs, of
Brooklyn. When a successor was sought
70 the late Mark Hopkins as president of
missionary association of the denomina
ton, DIR. Storrs was the man whose name
naturally occurred to everybody. No
Congregational clergyman has been more
earnest in his support of the Republican
party. Four years ago, while admitting
that there is some foundation for the
criticisms" passed upon the party he
nevertheless gave it his support, in an in
terview published in The New York Tri-
bune, for these reasons:
"No doubt there is some foundation for
the criticisms But do not believe that
the parasitic growths have touched the
life of the tree, or that barnacles have
weakened the frame of the ship or shorn
its sails. The old spirit which ennobled
the party in its youth, of patriotic enthu-
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