The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-15
BROOKS. THE REBEL PROHlBITIONIsT.
An Interesting Revelation Concerning the
Third Party Candidate for Vice President.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal,
Mr.. John A Brooks candidate fer Vice-presi-
dent on the Prohibition ticket. and his friends
have been so earnest in the denial that he ever
uttered the words he was said to have expressed
at Decatur. ILL.,, that some people who do not
know Mr.. Brooks may either doub. that he said
them, or come to the charitable conclusion that
they were mere lapsus lineue, OF the utter
ances of one under undue excitement Three
reputable men have sworn that Mr. Brooks, in
his speech, said:
have lived in the South and owned slaves there.
sympathized with the South and prayed for the sue
Of the Confederate cause. but my prayers wsse
not answered. / have been a Democrat, but, thank
God, have never been Republican. viii never
have that sin TO answer tor.
1t may seem strange TO some of our Indiana
friends who do not know Mr.. Brooks that be
should inter such words. BY it be implies that
it is a greater disgrace to be Republican than
to 10 a rebel or a stakeholder But, my friends,
this is not sll OF the utterances Of Mr.. Brooks
and his followers. Did you live In Missouri,
and did you know the bitter hatred that the
rebel Prohibitonist has for the Republican
party, you would understand why he should
make such utterances. The strongest whisky
Democratic papers are publishing the speeches
of John A. Brooks A few weeks ago, In ms
speech at Shelbyville. No.. Mr.. Brooks said, 10
the presence of Mr. Dobbins. Of that place, In
substance, as follows THAT for every dollar
that the Prohibition party spent in New YORK
and Indiana four years ago they intended this
year to spend four; that for every Democrat
that voted the Prohibition ticket they expected
10 get ten Republics. votes" So much for his
intentions. What did they do four years ago In
Missouri Even Mrs. Hoffman boasted to Rev.
j. NJ. Green, after the defeat OF Mr.. Blaine,
that they had defeated the Republican party,
and were delighted at the election Of Cleveland.
After the election four years ago Democrats met
IN saloons TO celebrate the victory and Prohiol-
tionsts in their halls for the same purpose. A
leading Democratic paper says How can Hsr-
rision carry New York with 100000 Prohloitiou-
lists voting against him" But Mr. Brooks says
that he was a rebel. and prayed for the confed-
crate cause. Is he one yeti Here is what
gentleman in Kansas City says that he heard
him say about elk or seven years ago:
About six or seven years ago. heard him say at So
dalia. that he fought through the late the Con-
federate side that when the war was over he found
side, he saw Kansas for the first time. Oh. how he
hated Kansas (snd be hstel. He fairly cursed
north south of IT. and set his foot on the ac
cursed soil Sitting there IN the NJ. T.. Church, L
wondered what had poor, bleeding Kansas done to
this great and good man. He soon told Us, because
of the part she played that led TO the Well
well here Christian preacher who had been
fighting 10 perpetuste human slavery cursing State
for the part che took TO abolish it. then asked my
self the question, this unrepentant rebel, who
fought to uphold human slavery. be sincere IN his role
Ot apostle,
cipat;on of slaves from the drink trafici
Hundreds of others asked the same question.
That he is only a Prohibitionist in name. and
that he is only using the party for the election
OF Cleveland cannot be doubted Only six or
seven years ago he said in public temperance
address in the church of Rev. I. A. Canada, at
that time located at Savannah, Mo-, but whose
pssrofice 10 now Kirksville, Mo-. aud who IS the
presiding elder of the Kirksville circuit, Mis-
souri, NJ. Z. Conference. In his church he said
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that the South was right. and that il was his
intention to train his children up in the same
belief. This is in substance his language. Not
two years ago he said in the Office Of Mai. 5. q.
Brock. of Macon City, Macon county, Missouri,
in conversation. that ,t was nothing more than
right that the Southern States should use the
means that they used tkiine few negroes o.
cassioualyl in order to hold their political pres
tige SIN order TO prove what he had said he asked
Major Brock il he would like to have nggers
ruling him. Mr. Brooks is not the only Pro-
hibitionist whose words and very
strange. The confederate portion OF the party
four years ago argued TO persons If they could
not support St. John to be sure and vote for
Mr.. Cleveland. Democratic papers the
chief medium for the circulation of their speeches
The very tspers that we. as temperance men.
have had to fight when We were opposing
license are now being used by rhe Prohibition
lists az medium for circulating their litera-
ture. IL they not in the employ of the De-
pocracy why are they working togetherf
We must conclude that the Prohibition party
in the main is dishonest. There are few good
psople in the party who have been blinded by
the leaders and Democratic hirelnrs; but in the
main il is made up of diseruntled Republicans,
ard men VINO are IN the employe of the Demo
cratic party Is switehmen TO sde-track Repub-
lcan votes. The prohibition politician of to-day
is the Hessisn hirelinc and Tory of the Revolu-
ton, acting in the employ OF the enemies of the
stars and stripes. Temperance and prohibition
represent one among the grandest aud nobest
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temperance banner has heen soiled and made to
serve the viest ends. They are trying to s'steal
the livery OF heaven TO servo the devil in"
1t has become very apparent TO an uppre-
JUDGED mind that the Prohibition party is but
an auxiliary to the Democracy They 60 hand
and glove together. The Prohibitiopists re-
joiced with the Democracy over the election of
Grover Cleveland in 1854, and they will weep
with them over his defeat in 1883 No sane
man can be SO blinded as to the interests and
purposes Of party. as to not understand il.
when it says that all il can hope to do is to re-
duce the Republican vote sufficiently to elect
Grover Cleveland, who is well known to be an
enemy to the principles which they
claim to advocate. The false idea is that they
must put their enemies 10 power that they
may defeat them-logic incomprehensible TO a
thinking man. The Bible says, Take no thought
of the morrow. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof, aud then the great principle of
| choosing between the least Of two evils lif, as
they say, the Republican party is evil,I
would make every thinking Prohibitionist vote
| the Republican ticket, If he WAS honest in his
| desire to bring about temperance reform. For
every honest. sane man will admit that the Re-
| publican party has always been friend TO pro-
| hibition, while the Democratic party has been
| its enemy
| A man must be fool to vote with a party ex-
| psctirg to bring about prohibition, when, by do
| ing SO. he is aiding and abetting a party that
| has always been an enemy to prohibition If
| the Prohibitonists were honest, why do they
| not throw some of their influence In Georgia as
| well ss New York and Indiana The time
| spoken of in the Bible of False prophets. who,
if it were possible, will deceive the very elect,
has surely come. 1 would advise my Repub-
| liean. temperance friends to beware Of these
| false prophets. They q cheat and a snare
to deceive you into aiding the Democracy ia re-
tanning the power they dishonesty obtained
| four years ago. JOHN r MUsICK.
kIRKsvILLE. No., Sept IL.