The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-12-01
QUICK AND THE DEAD.
SAM SMALL STIRS UP THE PR0HI-
BITIONISTS IN NEW YORK.

He Makes a speech in Chickering Hall
Which Calls Down Upon Him the Wrath
Of Third Party Men-Hopes That He Says
Win Not BE Realized.
Rev. Samuel Small created quite sea-
salion in New York on SUNDAY by lee
ture in Chickering Hall on The Quick
and the Dead in Prohibition" The lac
ture was under the auspices of the Amer
lean Union. MIR. Small said, in parI:
"When a great battle has been ended,
the surgeons go forth to search for the
quick aud the dead. The quick may, in
many Instances, be saved, but the dead
are past hope. The duty of the third
party is to examine tina part OF the field
where 1T fought, and to search for it's
quick and Its dead. | am & lad it was
Kind of sham battle, and We had ii CHANCE
to eliminate the arrant towards OF the
party. We had too many fuss aud feath
ers aud esthetics. This is an age OF prac-
teal politics, aud we must let people see
that we Can do something. Why Was it
that more men gathered around the
Hoffman House last night than voted the
Prohibition ticket in the state of New
York? 1t was because something had
| been done in which those men were in
terested. We sometimes pitch into
newspapers because they give more at
| tention to base ball than revival and re-
| ligious meetings But if those fellows
just went out to the field and gabbled at
each other, aud then marched back to the
city, the newspapers would soon stop
noticing them. They do something. they
knock the insides out OF a ball; send it
| over the left field fence, and make man
slide sixteen feet to base. The people
are interested in that. But we have been
indulging simply in prophetic wind.
| Those who do il hel eafter might as well
go and whistle in graveyard. When
Sam Small goes into tight hereafter, he
is going TO do something. Some one is going
| to get hit, and some one is going to get
hurt. | don't believe in national Prohi
bition politics. Hereafter am going to
have someth ng pi actical about my prin
clples. about ny vote and about what
do. Principle is worth more IT, me than
all the parties that ever tramped the
globe. The liquor dealers dou't care for
party. They elect the men that will favor
their cause, of whatever par y they may
be. | don't believe i'll letting the devils
| crowd get ahead of me ON proposition
of common sense.
I'VE Prohioitiouists have held the bal.
ance of power in fifty two congressional
districts, and we might have used ouI
| power to have men put into office favor
able to prohibition. But the PROM bitiou
party has constantly run independent
tickets, instead OF joining with some
| other party, and, as Consequence, VT
have no representation. We have alsC
neld the balance OF power III several OF
the states, but We have lost our oppor
tuuity because we have placed party
above principle. When we begin to DIT
something the newspapers will be talk
ing about it, the politicians will be hus
Ting on account of it, an we will be get
ting some victories. Nationally, | think
all the tiowery, roseate ideas of having I
! Prohibition President, and our marchius
up to the White House, and drinking hi.
health in pure cold water, will not bt
realized for long time.
Economic questions, such as imml
grafton, monopolies. strikes and labor,
believe. are 70 be the imminent question!
for the next dozen years The pulpit anC
the press are waking up to TACT that Thu
government must kill he saloon, or thu
saloon will kill the government. TIT
country is becoming GermanIzed ant
bserized. II, as ProhibitionIsts, you Cal
join with other parties. joiE them, ant
God will bless the combination 1t is bet
ter that the saloon should go than tina
the Prohibition party should come"
AT the eud of the speech William T
W ..ddell, ice-presideBJ O. the society
took the p All orm and denounced VIVA
he considered the unorthodox views ex
pressed by Mr.. Small. He declared tina
it was the hardest afternoon he had hat
to endure since becoming member o
the Prohibition party. The assault Oh
the National party particularly aroused
his Indignation. The Rev. Stephen Mer
rift, one OF the directors, then said Ina
Mr. Small sspleen Was evidently enlarged
but he hoped it would soon be better
that his defeat was like children having
the humps, and that he had got then
pretty bad. You may be in the soup,
he remarked, tuning to Mr.. Small, ''bu
we amt"
Mr. Small as ain took the stand aut
said: This is ii question OF privilege, ant
| have q right 60 rise and answer.
haven't word of what | said to TAX,
back. | was never less splenetic in my
life. | have been sustaining systematic
defeat for twenty five years. Ii it break,
every friendship have IN the party ant
leaves me entirely isolated, will stant
by my opinions. | will walk out of tin.
hall and out of this city, back to til,
wilds OF Georgia, il you please, upholdinl
these views"