The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-09

men. II has plenty OF good men, jus. az
good ns tho good people In the Rapubli-
can pnrty, and not one bit better. Are
they, going to form party to which they
4 admit only those Danc,itied and ready Il,
= pass 10 their rewards. II so. they NAV
as well give up. But Mr.. Mills saws The
bad Prohibitionists brought their tricks
with them from tho old parties. | have
7 observed that members Of tho third
party who never belonged 10 any other
party have these same bad tricks. i,c.
. sides they must hereafter got their
strength from the old parties and nlusi
necessarily get more bad traits alonV
with them. The Prohibition party Ia too
small yet to judge It's future. AS ii grows
1t is bound to got into the hands Of The
machine. To-day and for long .imo to
como Its ranks are made UP OF men Of
good intentions, but no political expert.
enCe. When itg,ows largo enough 10 be
factor, 4 few machine working politi. |
clans, smart manipulalonand wire.pull. |
ers IRON both parties will Join It, then.
look out! Mills said that they ou,y wani
million, which is one vote in twelye
10 get up q row. But when ono man
gets up q row with eleven o,here. who
usually gets the worst OF 1t? lle has noI
pointed ont to us how he is going Ia rrt
the million votes. Get more temperanco
people in order 10 get lava. Get enough
to say will drink no morel and the ,es,
is easy. The Republican aud Democratic
parties haye given us every foot OF pro.
hibitlon territory we ever had. The
Prohibition party hns never given us an
inch. The fruits Of the past are on NV
side, and not on Mr.. AIilla's. The Old
parties have not done all they should p.
have done, but they have done all thai
has been done, and | firmly believe that.
had Il not been for the third party. We
would have had prohibition in every Q
State in the Union six years ago. Il, has &
done more to perpetuate the traffic than Ic
all the saloons in the land. 1t DESTROY. 8
Gu the agitation Of personal temperance 8
ny makinga partisan machine OF it. Ac. T.
tive, conscientious men and women g
were driven out by this party, that be. c
gan firing at friends instead oi enemies. d
Mills says he believes in row. So does L
the devil: There are bad rows c
anu good rows. When it ia
q row between the frend,
OF temperance it should be STONED al
once. The third party idea is that onc r
OLD party must be destroyed to get tenn. y,
perance out OF it. Men not in favor nj |!
adopting this most extreme and absurd t,
idea have been slandered and lied abont b
and branded as friends of the liouor ii
traffic. Republicans have not reached II
that high state Of perfection tba. when p
smote on one cheek they turn the other. Il
But what is the outlook? Tho third Il
party vote has been steadily decreasing, Il
1t was less in 1855 than before, and the n
Voice said look to or years ior big pro. ii
hlbltlon vote; but what Is a vote worth
that can only be poiled in of years?
However, this vote fell of 10000 in
1859. Then the Voice said, "You must o
compare votes at different Presidential +,
elections 10 give us the strength of the r r
third party" Well, the Prohibition p
party gained from 1854 to 1883, 70 0o0 p
votes; the Democratic party in the same u y
period gained 100000, while the Repub. ~ ~
lican party in the same period gained p
$4,000. Ao CT
The speaker then reviewed. the grand u u
work OF the Republican party, through ~
war, financial troubles, ETC., and now.
'aid he. we are asked TO givo up every.
thing OF political nature for nothing. ::
Absolutely nothing for that is what va q y
would get by joining the third party. tt
They tell us that the wicked cities make o,
up Republican msjorities. This ia not o
true. New York city gave Cleveland T
more majority in 'SS than she did O.
in 'si. and 80 with all the cities. Tbe u
only city in tho country that can he ol
depended upon to go Republican at ali al
lines, is Philadelphia. The speaker
Closed with come slrongadvlce to friends
't temperance, which called forth loud
applause. - w. ~" nj
MIR. Mills then spoke fifteen minutes 7,
n vain attempt to patch up some Of =,
lls badly manGled iallacies. u
IN tha evening Michael J, Tanning. Z
u Michigan, an Irish Democrat, made a ~ u
,peech. He seemed to think that ,he X
lgures given by Mr.. Griffin in regard TO =, a
ne growth Of the Republican party u
aeedad some explanation, 80 he spent Z.
thou. two'thirds Of his limo on that sub
ect. This created some amusement and
ed some one to remark: "GrjtIiu must la
nave demoralized things pretty badly" tt
NOTES. b
Rev. S. L. Parcel, Of Claysyille, Pa, n
was at yesterdays meeting. .,.;g 7; a
Rev. J. D. Ruble and Rev. J, G. Gar. II
ner were among the ministers present
yesterday. 7a.r =
At the committee meeting it was dc. :,
,ided to put full tickets in the field :, !"
everywhere. *I'5 y 5
A leading third party man, after hear Il
ng Griilin's speech, said: II had no O.
dea so muc, could be said against the G.
,hird party" S p