The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-15
the last DAY,
The Third Party Meeting Mt the Prohibition
AN. l Assembly Hall Closes.

was as good n day rs could DO desired.
The rains OF Sunday and,their effects
had quickly disappeared in tho sandy
soil Of Marshall, and by Monday noon
one could readily imagine that It had
not rained for a week. The people rs.
sembled carly 10 hear tho scientific In.
structions on temperance, led by Mrs.
Jennie McClurken, whose ability in
almost any liue OF moral or christian
work Is we'll known. She Is an energetic
woman, full Of iudustry and application,
and impresses every Il with her earn.
estness and sincerity. AT 1880 o'clock
Sam W. Small was introduced, and pro.
ceeded to make bis fourth and last nd.
dress. lie said no thought this meeting
had done good, and closed with q strong
argument for, temperance and prohibi.
ton.
In the evening the attendance was
perceptibly larger, and the atmosphere
was at a standstill and made the use OF
hundreds OF fans u necessity. After
singing and prayer, Mrs. Cougar was
introduced, and said she did not intend
tn mako a speech, but wanted to make a
f.4 remarks 10 voters, Democratic and
Republican. She did not want to talk
10 Prohibitionists. She said there were
associations formed to sustain tho ga.
looms, brewefies, distillaries and saloon.
keepers. Tbfso baye all been combined
in the National Liquor Dealers Associa.
ton. This Is composed OF the riT.
raH OF tho country. Men have not the
nerve to face this 1uestion and do their
duty. II they have not the nerve, then,
In the name Of God and humanity, unite
tho hands OF woman at tho ballot box
and let her vote.
She said she knew the precious men,
as she had lived with n Of them for
twenty.six years. We might rs well
license men to steal horses rs TO sell
liquor. She spoke Of her experience a
lew weeks ago while making a tour oil
the beer halls OF Cincinnati, which she
said 10 q sample Of all largo cities outside
OF prohibition territory. She then told
OF the drunken young men and women
and tho other forms OF vice she saw.
The speaker said further tina. it was one
OF two things: The saloons must live and
the Republic so down, or the Republic
must live aud the saloons go down.
Liquor men make their business their
politics, and 90 with whichever OF the
old parties will aid them. Let me ask
ask the Democrats what they would lose
this minute If their party were stuck
dead by apoplexy? They wouldn't lose
much, not even the postoilice. The
Republicans have it. Let me ask The
Democrats If they heard Of the open and
shameless purchase Of a seat in the
United States Senate from Ohio by Brice
Of New York? Why did you not raise
q howl at such proceedings? Look a,
the Louisiana Lottery bribery, WHICH il
is said by Democrats, Is to save the
party. You lay everything bad at the
door of the Republican party. l saw
more drunkenness in Il half hour at the
st. I.oui5 convention than l ever saw
before in 90 short o time,
She then turned her attention to the
Republican party, and said: When yor
ask why a man is a Republican, he tellt
you what that PARTY has done. Among
the leaders are three Of thu mcst cor
rupt men this country ever saw-Qnay,
Dudley and Clarkson. The Republican
convcn:iopa are packed with liquor men
and their deiegatcs elected by primaries
controlled by saloons. There was nc
difference between the st. Louis and
Chicago conventions in this respect,
ProhibitionisI1 we're Prosecuted in In.
diana. and &lurat Haloteai advocated
putting them down il it became neces.
sary to use the dagger. Murat Halstead
was afterward. appointed to a gyea,
office. Harrison appointed q man to
office who runs six SALOONS, and who
married a woman who kept a bro.be|
and the msn himself was
running a brothel--his name
was Mcfarland. livery iasue demand:
the death OF the Republican party. No,
only the temperance issue, but all. You
may ask Why not demand the death o!
the Democratic party? We answe,
that like weeds and old clothea, it is .
necessary evil that we shall always have
with us, because it repseocn:s the ,;G:
raft OF the country. It will always be
With us, end will always Represent al
that is bad. vicious, incorporate aud
low and ignorant in the country. The
Republican party, on the other hand,
represents the intelligence and morality
Of the country. Now, don't say 1 abuse
anybody; / spea1 o. parties, not persons,
The old parties have no eettled prirc;.
pies. One is what the other isn't, and
Tho other isn't what the one is. The
Mckinley bill Is infamous, end the
Federal election bill is a blow at the
constitution, and il it passes and be.
comes q lay and the party in power
tries to enforce itin 1872 in the South.
you'd not blame the people OF the
South i they sise in civil war. death.
like silence
Mrs. Cougar then spoke Of the prohi.
bitlon convention OF lSSS, asking ii there
was q single liquor representative there ?
AZ Iir. Griain said, wait until that party
gets large enough to lie Eo,th looking
after, and you will find a different crowd
cLoEt IFS %conyentions.
She said no DOUBT Republicans and
Democrats had probably already said in
their hearts that they were going to vote
with their respective psrtiesln 1902. But
she asked nov they knew what it's plat
form would be, or what men it would
put up. She was q Republican to-day,
but didn't know what she would be in
1909. She might be a prohibitionist,
and might not. She referred to tho
Farmers Alliance, and said old parties
could no carry the"election with
out it in 1892 than a man could hone to
20 to hopyen il DO continues to vote the
Republican ticket. X
Mrs. Cougar is a wonder In physical
endurance. She spoke last night. for
nearly two hours with scarcely a break
in the TOW OF language. j.
at tho close Of Mrs. Cougars address
It was announced that n year from this
time the second meeting Of the assembly
would be held
In his cloeing, remarks Rev. Mr.. Mead
said: God bless all, Including the re-.
hoods
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