Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-08-19

shouting will be done by the good christians
and pious mothers and wives and daughters.
You should vote with the crowd you are not
ashamed to shout with. He hoped that next
Saturday night tho shouting Will be done by
the good people, and he should like to see
brother Williams at the head of the process
sion shouting for the triumph Of temperance
and the right. He can't believe otherwise
than that it Will be glorious victory for the
"drys," and some OF you, If you wish to be IN
the majority should bleach up your noses and
come In. He then asked all. OF both sexes and
races. who wish victory for the "Drys" to
stand UP, when most Of those present did so.
He expressed great qualification at that mani
festation The "Wets," in reply to the chal-
lenge of the "Drys" for discussion, said when
they could hear from their foreign speakers
they could give them a more dehnite reply.
Foreign speakers. Jones exclaimed, he reckon
cd they were fresh from hell.
Hector's choir then sang the "Local-Option
class meeting song" after which, with the
benediction, the audience was dismissed.
Jones and Hector Tuesday Morning.
The Tabernacle was crowded before the hour
appointed for the meeting at l0H a. m. Rev.
Sam Jones announced that Col. Cheves. one OF
the best speakers and temperance-workers he
knew, would be here Wednesday morning and
would remain till the election on Saturday
next. He is from Louisville, KY. and was
Confederate Colonel during the war. The
meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. G. c.
Stumm, Pastor of the colored Baptist church
of this city.
Mr., Jones said that the liquor forces were so
well organized that they can send any amount
of money to any place where they need 1t to
influence an election. He knew of case
where 40 men furnished $50, C00-s20 600 piece
to effect special purpose. We should have
organization to meet organization, and money
to meet money. The election can't be carried
by clapping Of hands and laughing. Every
thing costs money-there Is nothing free.
Even water and air cost heap Of money In
New York city. Nothing can be run free ex-
cept the tongue. and even that comes high
when it is of ANY account. To come here to
help on this fight, he left one appointment OF
$3.50 and another of $3.50. Ifyou wish the city
to go dry, give literally when the collection is
taken up. We must have organization to
meet organization and money to meet money,
as In prairie you fight fire with fire. He
called to Mr.. Reeves Gait to speak to his col
lectors. He said Gait was not kitten, but
full grown Gait, and on the temperance ques-
ton he was like tiger, one of the cat kind.
Whilst the collection was being taken up.
Hector's choir sang-''I am going to join the
army"
Mr.. Jones said th&t Hector and himself
would speak alternately to rest each other-a
sort of tide and tie arrangement
REV. JOHN II. HECTOR.
Hector commenced by saying that man
said.to him that this was government of tho
people, by the people, and for the people, when
he told him 1t was lie, Che only weighed
about 20 pounds), for 1t was government Of
the men, by the men, and for the men. and
woman had nothing to do with 1t If they had,
they would chase whiskey to hsll in "a hours.
His race has been told. and some OF Thorn be-
iieve 1t, that If the town goes dry 1t will die,
and long green grass will grow on Its Streets
They think whiskey Is a great Industry. If
grass should grow In the streets it would be
choice between hay and whiskey, and he
would prefer hay.
The whskey traffic is not great industry,
but pirate that preys upon every other in
dustry.
When you spend your money for whiskey.
you do not get an equivalent for it. When he
was drinking man. being an engineer, he
received good wages, but 1t did him no good.
He was SO ragged that he was afraid to go In
March wind, and he lived on mackerel till he
got rusty. He was then called "Black Jack"
and now he is called "Mr. Hector" and is hon.
ored and respected by all. he adopted a pro-
hibitory law in his home, and after that he
abandoned mackerel and ate beef-steak and
gravy. The steak gave him blood and muscle
and the gravy made him greasy and put
GLOSS on him that lasts the year round.
If the whiskey business was good, square
why did they not, at the centennial,
show its products, as other business did. Why
did they not have dead-beats and drunkards
in glass case and show of the products OF
their business, and boast of them. All should
get on the Lords side in this contest. He was
,old by young man, who was the sole sup
port OF a widowed mothers family, that he
1ad been discharged because he had told an
,ther who was old enough to vote-he himself
was not that he would advise him to vote
Try. The friends of the drys should stand all
lay at the polls and work. He wanted all to
black, blue, grisly and gray. A
,olored man in Staunton tod him that he was
sinner and was paid to vote wet. and that he
hould direct his attention to some OF the dea-
IONS and church members who professed to be
~ saying. that he would now turn Mr.. Jones
Dose upon them, and "may the Lord have
mercy on your souls"
REV. SAM JONES.
Mr. Jones said the people of this good old
county had been In the habit of buying nd
selling and drinking whiskey for hundr ed
years or M are and the force of habit was very
great, as he illustrated by the anecdote of the
poor family of father and mother and six
children who all slept in one bed, and were so
closely packed spoon-fashion that no one
could turn unless all turned at the same time.
and when one wished to turn he would Just
,ay turn" and all would flop over together.
This habit was SO strong that one day when
he father. who had gone a-flshing. was sleep
ing on log in the river, one of his boys came
along and said turn" when he instantly
turned over and fell off the log into the river
and came very near being drowned.
The habit here of buying! selling, and drink
Ing liquor Is very old. but 1t Is one that
should be broken. You should remember
that when you vote for Its sale, you vote for
all the consequences resulting from 1t, and
they are terrible. If those SO engaged, would
give bond with good security in large sums
to pay for all the evil, 1t would be different,
but they will not do SO, In voting for it, you
vote for all the evils resulting, snd against
the peace and happiness of the women. There
are some things he would die before he would
10 and that is one of them. His mother aud
to do such q thing. Some OF his best friends
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