The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
THE NEW PARTY.
REV. DIR. y. Is. GAMBHELL
INTERVIEWER ON THE
SUBJECT.
He Defines the Relative Position
of mississippi IrUhibi-
tiOuiStS.
pruhiEitiuniStS and Farmers NJ
lance Men Natural Allies.

lance Men Natural Allies.
The Meridian News has interviewed
Rev. Dr.. Gam5rcll regarding the call
published in today's LEADER for Il
Prohibition Party Convention to meet
in jackson JaTuary Sth.
rs to who Mr.. Henry Ware is DR..
Gamhrcll said
"IEcnry Ware is chairman of tn"
Third Party state Prohibition Execu-
tive Committee for Mississippi
when was this committee form
ed g"
"Brforc the las: presidential cleo
ton. 1t was organized the very day
of the great yellow fever excitement,
and the present conference is to reor-
ganizc for future aggressive work"
ais there not another prohibition
organization in the State -
"Yea, there is the Non Partisan
convention which meets once a year.
am chairman of the executive com
mittee of the NOn-P Partisan conven-
ton
Twill you explain the difference
between the two =
"Well. the Non-P Partisan cOuven-
ton seeks to accomplish its work
without resort 10 political methods;
the other believes prohibition must be
dealt with like the tariff or any other
question of government policy"
What do you think will be the eff
C..t ,,F marty nrnhilitinn atfnrt in
Mississippi ?
.Wrll, should say it will be good.
Like the Alliance in politics, it will
educate. Our people, most of all,
need political education. For a long
time our work has been to hold the
Niger down while designing polite
ians have had their hands in our
pockets. Political agitation on new
lines will help the State"
What do you think will probably
be the progress of this new move z
at is likely to be slow for time.
Old party ties are strong, the race
question is still living thing and
preiudices are not easily overcome.
But it is not impossible that we may
all be surprised within year or two.
There is no doubt that there is great
dissatisfaction with existing parties,
and Il growing disposition to act indie,
pendcntly i'll politics. There are
many things pointing to IL great break
from old party ranks. The Alliance
move in the West and South, the call
for Il conference in February of all re-
form elements to form party of prin-
ciplcS, the fact that the National Al
lance. the National Grange and many
other labor organizations have de-
clared for prohibition, suggests great
probabilities not many years hence.
The progress of prohibition in poll
ties has been helped OH by the fact
that so many Of the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention confessed
that they were pledged to pcrpetuate
the saloon. Real Prohibitionists are
growing weary of the attitude of the
Democratic party on the saloon qucs-
ton. If it should turn out that the
farmers, who are natural prohibition
lists, and the prohibitionists unite with
Other reform clements, they would
carry Mississippi by great MAORI
ty, and this is IL possibility. Farmers
are being educated by the Alliance as
never before, and they know soft
soap when they see it. They are get
ting on to the tricks of these court
house rings which run with the sa-
looms in the towns. And they are
catching on to the trick Of the towns
in licensing saloons and getting the
money, while the country people get
the consequences"
'What will be the attitude of the
-purtisan committee, of which
You are chairman, towards this move?"
''Our attitude will be nOn-commit-
tai. With our committee and con-
vention, every one may hold what
political affiliations he chooses, but
we, as convention or committee, are
no party. Some of us are Democrats,
some Republicans and some Party
Prohibitionists. The move headed by
Mr.. Ware, is entirely distinct from the
non partisan move"