The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-21
PROHIBITION DAY.
John p. st. John Addresses the Prohibition
lists At Riverside Park--He Makes
Calamity Speech

The Hon. John P ST. John, the Ksnsa:
apostle of prohibition, has been here H,
came yesterday, but today he is gone Hi.
stay in the Peerless Princess was limited
to very short space of time. He was ad
vertised for speech at Riverside park al
Up. m. yesterday. and at that hour about
all the Prohibitionists in the city had
| gathered there to hear some words of com,
fort from their leading light The tent
was about half full-of people-aud for
the most part they were women, very few
voters being in the audience. The assem-
bly, presented some very strange pictures
On the platform were gathered the most
prominent temperance workers OF the city,
| and scattered among them were to be seen
in conspicuous places the familiar faces of
those great workers in the prohibition
cause, Rufus Cone and Bill Green,
while near the stage, on the
front row OF seat was the familiar form OF
Fritz Schni tzler and others of like stand
ing in the community. 1t was typica,
ling of Peoples party, Republican and
Democrats On the out edges.
The proceedings opened with song by
the glee club, consisting OF three persons
which sang 1--WE are Marching to Vic
tory" Rev. Nusbaum playing an accom-
panament on the autohaIp. After some
time waiting the club again favored the
audience with the Voting Song" sang to
the tune of Marching Through Georgia"
The crowd took kindly to this last song
and requested that the club sing again
which they did, rendering I'VE Are Not
So Lonesome AS We Used To Be"
Mr.. ST. John was then introduced and
said that history proves that no reform
was ever started without the reformer be-
ing called crank. And the cranks always
claims that the world is indebted to them
for the good that any reform accompiishes.
He reviewed the history Of the Republi
can party, and gave as reason for not do
ing the same by the Democratic party,
that there is no Democratic party. es-
pecially in Kansas, as it has been
swallowed by the Peoples par.y. He said
the reason of his leaving the Republican
party was because it had turned its back
upon the home by its failing to ipdorse
prohibition. He denied that the Demo-
cratic party had ever tried to buy him or
hired him to make a spedch.
He paid his respects to the EAGLE and
said that its editor always loved him. He
also characterized the people of Wichita
who are not prohibitionists as rebels, and
defended his administration with much
zeal. The prohibition party had the main
issue in the campaign, as the only ques-
ton at issue between the Democrats and
Republicans was whether or not tin plate
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States. The Prohibition party he said
stood for the homes against the saloons.
He then launched forth into TRADE of
abuse that made tie hearts of the few ca
lamityites who happened to Ire present
leap for joy. He said that the Republican
party was responsible for all the ills that
people of this country suffered and shat if
the government had been administered as
it should have been there would have been
no ills, nor tramps nor people out OF work
or suffering for bread. He held the Re-
publicans responsible for the fact that the
farmer owned only one-fifth of the wealth
of the country, and said that they paid
three-fourths of all the taxes. There were
in the United States, he said, 100000 sa-
looms, and if they were placed side by side.
allowing twenty feet front for each one.
they would make row of Republican
Democratic saloons 920 miles Tonga veri
ia BILE street of hell After harangue OF
the Calamity species on the Mckinley
tariff bill, during which he manifested
himself and the Prohbitionists as free
traders, the gentleman took up some in
situations he had heard and proceeded 20
deal with them from a prohibition stand
point.
Mr.. ST. John closed his harrangue with a
fifteen minutes eulogy on John Bid we'll,
the Prohibition nominee for president, in
which he lauded that gentleman's virtues
to the skies