The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-10

! will show you man with an official backb
Tho municipal conscience is dead all over thi.
town but what will tell you that Roanoke has
been run by rings and ring, never has con
science in IL and, whenever you get upa town
ring, God bless you, you have got TO take every
saloon keeper In your town into that ring, aud
saloon Keepers and conscience do not stay in the
Acrcc:''
''You are, indeed" replied that gentleman.
all say Amen
The ministers on the platform said Amen
when Mr.. Jones said, That sounds like it came
me; the municipal conscience dead. What sort
of II conscience has that excise board: will tell
Unable, bull neck, white aproncd scoundrcls who
want TO sell whskcy tncy have not got any
bristits on them, n uch less conscience. That
sort OF thing ought to burn the 5ristcs or of
an animal.
~ expect that If you will ferret out things
within wheel. DO you hear me. No con
science but wheel within wheel, brewers
and distillcis and saloons and policemen, and en-
Csc ana hi4h cockaioi uln aun low cOckalorum
Ana II there il Il constituencies ring in this
towp, God bless you. rise up in your manhood
ana burst it and throw it to the winds. That is
right
no conscience. What arc YOU newspaper
mel, doing: eau take a column of any paper in
ms town and clean out anything in this town.
II IL enough to make the whole town snccZc
About all iHE TIMES wsnts to know about II fell
low Is that he l. IA Dcmocrrt, and all the Herald
wants To know f. that he is II Republican And
whether he has voted Tor this or that, we will
noini nate him and crack the whip over the backs
for him. ~
They cannot ride Sam Jones any more When
an Ola damnablc. red noScd, miserable politician
comes up TO me and puts his foot in my stirrups
inc next thing he knows when the dust blows
away l. that am standing at tho saddle waiting
WIN one or his gallowscs wound around my
iclt leg and 1t will take coroner to tell what IL
INC % Mi WIN hn h'm ThGy e1nt ride me
papers ana the ministers of this town to clean this
town up, hut lot of cowardly editors and
cowardly preachers will never clean anything
up; Now never said you had them. No, |
DIDN'T. The preachers have run the devil out of
.nlr Town ike ! saw farmer run dog once,
the dog WAS in front
LET mo tell YOU that Parkhurst OF New York
mas uncovered tho wickcdncss of that city, and
made grand Jury admit MI of his charges and
hnd 1t to he true that between 81 900 90 and Sill
Qto.uO0 were paid by the law-brcakcrs of New
Wadsworth, of Augusta. and Steele. of Nashville
and Chcatham, of Petersburg. Va. are the only
preachers know OF in the country who have
turned their guns loose on tho wickcdncss of the
hour " va
God Almighty, wake the preachers up DO
You know who my ideal preacher j.: John the
baptist God bless you he walked, right up 10
the king on the throne and shook his finger
right in his face and said, You arc an adultcrcr
SIDE Is not Your wife. She Is an adurcss nnti;thc
next thing We heard OF John he Baptist he was
III IN, !ail. Anu reckon the old dcacnn-no there
were W no dcacons then they were stcwards-we
Mcthodisis started this whole business Adam
was Methodist; didn't he fail.
The old stewards went down that night and
talked to John through the kcyholc OF the prison
'brothcr John, you arc in there arc yOu: Yes [
am here. We'll, Brother John, You told the
truth but Won ought not to have done it,. lIarod
Is mad. lie is paving up the road. lie is going
to cut Your bend OH; hui, Brother John, Ilarod
says If you will modify your statement he will
turn yon out John talked back through the key
hole and said. Gentlemen, king and peasant
arc an the same and before would compromise
Gods truth or modify. II statement that IL true
would lay in this old jail until rot to DEATH
hat night they came and got Johns body
severed head Off and buried that, but when John
the Baptist walks the streets OF Heaven tonight
the anscs give him the right OF way.
love you preachers You must not think
don't hate my boy Bob bccau c ! lick him lick
MN because love him, and il you preachers get
a mcknight Is not because am mad with Won,
brethren. Let me tell you, you need licking
and If you all say you don't I'll hush | will
leave II with you. IL you say, Brother Jones
we nave done our levclbest to straighten out this
town, Will beg your pardon"
This remark was addressed to the ministers on
the platform, but none OF them said il. Then
turning to tie congregation Mr.. Jones said
mo-! h.ar &c. iou may vi odt there ana
You as one of your preachers. If you woald
stand hy your preachers and do your part with
tho preachers they would do II thousand times
better than they can do now. But you sit OF
thcrc ana laugh, You cOwardly dog you, and |
can take nm old pistol that has not been loaded
since the war. and run you out OF town with it
Mr.. Jones arraigncd the church members who
rent out their stores to saloon keepers I'm n ter
riblc manner, and closed his sermon by showing
up ne he only can do it, the evils of intcmper-
ancc
lie paid n glowing tribute TO the Roanoke pm
pcrs, and said that nowhere that he has ever
preached has he received the support of the press
ns he has in this city. lie then pronounced The
hchtdiction and dismissed the congregation.