The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-04
Prohlbition Rally. !.


last night who may be said to have fired
Dalles. The fret speaker was G. j.
Bright, candidate for congress for the
second Oregon congressional district,
who attempted to explain why he was
prohibitionist, giving, during thescourse
of long and tedious speech two reasons;
first because, prohibition was right, and
second, because the prohibition party
believed in woman's suffrage. He bitter
ly arrained the republican party for re-
fusing, four years ago, to recognize the
petition of Frances Z. Willard for the
placing of prohibition plank in the
republican platform at the convention
that nominated Harrison. He charged
the convention with having thrown the
petition on the floor stamped upon it
and spat upon it," and that the conyen-
tion afterwards sent message to Sher-
ridan Shook, president of the brewers
association, requesting him to get up a
temperance plank for the national plat
form, and when the platform was issued
to the world every republican paper in
the nation 'hallelujahed and hurrahed."
While the republicans were bad Mr..
Bright doubted if the democrats were
any better. Mr.. Bright said the liquor
drinkers of this nation consumed an
average of so gallons each of intoxicat-
ing liquor year. The republican party
had legalized 2o0, 900 saloons, that made
zoe, 900 drunkards year and had re-
duced to state of starvation 10000
children in New York city. Mr.. Bright
closed by saying he could sgo on till
morning giving reasons for being a
prohibitionist but thought those given
were sufficient.
Rev. Hodgeson of Prineville, followed
with few earnest words on the evils of
intemperence, when Rev. W. G. Curtis
took the floor and said he was nota poll
tician and knew nothing of the workings
of the republican party but had seen the
working of prohibitory legislation within
the lines of that party in the state of
Maine and knew that before prohibition
can succeed anywhere there must be
public sentiment at the back of it. We
have Sunday law in this state and the
public officer who would try to enforce
it could not, get corporal's guard to
elect him to Office.
Rev. Shultz of Kansas, paid glowing
tribute TO our fine scenery and surround
ings and, referring ito the vacant shoe
factory at North Dalles, said this coun-
try needs back bone factory. He was
was from Kansas and he, had children
from IA years old and under who had
never seen saloon. A number of anus
ing stories were told which were not un-
familiar to aDalles audience as most of
them had been told a few weeks ago by
Mr.. Wolfenberger.
Rev. Dennison of Wasco, said he was
not like his brother (NIr. Curtis.9 He
knew the republican party. He had
been reading up lately, for the present
campaign and he had found that that
party had made a tariff law that COM
PEELED poor man to pay a tax of 80 per
cent. on everything he ate and wore,
while what the rich ate and wore was
only taxed 20 per cent. He was in the
fight for the utter annihilation of the
Republican party.
The democratic party had begun to
putrify one hundred years ago, and
since then 1t has become petriied. The
republican party began to putrify TWEEN
ty-eight years ago, and soon the rotten
carcass would be wiped from off the
earth. yice-President Morton, the gen.
tleman. said, had lately spent $I0O, 900
fixing up the bar-room of his saloon. in
Washington. He was amazed to find a
Methodist preacher voting the repnbli-
can ticket. During the gentleman's five
minutes speech his voice was pitched to
a perfect screech, while his lips and
face were liyid with rage at the republi-
can party. Scarcely any enthusiasm was
manifested by the audience during
the evening, as many true friends
of temperance, some of them to the
personal knowledge of the writer were
simply disgusted with the intemperate
language and distorted facts of the first
and last speaker. If Mr.. Bright's speech
was simply dull and stupid that of Mr..
Dennison was rabid, bitter, unchristian,
uncharitable, and altogether disgusting
for lack of candor and truth. Poor Mr.
Curtisi His speech was full of good
solid, christian common sense, but II
was like wet blanket on a December
morning.
! Love Party.