Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-10-10
THE IOWA CAMPAIGN.
ProhibitiOnists Leaving the Re-
publican Party i'm Droves.
Sketch Of Rev. Bennett Mitch
ell, the Prohibition Candi-
date for Governor.

DEs MONIES, IA, Oct. Sit
is scared lot of politicians that
one finds up at the Republican
headquarters nowadays. Our
Democratic brethren are not very
gay, either. This Independent
movement is sweeping through
the State with an enthusiasm that
is wonderful. 1t takes recruits
from both parties. Old line Dem
ocrats who are honest temperance
men feel that this is the time to
strike.
Republicans, filled with right
eous Indignation, are scrambling
over each other in jumping the
fence that holds them to local op
tion and license. They repudiate
this new kind of politics and de-
clare that nothing short of prohi-
bition will satisfy them. There
are 100, 900 of these voters in
Iowa and most of them will sup
port DR.. Bennett Mitchell for
Governor.
1t is outrageous the way the
Republican bosses are trying to
fool the rank and file temperance
people and explain away that in
famous plank. But it will not
work. The State will be cover
ed with literature exposing their
infamy, and speakers upon hun
dreds of rostrums will explain to
the people what they do not now
fully understand.
Hon. B. +. Wright, chairman
of the Citizens State committee,
is growing thin running back and
forth between Charles City and
Des Moines. He is a hustler and
is smashing the whisky slate right
and left. He is planning to put
DIR. Mitchell through the State.
He will speak at about two points
in each Congressional District.
Mitchell is a good one and will
make the fire fly. Plans are un-
der way to cover the State with
such big guns as Chaplain G. G.
McCabe and DR.. A. B. Leonard,
of New York, and Drs. Miller,
Fellows, Brooks, Aylesworth,
Lozier and others.
The churches are coming into
the movement magnifcently. The
Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-
fists, Christian and Friends are
firing center shots that are awak-
ening the whole commonwealth.
There are 225,0OO members of
evangelical churches and their
ballots are going to bury the
whisky ring very deep on cleo
ton day.
Mr.. Mitchell has as wide an ac :
quaintance in Iowa as any man
residing in its borders. As pre-
siding elder of the Charlton,
Council Bluffs, Sioux City and
Algona districts of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in each of
which he spent four years of ac-
tive labor, preaching in every
city, village and hamlet in wes
tern Iowa, and charged with large
executive responsibilities, he has
developed an acquaintance with
men and their affairs which emil
nently fits him for any position
within the gift of the people of
the State. Added to this unusual
experience is that of his pastor
ates at Drakeville, Abba, Bright
on, Flora, Bedford, Algona, En-
metsburg, Spirit Lake, Correc
tionville, Alta and West Side.
Five times he has attended the
quadrennial general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
as a delegate and he has served
four years on the general mission
board and four years on the
church extension board of his de-
nomination. He has been a vol
luminous writer for both the reli-
gious and secular press, and is
one of the best known men in the
Methodist church in Iowa. His
name has become a household
word and wherever he goes a host
of warm friends are ready to
greet him and cooperate with
him in good works.
Notwithstanding his thirty mine
years in the active ministry, Mr..
Mitchell is not an old man, but is
in his physical and intellectual
prime. He is younger than Gov
ernor Boies or Senator Allison,
and is good for twenty years of
labor yet.
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