The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-17
THRO' GEORGIA SPECS.
Sam Jones Has a Conversation
With journal" Reporter.
HOW he LOOKS ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

His Private Opinion on Prohibition,
Woman Suffrage. Religion and the
Negro Question.
To express it in a way he himself
might, Rev. Sam Jones is a right nice
sort of fellow to meet. Everybody knows
he is a Georgian and everybody who has
talked with him five minutes knows he
is a true sample
1t has often been charged that Mr..
Jones uses slang. That is a mistake. It
that he was, to use another of his favor
lite expressions, 'bOrn an bred an but
tered" with. He claims no wonderful
education and no great polish. 1t is the
free and easy style natural to him that
brings him 80 close to the people
and makes him a great orator. His in
dependence has been no small factor in
his great success. If you don't like him
and his style Sam Jones will be the last
man to kick about it.
During his stay in Topeka Saturday
evening and yesterday he was enter
tanned at the home of Postmaster and
Mrs. A. ]. Arnold in North Topeka. A
caller found him in the back parlor. He
was taking solid comfort in a most ap-
proved manner with his feet on table
, and good cigar between his lips.
You don't have to get acquainted with
Sam Jones. After you have felt his
firm grasp of the hand, looked into his
humorous dark eyes and shaken out your
vest at his first dry and almost invariably
unsupported joke you are ready to sit
down and talk with him day and never
| feel weary nor at a loss for something to
say yourself
| Rev. Sam is a believer in many things
and he is firm in them. One is female
suffrage
"Ah b'lieve a woman's justs goods
Niger" he remarked in that connec-
ton. "'Spose you've heard bout that
hard shell Baptis' preacher? He said,
Ladies' an gentmen, Ah'm goin' t talk
mighty plain this mornin'. mighty plain,
SOS the niggers an the women can I'M
derstan' me-" and Mr.. Jones enjoyed the
story greatly at the expense of the lady
present
mo-" he continued in a more serious
manner "Ah'll tell you about it. Us
men have been runnin' this world for
about six thousand years now and we
haven't been dom very good job of it.
All believe in lettin' the women have a
ham Woman's mighty near always on
the moral side of every subjects now,
amt she? And if We let her
help a little she'll mako a bet
ter world of it. Now, take the
prohibition question. All suppose four
fifths of the women of the country are
on the right side of that. If she had her
say we wouldn't have any whisky au'
we'd be better of. The men folk IL
never kill whisky. Well never get pro-
hibition through the Democrat or Re-
publican parties. The only difference
between them on the whisky question
is that the Democrats are in favor of it
an like it an say SO. The Republicans
don't say so.
'Now down in Georgia we've got local
option. All tell you it is long step be-
tween open saloons and prohibition.
while. But we'll be dry after while and
women III help do it.. The only way
you'll ever get prohibition is to elect
prohibition officers to every Office"
Then you are on the woman side OF
the question as to whether she shall
vote at the Methodist general confer
ences?"
Every time"
"What do you think about the union
of the north and south Methodist
churches?"
WELL" said Mr., Jones, without ans
weriug the question, you know slavery
divided them long before the war, an,
there they stick"
"You don't mean to say that the south
ern Methodists still believe in slavery?'
mo, but they do think the niger
isn't any better than they are. The
northern Msthodists seem to be in doubt
All don't take much stock in that OLD
Jeffersonian lie about all men being free
and equal Every man knows there's
some people he WON'T associate with and
that there are some people wouldn't as
sociate with him.
"When All was out in California
preachin' a few years ago the papers out
there abused me scand'lous. Said All
was - rebel from down south ul
there abusin' the niger. All got up
on the platform an All said, 'Ah sin't
runpip' the south, bgt if any q YQ9 au'a