The Portland daily press., 1895-12-21
GENEAL DOW THIS TIM Z.
Was the Great Prohibitionist Neg
Iected?

Iecteds
He Thinks He Was and the Christian En-
deavor Thinks Otherwise.
| The trouble between Rev. DIR. Clark
and the managers of the great Christ lai
Endeavor convention in Boston, ant
John g. Woolley, has now extended tt
General Neal Dow, who in an interview
published in the New York Voice, Thurs
day made some direct statements regard
| ing the way he was treated by the con
mitteee. Mr. Woolley charged that he was
not permitted to make speech after ne
was asked to be present and, General
Dow claims that he was treated with
still more pronounced neglect. The Voice
said:
When Rev. DR.. b. e. CLARK, president
Of the United Societies was making uI
his program for the Boston convention,
he invited General Dow to be one of the
speakers, fand the General replied that il
would give him great pleasure to De pres
ent and to speak to the members of the
convention. OF what followed his ac
ceptance Of the invitation General Dow
said:
After accepted DR.. Clark's invita-
tion to go to Boston and to speak at some
| meetings to be designated later on, I re.
| celved a letter requesting me to go tc
Boston on a day named in the letter, and
| informing me that q room had been re-
served for me at the Brunswick.
or tod IN, hat 1aff 4hnkt
had been arranged for me to speak atssthe
Park street church in the evening, and
| the next day at Mechanics Hall, and
| they added that on theEsecond occasion
should have an audience of at least 60
0OO
st wrote at once to the committee in
| forming them that their letter was at
hand, and that should be at the Bruins
wick at the time designated. / think
that between that time I received the in
vitation from Rev. MT. Clark, and the
| date of the letter asking me to go to
the Brunswick and telling me where
was to speak, they had received a hint
Of what I was likely to say, and did not
propose to give me an opportunity to
speak.
IT went to oston just as promised,
and drove to tbs Brunswick, arriving at
| the hotel in time for dinner This was
the day they had designated, and the day
when the meeting at the Park street
church was held.
81 waited there at the Brunswick all
through the day and all the evening until
| 9 o'clock.
cat O'CLOCK, or little past, very
young man was shown up, and he said
that he wanted me to 60 to the Park
street church. I declined to do anything
of the sort, and said to him, If any one
sent you here for me, be sure and tell
them when you go back that I've been
waiting here all the afternoon and eve
ming for them.'
"Two of my daughters were at the
meeting at the Park street church, and
when there We're calls for me during the
evening, one of them went to one of the
managers and said: My father is at the
Brunswick, but he WON'T come here I'M
less he assent for No attention was paid
| to that, but later somebody said that /
| wasn't there. and they allowed the state
ment to go without contradiction, leav-
ing it to be understood by the audience
that after l promised to be there broke
the engagement
81 received no explanation of the evil
dent neglect from any one, and when
Rev. DR.. Clark was in Portland shortly
after, he did not call on me-
II am of the opinion that they got in
advance an idea Of the probable line of
| that, judging by what followed and what
| occurred IN reference to Mr.. Woolley, they
| would not have been pleased with ito
General Secretary John Willis Baer of
the United Societies of Christian En-
deavor, who was shown this statement of
Gen. Dow, denies emphatically that there
was any intention of sighting Gen. Dow.
He says
.'If Hon. Neal Dow says he was inten-
| tionally kept from keeping his appoint.
ment, Wednesday night, July 10, in Park
| street church for any reason whatsoever
by any one other than himself, he is abb
solutely mistaken. He accepted our in
vitation to speak, not only on that night,
| but on Saturday morning in Mechanics
| building, and the chairman of the two
| meetings assumed that Mr.. Dow, follow
| ing the custom of all speakers, would be
| on hand at the appointed time or send
some word of regrst or explanation. He
disappointed the Park street church audi
enoe, and left the city without leaving a
single word of explanation, and conse-
quently a host in Mechanics building,
| Saturday morning, were also keenly dis
appointed. For both these disappointed
audiences Mr.. Dow is alone responsible.
Permit me to say that Mr.. Dow has since
| the time of the Christian Endeayor con-
vention broken an important engagement
and in much the same way. Mr. Dow
and Mr.. Woolley were the advertised
| speakers at the great jubilee of the Prohi-
| bition party of Massachusetts at Music
Hail. BOSTON, September II. was chair
man Of that meeting, ana was obliged to
announce to an audience that Mr.. Dow
| was not present. He came to the oity.
but falling to meet the committee thai
went to the station to meet him, he re-
turned to Portland. Mr.. Dow gave M
good reason for breaking his engagement
and really owes that audience of Prohi-
bitionists as we'll as to the two Christian
Endeavor audiences Of last July an ex-
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