The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-25
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Tells Why no VIII Continue to "piny
Lana lIaulb In ,mDefnue pnIltIgs.

Tells Why uo WIN Continue to "riay n
Lone Hand" Ia Temperance Politics.
7otht Eiitor Of The hittiigtacT.
SIn;-Kindly permit mo to make q
slight correction OF Your i,om OF tho
94th, Down in Louisiana" wherein /
an made TO say that ut Ia not inipos.
siblc tha. between, money and
protection tho state may turn up Rcpub.
lican In '0B."
| did not intend to convoy that i'm.
precision. Nor dol believe It to DO
among tho probabilities. While tho
sugar mud rico Producing sections arc Tor
projection, ani will cast n largo vote
for tho Republican party, tho northern
or cotton raislna portion OF tho state
will vote nlmost aolidly Democratic, IN.
loss thoro Is u split oil TO tho Populist
theory OF iroe silver, and to that doc.
triro tlioro Is n large following Of both
Republicans and DnlnOCrata In tho
sugar acction rs we'll Us In tho cotton
parishes.
Permit mo to say further that you aro
omin1ntly correct In your statement
that III expect to stay with tho toiupor-
nnce Issue right through TO tho cnd In
politics. lot who may weary In we'll
doing" aud that | shnll do on tho
ground that az ''ovory servant Htandcth
or iallnth to his Master" l cannot now
or hereafter do otherwise than vote for
tho only party that Emphasizes tho
voice OF Christianity. which says II,
(the liquor "trafllc) cannot DO licensed
without ain, unless sono other party
dare takp up tho issue Of tho homo
against tho %suloon, In which ease IL |
wore 10 vote my photograph tho judges
oil election would say, "put him down
against the S%aloon."
Your further statement that ! am
still playing n lone hand in temper.
nncc politics" Is hardly warranted by tho
facts. according TO tho Wine and Spirit
Gazette, which continually daploros tho
work Of tho Prohibitionists and TEN.
pcrancs fanatics.
II you will kindly favor us with your
presence ut tho assembly YOU will learn
that many people ara thinking for them.
selves, and that tho bugbonr OF negro
supremacy, rebel yClla, force bills. etc,
al rauseum, 10, 10 coWmon %parlnncc,
played out, and tho people are coming 10
believe that life and death and final
salvation does not depend UPON thar
voting tho Republican or the Democratic
ticket, or for pigmics, pot-house pOliii.
cians and Doodle statesmen who waste
(as in the latc Congress) II months oil
the peoples timo aud probable thou.
sand millions OF money (by depressing
the country's business industries), while
sQuubbling over = dillerontiat OF iortY.
three millions Of dollars between tue
Mckinley and Wilson tariff bills. aud
one-third OF that iorty.three millions
declared unconstitutional. When tho
people understand, rs thcy will, that
three thousand women are %tnurlerod
each year by drunken mon. three thou
sand infants smothered by drunken
parents annually. more than II hundrO,G
Thousand BOYS and men sent into drunk
ards graves aud twelve hundred mil.
lions OF dollars visited for drink, eight
hundred millions morc for asyluns,
judiciary, etc. they will then settle Il
question (ihe liquor question: that will
se.tle tariff, free trade, lG to ! and all
other dusty clouds raised by politicians
TO blind the eyes Of the people to what
is and by right should DO tho dominant
issue before the people.
My friend 4. W. Campbell SAYS that l
am playing a "lono hand" Well do |
remember The holiness OF the scene IN
the iiities whom he addressed n court
house audience Of about one hundred
| Wide Awakes and three hundred empty
benches in behalf OF free speech. free
press and free men. lie played n lone
hand then, hut slavery went down.
Omnipotence was behind that move
mont. /.
Slavery was wrong. but slavery was
benetlccnco compared with tho pi,iless,
remorscless, murderous rum traffic.
And il tho worlds Redeemer spoke
truth land who doubtsi,?j when no SAID.
"Everytreo that My Father hath not
planted shall be plucked up oy the
roots" l am willing to play "a lone
hand" agains. the liquor traffic aad
trust to His arbitrament OF my conduct
n. tho great a~ssizes. and take my chances
along with some others who pray TO
the Lord aud vote for the devil Tor for
saloons, the works OF the DEVIL.
Yours. very respectfully,
JAMES W. BopLEY.
Wheeling, W. Pa. Juun "a.