The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

want to introduce to verify the state
ment of Mr. Stavely-
who said to US that The had never
worked so hard for any man as ne d!d
for Morrill," adding, L was porn IN
the Republican party and served over
four years in the late war to put down
treason, and now we have treason en-
thrOned in the state house in the hlgh-
est seat in the gift of the people. tell
you what ought to be done 1nefe
ought to be a state conference called
and a vigilance committee OF zoo ap-
pointed and take Morrill, out and hang
him to telegraph pole IN the STATE
house grounds as an object lesson to
the next man that is elected governor,
and holds zip his hand, takes the oath
to support the constitution and obey
and enforce the laws, that the people
will expect him to do 1t.
Yet in the face of all these things we
found a. body of Methodist preachers
assembled in the capital city of the
state discussing ways and means by
which they can evade the response
bility of their oft-repeated pledge not
to vote for this man Morrill, for govern
or again, but how shall it be done?
Listen: The chief pastor over these
young preachers speaks In reply to
Brother Stephens suggestion as to the
proper way out, choose the least OF
two evils, and if Brother StaVeIy or
Dalton should profit by his instructions
some Sunday morning in talking to
their Sunday schools might nnd II
proper to say to the children as be
tween the sixth commandment, 'IhOu
shalt not kill" and the eighth, Thou
shalt not steal" choose the least and
steal all you want to. But they VIII
say we have no other chOlce as DS
tween Mr. Morrill, and Mr.. Leedy. To
this we want to enter an emphatic de-
NAL, for there is and has been a party
in the political field, both state and ma
ton, in whose ranks no brewer, saloon
keeper nor bum has ever trained, and
when they have been invited to join
hands and help move the prompltlon
ship forward, these brethren, instead,
get together and formulate few
whereases and resolves, and then say
let US pray, and 10! the ship moves.
But the Carbonate brother finds
new obstacle in his way, the o. NJ. b;
he don't want to vote with the o. NJ. b
Republicans and their candidate. Ihe
P. Z. is again equal to the emergency
1.-The o. NJ. 3. is coming to US; we are
not going to them. A new revelation,
what have we prOhibitiOnistS been
blowing our lungs out for all these
years? Had our. good brother made this
known long ago, what a lot OF temper
ance sermons, platform lectures and
w. G. T. U. work it would have saved.
The o. NJ. B. coming to us-that is to
prohibition, or did he mean that they
were coming to the Topeka preachers
meeting? And if Brother B. knew
that this order had their faces set to-
ward them and would soon be housed
in the prohibition fold, why these
meeting urging greater activity in the
temperance work and ''pledging to this
movement our sympathy and hearty
support?"
Why is not the Christian church ar
rayed against the liquor traffic at the
polls as well as by wishy washy resolu-
lions that mean nothing? We have seen
conferences well nigh scared to death
when a resolution was offered that
would reach the vitals of this issue.
The o. NJ B. is not coming to prohibi-
ton, nor to prohibition candidates, but
the reverse is true
To these doubling brethren would
say a wOrd-be a man. That is what
the prophet searched Jerusalem for
with a lighted candle; manhood, the
noblest work of God, go to the polls
and vote for a man. Never cast
ballot for a man or party without con-
victions of right and right doing. Party
counts for nothing. Learn a lesson
from the liquor men; they vote for the
trade; let US vote for our principles,
then our resolutions will mean some
thing and strike terror to the hearts Of
the liquor power, state and nation.
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Mcpherson. Kan, Sept IA, 1886.
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