Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24

To-Day viii b tho big Day al
Moundsville.
An Address to be Delivered by Col.
George w, Bain--Mr. Wolley to
Make an Address this Morning.
Tho Proceedings Of Yesterday.
The Congressional Convention.

l his Will De TIC UlS 0uuuay a. VIC
Moundsville Prohibition Assembly.
Such noted speakers as John G. Wolley
and John w. Balm will draw large au-
/, diences any time. Both are to speak
! to-day, and it Is safe to say that the
| list of visitors on the ground will be
very large. Mfr. Wolley speaks at
10: 80 and Mr.. Balm will lecture at 2:30
o'clock. At night regular platform
meeting is to be held. Yesterday the
exercises were attended by very
large audience at all three meetings.
In the morning the Moundsville mem
bers of the Loyal Temperance Legion
were present. They rendered a very
pleasing programme, consisting OF
songs, Rotations and the like. All
were well received for the young folks
take much interest in the work. The
| Sabbath school and Temperance was
discussed by Mrs. Jennie McClurkin,
Of Marietta. She spoke short time
On this subject and her remarks were
as interesting as any Of the exercises
held. How to secure better moral
atmosphere in college life, was another
topic on the programme. Several Of
those present discussed this and con-
siderable information was obtained
from the exercise.
In the afternoon the first thing on
the programme was the Congressional
and Marshall county conventions. A
large number Of the leading prohibit
| tionists Of the county were ON hand
and the convention soon got down to
business. B. L. Grow, farmer. was
made chairman, and the following
named gentlemen were named as nom
! mess to be voted for at the next cleo
ton: County ofices-County Commits
sioner, John F. Harris, Of Cameron
district; School Superintendent, E.
Bonar, of Clay district; House Of Del
egates, Rev. B. D. Eden, of McMechen,
and Robert Mcfarland, of Franklin
district. Henry Hart, of McMechen,
was chosen chairman Of the executive
committee. After these exercises were
over the Congressional convention
named Rev. w. A. Williams, of
Moundsville, to make the race for Con-
gress, in opposition to Dovener and
Blair. The meeting all through was
very enthusiastic and number of res
olutions were passed. One was against
the County Court granting licenses in
| Marshall county; another, condemn
ing the present County Commission
er for his acts, and another, asking that
the Leach law be repealed. By this is
meant instead Of having this law on
the shoulders of the few officers of the
State, they want the people to vote on
it and share the responsibility. After
this meeting Miss Belle Kearney de-
livered her last address at the Assem-
bly,. She had for her subject Chris
tian Citizenship" She took for her
text "Sir, we should seek Jesus"
1--WE can never have a Christian cit
izenship," said she, until we take Je-
sus with us in everything. That
means Christ at home, in society," in
business, politics and everything you
can think Of Citizenship means the
rights of all privileges, but Christian
citizenship means Christ must be in
with those privileges. Mems privileges
take in drink, and they misuse them
by breaking up homes and trying the
hearts of the women in this land. The
liquor bill in this country grows 81, 0O0,-
600 annually, and there is reason to
believe that we will soon rival some
of the heathen countries in debauch-
cry if this liquor traffic is not sup
pressed. In the United States the
women so far can only vote in four
States and l hope that this will be
changed soon and that they will be &C
corded the same privileges as the men.
In picturing the drink traffic she
compared a dying gladiator to the sa-
| lOOUS. III l0e IOI6lSU countries uluel-
ent fights are given and the people at
tend by the thousands. When it is
ended they pray for the dead and in
this way the liquor traffic resembles
this amphitheatre. A drunkard goes
so far and when end comes you see a
lew persons praying for his soul after
it is too late. The position of women
are not the outcome of laws, but the
sentiment of man. In Japan the male
sex are worshipped and the women
say that they can never be their equals
In the sixteenth century woman in
Paris was hooted at because a high
school was suggested for girls. The
laws On our statute books say that
every person is allowed to vote except
idiots, cranks, people of unsound mind
and married women. It does not say
women, and under that ruling 1 think
we should have our privilege. In bus
mess women get less pay than men
who are less educated, and are installed
as ministers in places that should be
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