The Indianapolis journal., 1898-05-27
Majority Report Ready to BE Pre-
sented, and No Mention whatever
of the Princeton Inn Affair.
TAINTED In WINONA PULPIT
GEN. j. A. BEAVER OVERCOME DUR
ING HIS PATRIOTIC APPEAL.
Entire Time of the Assembly Yester-
day Devoted to Westminster
Standards Anniversary.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WINONA PARK, Eagle Lake, Ind, May
26.-The temperance committee is what may
be termed packed one, and only three
men are holding out for report which will
include a mention of colleges. A newspaper
man, to-day, speaking of Moderator Rad
cliffe, who is a Princeton man himself, said
that he hoped Princeton would not be scored
in the report of the committee. whereat
Moderator Radcliffe said: I've seen to that;
I appointed that committee
The majority report, as it will be pre-
sented tomorrow, is identical with that Of
the minority up to the last paragraph, and
is along general lines, after the stereotyped
fashion. The final paragraph, which the mi
nority wishes to have adopted, touches on
the college questions, as follows:
Resolved, That so awful are the perils of
lntemperance to our youth as to make the
duty imperative of welding the utmost pos
sible safeguarding influences of the family,
the church and the school. With extremely
rare exceptions our large universities are
located in towns or cities set with those
man-traps of Satan, the saloon. Certainly,
therefore parents about to place son in
circumspection and surety. The college
which seeks the patronage of Christian
parents, II 1T has not yet been freed from
such evil environments, ought to make un-
and antagonism thereto"
There was an air about Winona to-day
much like that of Sunday. No business was
transacted and all the commissioners were
at the auditorium listening to the speeches
on the subject Of the twenty-ffth anniver-
sary of the adoption of the Westminster
standards by the church. The McGiffert
matter is little talked of and the popular
supposition is that the report of the temper
ance committee will not occasion much dis
cussion. This strange reasoning is based
on the idea that generally when any i'm
portant matter is before a body for action
for any great length of time, the informal
discussion among the commissioners out OF
the assembly generally serves to exhaust
the subject. The temperance report is
adopted by a majority of the committee
and recommends that no reference be made
to colleges, while the minority report deals
with colleges in general but not Princeton
in particular. The only reference that will
be made to Princeton. in all probability,
will be made on the floor of the assembly
DR.. r. V. Hunter, of the Seventh Presby
terian Church, has arranged to have the
chairman of the judicial committee, DIR. j.
+. Patterson of Orange, N. j., preach in
his church in Indianapolis Sunday, on which
occasion two of the local lodges of Knights
of Pythias will be in attendance with sew
j
known as boyse brigades osA
~fry* -
The popular impression seems, from the
reports coming here from Indianapolis, TO
be that the entertainment accommodations
at Winona are inadequate. This is not the
case. While the crowds have been larger
this year than ever before, they have all
been well provided for and the limit has not
been reached. To be sure, Warsaw has to be
drawn on to a great extent, but the ride
back and forth is much shorter than one
would generally have to contend with in any
large city. In somel manner the impression
has gone out that no accommodations cheap
er than So day can be procured at the
park while, in fact, the inn offers enter
tainment at the low rate of S1.25 a day to
commissioners. The complaint at the hotel
was of short duration and. as explained by
the mana cement, somewhat unreasonable
The hotel people claim that they were not
expected to handle any guests before the
opening day of the assembly, and had not
made any arrangements to do so and that
modated with the obligation on the side Of
proper the arrangements have been of the
most liberal sort and the statement is made
on all hands that the probabilities of the as
sembly coming to Winona in two years from
now are of the strongest. The experience of
the commissioners at Minneapolis next year,
it is thought. will, doubtless, have the de-
sired effect on the assembly when the ac
commodations of the two places are COM
pared.