The Portland daily press., 1900-09-10

last evening nearly every seat was taken,
the large congregation listening to an
able address by Rev. Edward S. j. McAI~
lister, the pastor, who had announced
that he would speak on the subject,
Cumberland County's Greatest Need. -
He selected as his 81 bject part of the
twelfth verse of the sixth chapter of the
Ephesians,: 'For we wrestle against
the rulers of the world.
II have been speaking much in tn is
county during the last two weeks and to-
day drove across country forty miles in
order to be with you this evening"" he
said in beginning. Religion has been
made one thing and good citizenship
quite another. AS citizens we cannot
affordsto divorce our religion from what
we are as citizsns although I don't be-
lieve in the union Of the church and
state. While L am aware of the fact that
there are certain ministers who are too
pure, rorsooth, to discuss these things the
fact remains that God first sent minis
ters forth to act as statesmen. We are
face to face with a real condition of
things. This is no partisan matter and
the consideration of the subject can not
be considered from a partisan standpoint.
We must consider it from the duty of a
citizen to the state. 1t isn't a horrible
thing to use the name Of ballot box in
the pulpit. The ciUizen in America is the
sovereign. He has right to deposit in
the ballot box ballot which stands for
the principle which he favOrs. But he
is a sovereign only as long as he exercises
his sovereignty. The individual citizen
Tr,,
own thinking and voting for himself.
There is too apt to be willing submis-
sion to the party whip. Under such cit1-
zenship the sovereignty of the citizen Is
& ompletely annihilated. The individual
citizen who favors the privilege of selling
his CT tizensh1p sells his birthright and
If need be he would s ell his country.
Benedict Arnold was no worse. There is
one other l abOminat9 more and who
believe deserves greater disresp9ct, the
man who has the braZen faced 1mpu-
dence to purchase votes, l understand
that this buying Of votes is going to be
done all over this county tomorrow. The
machine discovered ten days ago that
their hopes had fled and that their future
would despair unless they did this thing.
The men who have told me OF these
things have not been few. 1t has been
said by good authority that there are
Alb saloons in this city. / know of my
own knowledge there are 233 and [ can
snow all Of them to anybody inside of ten
hours. We have q population of about
50,0 GOO and under the high license law i n
Massachusetts, we could have about fifty
saloons and not one of them could be 10
Gated within 1900 feet of a school house
In this city we have thirteen saloons
within 400 feet Of a school house. There
are two others that are now closed but
which were not closed by Mr. DespeauX.
want to submit this question: Chow
ty of this county vote to again place this
man in Officer There have be en- many
more seizures during the last few days
but the barrels and the spr1nklers that
have been taken have had nothing in
them except air. (Laughter.) [ believe
that the time has come for every citizen
to rise above party affiliations in this
contest, even If the very heavens should
fall. Party affairs have come to be the
bane and curse of local society and we
vote to place men in office who are not
fit for the lowest Office on God earth, The
man who is again up for sheriff in this
county hash t enforced the prOh1bitOry
law and he says that he will not enforce
it, There is only one reason why Mr..
DesDeaux or any of his friends again
want him to be elected, 1 say it guarded
". 1t is simply and solely because there
is money and ilIeg1timate money in it.
If that is SANDER Mr.. DespeauX has a
chance to arrest me- / guess that he
wishes that he had arrested me two weeks
ago, don your daughter have
been in thirty states of this union and
much of Canada, have lived in the IL
cense states Of Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylva-
MIA. New York and Massachusetts and In
the far western states but | have never
seen a city where there is such disregard
for the law as Portland. Ii we've come
to a time when there is a ring corrupt
enough to manipulate citizens l say that
we have band of men who are 1nimical
to the public good. If SO, l think that
it in time to say to them, "'You have
gone far enough, you shalls be put in jail
as q convict and shall wear stripes behind
the bars.| Am too strOngY A voice;
''Not a bit. y The high sheriff is in
high place and he is my target. When he
has perjured himself knOwinglysand will
should be hurled down from the plane of
decency? 1t is the ring that runs the
machine that you and are cOndemn1ng.
Maybe you belong to the ring. IL you do
you can't feel very well here tonight.
Under a reasonable enforcement of the.
law there would be about 200 arrests for
drunkenness in this city in year.
There are now from 1000 to 1900.
II have undertaken nothing except
with an honest heart and asgoOd purpose.
There is an opportunity to elect an honest
man sheriff OF Cum berland county
In6E6 has USou q C1LSi41s1A A2Soots e'5eS'A0O
Mr.. Pearson. 1t is funny that it has not
been found during these twenty years in
which he has been running the Gospel
Mission that Mr.. Pearson is dishonest
There has also been q suspicion. Do you
know that l have also had a suspicion.
1t Is that Oren Il. Despeaux is going to
be defeated tomorrow. (Laugh5er.)
have got the name Of the fellow who
wrote that circular and ] am going to get
him bafore tomorrow night. so il you
see him you had better tell him that / am
coming after him II you have not got
any OF these circulars you won get any
of them for they have been burned. In
order to investigate these stories about
MIR. Pearson 1 called on John j. Lynch
has had dealings with Alr Pearson for