The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-05

for the presidency. John q, Woolley,
was defeated last November by an
overwhelming majority, his devoted
followers in Lackawanna county
gathered in force at Guernsey hall
last night to participate in exercises
conducted in connection with the read-
ing of ar inaugural address written
by Mr.. Woollcy and read last night
at temperance meetings in all parts OF
the United States.
The affair was conducted under the
auspices of the LackaWanna county
Temperance union, and the attendance
was most gratifying 20 the committee
in charge, Beginning at : o'clock
banquc, was served in The dining hall.
Covers were laid for sCventy-il,e per-
sons and a most appetizinG supper was
served by Caterer Mitchell After the
ica asting, those present repaired I" the
hall on the main floor. WhcT" theE
Were reinforced by Il large thronS VINO
had not sat at the festive hoard.
Il. G.. Morgan. the veteran temper
ance worker from West Suailton, act
ed a. chairman, aa1 the programme
was opened with the singing OF
| america" by the audience. Prayer
was offered bv Rev William j. Ford,
pastor of the Green Ridge Baptist
church. and then the West Side Tenn
perance Glee club. composed of htty
! young Welshmen possessed Of voices
of wonderful purity and power, sang a
| temperance hymn set TO the stirring
music of the "Marscilles."
THE INAUGuRAI"
Mr.. Woolley's address. which was
| rather long and which consumed
nearly half an hour in the reading, was
! read by Rev. J. \. Bailey, Of Moosic.
Mr.. Woolley in his Introduction to the
! address. set forth that il was pre-
| cisely what he would have said had
he been inauguratet! as president yes
| tcrday. IL was an able effort and Its
| keynote was that the victory Of the
! Prohibition party was the victory or
| righteousness.
| He set forth. among other things
| that not Il single removal from oitlce
| would be made by him Tor political
| reasons. and that in making appoint
mcnt partisan lines would not he for
| a moment considered. Ability and
moral worth We're all that would be
;alien into consideration. He named n
| cabinet which contained the names NJ
| President Mckinley. eN-Prosidents
! Grover Cleveland and Benjamin ilar-
| riSon and William j. Bryan, and
! pledged himself not to permit 'ntoNi-
| eating liquors to be served upon the
! table al the white house, nj state dim
ners or otherwise. during the four
| years of his term.
The first address Of the evening was
delivered by Attorney T.. d. Nichols,
of Wilkes Barre, a gentleman who Is
always capable of making a stirring
temperance speech He took for his
theme. political righteousness" and
he treated it comprchensivcly and ably
in the brief space Of time allotted to
| him. The liquor traffic is the great
| national sin, which will bear this
| country TO destruction. he said, as the
slave traffic would have borne II to
destruction had il not been for the
civil war.
eve may cry ont against imperial
ism and trusts and monopolles." said
he. "but as long as the liquor traIic
has its being the only response we
will get will be the reverberation Of
our own voices from the dcadened
walls of the national conscience" con.
| tinuing, he said:
"The American church is today the
| bulwark of this national sin. There
| are some clergymcn who dare to raise
up their voices against the liquor tl'af-
| fic. but how few of them there are,
They are like poor little lights in
peasants windows along "A country
road. They only show how great and
how deep the darkness really is
Mr.. Nichols, just before closing his
remarks, had a little to say about
! Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon
! Smasher. He who raises his voice
against the battle which Mrs. Nation
is waging," said he interrupts the
| voice of God"