Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-02
CLERICAL DOUGHFACES.

CLEhiCAL UUUGHFACES.
In Saturday nights issue of the Bea-
con-Journal communications from two
clergymen of this city appear. These
ministers announce their intention to
vote for Mr.. Doyle, which of itself is n
matter of no great consequence But
they seem to think some apology is
necessary or expected from them in
this connection, and so they proceed to
give it. They protest that they have
the temperance cause at heart, and that
their proposed votes will be in promo
tion of 1t, and one of them says that
his support of Doyle is the act of Il
'practlcal prohibitionist."
When we consider the influences
which have been at work for Mr.. Doyle,
throughout his campaign, actively and
notorously, and upon which he relies
FOR his election, ana since the men who
are behind him and who will control
him and his official policy in the event
of his election, and tlicir fellowship and
surroundings are well known in this
community, these communications of
the two parsons would be taken for
sarcasm If they came from n less sol
cmn source and had to do with less
serious matter.
Indeed the humor of the situation
seems to have dawncd upon the minis
ters themselves, and one of them in,
dulges in levlty which in anyone else
would not become the gravity involved
In an election which touches so closely
| iht NNiibit VI u uiSt VI
citizens, the majority of whom really
desire to vote right. But these inter
views, whatever may have been the
view of the interviewed, were not de.
signed by those who procured and
printed them MS the occasion for any
thing funny. They were meant for
business and to win votes, and the time
selected for their publication was that
of the ordinary ht-before- election
roorback and libel There Is no inter
nal evidence that lifts them above the
common level.
Az the intended influence of these
communication will have spent itself
If they have any influence at all-bc,
fore this reaches the public eye, we
shall waste no further tlmc in com
ment upon them, further than to call
attention to the h0ary reason which
these clergymen give for not voting for
Mr., Adamson, viz; that he cannot b,
elected. We should like to ask thes,
clerical gentlemen what reform could
ever have been wrought, what abuse
could ever have been extirpnted, what
Christianity could ever have been es
| tAblished, had reformers always ncteC
upon such reasoning? From 1850 tc
1860 very few men believed that the
abolition Of human slavery was posi-
ble within the lifetime Of persons thcl
living, II the argument of these tive
ministers of the gospel Is sound Il
would have been right and proper, w,
suppose for all hands to have voted
for pro,slaycry candidates.
And since one Of the parsons sprung
a text upon the public in his interview
we may be excused for seeming tc
tribe with solemn things following
this clerical example-by turning Il
text on him. We commend to him til,
speech OF the town.clerk of Ephcsus in
which he used the same reason for not
voting for Paul, i, O. that he couldn1
be elected, therefore he was for Diana
and was especially sollcltous that IN,
, crowd should do nothing rashly."
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