The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-12
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PROHIBITION LEADER ARRIVES
TODAY.
Defeated Candidate For Presidency at
Last Election-Tells of His object
And Tour.

John G. Woolley, by far the most
conspicuous and potent factor in the
temperance field of the United States,
arriving by the Sierra this morning and
is at the Hawaiian hotel. He will be
remembered as the candidate of the
Prohibition party in the last election
for the office of President and as such
received a total of 100000 votes. Mr..
Woolley is the recognized head of his
party He is also owner and editor of
The New Voice, the great temperance
paper of the United States. He bought
the paper from Funk & Wagnalls and
moved it from New York to Chicago,
where it has been published for the last
two years.
II am on purely a vacation trip" ex-
planned Mr.. Woolley. wife and 1 are
going around the world and expect to
get back to Chicago in January. The
stories published on the Coast that l
was visiting the Islands for the pur-
pose of organizing the Prohibition party
are wholly untrue. In place of running
after politics l am running away from
politics. l have been asked by the Sc
cretary of the Y. M. c. A. to deliver an
address while here. If | do so it will
be along general temperance Ines and
Will have no reference to politics what
ever"
Mr. Woolley stated that while he had
ment nor with the Murphy movement
he had no objection to either. At the
/ same time he was working on different
! lines, his plans being purely political.
THE Prohibition party in the United
States is making rapid strides" says
/ Mr. Woolley, 'and in time it will ac-
complish its purposes. Last election we
polled 100000 votes while four years be-
fore only 100000 were poled. It is true
! that in 1892 something like 100000 votes
came to us but the great silver qucsl ION
of 1896 and 1900 had the effect OF con-
, centrating many earnest temperance
votes in the two leading parties.
There is no truth in the report that
/ the Prohibition party tried } make a
deal with the Democrats aSt III Tor
fusion. This was purely Q l ewspaper
yarn. At no time did we have any ,dea
of such thing. / now say u ,ou that
it would be suicidal and impossible for
either the Republican or Democratic
parties to take over our cause. The
people of the United States are not
yet ready for it, and the jlrry takir g
over the fight would ind l'self with
temperance advocates only in is ranks
the remainder of it's strength gone. The
Prohibition party expects to ne defeat
ed again and again. 1t will only be by
! fighting year after year and election f.
ter election, and experiencing defe at
after defeat. that we will acquire the
strength to carry us through. Tie
consummation of our hApes must come
through the ProhfbttiDl party, and can
never come through any league with
another party.
Last year 1 travelled over most of
the States, a large part of the time in
a special car. In the latter days of the
campaign 1 delivered as many as TWEEN
ty speeches in a day. You can ina
gine that this was pretty hard work.
with certain defeat ahead.
Mr.. Woolley expressed himself as dc
lighted with Honolulu. He expected to
have twelve days here but Oh account
of the disruption of the steamer sche-
dule will have only five. He will leave
on the 18th for New Zealand On his
tour he will study the temperance ques-
ton in all the lands visited especially
in Europe, in the interest of his party
-and his paper. The New Voice which
had a subscription list of $4,000 when
Mr. Woolley took 1t over now has 10000
subscribers and is paying handsomely