The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-03

Speaking at the annual Haddock
memorial service, held in the Hamline
Methodist church last evening, Rev.
Charles ScanneH ridiculed Republican,
ism by declaring that all of the good
Republicans were dead, and in the
same breath intimated that William
Mckinley, great man as he was, had
showed an inclination toward coward
ice in evading the great economic and
moral questions that confronted the
nation. He continued his denunciations
by declaring that the Republican state
convention had tried to perform the
scientific feat of apologizing for con-
gresham, while approving of the
course of the president, but that it
adjourned without doing either.
THE Republican party is not I'M
like the potato said Mr.. Scannen
"The best part of it is In the ground
yet the Republicans are proud of thei1
party.
Il have often listened to the wailings
of the Republican politician, but what
do you hear. You will fairly shudder-
and if you listen to his discourse you
will soon be under the impression that
you are in graveyard. He will tell
you all about what a great man his
father was and his grandfather, and
his greatgrandfather, and what greaf
Republicans they were, and what good
they accomplished for their party
Survived Its Usefulness.
IT will not say that the Republican
party has never done good, for it has,
but it has survived it's usefulness. 1t is
old and childish, and in one way it is to
be respected. But it will never do good
again, for the good Republicans are all
dead. Many of the country's best and
greatest off taI 1,
the Republican party, blu there are
none in the party now.
All of this talk about what good
Republicans there used to be is al
very well and good but it does not help
out the present situation. Notwith-
standing, this is the favorite argumen
or the Republican politician, and the
Republican rallies die out in a blaze of
glory. He will tell you what kind of
hat his father wore, and how he stoo(
up for the rights of old Abe Lincoln
in the early convention. all of which
is very good in its way.
I'VE don't care what the Republican
party has done-We want to know what
it is doing now. True, it has built an
incomplete canal at a cost of $S4,000,-
600, but l declare it would take that
amount of money to defray the drink
bills at few national Republican con-
Ventions. So the Panama canal is not
worthy Ol great consideration.
we hear a great deal about merger,
or rather we did a short While ago,
when some of the prominent Repub-
leans got after the merger question.
Yet the total revenue of all the rail-
roads in the country will not pay our
drink bill for two months, neither
would it if the total expenditures of all
the roads were included. Thus it will
be seen that the merger question is not
deserving of anV great notice
Tariff on Good Living.
"And now it is the tariff, but that
does not amount to much. 1t is only a
question of which articles shall be in
cluded in the free list, and which shall
be subjected to duty. The Repub-
icans want to put blueing, borax and
bustles on the free list, while soap,
sugar and sorghum should be, they de-
clare, subjected to tariff. immortality
and drunkenness can go on the free
list, but for upright living and honest
manhood there must be a heavy tariff.
Crime and disease can run rampant,
and yet it must go on the free list
Good morals are undesired, and must
be kept down by heavy customs
''The Prohibition party is the only
party that is facing the real issue. The
others are either lodging, jumping or
straddling, apparently afraid to face
the real trouble. The party leaders
want to deceive the rank and file and
reap for themselves the benefit of office
and official corruption.
Bright Future in Store.
To-day the Prohibition party stands
alone as an example of clean politics.
1t is purer than it will be when it be-
comes stronger. No sane man will now
try to reap the benefits of Office in the
political party, for he must know that
he will fail. But later, when the Pro-
hibition party becomes a power in the
land then it will contain the profess
sional politician, or the man who wants
to hold public Office continually.
William Mckinley was a great man.
and pure man. He was an upright
man. But he was a little cowardly
when some great question was at stake
he would rather avoid it than meet
1T, as would all Republicans. They will
not meet the liquor question fairly
they will avoid it by licensing that
which they admit is wrong"
Other addresses were delivered COM
mandatory Of George H. Haddock, who
was murdered in Iowa while working
in the interest of the prohibition cause.