Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-04-29
gASsCoM STILL HARpING.
TELLS the story of His "Count-out" to
the Methodist Conference.


The customary AID to-oe-expected har-
-,,onv that characterizes the annual con-
,orsnce meetings OF Maine Methodist
,,os rudely broke In upon at last Fridays
.osa,on at Newport. Rev. s. l. Hans.
com. OF Bar Harbor, struck discordant
note BY injecting his story OF the cam
,o,gu last fall in Hancock county, when
"a wss candidate for sheriff. and in which
ho was defeat ed--or, as be himself puts 1T,
was declared defeated.
His remarks, as reported, were interest
Sne. and some Of them importantly
true He said In part:
oThe outlook for the cause of temperance In
.hs s,ate of Marie Ia better than ever before
I believe tnat an Overwhelming majority OF the
vc,ers uelieve in the Wisdom of the prohibi,ory
,sv 1 was told last fall that three fourths OF
the voters favor r-subm 'ssiou They had been
listening at the Keyhvls of rum shops.
.The democrats In Hancock county bomi.
mated a man who was In favor of license. The
,enubllcans nominated man who for tw..
years had handled the saloon keepers very care
fully
"Then the republican State convention de.
elartd IN fhNuf VI etfltt cbiVittht'ut dohtu
the rrpu licau can idate for sheriff In Hancock
count, IL he would stand on that platform. lie
ssId he would consult some of his friends, and
let me know of his deci lion In week | waited
three weeks, and then went into the campaign,
and got plurality OF 500. and II there had
beep another week 10 work would have gotten
$50.
1.-THE Saturday before election several of the
prominent politicians guessed on the re-ult,
placing my vote all the way from 100 to 1900.
They were surprised men on the evening Of
election day.
"Bnr Harbor, the town In which live, has
been swimming In rum all through It's history.
The D op'e have felt that to close the saloons
would drive away the summer people.
81 wrote to such men a. Morris X. Jessup
and william E. Dodge. and told them they were
being quoted as opposed to the workings of the
pronlbitory law of Maine. / got a number of
letters, and they were red hot They all said
Close up the rum shops, believe In whatever
law you have
"The Hancock county campaign more than
any one other thing that has occurred in this
state brought the supreme court into line.
81 was declared defeated We went to the
governor and council. and they counted us out.
and violated the law to do It. | will not tell
YOU how IL would take too long They were
afraid would take the matter to the courts and
to prevent IL Diet. rmined to enforce the law.
"And theS could not enforce It In Hancock
county without enforcing it In other sections of
the State, and since has come forth the an
nouDcement that the law will be strictly en-
forced all over the State, and jail sentences will
be enforced.
ave ministers can do much and II we allow
the saloon curse to thrive longer We deserve to
be .urned out of the ministry.
SECT into the caucuses, and do not allow the
politicians select such delegates they please
to conventions We ought to be In our pulpits
when we preach, but we ought TO be at the eau
.cuses when we are In politics."