Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-27
Prohibition Candidate Swallow
Describes the Bishops Model
Saloon In New York
LIQUOR DRINKING ENCOURAGED
Bottles Given Away as Souvenirs to
Visitors as an Advertisement of the
Place-SwalIow Talks About Pot
ter's Career and Makes Scathng
Comment.


ago." said Silas C. Swallow, prohibition
candidate for president of the United
States, who visited Iowa yesterday ON
a tour Of the nation and was seen at
his room at the Victoria hotel, yes
terday afternoon, and it is a dirtier
and cheaper place of the kind than
many Of those into which we could
see thru the windows as we passed
down the street in New York.
81 spent fifteen minutes in the sal
DON and the cafe. On the wall of the
latter, which Is Joined with the saloon
and into which are invited ladies and
gentlemen. according to the sign, is an
enormous canvas on which are painted
life sized figures of nude women. In
the saloon itself they give away bot
ties of liquor as souvenirs. We saw
two or three people in the establish
ment sitting at tables on which there
were papers.
"In a show case in the water wagon
department, which Is q room with q
soda water fountain in 1t, they have in
bundles I suppose hundreds OF thou
sands Of newspaper clippings concern
Ing the bishops saloon. almost all crit
ical of it, but displayed as good adver-
Using, some Of the wrost being pasted
up on the wall for the people to use.
81 can imagine no more disgusting
and nauseating spectacle than that.
And it is almost inconceivable that
Bishop Potter should have been willing
to take Il position which means that
whenever and wherever his name is
spoken in the future it will be asso-
ciated Instantly, with the establish
ment of this vile and evil place.
"And yet this is but the natural re-
suit Of his course thru life. He not
only has voted with the liquor parties
all of his life, but he has been closely
allied for twenty-five years with the
so-called 400, almost all of the mem
bers Of which circle drink liquor. l
believe that up to that time he had
only the ambition Of true living in his
heart.
About fifteen years ago he brought
home with him from Scotland a barrel
of Scotch whisky. 1t was gift and
he protested against paying duty
which the government collected, not
intending to sell it aga,
Then he COX a jaurt scroes coun-
Try one time with soma crgc nization
or othes. whose train was we'll stocke1
4 newspaper said at the time the
train was full when 1t eft New York
and me mellDers Of tie Marty wA!a
filled whaE i. reached rs Gestinat m.
Ia n cd Va
Womens Christian Temperance Union.
And now he has started saloon. 1t
looks like correct mathematical pro-
gression."
DR.. Swallow is the second presiden-
tial candidate to visit the city of Des
Moines during this campaign. Eugene
v. Debs, candidate of the socialists,
having been the first. He spoke at the
Y. M. @. A. auditorium yesterday af-
ternoon and evening. He was accom-
panied by Mr.. Volney B. Gushing, of
Bangor, Me-, who also spoke at both
rallies.
The guests arrived in the city at
1880 yesterday morning and were ac-
companied by State Chairman w. ID.
Elwell of the prohibition party, to the
Victoria hotel, which has no bar, and
which is owned by F. M. Hubbell. DR..
Swallow planned to visit DIR. and Mrs.
Mabie, formerly Of Harrisburg, Pa.
which is his home, during the after
noon, and last evening he and Mr..
Gushing and other prominent prohlbi-
tionists were entertained by Thomas
g. Orwig, at his home at dinner.
At the evening meeting DR.. Swallow
at Oh,
ing also spoke. Mr.. Gushing has been
engaged in temperance lecturing for
nineteen years. He is a fascinating
speaker and has a charming PERSONAL
ity which is effective in such rallies as
this. The evening meeting was very
we'll attended.
In substance DR.. Swallow made these
points in the course Of his address:
The solution of the liquor problem
is in a party victory and subsequent
legislation.
The national prohibition party stands
for the dissolution of the partnership,
now existing between the government,
national and local and the liquor bus
mess, by which the government prof.
its.
A large proportion Of the 100000 en-
gagged in the liquor business violate
all regulative restrictions.
The real object of regulation is
protection Of the liquor seller and his
business.
The general government licenses
men to violate the state law in many
cases.
The prohibition party stands for the
prohibition of the manufacture, sale.
and expectation of liquors
for beverage purposes.
The liquor men in 1862 adopted a
resolution to support no candidates for
office who favored the total abstinence
cause, thereby dragging the question
into politics on their own motion.
Most of the laws of the country are
prohibitions based on the laws at
Mount Sinai.
Yet most Of the crimes which are
prohibited by the other laws are caus-
ed by traffic in which the government
is a partner.