The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-18
WILL CLOSE TONIGHT.
Meetings of State Temperance
Union Nearing End.

Tonight's session, at which will be
given the address by Rev. I. N. Nc
Cash of Des Moines, will close the an
nual convention of the Kansas State
Temperance union in Topeka. On last
nights programme at the Auditorium
General John @. Wooley, former presi-
Dental nominee of the Prohibition par
ty, addressed a good sized audience.
The annual election of officers will be
held late this afternoon.
The appearance of few speakers on
temperance in Topeka has attracted the
interest shown in the address of John
G. Wooley- The prominence gained by
him in the presidential campaign four
years ago made his one of the most
interesting address on the pro-
gramme of the convention. At the time
of the election in which he appeared
as a candidate the Prohibition party
showed an increased voting strength.
Mr.. Wooley believes in perseverance.
Whether he appears again as a candi-
date he will be active in the coming
presidential campaign. He regards the
Prohibition party as live factor with
great promise in the future. The pro-
hibitionists are now working for the
adoption of a national liquor law, plac-
ing some sort of federal restriction up
on the traffic. Mr.. Wooley believes
that the Prohibition party will have to
attend to this matter itself as the
character of the leading political par
ties in the United States offers little
encouragement. He said:
Il doubt if you can ever get the Re
publican party to clean itself so that
it can be able to handle the prohibition
question. l don't believe the Demo-
cratic party can ever get itself clean
it is in bad shape now and l doubt If
it ever will be in power again. 1t is
sick party
In his address Mr.. Wooley devoted
some attention to the church people
who profess belief in the tenets of the
prohibition party but withhold their
active support from the prohibition
movement. AS a party he believes that
the prohibition movement should bring
together all the support that it can
possibly muster, persuading the voters
of the country to trust other important
national issues to the judgment OF the
men whom they make their candidates
and to place the cause of national pro-
hibition on an equal footing with the
tariff or canal treaty issues. Mr.
Wooley was frank in confessing that
the Prohibition party was likely to
have a long wait before it succeeded in
carving any national elections but
held before his audience the assertion
that without persistent effort they
could never gather strength for VIC
tory.
At this mornings session the sub
jects under discussion were: The
Closer Afffliation of Temperance Work
ers Needed in Kansas and Law En-
fOEc6m6nt. Its possibilities Inc SCS-
sion devoted some time alsoto a parlia-
ment for local workers. Among the
speakers on the programme were Col
J. B. Cook. Chetopa; Rev Robert Lid
dell, Galena; Rev. NJ. F. McHale, Her
ington; George F. Fullinwider. FL
Dorado; Senator ]. K Codding, West
moreland, and Rev. E. L Jones, Buck
lin. Rev. McCash, who will speak this
afternoon and tonight. is super1ntend-
ent of the Iowa Anti-Saloon league
The attendance at the meetings at the
First Methodist church morning and
afternoon and at the auditorium at
night. has improved considerably since
the first day
It was voted this morning in the tenn
perance convention now meeting in this
city to transfer tonight's meeting from
the Auditorium, where it was to have
beer. held, to the First Methodist church
The meeting in the Auditorium last
night. addressed by John G. Woolley,
might have been accommodated in the
church.
DR.. J. n. McCash will address the
meeting tonight on Civic Conscience
He is recognized in Iowa as one of the
most eloquent pulpit speakers in the
state. He is superintendent of the Iowa
Anti-Saloon League. and his reputation
as a temperance leader is well nigh ma
ton wide Next week DR. McCash will
address the annual convention of the
Minnesota Anti-Saloon League.