The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-13
'pR0AIBITIONISlS HUSTLING.
AND THEIR CHANCES or ROLLING
UP A BIG VOTE ARE BRIGHT.
Cartoons and stereopticons Used Eject.
lively in Their Canvass-Hope 20 Get
the Real Thing Bryanite Vote. Which.
In Indiana Say. VIII he Important.

the Real Thing Bryanite Vote. which.
In Indiana Say. VIII he Important.
Not in years has the Prohibition party
gone into a campaign with the spirit and
zeal with which 1t Ia working in this. That
In what the party leaders say and that Is
what all the surface symptoms indicate.
The city headquarters OF the Prohibi-
tionists, 2s2 West Fourteenth street, is not
the largest political headquarters by good
deal, but 1t can match any Of them for ac-
tivity 1t ia one OF the great distributing
centres for the tons Of literature which are
being sent out from the State headquarters.
The State headquarters Is at Rochester.
j. H. Durkee Is In charge there and Henry
w. Wilbur Ia in charge Of the headquarters
here Both, OF them have regulations as
husters.
In the campaign here in New York there
are a number Of features this year new to
Prohibition propaganda, The stereopticon
accompaniment to street meetings is one.
These stereopticon picture adjuncts to the
Prohibition spellbinder oratory have been
in operation about three weeks. They are
proving a great success and will be kept
up until the end OF the campaign. They
draw crowds and among the crowds, while
the spellbinder is talking, much literature
is distributed Prohibitionists admit that
in the past it has been hard to get and keep
street crowd with bare Prohibition elo-
auence. SO they took hint from their
adversaries and introduced the stereopticon.
Cartoons-and they are we'll drawn effec-
tive cartoons-form the bulk OF the argyll
mentative pictures shown. One OF them
represents a strong arm and fist driving
a knife, labelled vote" into the head OF a
Gevifsh. About the wrist Of the arm is a
broad bracelet labelled Prohibition Party, y
The head Of the monsteris labelled Saloon. "
and the tentacles, respectively, bear the
legends Defiance OF Law" political
Corruption" Traffic in Girls, Gambling
and Partnership with Thieves It's
pretty bad looking devilfish. and the way
his tentacles are squirming indicate that
he has his crowded hour on his hands.
Below the cartoon is this sentence from
Victor Hugo's "Toilers Of the Sea- THE
tentacles of the Devil Fish cannot be de-
stroyed unless the Head, the source Of
their sustaining power, is destroyed
Another cartoon Is called His Masters
Voice" after we'll known phonograph
picture. The photograph in this instance
is attached to a beer barrel, and the dog
who hears his masters voice has collar
labelled Politician" and the head Of the
typical political tough. These two are
characteristic Of a dozen or 30 more which
go to make up the cartoon slide equip
ment Of Prohibition outdoor meeting.
Some Of these meetings are planned for
the wood alcohol belt up in Tenth avenue,
where it is believed the recent mortuary
episodes ha We made good soil for Prohi-
bitionists to work in.
. Next Thursday night there is TO be a big
Prohibition mass meeting in Cooper Union,
at which DR.. Silas c. Swallow OF Harris
burg, Pa, the Prohibitionist candidate for
President, will be the. principal speaker.
John Mckee Of Brooklyn th e. candidate .inha,
will also speak, as will volney B: Gushing,
the Rev. G. u. Mead and Henry w. Wilbur.
The Hon. Afford l.. Manierre will preside,
Another big meeting. booked . TO- be ne, held
in Harlem two weeks from SATURDAY nigni,
when eI-Gov. St. John Of Kansas will
speak. This will be Mr.. st. Johns first
appearance as a speaker for prohibition
since 1895. He went over TO Bryan in 1885
and has only just returned to the prohioi-
ton fold.
At the Metropolitan Temple meeting in
has made the most effective OF the Prohibit
ton cartoons, will give chalk talk,
and Mr. Wilbur will be among, the other
speakers. II is expected that this Will be
Both DR.. Mead and Mr.. Mckee have
been constantly in the field speaking nearly
every week day since the campaign began
in September, and they are going TO- Keep
It right up to the end. The Prohibition
leaders are all confident OF big s v4te IN
are all favorable for it. This. they say,
is particularly the case in Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Iowa and Texas. Great work
Is reported in Texas, wherein Beaumont
lives Mr.. Carroll. the candidate for Vice
President. Mr.. Carroll is not a speaker,
but he is popular, has got a bari and has
done much to put ginger into the Prohibl-
ton movement in the Lone Star State.
Speaking of bar s," 1t may be said that
the Prohibition party started out this year
with a campaign fund as large again as IN
any previous Presidential year Since
then subscriptions have been coming In so
that Mr.. Wilbur estimates the total available
campaign fund this year as three times
the size OF any ever before got together.
1T would . be NE W We gasss Sayk
undertake to estimate how large a vote
we expect to poll for our national ticket.
But believe that 10000 would not be too
large a figure. Mr.. Bidwell got upward
OF 260 900 In 1892, and the prospects 1or an
increase are good everywhere.
THE outlook in Indiana is particularly
bright We expect to get large number
of the Bryan voters out there. The Bryan
movement knocked our party badly In
Indiana In 1885, We only got about 5000
votes there that year. But last fall In an
election for minor State officers we polled
$4,000 votes, and believe that this year we
will 20 away ahead of that record.
Here in New York State, the Bryan
movement cut into us heavily also. We
only got $4,000 votes in 1895 In 1900 we
got more than % 900, and this year / think
It safe to say we will poll fully 10000 votes
Our vote fiuctuates a good deal, az is to be
expected. For instance, In 1884 we polled
25, 600 votes, 5000 more than we did in 1900
There is no doubt that il was the heavy
Prohibition vote in this State that defeated
Blaine in 1884.
@But our vote now is in a more normal
healthy condition than it ever was before
1t has more solid, STAYING qualities than II
ever had. We are changing our plan Of
campaign omewhat-putting more poll
tics and less piety into our work. mean
by that that we are not appealing so specially
10 the religious element as we formerly did
We are out now cunning for votes wherever
we think we can get them.
Il expect to hear good reports from