The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-02-01

face wrinkled like a walnut, but he. was
a mighty good tool in the hands of AL
mighty God when slavery was to be GUST
be belieVed that ne slavery was Wrong and he
said, L find in the doctrines of Jesus
Christ, the humble Nazarene, that slavery
without SIM and if the enemy is driven
back over the Potomac I shall declare the
slaves free
But Lincoln had to take the abuse of
his enemies: From November 1860 to
April 1865, his horizon was black with
storm, but he stood like a huge s rock in In
went through four black, desperate, pur-
gatorial years, when God Almighty was
cleansing the sins of this nation with
ciples until John Wilkes Booth. sneaked
up the stairs Of Ford's Theatre in Wash.
ington on the evening, Of the 14th of
Abraham Lincoln's head, and his great
heart quivered and stopped: The whole
nation was hushed into silent weeping
"You will find, Mr.. Speaker and gentle
men, that the principles of my party are
clothed in a, somewhat changed form in
| the words of this-the most colossal fig
ure in the worlds politics during the last
four hundred years-WheIns Is he said,
| believe this government cannot perma-
nently endure half slave and half free.
l do not expect the Union to be dissolved !;
do not W the house 10 bt to 1de6 f 5u
will have to become all one thing or all
the other, So far Mr. tineoln L1sa na Here enis is
how l will put it: believe ,,s that bals hh1s
sober and half drunk. All sober, and this
nation shall prosper Immensely a Al
G Is and bnn this naon aonvadn sh rot % nnd S sos da
stand stand and to which / adhere. I believe
curse ours OF Of a all 1T the curses Of humanity, and
my belief, based upon this fact, is crys-
taIized into a principle, from which ]
myself, and man selling his principles
is the worst cheated man in the whole
universe Of God. ,
nate a candidate in harmony, with this
principle. We hold, and you know 1t to
be a fact, that it is wrong to license a
tics and epileptics, and casts them upon
society to be supported by decent, honest
and industrious people we hold Ito 1t to soe be
penitentiaries, hospitals, asylums, or
phanages, reformatories. police and Grim:
maintain a national quarantine against
dependent criminal classes from abroac
and at the same time license 25O,O0O sa.
loon keepers to manufacture cr1mlna
and dependent classes in our own land
And this is why I nominate candidate
who is heart and soul in harmony witt witt
those principles of ours. l have the hOnOl
to name a gentleman who. is a very goo6
man. He has given hundreds of dollar:
yearly for temperance work and for the
protection of the home against the sa
. loon. He is a good business man. HI
is patriot and philanthropist, and on
of Gods noblemen. I have great homo
in nominating for the office OF unitet
States Senator, w. J. Dean Of Minnea
polls, and I shall, when the roll Is called
cast my vote for him."
) At the close of Mr.. LObeck's speech
! not only the galleries, where a con
) SIDERABLE number Of Prohibitionist
, were gathered, but both sides OF tn
House itself broke into hearty applause
: which continued several times as lonl
r as that accorded the other speaker
> and upon adjournment representative
/ of all parties extended their congratul
1 ations to the speaker.
Mr.. Higgins seconded the nomina
tion in single sentence, referring t.
Mr.. Dean as Goods noblest work, al
. . honest man." Brief as it was, it will
20 down into history as the frs
0 speech made in any Legislator
t seconding the nomination Of a Pre-
i hibitionist for U. S. Senator.
:. Mr.. Dean received three votes, tn
: largest number ever cast in any Legls
n lature up to this time for Prohib
Q tion nominee for the highest legisls
= tive body in the nation.
d Do not the recent Prohibition victorie !ls