The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-15
A MOST DESPICABLE
CREATURE
And Will Get What's a
Coming in Hades
Carrie Nation Puts in
Two Strenuous Days
in Canton and Tells all
Glasses Where They
Are at.

Are at.
1t is doubtful if woman ever at
tracted such widespread attention in
Canton as did Carrie Nation, the fam
Gus smasher of saloons, during her
stay here on Saturday and Sunday. On
Saturday evening, crowd estimated
at two thousand, heard her lecture at
the Auditorium, and again on Sunday
at the various churches where she
spoke, it was impossible to provide
even standing room for those who
focked to hear her.
At the First Christian church, where
she spoke yesterday afternoon. hun
dreds were turned away disappointed
from the doors. Every seat in the
lower floor and every seat in the bal
cony was filed; the aisles were chok-
ed the exits blocked; in fact every
bit of available space in or near the
church was occupied by interested
or was 1t curious-humanity A SIM
liar tale of interest came from the
Dueber avenue M. E. church in the
evening, although the capacity of that
edifice is not nearly so large as the
Christian church.
Carrie disposed of souvenir hatchets
and biographies galore in Canton. I'M
mediately after speaking, hundreds of
people, some of them her admirers,
some of them her enemies. would
crowd about her intent upon procuring
some souvenir of her presence in the
city, and her supply was almost ex-
hausted.
What Carrie didn't tell the people
about "rottenness," not only in Can
ton, but in the state and nation. was
hardly worth while considering. She
denounced the mayor and the police
department for the lawlessness they
allow to exist in the city; she de-
nounced Taft and the Republican
party; she denounced Governor Har-
ris; in fact she denounced every
thing in her knowledge worth while
denouncing. Denunciation makes up
the principal portion of her talk, in
fact, it's fail, fail, fail from start to
finish.
In an interview with News" re-
porter yesterday afternoon she made
some remarkable statements. What
she thinks of Canton is a plenty. She
said: This city is fairly foment-
ing with rottenness. Yes. it is rotten,
rotten, rotten, Naturally. when / see
a city like Canton, blame such con-
dition upon the mayor, and l say that
the mayor and the police of this city
should be held responsible for the
lawlessness that exists. 1t is not only
the liquor traffic that protest against
in Canton, but here / find, that the
; association of man and woman has
fallen to a degraded and immoral
standpoint"
! Then she went after the liquor ira
little jaws with every sentence.
Throughout Ohio" she said, 81 find
that a fierce struggle for local op-
: ton is being waged. Local option is
! nonsense; a town is never dry and 1t
= never will be until prohibition is
J LEAGUE IS ONE OF THE WORST
, STUMBLING BLOCKS TO PRoHIBI-
J TION THAT WE HAVE TO CON-
: TEND WITH. Local option is fail
. ure and always will be. Nothing can
? be accomplished without prohibition.
= l compare the liquor traffic to a snake
The Anti-Saloon league is beginning
at the tail to kill it. When finally the
[ head is crushed, everyone will wonder
: why they didn't begin there in the
first place. | HAVE NO FAITH IN
THIS MAN HARRIS WHO Is RUN
MING FOR GOVERNOR. MARK MY
WORDS, HE WILL PROVE DECEIT
FUL TO THE PEOPLE WHO DESIRE
PROHIBITION" Then she gave her
Jaws another quick snap.
: Then changing her attitue she said:
II always have great compassion for
the saloonist; they are objects of my
extreme pity. They know that they
are in the wrong, but having gone
thus far they think they cannot
change. Everyone that l have ever
talked with expresses himself in that
! manner. On the other hand, the OBJ
ject of my most passionate hate. is
the church hypocrite, the most de-
spicabIe creature on earth. / believe
that there is hell. and l am glad
: Of it, so that these people can go to
} it, and get what they Justly deserve
Somehow Christian Science found its
: way into her mind then. and she
pounced upon that in her characters.
/ tic manner. 'The two words. Chris
tian Science in my mind" she said
mean the total absence OF living
! truth, and the presence OF all liei
/ and deceit"
Politics came in for its share of de-
! nunciation next. "fhe Republican
4 party" said Carrie. 'has rotted and
, rotted, and rotted. until it has LOS
! all, power to rot.' Then she told
of her political theory. which IL work
r ed out will mean the domination oI
} prohibition rule. She wants all gOot
people TO vote for BryaE, and by ths
end Of his four years rule. the votel
, will have tired Of the party Just al