The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-01-16
THE cULpEPpER MEETING
AND BEARD SPEAKING

0QCn q tetun8 speech at ReOUlck Tues
day night and has led the song SER
vice here since Friday.
At 1880 Rev. j. b. Culpepper said
he had expected to preach his sermon,
"The Black Horse Of SIM" but would
not have time as Senator John 8.
q number OF anecdotes and made a
Jew remarks on temperance and read
q temperance poem, Not Another
Drop" that not only entertained the
audience. but gave them food for
thought on this overshadowing ques-
Uon.
Rev. Culpepper introduced Senator
Beard by telling a most amusing story
Of the Irishman who had a bantam
rooster who had cleaned up every
h8hting cock in the neighborhood. So
another bird was brought in to whip
the victorious rooster. 1t was a for
eign bird" in the language Of the 9TH
American eagle. When the eagle and
the bantam were placed in the cock
pit, the eagle reached out and picked
of. the bantam's head. and his glory
WAS departed. Now the gentleman
who was to address the audience was
tho foreign bird" from Pensacola, the
eajd eagle from Escambia, who would
pick the heads off the whisky hydra
The story was 50 unique and appro-
priate the vast audience Of 1.500 men.
women and children fairly shouted.
The distinguished citizen, attorney
and senator from Escambia county,
and a candidate for the United States
sepate. in his Introductory remarks,
said that the executive committee of
the Marion County Anti Saloon League
had done him the honor. after hear
ing his address in the courthouse at
the coming out convention last No
vember. to request him to speak for
them during the wet or dry campaign.
He accepted their offer, but no reply
Stiu silence on their part. He then
began to fear that because he did not
turn down his glass at the banquet
at the Ocala House the night of the
convention that the league thought he
was inconsistent and not a sure 'nough
"water wagon" advocate. but he want
ed to say right here that he couldn't
turn down his glass because it was
loaded with a cocktail, and he just
turned II over to his friend. Col. Bob
McNamee. (Great laughter).
Senator Beard was in bad voice
from a wretched cold contracted in the
sleeper en- route for Ocala- He, how
eivered with elOQuence and effect. He
arGued for temperance under three
heads Personal Liberty" "Prohibi-
tiun- Doesn't Prohibit" and "Prohibi-
zion Hurts Business" The shrieking
tot personal liberty on the part Of the
wet side was a defusion and snare.
because their very business. while
te8alised. was hedged around with
safeguards and protective measures.
An our liberties were restrained and
o,eid In check by laws for the protec-
zion OF society. Prohibition doesn't
OfOhibit:" Of course 1t doesn't. and
there wasn't a law on the statute
seduction. forgery. ETC.. to prohibited.
hut q prohibition law with a good
public sentiment behind 1t. was as
pCohibitory as any law ever enacted
By man. What prohibition meant to
him and every other thoughtful and
Sensible man was the restraint and
c1lrtailment Of an evil. the most gil
ganttc ON earth.
Under the head OF Prohibition
Hurts Business" he said. well, it prob
ably does to start with. but as whis-
Ky produced nothing but debauchery
and crime. how could it's prohibition
prevent the general result OF the pros
Derity and happiness OF the people
IAbor\ and brain were the creative
powers of the earth. Whisky stupe-
Aed. deadened and destroyed both
This proposition was so plain he who
rUas could read.
TIE closest attention was given to
the speaker. his address appreciated
and heartily applauded- As 1t was
only twenty-five minutes of 9. Rev. ]
b. Culpepper asked the audience il
ne should go on and a mighty shout
went up and for the next half hour
ne presented such q plea in story anC
pathOs against the demon rum tina
80 by the master stroke Of oral gen
rus he told the story of Tom Run
yaa's. dead saloon in Nashville, Tenn.
which the man. who used to run i