The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-03
EUGENE v. CHAF|N
ON PROHIBITION
Nominee of That Party for Pres
ident of the United States
Is Heard.
AT FIRST METHODIST
AND ASSEMBLY HALL
He Says That No Party Is Bet
ter Than the Meanest
Man in Ii.

Eugene W. Chafin, who was the candi-
Gatc for president of the United states
on the National Prohibition ticket during
INC last election. addressed an audience
al the Methodist church Sunday after
noon at $50 o'clock Or questions rclat :
Ing TO the prohibition movement through
out tho United States and the reasons
for the failure of the party to make q
better showing than IL did at the last
election.
The remarks Of the speaker were re-
CniNcd by tho adhcrents Of the cause in
salt Lake city with attention. and at
tnc conclusion of the address the large
church resoundod with tho applause OF
me listeners, Mr. Chafin was at no time
WITHOUT attention, ana handled the sub
lcct with telling effectiveness from the
beginning.
At the opening OF his address. he be-
gan by stating that tho chances of the
movement were never greater than at the
present timc, and that this fact was
clearly Shown by audiences throughout
The country who We're willing to listen
10 what thcS did not believe,
Voters Favor IT..
lie ,hcn went on to state that the ma
Jorlty OF the voters in both OF tho old
parties were in favor Of tho prohibition
movement, but did not believe that n
could hc established in tho country The
situation confronting the American pub
nc TO-DAY was not so much what they
wanted as was the question or arriv-
ing at the most direct method OF sccur-
ing their wants
The speaker then stated what was 10
he the subject of his speech. saying: "No
cNlI can i've IN "a country unless IL has
TWO political parties to support it, Whom
ever such evil has but one party sup
porting u. then that evil must die" Az
on To say that the country at the present
llin. was being governed by political
Parties and not by tho people. There
Hon ,,f l.,f. a..
public, the question being what the old
parties demanded Of their adhcrcnts. No
man was better thnn the party he repre-
scntod and no political party was better
than The mcancst man In IL. The party
could not hc better and exist. for ii
needed the support of the mean man
Inc speaker then drew the parallel
which lie said existed between the liuuor
question and The slave traffic before the
war; Al no time did the slave holders
OF this country number more than one
In fourteen Of the population: but, in
spite OF this fact both OF the old parties
at at that TING the Wings and the Demo
used by these people in bossing the poll
tics OF the country could he readily un-
derstood when ii was known that about
half OF the slave e-holdcrs belonged TO ono
party and the remainder 10 the other
party. Both political parties bid for this
support. with the result that a few men
dominated the political situation
Wrote Black Page.
laHlng up the question OF the nur-
chase OF Florida from Spain. the speaker
stated that the United States al that
time wrote the blackcst page in Amcri-
can history III the acquisition and pos
session OF Florida, and that neither party
Old anything To prevent the horrors that
followed for the reason that no man was
better than the party he represented,
aud the men who dominated the parties
would brook no interference. Mr. Chafiu
then discussed the reasons for the war
between the United States and Mexico
stating that IL was brought about through
the instigaton of the Shareholders who
desired the territory involved.
The reason Daniel Webster, in his IA
nous speech, demanded the fugitive slave
law was because his party demanded IL.
he in that respect being no better than
his party, Whenever a man got better
than his party. he Immediately started
now party and this was tho reason ths
abolition party was started. This also
was the reason for starting the prohibi-
ton party. and this was the third time
that the prohibition wave had swept the
country, But there was no hope for the
until one OF the old parties
was destroyed. and the ma jovitv OF the
voters who believed in the prohibition
gave their solid support TO the
movement by clecting honest men TO leg
lslate Oh the question.