The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-31

man like Judge DAYTON or Judge
blalr. and the criminal makes a state
thrnt because he thinks he NAV be
trled before these judges. Who when
thty near that booze did IL. will feel
more IKE sending the saloon keeper
70 jan or 10 the electric chair than 10
punish the bloody murderer My.
ny ir.ncs. no honest unpreiudiced
Iuoke believes criminal when he
SAYS booze did IL. The states attor-
ney does not believe him: the Jury
NAV tries him refuses TO credi. his
~ aouse' put SENDS him with the lie
on MS Ups 70 his God. Who. then.
believes that this man IS always tell.
ing me tru'hH Who places this man
~ the George Washington class ,
W ny. Y - the Anti-Saloon League agi
tatorIBilly sunday applause And
yet this man with the blood of his Eel
~ on MS hands, shouting that
100 800 vlG II. may be so low in the
scale OF existence that he would have
20 cHmb ladder 20 10 10 nell Yef
they put him In the George Washing.
Ton class and refuse to believe that no
Collu lie about H. Now. nv friends
u Is not true that ninety percent OF
crime Is due 10 the LIQUOR business
m census reports show that in
MaIhe' where they have had prohibi.
tloh Tor sixty years. they have seventy
criminals per 100000 population in the
Ialls or pcnitentiaries. and We have
only 90 in Illinois. and they have ig3
IN prohibition Kansas.
Again they tell YOU in sustaining
the prohibition contention. that Abra.
nam Lincoln WAS a prohibitionist
lhls Is Just as false as these ofbar
claims about poverty and crime For
instance. a Sistcrsville dry paper pub.
Hshed some plate matter in which
theN credit Abraham Lincoln with the
statement that the liquor traffic T. a
cancer IN society. eating out the vitaIs
ana bringing destruction TO all"
ask when did he say it, Before he
TOOK out license 10 sell liquor or after.
wards When did d" say before
ne mad The power. as President 20
destroy the liquor business or after
he taxed the liquor business 10 raise
money TO pay the old soldiers for nut.
ting down the Rebellion and ke.pinr
The flag Of stars in the skyg An.
plause.b Would he have faxed .,
cancer eating ont The yi,als Of the M.
ton When did Abraham Iipr,In
say that. before they asked him TO
hre Grant and put prohibitionist in
ms place Lincoln asked where
Grant got his whiskey? They couldn't
tel him that, and Abraham Lincoln
said Il wish ! knew. because II he
did. would send each Of my Con.
erals barrel OF the same brand.
Lincoln would hardly send a barrel OF
cancers TO Grant.
The o'her night in Sistcrsville I
denied that lincoln said that. and a
minister said he did said My
brother he did not" lie said. Are
YOU willing TO risk a thousand dollars
on that question:" said. Yes. /
Will lie says. Il take you" And he
was preacher too So ! thought |
was going 10 make a thousand dollars
mighty easy. but by the time I got
through with my talk guess he was
convinced ] know what ! was talking
about. because when | called him on
The platform 10 put up his money he
turned TO the audience and said. Now
you understand the proposition: the
burden of proof is on him Mr.. Winlle
Is 10 prove that Lincoln did no- say
II. ] said. Brother. before / could
DO thing like that / would have to
hunt mp the record OF everything that
Lincoln ever said from the cradle TO
the grave. and besides. would have
to know what he did not say. and
there Is no record kept of what peo-
pic DO not say" Ny friends. the bur
den Of proof is always on the man
who claims TO speak from the record.
We deny - and challenge proof. My
friend az Sistcrsville squirmed out Of
~ and saved his thousand dollars !
thought / was going 90 get his thous-
and dollars because I had contro-
versy about this very thing with Rob
crt ~ Patton Of Springfield and Pat
ton brought out the fact that Rev. Dr
Smith said this and Lincoln never did
say b. but ~ has been credited 20 Lin
coin. JUS Ike an article ! once wrote
that was credited 10 Bob Ingorsoll.
My friend "Pussyloor' johnson in
Oh" wheeling Advance says. "luEcrsoll
condemns alcohol lng"rsoH IS all
right when be- is on the dry side. but
lnecrsOll boo thai speech vas pleading
% lawsuit and D. was necessary 10
give alcohol hell DO order TO convince
De jury Why don't they quote from
lurersoll wien be- sen n barrel Of
Whiskcy one time 10 a friend. and IN
the letter be- said. Z am sending you
some whi-key rho finest whiskey that
ever drove the skeleton from the
feast or painted landscapes on the
brain ~ man
Ny friend "Pussyfoot" Johnson. In
the Wheeling Advance. In referring TO
the wei speakers BOZ this campaign.
said. "The next ono due is g.. s. Win
de. editor 81 Erinns lcouocla-t. Tho
notorious iuldel sheet uf chicago '
Iuf The drys are not so radically op-
posed f1 iufdt.- They 'usi want fo
prejudice thr good Chr rdn people
against mo Q appear 20 immunity
somr'lm's Fighting prohibition. and n
that community happens tD he PRO.
tesf1ut they viii start rumor that D
am jesuit because 1 replied t1 Tom
Wdi-O attack uu fle Catholic
church Then when 0 rD into o. com.
muu.fy where Catholic are strung
they start the ruuor fI.t su au
s. T. a. Wouldn't ~ Boz much better
really 10 trr f' answer my arru.
msufs7
Ny friend have here O. little pass
axe I want fp read from tho Beaver
lHlls Times. Ol Nly -f. 1912 Or is a
beautiful Trims and beg your BOD.
du.erurr uhIIo ] read If if .- from
lHIIF Sundays wonderful memorial
.rrmor up There &c. aiI rh.s ie
90 ffF fnr memory and f.r tears a
mighty nation bonds above Ifs houorcd
graves ard pays tD noble dust the