The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-01-29
St. John and Chafin Join in Assault
on the Liquor Traffic and Sing
ers Add Stirring Strains
of Music
PREDICT NATIONAL
PROHIBITION 1916
One Standard Of Morals for Entire
Country is Plea Of Chafin
St. John Says Political
Parties Must Act

What is probably the most noted
team of "drysv in the United States
held forth last night at the Christian
church. and waged a strenuous war
on Demon Rum" the burden of their
song being for national prohibition in
1916. The way they grilled the liquor
traffic was something wonderful and II
there was a non-believer in the house
when the guns were unlimbered, he
must certainly have taken short cut
to the tall timber before the close Of
the piece If lie didn't he heard some
wonderfully harsh things said about
him.
The team was composed of Il. w.
Chafin of Arizona, twice candidate
for president of the United States, Ey
Gov St John of Kansas also former
presidential candidate and one of the
most picturesque figures in the prohi
bition movement Miss Cecil Pearl
buckingham, noted soloist and chorus
leader. and Miss Lulu Haynes, accom-
panist. Every member of the team
knew what to do, how to do it and
they accomplished their purposes with
a will
Miss buckingham is possessed Of a
rich contralto voice and she used Ii
TO good advantage, leading the audi.
ence in several battle hymns of the
prohi camp In the course OF the
evenings program, she also sang two
solos, bringing forth a round of ap-
plause in appreciation Of her efforts.
But speaking of the audience-yes,
there was an audience there. II would
have been an easy matter to tell Just
how many souls were in that audience,
because they could have been counted |
very easily. Had the people Of Chick
asha known--well, it's TOO late now. |
Suffice to say that the church was
about half filled
Mr.. Chafin led off in the batting or
der and for half an hour the audience
were thinking deeply one moment and !
holding their sides from laughter the
next. Il am glad to say that am
from Arizona said Mr.. Chafin, in his
opening remarks 1T is the greatest
state in the Union. "Ill tell you why it
is the greatest state and give you some
OF the things that make II great Now.
for instance, we have more rivers in
Arizona without a drop Of water in
them than any other state in the
Union. Then we have places in
Arizona where you lcok farther and /
see nothing than any place know Of
We have the largest dam in the world
It's called the Roosevelt dam, and be-
cause 1t is the largest dam is probably
the reason il was named Roosevelt.
We have the largest petrified forest.
We are just baby state. When the
state was but eight months old, ii pro.
duced candidate for president of the
bHilSu otaeOof anu 3uu VIII nave W du-
init that that was going somer
Mr. Chafin then enumerated many
things for which Arizona may be call
ed truly great, mentioning the fact that
it is the OILY state that ever disfran-
chised illiterates and enfranchised in
telligence at one and the same cleo
tion. This was where some 1000 illit-
crates including negroes, Indians and
some white men who could not read
and write, were disfranchised and
where 10000 intelligent women were
given the right Of the ballot.
you will never settle any moral
question, unless you adopt one stand
ard of morals for every town, county,
state and for the entire nation. That
is fundamental" said Mr.. Chafin.
Abraham Lincoln was the first man
to deny the right of the majority to
make wrong, right. This was re-
garding the slavery question. Stephen
A. Douglas advocated the home rule
or state rights or popular sovereign
ty' method of settling the slavery ques-
ton Mr. Lincoln said, Douglas, you
are wrong. Slavery is either right or