The Mena weekly star., 1916-09-21
5obn p. St. Jobn
RIated Tribute to the Memory of
 Iihe Pioneer Crusader in the Cause
 SDf Prohibition.

.I#ilit o0OhNt AlA lAtN NAfA0ot
 Df Prohibition.
 AItho the writer, as a Democratic man. had opposed Jobn
 R St. John as a Republican-Prohi-
 Mtion candidate for governor Of
 Kansas in three successive cam
 pbigns l never saw the gentleman 0htil the inauguration of Gov. Geo
 H Click in January. 1884. a great qby for Kansas Democracy. Almost #ery Democrat among the thous- aDds that had assembled at Topeka
 6r the double purpose of witness ihg the inauguration of a DemOera- Ne governor and Celebrating the Hnlyersary Of the birthday of An afeW Johnson. honestly believed Nat St. John had been defeated #lely upon the great campaign they lad made upon the resubmission to Ee people of the Prohibition ques- Ion, but when Gov. Click was nom Dated for a second term upon the &me resubmission platform and Fent dowI to overwhelming defeat, Ehe fact was clearly demonstrated bat the third term idea had turned Do trick and not the whiskey ques- tion
 Several years after John P. St. lohn had retired to private life, Fnd was quietly practicing law in his home town. Olathe, Kas.. 1 went lhere to engage in the newspaper business. and there not only Iormed an intimate friendship for |he man l had so bitterly opposed Ps a politician and Prohibitionist, put learned to love him for his Renial qualities as a neighbor and hls many admirable traits as a citi- ten He was devoted to his home and liked all truly great men, was modest and unassuming in general Character.
 And whatever censure and even .ontumely was heaped upon St. l0hn as politician. not a whisper 'f criticism was ever uttered lganst his private life. It has been .ald that a man is judged by his ,aults during life, and by his good leeds after death, but if John D. 't John had any faults l do not Sn0W what they were, and I cer- anly had ample opportunity to Ind out.
 Altho St. John devoted himself to ne practice of law after he retired rom the goVernorship. he never 'eased his work for the cause of 'rohIbltion. and not only delivered ectures and made speeches for the ,ause but actually was stricken town while in harness in his old
 Thru the effort of Mr. St. John, Hansas was the first state in the mon Go adopt statewide Prohibit iOn, and now there are seventeen tates in the dry column. Colorado making great claims for what FohlDltlOn has done for that state \ short time and other states are ialmlng great and good results, but
 only have to point to the record ! progress my adopted state, Kan as, has made since the prohibitory INV took effect on May 1, 1881, to rove that St. John was right and I .as wrong on the prohibition uues- Ioh- What the great reform move lent has done for Kansas and other lates, and good reports are coming rom them all, it can do for Arkan- as and, the Democrats of this state re making the same mistake that .e Democrats made in Kansas in 'ylng to have the question resub- nlted to a vote of the people. They
 ave spoken once. and they will peak again. Prohibition has come stay, and the great spirit of the John p. St. John will some ssy look down from the battlements heaven and see the flag of prohi- 'tlon floating from the canitol of
 cry state in the Union. Whiskey
 sknlking outlaw, and is stub ornly fighting it's way over the