The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-12
Political Writer for PoGt-Dispatch,
Points Out Results CT Meetings
~ in jefferson Citys
Life.
BIG CHANGE IS APPARENT
Many Stopped Dancing, Cafes Were
Less Popular and League Was
Formed for Bettering
Conditions.

The following story of the religious
| moral and civic effect OF the Scoyille
| campaign on Jefferson City, Mo, was
written especially by Heber Nations
political writer and state capital cor.
respondent for the st. Louis Post.
Dispatch and one of the highest sala
rted newspaper men in the United
States
Mr.. Nations was a close observer
OF the ScoviIle campaign at Jefferson
City.
[By Heber Nations.]
JEFFERSON CITY, March lit
was the unanimous sentiment of the
Mems league at their review" meet
Ing held here yesterday, that the
union revival campaign conducted by
Charles Reign Scoville, which closed
three months ago, was worth ten
times more than it cost in money
and effort. and the opinion was ex-
pressed freely that such a campaign
should be repeated at regular inter
walls.
The Mems league" itself is one of
the direct results of The Scoyille
meetings and was organized by the
evangelist while here. Nearly every
prominent layman in the Missouri
capital is an active mem Der of the
league, and aggressive action is
being planned by it to complete the
rout Of the saloon-pool hall-red
light interests whose activities had
gone almost unchecked for a genera
ton, until the recent moral and re-
Hgious upheaval stirred the better
element of the city to a realization
of their responsibilities and their
power in united effort.
Many of the results of the cam
paign were discussed briefly in de.
tail and striking instances OF reform
and conversion Of prominent citizens
was recalled, at the review meeting.
One Case Ia Point.
One speaker. in discussing indi-
vidual cases, recalled the conversion
OF prominent lawyer, former pros
ecuting attorney of Cole county.
THAT man has lived his life among
U.S." he said. "He is a man of IN
questioned ability and business integ-
rity. He had fallen into loose habits
and finally had become so addicted
to whiskey that he rarely ever went
home sober. He lost his business,
and was losing his mind. 1 gasped
for breath when I saw him rise one
d0AiA6 tuC AlSClAu6 SAlIu StSil L
down the aisle. I met him few
days later and ne told me that his
appetite for whiskey was nearly driv-
ing him mad and I know that he car
ried apples in his pockets for weeks
which he ate to satisfy his craving
for liquor. Today he is here, in all
his manhood, once more master of
himself and his profession, and I
say that If the campaign had not
accomplished anything but this, it
would have paid it's way and more.
Other speakers called attention to
prominent men who had not been
identified with church work before
the campaign, but are now toiling in
the trenches.
1t was pointed out that State Audi
tor John P. Gordon, who walked the
glory TRAIL" is now a deacon in the
Presbyterian church; Joseph G.. Dill
lard, state superintendent Of hotel in
spectors, who first made the confes-
sion in the campaign. is now an &C
tive deacon in the Christian church :;
Chief Justice A. M. Woouson OF the
supreme court who had not been iden-
tilted with the churches before, is
now a regular attendant and leader
in the work at the Christian church !;
Associate Justice Charles G. Reyelle
and his wife, who hit the trail