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PARKERSBURG, ff. VA., WEDNESDAY DECEMBER, 19, 1888.
NUMBER 51
the freeman,
published E\ ry Wednesday,
j —BY THE—
reeman Publishing Company.
IPITAL CITY DEPARTMENT
CONDUCTED BY
UR CHARLESTON EDITOR.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19, 1888.
The Saloon is the National pest.
Oar Holliday locals are lull of
ir&ctical interest.
Amendment £ Fisk vote on last
i*ge.___
Kanawha County made pronibi
ion gains over 1884., St. John re
Bived 87 votes, Fisk 103. These
ire all solid._
The Prohibitionists of Charles
on and Kanawha County ought to
lave a club room and headquarters
omewhere in the city. Money
ould not be more profitably spent
han to secure and equip a room for
uch purposes.
Let the people of Charleston re
nember that our district gave a
najority in favor of the Amend
nent, and that there was only 58
najority against it in Charleston
precinct,casting 1758 votes. Shall
ire not use this leverage to drive
he open saloon from Charleston
igain? Let us not be wearv in
well doing, but lose no opportun
ity to strike a blow at the saloon.
Charleston, Malden, Loudon, Jef
erson and Big Sandy Districts all
;ave majorities for the Amendment.
Slk, Union and Poca Districts gave
;he big majorities against it. Even
the mining district of Cabin Creek
mlygave a majority of 133 against
it out of a total vote of 1551 and
1227 on the Amendment. Elk
gave a majority of 340 against it
Dut of a total vote of 816 and 630
on the Amendment. Evidently we
ought to send our saloonB up there
to them.
False Count.
Daring the recount of the vote
lit Poca Fork Precinct, Mr. BaineB
and one other ran hastily over the
Amendment vote and on the tickets
found at least six straight votes for
the Amendment. There was only
°ne vote returned for it, and
125 against it. It this doesn’t in
dicate * dirt,” it shows gross ignor
ance or criminal carlessness some
where.
A Georgia lawyer, got crazy
drunk in Cincinnati, on Monday,
and eprang into the river to drown
himself. A brave colored man
sprang in and brought the victim
°f legalized poisoning tr; land to be
farther tortured by the licensed
murderers of the citv.
Holiday Rates Yia T, & 0. C, Ry.
On Dec 24th, 25tb and 31st, and
>lan. 1st, Holiday Excursion rates
J1!! be made to all points on the
T-& 0. C Ry. Children half lare.
t ickets will be good going on date
of sale only, and good to return un»
|'l Jan. 5th. Let all take advan
fage of these low rates and extend
ed limit and make h Holiday
Vieit,
Hudson Fitch,
Gen, Pass. Agt.
Political Dishonesty and Corrup
tion.
It seems to be generally recog
nised that for open and shameless
corruption the late political cam
paign has excelled all others. It
is true, if you take the opinions of
their leading papers concerning
their own organizations, the two
old parties of West Virginia have
been exceptionally hon*3t and
pore. But we fear there is too
much truth in what they say about
each other. The squabble over the
returns does not resemble so muoh
an honest effort to get at the real
will of the people as expressed at
the polls, as it does a hand to hand
scuffle for the offices. Office or
blood, seems to be the cry. Of
course it is only the political
thieves and gamblers that bribe
and steal; but there is too much
disposition on the part of the peo
ple to divide the spoils with them.
Our great moral and religious
journal? take heed to wait till af
ter they have gotten victories from
‘‘Boodle” before they cry out against
“Boodle.” These great evils are
winked at while they are going on
and then the conscience is satisfied
by a kind of Post Mortem Con
demnation. If you may damn a
thing by “faint praise,” you may
also help a bad thing to success by
faint condemnation. Political cor
ruption has grown up under just
enough faint resistance by the bet
ter class of politicians to make it
healthy.
Falsehoods for political ends
seem to be regarded as perfectly
legitimate. Political papers that
make professions of morality do
not hesitate to originate them, and
if any have a conscience too tender
for that, they will at least take up
a false report and give it circula
tion. They are not honeet mis
takes for they are never corrected.
They are deliberate fasehoods, in
tended to deceive and mislead the
people. If all liars are to have
their part in the lake that burneth
with fire, such Christian editors
and politicians would better be
ware. There are no exceptions for
political purposes.
The great need is that of moral
issues to the front. A successful
prohibition party cannot fail to
have a wonderfully wholesome in
fluence tor political morality. Such
a party would be comparatively
free from corruption on the ascend
ency , and if in time it should be
come corrupt, still another party
with a moral issue would be needed
to displace it. No party can be re
deemed from political corruption
by keeping it in power, or even by
temnorarily defeating it. It must
either be reorganized, or wrecked
in the formation of a new party out
of its better elements. There can
be no objection against the forma
tion of a new party, except that of
old party prejudice. Non-sectional
ism demands it. Political reform
demands it. The destruction of
the liquor traffic demands it. The
times in every way demand it.
And the simple organization of
those agreed on these points will
accomplish it.
Wilson, the Photographer, 209
Third St., Parkersburg, has one of
the best equipped studios in the
state where none but the very fin
est work is turned out.
THE AMENDMENT’S DEFEAT.
Pat The Responsibility Where it
Belongs.
Even yet the returns are not all
in, but the majority against the
amendment is not less than 35,000.
This is nearly two to one, for rejec
tion. It would seem, at first Bight
like a disastrous blow to our cause
in this state. But what saddens our
hearts is not the large majority
against the Amendment, nor any
disappointment as to the real
Prohibition sentiment in the State;
but the fact that the professed tem
perance people of the State were
willing to see the Amendment
slaughtered and even to help in the
work, in order to secure political
advantage. Many Prohibition
counties have sent in the biggest
majorities against it. For the ini
quity of these good people, hun
dreds of homes and hearts in West
Virginia must be sacrificed for years
to come. The vote was taken when
prejudice and self interest were at
a premium and conscience at a dis
count.
(Jould it be taken to-day we be
lieve the verdict would be reversed.
We believe also that a fair count
would have greatly reduced the
large majority. We know of one
precinct where only one vote was
returned for the Amendment, and
a hasty glance at the tickets during
a recount revealed at least six that
were square out for ratification.
“The powers that be” which
were ordained of God to be a“terror
to evil works” and a “minister of
good” to the People, were in this
case largely arrayed on the side of
the saloon. The pswer of the
Press was not used for the protec
tion of the home, but to a large de
gree for the triumph of the saloon.
The power of political machinery
was largely in the use of liquor
men. There is no doubt that the
old parties furnished their voters
very largely with rejection tickets.
Leading politicians used their in
fluence and their money against
the Amendment. It was sacrificed
by many to secure the liquor vote
for their parties. Men of influence
held back the temperance forces,
while the liquor men were per
mitted to get in their boodle and
their false and misleading litera
ture.
There are some who waDt to
make a scape goat of the Prohibi
tion party for all this iniquity.
But every party must bear its own
iniquity The party prohibition
ists have done nine tenths of all the
work that has been done for the
Amendment, and ten times more
for the Amendment than they have
done for their party. They have
Buffered much abuse and have in
dulged in none that any body has
pointed out. They have support
ed their own ticket with the firm
conviction that it was the right,
the wisest and the best thing to do.
If there be any sin in all that, they
will have it to answer for, and they
only. The old parties have defeat
ed the Amendment, both as organ
izations and as individual mem
bers thereof, and they cannot possi
bly get rid of the responsibility,
f hey nave chosen to listen to the
voice of the serpent instead of the
voice of God, and their punish
ment is inevitable and will come in
due time.
But our work has not been lost
and we are not conquered. We
shall go right on with our warfare
against the Saloon and with more
vigor and determination than ever.
We must capture the citadel of po
litical power if we expect to con
quer the saloon. It is not educa
tion that the people need. It is
organization and leadership of the
kind. There must be no retreat
from the political bights. We
must scale them, drive the enemy
from his one great stronghold
and plant our standard permantly
there.
WASTED!
The Name and Address ot Every
Prohibition Party Toter in
the Slate.
“in time of peace, prepare for
war.”
The 8tate Executive Committee
labored under a great disadvantage
in the late campaign, in not hav
ing better communication with the
several counties of the State. Pre
cious time was consumed in ascer
taining who were prohibitionists
in the unorganized counties.
Now, while we are congratulat
ing one another upon the faithful
ness and courage of our Gideon’s
band, what we most need is to
know every one of them by name.
From a few counties, we have al
ready the name and post office ad
dress of ihose who voted for Fisk &
Brooks. We ought to have the
n?.me ol every one in the State.
Will not some one who reads this,
go at once to the clerk’s office of
either the County or Circuit Court
and ascertain from the poll books
how many votes were cast for Fisk
at each voting precinct in the coun
ty. Then see some one, or write
to some one at each place, and get
the name, occupation, and past
office, of such voters.
And don’t wait for some one at
the county seat to do this; but
please report to me at once the
name, occupation and post office
ot every Fisk voter,known to you,
in your county.
If this comes to your notice es
pecially, wont you attend to it im
mediately ?
Let this be done, thoroughly, and
at once, and we shall have a splen
did force with which to begin the
next campaign.
Let us hear from you.
Address,
Dave D. Johnson,
Chairman,
Parkersburg, W. Va.
THE NEW BRENS WICK,
WHEELING, W. VA.
Martin Thornton Proprie
tor.
When Freeman reader? have
business in Wheeling, take its ad
vice and stop with Martin Thorn
ton of the New Brunswick, on
Market Street.
If anybody in the world appre
ciates the wants of hungry human
ity and knows how to minister
thereunto, it is this same Martin
Thornton. From childhood up it
has been his business to feed the
hungry and furnish comfort for the
weary. Experience has made him
master of the Restaurant and Hotel
business, while careful manage
ment and genial manners has
brought him large custom and suc
cess. From a renter of this flue
House, Mr. Thornton soon become
the owner, and with a large num
ber of guests.
We heartily commend the Bruns
wick as a quiet hotel home, with
excellent care and fare, with no
6uch nuisance as a “bar” to annoy
or “make afraid.”
WHO HILLED ITT
How It was in Ritchie County.
Aouorn, Ritchie Co. W. Va.
Dear Freeman,
Being a ‘ crank” I thought I
would keep tally of the party
Amendment vote at Auburn, and
here is the result:
For Against Not vot. Tot.
Dem. 31 20 14 66.
Rep. 78 79 38 195*
Pro. 10 — — 10.
Totalsll9 99 52 270.
Wero the party vote throughout
the State looked after in this man
ner, it would show who defeated
the Amendment, and, as a cam
paign document, make “mighty
interestin’ readiD,” for the tem
perance element, the “just as good
a prohibitionist as you are” men of
the old parties, and show them just
how much of Prohibition or Tem
perance and morality parties the
Democratic and Republican parties
are, and lead them to see the utter
hopelessness of getting Prohibition
through either of the old parties,
and the necessity of casting their
ballots with and for a party the
liquorites oppose, and cease voting
alongside the saloonist for a party
the saloonists endorse, work, ana
vote for.
Yours in favor for of a party as
well as men, opposed to Rum Rule.
8. Bruce McWhorter.
A Fair Count.
We did not get it in West Vir
ginia.
Already we hare conclusive evi
dence that in a number of places
Prohibition votes were not return
ed, or if returned were not canvaas
ed and certified by the County
Courts. This i* outrageous.
Go to the Clerk’s office and ex
amine the poll books and report to
me how many votes were cast at
each precinct.
Send me a postal card stating
how many Prohibition votes were
cast at your precinct.
Please take a little trouble to do
this, in the interest of justice.
Dave D. Johnson, Ch.
Parkersburg, W. Va.
The batcher does have some fanny ex.
presslons: He told his assistant the other
day to break the bones In Mr. Williams
chops,andjput Mr.Smith’s ribs In the basket
for him, and tell Mrs. Black to take Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup for her cold.
THE THIRD PARTI DID IT.
Take Facts and Silence the Vic*
ions Libel.
Mt. Lookout, Nicholas Co.,
November 28, 1888.
Editor Freeman Here’s an
item showing bow the ThirdParty
killed the Amendment, as we hear
from pouting hypocrites on every
hand.
Nearly all the Prohibition Party
work in Nicholas county was done
in White House precinct which
polled about 200 votes. Of these
30 were cast for Fisk and Brooke
and only 37 against the Amend
ment, in the whole 200 votes.
This ia how the “Third Party
did it.” Would that it had done
likewise in every precinct in the
State.
I’m in for 40 years or during
the war.
A. J. McClung.
Yours For Fight.
Boreman, W. Va.
Ed Freeman:
Enclosed find 12, which credit,
and still count on me for a contin
uation of the fight till the Right
prevails.
W. M. Ashby.
Great slaughter in dry goods and
notions at Foley’s old stand.