Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — Temperance People will not Endorse Shiel's Methods. [ARTICLE]

Temperance People will not Endorse Shiel's Methods.

Huntington Herald. At the prohibition conyention at Indianapolis Thursday, known as theShiel convention, no prohibitionists, no dis ference what their characters and standing were, could get into Said convention unless they would first pledge themselves to the third party movement. We are inclined to think that a convention which will proscribe the temperance men and prohibitionists of the State in this manner, will meet with but little, if any, favor by the temperance men and prohibitionists of this county. We are sure we know their sense of honor and of fairness too well to think of any such course. We have been most reliably informed that when Rev. McCune, a Congregationalist minister of Kokomo, attempted to speak against thus gagging the temperance sentiment, h« was met with most derisive cries and shouts of “put him out”. This paper has always upheld temper-, ance, and has done what it could to advance the but it cannpt, nor will it endorse such movements as were attempted bv Mr* Shiel at the instance of tlic £ Uctuocratic leaders th?