Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — Miss Willard's Eloquence. [ARTICLE]

Miss Willard's Eloquence.

Indianapolis News, The speaker of the evening who was to receive the greatest ovation and to deliver the most noteworthy address at the Prohibition convention’s memorial meeting of the “Blue and Gray,” was introduced in the person of Miss "Willard. “Our platform in a nutshell’ she said, “is no saloon in politics or law; no sectionalism in law or politics; no sex in citizenship. There are two other parties; big*but not great; multitudinous, not masterful. Their tissue is adipose not mascular; the issues of the one are made literally ‘out of whole cloth,’ of all wool tarifl warranted to wash in yet one more campaign, and the ensanguined shirt warranted never to be washed at all. Those of the other are spoils and Bourbonism. -They will soon rally their respective claims to their stereotyped, old-fashioned conventions in Chicago and St. Louis, prepared to fight, bleed antFdie for their country—and its offices —once more. Not a woman will be in their delegation. Oh, no!. They might displace some man. The women, who uniformed their sons in Southern gray, and said, like the Spartan mother of old Come ye as conquerors, 'or come ye no more,’ are here to-night with those other women, who belted Northern swords upon their boys in blue, with swords as prtt iTesS aiid brave. The women who" embroidered stars and stripes upon the blessed flag that symbolized their love and their faith, to-day have only gentle words for those who decked their “bonny flag of stars and bars” with tenderness as true arid faith as fervent. The greatest party seats these women side by side to-night, and we all wear our sunny badge of peace above the hearts that hate no more, while we clasp hands in a compact, never to be broken, and solemnly declare, before high Heaveri, onr equal hatred of the rum power and our equal loyalty to God and home and native land.”