Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL.

Anent my little speech on the Conference floor at Lafayette, the Pilot of last week quotes a paragraph from the Indianapolis Sentinel that places me in a false attitude before the public. The first thing I wish to say, is, that I made no attack upon any political party. My remarks were in opposition to an objectionable substitute for a committee report on temperance. The objectionable feature of the substitute, not to mention its lurid rhetoric, was its evident intfent and purpose to commit the Conference in favor of the Prohibition party. My attitude was one of opposition to all partisan deliverances on the subject of prohibition or any other subject, believing them to be out of place, unwise, impolitic, and harmful. The body and soul of my contention was the unwisdom of arraying the Conference with any political party or against any. The bottom principle on which I stood, was, No partisanship in Conference action—nay, not even for the sake of encouraging so good a cause as the Prohibition movement.

Apparently the worst sin in the world, according to some of my Prohibition friends, is to vote the Republican ticket; voting with the Democrats is not quite so bad; but, as they assume, no one can ever hope to become a saint until he joins the Prohibition party. This fallacy has been pushed to the front more than once—in divers ways, and at sundry times and places. Wisely or unwisely I repelled this fallacy with another, in which the scale of party excellence was reversed. Personally I had not been guilty of the sin of voting with the Democratic party (though sometimes voting for Democrats) , and certainly I should never commit the greater folly of sinning away my day of grace in the Prohibition party camp. The one fallacy was simply set over against the other, a species of argument that is perfectly ligitimate, and for vrhich, as it needs none, I make no defense. The word “sin," in the relation I used it has seemed offensive only beeause the remark in which it occurs has been taken as an absolute or unqualified statement. The fact ought also to be remembered, that there was “sin” in the argument I was endeavoring to answer, and so, whether it was the proper thing to use the word or not, somehow it came very handy. The only, and exclusive, purpose of all I said, was, not to lead an assault upon the Democratic party, the Prohibition party, or any other par-

ty but to resist the efforts of a determined minoiity to place the Conference in what seemed, to me a false relation to all the political parties of the day. Not a sentence fell from my lips that wss unparliamentary; nor was I called to order by the pre- - siding bishop; nor was any point of ordtr raised against me. All in all, in my opinion, 1 bibaved myself admirably ! “alsu, in behalf of my friend, Rev. Allen Lewis. The Sentinel (Indianapolis) represents him as saying “the Democratic party ought to be blown to hell with dynamite.” 1 Mr. Lewis spoke in favor of the policy which I had opposed, and, as I understood him, what he wished to blow up (or down), aside from the saloon business, was everybody and everything opposed to the most radical Prohibition party declaration. Whatever he said oi meant to say, he did not use the language attributed to him by the Indianapolis Sentinel: nor did any other party to the discussion use any such expression. Either the Sentinel man was unduly excited or he was misinformer!; And further this deponent saith noU R. D. Utter.

But there are provisions in this BILL WHICH ARE NOT IN LINE WITH HONEST TARIFF REFORM AND IT CONTAINS INCONSISTENCIES AND CRUDITIES WHICH OUGHT NOT TO APPEAR IN ANY TARIFF LAWS OF ANT KIND. —Cleveland’s letter to Catchings when the bill became a law.

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