Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1902 — Phohibitionists on McKinley. [ARTICLE]

Phohibitionists on McKinley.

Chicago Inter Ocean. “President McKinley,” declared the Prohibition party in national convention at Chicago on June 27, 1900, “has done more to demoralize the temperance habits of young men, and to bring Christian practices into disrepute than any other president the republic has ever had.” Then the platform woiit on to “charge upon President McKinley responsibility for disease, immorality, sin and death.” “He has outraged and insulted,” it added, “the moral sentiment of this country.” That platform, if not actually written in the office of the New Voice of thia city, was certainly inspired by the long-continued, abusive, scurrilous, obscene attacks of that journal, whose editor was nominated by the convention for the presidency. And when the result of the election was announced the Candidate of that convention issued, through the New Voice, a manifesto to the public, from which the following are extracts: CLOSE IN AND KILL!; Again I say rejoice! The country has gone Republican, it is true; the gin mill re-enters the capital in triumph! William of Jolo with his canteens and slaves and wines and concubines.- is defeated to a second term. Now for the campaign of 1904: we have the liquor traffic cornered in the White House For the honor of the church, close in and kill! JOHN G. WOOLLEY. Within a year a fanatic of another creed took John G. Wooley’s advioe to “close in and kill,” and the nation mourned another benevolent ruler and Christian gentleman foully slam at his post of duty. Now comes the New Voice and explains that its advioe to “does in and kill” was merely a “figurative expression.” The New Voice is very careful, however, not to reprint what its editor said under his signature last November. It hopes its readers will not remember that it described the martyred president as “William of Jolo, with its canteens and slaves,j wines and concubines.” “"*77* I **—7? The Prohibitionists of Jasper county are nice people, we believe without exception; but how they can vote with a party which is led and dominated and has its platforms dictated by such unspeak* able wretches as this Woolley, the advocate and instigator of murder, this rank insuiter of the purest and noblest man that has ever graced public life in any country, is one of the things that passes all compre heusion