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VOLUME SEVEN
NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT
A RINGING, HEROIC SPEECH
Ex-Gov. J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana, Who Will Be Georgia*s Guest Next Week, Gives Blazing Defy to Liquorized Poli
ticians —Declares He Will Quit the Republican Party if They Further Coquet With Saloons and Breweries
“Thoughts That Breathe and Words That Burn.”
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bring saloons back to Georgia, makes it glori
ously opportune to give our readers Gov. Han
ly’s ringing defiance to the saloon politicians
in his own party in Indiana.
We verily believe that no nobler or more
eloquent utterance against the liquor bus
iness has ever been spoken by any states
man in America. Speaking to the Temper
ance report recently before the Indiana M.
E. Conference, where two thousand peo
ple sat electrified and spell-bound while
he spoke, Gov. Hanly said:
Gov. Hanly’s Wonderful Warning.
“Today my party in this State stands in
the valley of indecision —doubting and un
certain. Last year it failed in its duty. It
sought not right, but expediency, the ex
pediency of silence. It turned its back up
on a work more worthy than it had
wrought in this commonwealth in the third
of a century. As a result of its perfidy it
was defeated. Its defeat was sad, but sad
der far was the fact that it deserved defeat.
That fact stained its nation-wide fame with
shame. Today ‘the lip of its honor’ lies
low in the dust.’ ’
“Those who brought it there may silence
their consciences for the hour, and for the
moment justify their act, but before the
jury time empanels, they will stand con
demned through all eternity. It is better
to deserve to win, and lose, than to win,
and deserve to lose. Victory unmerited is
worse than defeat undeserved. The fruits
of such a victory turn to ashes on the lips.
No party can afford to sacrifice truth or
principle on the altar of expediency. The
idea of duty or of service can no more be
ignored by a party than by an individual.
The truest expediency either for an indi
vidual, or for a party is the expediency of
right.
One Way To Survive.
“Neither men nor parties can afford to
strike a balance between civic duty and
criminal policy. To survive, there must be
full acceptance of the first and complete
repudiation of the latter.
“To fail again next year will involve
severer cost. There can be no victory with
another surrender to a traffic loaded with
T is a good time to give it to Geor
gia yea, and to all the land beside.
The fact that Former Governor J.
Frank Hanly, of Indiana, comes to
lecture under the auspices of the
Alkahest Lyceum in Atlanta, Mon
day night, November 20th —right
in the midst of a campaign when
the liquor forces are trying to
REPLY TO JUDGE RUSSELL’S ATLANTA SPEECH—Page Five
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMK'^ "A, 1911
the curse of God and man. The ill that befell
us before will grow, and deepen, until we sink
beneath its shame, and the people’s gathered
wrath. To thoughtful, sincere and upright
men the conflict between duty and surrender
is, and will continue to be, irreconcilable. If
there is further surrender pleas for party har
mony and party loyalty will not avail. They
will be less efficacious than they were before,
and they were ineffectual then. Harmony can
not be built upon false pretenses made and in
tended only to deceive, nor can party loyalty
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Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly.
be founded on the surrender of that which has
become a deep and mighty truth to thousands
of stalwart, purposeful men. Such men can go
to defeat, but they cannot surrender.
“Speaking for myself, and meaning the
tilings I speak, I say unto you, that if my par
ty fails in this behalf next year, either in plat
form, or in ticket, I will not champion its brok
en faith. I will not share its blood stained
hire. I will not help it bear its million-finger
ed shame. I will not bring my conscience to
another brewers’ mart. I cannot stay and keep
my own hands clean. I cannot stand for-
ever before the truth and mock it with a
lie. And, I will not go in silence, for in
such case, silence would be crime.
Will Not Go Alone.
“Deep as my love for my party has been,
and is—and it has been, and is deep and
abiding—my hate of that which wrought
its shame is, and shall be deeper still. If
it betrays its trust again, 1 will drag into
the light its sin. I will paint its crime and
folly. There shall be no padlock upon my
lips, and in such case, I will not go alone.
There will be others —thousands of others
—and together, rising above the crime and
folly of an evil time, we will wash our
hands of its sin and shame, and curse.
“We will lift this great cause up until
a common love shall fuse our hearts in one.
And our prayer-nursed purpose shall find
a tongue; and the dead in sin shall hear,
and hearing, be convinced.
“We will appeal anew to the consciences
of men. We will proclaim a new crusade
with a prayer-forged zeal that will not be
denied. Planted upon the adamant of a
righteous cause, we’ll put nerve into our
task. We’ll hew down the opposition. We
will strike home as Christians this monster
wrong, strike home until the blows we deal
shall be felt the wide world through.”
POPE BROWN STRAIGHTFORWARD
“Pope Brown’s platform is a straight
forward, honest declaration for prohibi
tion. He advocates preserving the present
law, perfect and strengthen it and enforce
it. I can not see how any prohibitionist
can criticise a platform like that.
“The result of this election is going to
make it easier to enforce the law if Pope
Brown is elected, but otherwise it is going
to make it harder for our officers to en
force them.
“I plead for every God-fearing and pa
triotic citizen to do the right thing in this
election.” DR. CHAS. W. DANIEL,
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