Show temperance IN washington the rapid growth of the cause los lot temperance in washington Is noted by a correspondent of the SprIng vIII e re ke publican who alludes to the fact tact that the three leading candidates for speaker formerly fon used stimulants sometimes to excess and adds two of them are now total abstainers abstain ers and hate have been for bome years yearb while the third only uses wine in a moderate mao rao dorato quantity at his dinner I 1 can count a dozen senators who used need to tipple who have hare not drunk a drop in two years and there Is not a senator with perhaps an exception or two who is not prudent and most temperate in the use uee of liquor nearly all of them do not touch anything anything dhe except a light lightwine wine wino at dinner it is so in the 1 house honse it la is E BO 0 o with most of the mt public alic men there has grown up a sentiment Ih ataman a man is a fool who uses ubea liquor im moderately odera tely and that ho Is better off without 0 ut any ol 01 of it three lears bears tears years ago I 1 saw one of the most brilliant members mem rs of the senate staggering 1 oh r ing drunk in front of willards hotel the e other day I 1 saw that he left his champagne ragne gagne untouched at a dinner said he 1 I avent touched alcohol in any form for three years I 1 woke up one morning realizing that pretty getty much all tho the temperance lecturers have ve said was true and I 1 simply said to myself that I 1 have had bad enough and I 1 have havo I 1 hare have never seen been the time tim from that day to this that I 1 have not felt a repugnance for liquor garland the learned lawyer from arkansas is a teetotaler said he be 1 I was passing by the cemetery near my my home one day andl andi and I 1 saw the graves of a dozen ozen brilliant men who began life with me everyone every one of them hastened to his end b by whiskey I 1 made up my mind that I 1 had ha drank my share and stopped |