THE TRIUMPH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.| A HISTO-PROPHETIC INAUGURAL ADDRESS, BY JOHN G. WOOLLEY

5.5" x 12.5". [4] pp. Caption-title [as issued], folded. Tanned, old folds [splits along folds, no text loss], minor chipping at edges. At head of title is printed: 1901 Copyright by John G. Woolley. On the last page following the end of the speech the copyright is waived as to printing in newspapers as of March 4, 1901. Good to Good+. John Granville Woolley [1850-1922] graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1871, studied law at the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He practiced law in Illinois and Minnesota for a while, before finding his true vocation as a public speaker and tireless advocate for prohibition. He edited and owned two prohibitionist papers-- "The Lever" in Chicago and the "New Voice" in New York. Woolley ran for President in 1900 on the Prohibition Party ticket. Undeterred by his loss [he won only 1.5% of the popular vote] and encouraged by Party members, he gave this "Inaugural Address" just as if he had won the election. Woolley says his campaign's single focus was "righteousness exalteth a nation and sin is a reproach to any people," an issue evaded by the other parties. The ambition and greed of politicians render them "not merely useless, but also as dangerous as a child or maniac at the lever of an engine." He promises that during his service as President he will abstain from alcohol and prohibit it in the executive mansion, and that he will "antagonize and fight and maim and kill the liquor traffic." Not located on OCLC.…