J. G. WOOLLEY

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 168, 29 July 1901, Page 3

J. G. WOOLLEY

John Granville Woolley, of Illinois, prohibition candidate for the Presidency of the United States, is a passenger by the incoming San Francisco mail steamer, and will lecture at the Tabernacle on Tuesday evening. Reserved tickets are procurable at various places of business in the city and suburbs.

Mr Woolley was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1873, the Chief Justice pronouncing' his examination the most brilliant he had ever known. He is said to have received higher fees, than any other lawyer in Minnesotita, having once been paid £100 in gold for a speech of five minutes in a successful plea for mercy for a convicted criminal. Mr Woolley, to use his own words, "became a Christian and a party prohibitionist at the same instant," January 31, 1888, in New York city, referring to which he says:—"With the first dawn of the new light that came into my soul on that January morning I saw that the Republican party was one of the sins to which I must never return." lie is now editor-in-chief of the most influential prohibition paper in the world, but has notgiven up his platform work, and he continues to reach larger audiences, on his chose,n theme, than any other platform speaker in the States. He is of a distinctly retiring disposition, of an almost diffident turn, not averse to conversation but not at all ready in that way. When he speaks on his chosen theme he does so with all the intensity of his being; his whole soul is in every word.