New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-20


against the Temperance cause on finding
themselves stricken down at the polls be
cause they were understood not to practice
Total Abstinence. For every convert that
could be made in this way, the cause would
make dozen bitter enemies. Feuds, in.
digustion and enduring hstreds would be
I the natural results OF such policy.
But the friends of Temperance want
the Maine Law enacted-how shall they
| obtain it We answer-NOt by getting
up separate Temperance or Maine Law
party that would only lead to disaster.
We have knewn special Temperance
Ticket run for town officers where more
than hat the voters were at heart mo
License yet it did not poll one third of the
votes. Some Temperance men voted as
old party associations dictated, Others for
personal friends; and the result was a
route where wiser counsels would inevitably
have led to victory.
We want the Maine Law-we believe !
I majority Of our fellow citizens are for it
yet Maine Law Ticket for State Officers
would not poll fifth of the votes OF our
State. The voters who are nothing else
but Temperance men are not one-hslf SO
many as those who are Wings or Demo.
cIats' as well as Temperance men. And
these cannot be made to see the wisdom
of throwing away their votrs on a ticket
that cannot possibly be elected, in fruitless
demonstration of their zeal for Temper
ance.
In the State Of Delaware, a Temper
ance' ticket was run in 1850, and some five
hundred votes thrown for it-aearly all
Wing. The result was the election of
] Governor, Congressman, Legislature and
L. S. Senator, all hostile to the known
convictions of a majority of the People y
Temperance shook the bush and Sham De.
mocracy caught the bird. He decidedly
objects to being caught so again.
Still we want the Maine Law: How
are we TO get it, We answer,-Not by
running a muck against the great Political
parties, but by acting quietly upon and
through them. Let US di,claim expressly
all intent to intermiDgle Temperance con.
siderations with the election of President!
Congress, or for any other Office not connect.
ed with the legislation of our State. Then |
let us say frankly to both Political parties
We ask of you candidates for Governor
who will not veto the Maine Law in csse
the Legislature shall pass it; so much is |
/ our right, and we cannot waive it, III
/ either party refuses this it must not elect
4 its Governor; if both parties refuse the
1 lust and reasonable demand, the Tempe
I rance men will be constrained 10 nominate
1 and support candidate of their own. But
I this contingency need not, surely, be an
4 ticipated.
There remains then only the Legisla
! ture (House) 10 be dealt with; and here
\ the same principle should be kept in VIEW
7 bat with necessary difference of applca-
! ton. The Temperance men should apply
directly to the leaders of their respective
} parties, saying, I'VE are not going iato a
1 scramble for Temperance candidates, but
Z we have the votes on our side, and ask you
! TO respect that fact. We demand the
nomination of unequivocal Name Law
candidates for Assembly, and we know
i that you can nomisate such if you choose. /
] Give us such, and we will do our best I
to elect them; if you don't We'll defeat
them five can BY taking this course res
! olutely, seasonably, generally. we can elect
! Maine Law Legislature, and with no
considerable disruption of parties. Each
party in each of the one bundled and
twenty eight Districts will have its choice.
to run Maine Law or an anti Maine Law
candidate, and be dealt with accordingly.
If both put up unequivocal Maine Law
men in any District, we shall all vote ac- +
cording to our party predictions; II Only
one puts up Maine Law man, we shall
all do our best TO elect him if neither !
does, the friends of the Maine Law should
put up the strongest candidate they can
find, and poll their last vote for him. But
this it will very rarely be necessary to doi
and when it is, the People will clearly re-
alize that the necessity was deplored BY
Temperance men and avoided to the last.
'Ahl' says doubter, won't our politica
party lose the Legislature by this courseF
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