Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-09-21
The Star still Demagoguing.

The Star still DemagOguing.
The Star still insists that the Democracy are
''runsmies" and ssrot gus,,' because they will not
abandon all the measures and principles for which
they have contended for long years, and make the
Maine Law a political question and the "para-
mount ISSUE in this campaign. We again ask
the editor of that ios, consistent print, if he will
hurl the same coarse vulgar anathemas at his own
political brethren of the Empire State, who have
taken the same positiona Does it necessarily fol-
low that because our party will not make that
question political one, they are therefore in ia
vor of rum and drunkenness! By no means.
They have only said they .swoULD NOT MAKE THAT
A POLITICAL QUESTION: and is not this Just what
the temperance men themselves have been claim
ing, down to the time of this tsion that eft ought
not to be made political question?''
Now we suppose that the Star and its partizan
friends, who haze made this party question, and
who are constantly endeavoring to misrepreseAt
the Democracy by claiming that they are the
enemies of temperance, will not claim to be in
favor of securing the passage of the Maine Law
in this State, against the wishes of the people
fairly obtained upon it, and yet have they not so
mixed it up with other questions and issues, that
no one can vote for that without at the same time,
endorsing measures that to many temperance men
are odious, while many who are in favor of those
other measures and yet opposed to that will have
to give their endorsement of that in order to
those other measures. In this way, many who
are in favor of the Maine Law, will be driven
from supporting it by the uterior measures with
which it is associated while others who are oppos-
ed to the Maine Law, will be drawn into its sup
port by those u7terior measures. Now, is it not
evident that true representation of the wishes o
the people cannot be obtained upon this question
| by bringing it into the political arena! Then in
what way that object be attained? Why, we
say, by the very course which the Democracy have
adopted, of excluding it as party issue, and sub
mitting it to the people,-pledging their candi
dates to respect and carry out the instructions o.
their constituents. Under this arrangement can
the wishes of the people be obtained upon this
subject, and in no other way. Is it, then, true
that the Democracy are opposed to temperance
! because they have refused to make it politica
question? Does that fact furnish any evidence
that the Democratic party, as party, is opposed
to the Maine Law! No, none whatever; and the
editor of the Star, and the Bank leaders in whose
keeping he is, and whose bidding he does, vel
know it, but their interest can only be subserveC
by deceiving the people by placing the position ol
the Democratic party in false light upon this
subject 1t is the only way in which the pr6vi
legged orders escape discharging those just OBJ
legations which the people have time and AGAR
declared they should 1t is the only means by
which the Banks escape the burthen of taxa
ton imposed upon Them by the Constitution, the
law, and the will of the people, and shoulder il
upon the toiling producers of the State. Will
the people suffer themselves to be deceived and
cheated out of their rights by this species of in.
trigue and deception! Will they suffer them
selves be overreached and to loose all that they
have gained during long conflict with priv
lodged money power, and take upon themselves
those burthens which others should bear, by thi:
species of their hypocrisy and demagoguism! Le
the answer at the polls, on the second Tuesday o.
October, be, NO NEVER.