New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-26

tbev viii care no more than whether his hair be bls,k
red or brown. They 70 in 70 win aud the thickness
Of candidates she'll is to them matter OF posi-
be consequence
We Ternperance uen are much stronger than they,
md so csn afford 10 be little less wise but W. e1s-
MT afford 10 act Ike natural fools. If We pr up
.recisl Maine Law candidate for instance where one
i slread, IN the field whose hear is with Us AMI his
vote reliably for u. re rush on certain ruin. The
peo,Ie nav he five eietls for the Mime Law anil yet
We sla he dsastrously beaten part Of our frieals
VIII vote for our special candidate while the rest VII
each very naturally say. am much f1r the Maine
Law as ANYBODY. but an Wing or Democrat as
the case noy be and shall vote for the candidate
WHO agrees with me il politics 8 well as Temper
be- ance~ 30 We shall be cut up in detail AMI subject
ID by our OWL stupidity 10 gnominous defeat.
True. there viii be more Elections if we lose this
one: Int defeat now viii be especially d-heartsn-
ing Tie time is most propitous. There has seldom
been 20 signal end general lo0sennc OF party tram
mols as now We have few Offices Of National import
snce 10 I'LL There is general ds.ntegrltion ii not
disruption Of political afiinties Men VIII vote this
Fall IS they Il s;e and great many OF them please
10 vote for the Maine Law.
But Maine-Law ofice-seeking is Just Is repurnant
as Any other and # they find or fancy that tue end of
Temperance agitation is Office they viii turn against
US Wherever special Maine Law candidate is run
against equally sound the great question, yet
nominated by party and TO receive party votes
outside Of the Temperance ranks, they will piusiby
say The object here TO be not to carry the Maine
Law but to give this man an Office and they VIII bot,
not against tie Maine Law. but against the assumed
elfsbneFs and iHsincerty Of It's leading advocates
But are We Lot clear majority l' axis one;
and have We not a majOritys right to elect the
Of our c.oce 20 That, we answer. depends on the
way put the question. II the entire electoral body
OF our State were today pollod The naked question
Maine Law or No Maine Law we haze 10 dolbt
that One Hundred thousand Majority wouli reiponl
Maine Law" But Let tie question be put in tli5
slaIe-. Do You place tie Maine aw ADORE all per-
sona or party considerations and We know that
large majority would reply in the negati'e. Anl tie
shape which tie question spresented in our ensuing
Election viii decide tie character Of the answer.
We can elect seventy Members of Assembly if our
vote il every where concentrated on that oqaida a5or
oJic 10 our ot,ed uiO c0n most oosiy be elecieL w
slal not elect thirty ii We every where run spe
cal Maine Law candidates against those Of the political
PARTIES and fLoud we contrivc TO beat ourselves this
Fail it will lie right to erect monument to the Maine
Law inscribed Died of the folly selisAnass aud inca
Tacity OF lis leading friends
Next year there will be Governor to choose. AMI
Members Of Congress, and election for L. :. Sena
tor coming on and perhaps the Union 10 save or For
eicn aggression to relel. We cannot hope 20 have
again so fair a field for Temperance as now within
tie next ten years 4 defeat VIII impair our moral
strength and destroy whatever confidence nay exist
in tie wisdom of our guide, Ii viii put the cause
back half generation.
Now we approve most heartily the nomination Of Dis
tincti'c Maine Law candidates where We must have
such or none Where we can 90 nothing better We
ould at least show that par of in downright
oaue,t Let Us nominate special candidates where
that is necessary to open the mouths Of dumb politi-
clans, anxious 20 ride oa both sides Of the splng AMI
Pretty certain to cheat us If We blindy trus. them.
b., wherever any political party has presented Maine
Law candidate there should take up that c.nia.e
and elect him if possible though this involves the drop
ping Of CIR own better man. Ii boil parties or more
tlan one. present Maine Law candidates, ", should
concentrate on whosoesoris utlinscaly strongest AMI
elect lin. But to run special caaiidate against one
who is Will yet viii receive votes outside oi
battalous. is nadnesstrcason Let it be everywhere
fIoWned upon.
Friends OF Prohibition in New-Iork ana New Jer-
scy your course needs wisdom first ami work after
ward. Al together for the Maine L.w,