Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-12-29
Ntate TempRrance C0nYeniinn.


Our Tempe rance politicians at head.
quarters have called State Temperance
Convention to be held a Indianapolis on
the second Wednesday in January. !,
is gwen out. that the object Of this Con-
yention is purely to suppress traffic
in whiskey--purely phiIanthropic-and
county meetings are being called TO send
up delegates and resolves. MANY citi-
zens OF Laporte Co. have appointed a
primary meeting for this purpose. TO be
held in the city Of Laporte on the 3Ist
INST; and We, of course. are waiting to
be requested to publish an appeal TO the
people oil ST. Joseph County to come nm
and reason together upon the same
matter. But. whilst we would most
cheeriuily print such public notice.
and respond to it with Ill readiness. we
are Obliged to say, that We suspect the
wisdom Of the legislation proposed upon
the subject.
Suspectingit its wisdom, VIC are Of course
opposed 10 this movement; but it is not
as nega'ion of wisdom and goodness.
mat we are opposed TO it. so much as we
are compelled to suspect and denounce
IN ms movement. very ill-iisgnised
hostility to the integrity of the Demo
cratic party.
The objec: of the formation Of a dis
tInct political temperance party is denied:
but still in their last. reluctant resort.
lhe friends OF temperance will place can
didates for office before the people who
are pledged to the prohibition Of trade in
whlskey. without regard to the present
political organizations" This is what,
MI Greeley advises and our, temperance
politicians avow.
NOW, who does not know, that every
proposition for fusion Of adverse prin.
cIP!es. and every word that counsels for
getiulness of that vigilance which is the
price Of liberty, comes of the foolish Sc
curity of the friends of freedom. or as
device of the enemy?
We extract the above from the s.
Joseph County Forum of last Saturday
and copy the entire article, the better TO |
show :he cloven foot. After LOOKING
the list Of papers in this State tina, have
declared in favor ola prohihitory law, we
are not at all surprised to meet opaosi-
ton, upon suspicion. from such quar-
ter,
lie Forum suspects aud denounces the
movement as "a very illdisguised hostil
Ity 20 the integrity of the Democratic
DartyI'
1t the members Of he Democratic mr..
Iy. are the only rum-suckers in the State
IS one OF the advocates Of a prohibitory
aw. we readily concede that the move.
nens Is Il. open instead of ill-disguised
hostility TO that party.
From these and other limitations we
lave been recently led 10 conclude that
here are those who make loud and long
professions If their devotion to the tenn.
'erance reform. who will, when parfy
laims their services adhere TO il with
heir wonted tenacity, and the soon
r The manliness and frankness of the
'orum characterize their course. the
letter for the real friends OF the reform.
The warning voice of the State Sentinel
uring the past summer. upon this subject.
S still ringing in some ears, and we have
70 idea that the Forum will be the last
no L. /
Ii the democratic party in this County a
r district presents as its candidates c
nown and tried temperance men, and
ne Wing party nominees are not such.
'e will vote for the former. If both the =
arties present reliable temperance men.
he advocates Of the cause can vote in q
with their party predictions
nd their measure is safe in the success :,
either. But the Forums suspicicns
nd consequent denunciations amount 10 s
othing more nor less than tacit admis.
on that Its party is destitute Of such
its opposition in ad-
ance. and upon suspicion at that. Is n
lis the case with others? But this we t
D not believe. The Forum does not be- y
eve it. Then as ii has its suspicious, :.
pom what does it base them? We should n
ave accorded an equal amount Of the Il
,ntrolling influence in this movement. =
} each OF the parties; had not our conf
'nce in the stability of the one in ques-
on, been shaken by such recent develop b
ents. As temperance Organization {
as individuals, we should not array P
lrselves tagonistically to either of the
lrties. 20