The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-09-04
:. BIDDEFORD, SEPTEMBER 4 1857.

nyoQ want another prohibitory law II you
want the dsgrscsful scsncs of 1856 re-ensct-
ed IN 1883 If you want thousands and
Thousands Of dollars taken from your pock-
cts TO be expended for the support of 0 ~.
rannical and odiuus law, and detestabls
system Of espionage II you want again to
tx upon MAINE the despicable character,
she bore two years ago throughout the
Union; then vote for the Republican ticket
But If you would avoid oil those dis
graces, vote the DEMOCRATIC ticket every.
where, and you will be safe.
This is the view the Bangor organ takes.
Now let us sec what the Saco Democrat,
published the next day, says:
So II has happened to the Temperance
cause since IL Joined its fortunes to the
Republican party. 1t helped to create that
party; 1t became 'vital element" Of the
party but the triumph Of the party proved
no triumph to the cause. On the contrary,
the cause Is dismissed, as not ct for party
measure. just at the time when the party
which professed to have 1t 10 charge reached
the highest pinnacle Of power.
Let democratic temperance men, who
nave LETT their own party to sustain the
Maine Law, remember that the Republican
party when 1t had the power to re-enact that
law did not do 1t, but adhered to the pledg-
@ given by the party leaders TO the "liber-
ais; that the party now holds out no prom.
iss that 1t will ever enact prohibitory II.
quor law and that the "libcrals" in that
party controlled its action last year, and are
at present directing its course.
Such contrasts are peculiarly funny
The explanation Of them is this, We sup
pose. Down east the current of senti-
ment is against prohibition, and the very
honest conductors Of the Bangor paper
think the fortunes Of their party can be
best mcndcd by exciting the passions Of
the people on account Of the allelged
Maine law fanaticism Of the republicans.
In this vicinity, the equally honest con.
ductor Of the Democrat, for no more hon.
est purposes, runs the other side of the
sapling, and declares that the "liberals'
arc directing the republican party, foolish
ly hoping that some temperance men will
abstain from voting the republican ticket
and others be induced to vote for L. h.
Lane and his associates on the democrat
ic ticket, in consequence Of their efforts
in times past to sustain the Maine law.
In our last paper we stated our con-
victions Of what should be done in regard
to the question of temperance, and there
is no necessity of going over the ground
again. The attempt now making by the
democratic organs to deceive, by putting
forth different opinions of the position of
the republicans on the question, in differ
ent quarters Of the State, to suit public
sentiment, will not succeed. The tenn
pcrancc men throughout the State can
not be humbugsed by politicians Of any
party, certainly not by men, who, while
crying out against the republicans and
accusing them ofinsincerity in the tenn
pcrancc question, nominate known rum
sellers for Office, and men who are now,
and ever have been, the friends of unrc-
strained trafficin liquors. Such humbug-
gerry as the Democrat attempts, is as wit
less as it will prove powerlcss.