Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-04-14

cold on the Temperance question. In their
Issue Of the Goth of January last they gave
al the grogseries in town the following
savage kick:
~ COOP MovE-Thc .Alliambra Sa-
loom has been moved from town. If a.
up their line f-march. it would be no dis
advantage to the place
Since then. however, on two or three
occasions. at the command probably Of the
principal leaders of the Democratic party.
ell of whom stand aloof from the present
Temperance movement for fear of giving
offence to their whiskey selling allies. they
have rather favored the cause of intemper-
ance, anil attempted to injure the influence
of prominent Temperance advocates by
stigmatising them as "mobocrats, ''brain-
less fanatics and political demagogues.
Las: week the Township election returns
in that paper were headed Mob Law Re-
pudiatedr' and the week before in giving
an accoun, of the Bourbon affair. after pal
rably misrepresenting the part Esquire
Coxen took in it. they proceed to say:
ut is almost needless to state, as the
intelligent reader hiss already anticipated
the fact, that every one engaged in this at
fair is Republican, Who else would en-
gage in such afiairs?''
So fsr from the above being true it is
directly the reverse. Every person enga-
ged in destroying the groggery keepers
liquor, we are Informed by good and reli.
able men, was Democrat. Squire Cox
en- happened to he passing just At the time
AMI without having the remotest idea that
any attempt was about to be made by any
one to destroy the liquor. stepped in
All that he did was to seize the propric-
tor of the establishment and take pistol
from him after he had snapped it at the
Democrat, Mr.. Neidy. who was looking
Cor the liquor in order TO destroy it. to pre-
vent the owner from making his Neidy's,
father AMI brother drunk, as he had done
This Is As true statement of the case as
can lie male in SO brief a manner. W.
neither approve or condemn Mr.. Neidy':
acts in this and a former case, for this was
rot the first Sroggcry he has demolished
We will not advocate or justify resort te
mob law under any circumstances. but, al
the same time we think If any act of the
Kind could be justified, Mr.. Neidy's could
in both instances, if the facts have beer
tolS rs. Did not the Democrat, as usual
20 Of at half cock when it asked in tho
above extract WHO else would engage in
such affairse'
We might assert, wc think, without
much danger of its being di~proved that
there are two Democrats to one Repub.
lican, al this moment, in Marshall county
who are in favor of rcsorting TO mob law
for the suppression Of liquor shops. Ths
only citizen Of the town we ever heard pub
licly recommend resort to mob law tt
dry up the groggeries declared himself I
Democrat. and said he had that day voted
that ticket. Although the house was full
of Republicans at the time not one of then
approved or seconded his proposition
Conversing with prominent Democrat o
this place the other day in regard to tn
Bourbon affair, he remarked, that If a whis
kev-seller were to make son, or father o
brother Of his drunk, after being rcqueste
not to do so, he would soon make his bu
siness SO Improbable. by throwing stone
through his windows in the night time
that he would be compelled to dry up
We told him we would prefer doing sue
things in broad, open day light, if at all, S
that the responsibility might rest where
properly belonged. He replied that he ai
not care to have to be put to any trouble
and thought that would be the easiest an
speediest way Of abating the nuisance
that all Of them would stop as soon as Il
business ceased to be profitable. Al
other still more prominent member
that delecfable "law and or'ler" party n
marked in our hearing, not many month
ago. that If one of the Saloon keepers
Plymouth were to make his son drunk
s. would yrt his establishment IN short o
der. Still another of the leaders of Il
-
same party, in Bourbon. counselled Il
most ultra mobocratic measures to keep
{, qror out of the place. during the excit
ment originating from the destruction
the first groggery by Mr.. Neidy'-tl
leading Republicans at the same tin
counSeIiing lawful measures. Who a
the mobocrats?
If such are the sentiments of some Of 4
principal leaders Of the Democratic par
IN this place. why. the reader is prohab
ready to ask. ,lo they stand aloof anil tn
the cold shoulder to the present temperan
movement. Tie reason is apparently
- hill h.. couvfsoo the IN bfs T.