Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-05-06
From the New York State Leaguel
TEMPERANCE AND POLITICS.
scENE-BAR-RooM OF A TAVERN.
Dialogue bst,0ee1 Squire Po9ttcas
and ParS0n Brown.

y Dtdt0gUe Oett0een squire I'OttttcH
n and ParSon BroWn.
n Squire Politicus. Good morning
Parson Brown I did not expect t.
see you in the bar-room of tav
4 ern after the temperance politica
sermon you gave us yesterday.
Parson Brown.h-Bar- room OF /
tavern2 Is not that q respectable
!, place, Squire, especially when / iind
such men as your honor inSit22
Besides is not a tavern a public
house ora house for the accommo'
dation of the public, licensed by
our civil authority pro bono publi-
COZ Here are left our papers, and
! l have come for mine and as /
have two hereby mistake, Isup-
pose-I will give you one, a first
rate temperance paper. JOI
So. P.-First-rate nonsense =
You are mixing up temperance
with politics; running temperance
candidates for office, and interfer
ing with the regular nominations.
Par B.-I suppose you never do
that, Squire. When the Democrat
ic rarty make their regular homi-
nation, you never interfere with it
by making q Republican nomina-,
ton. And SO, when the rum party
make their nomination, we must
never Interfere with it by a temper
a(npceP zee nlo2mpination' 9a}rsq syi9 OF
So. P.--What do you mean, sir,
by the rum party making a nomina
ton? That is quite a new thing
under the sun. Show me such a
case, and | will shutup.
Par. B.ZShow me a Nomination
that has not been one, and I'll yield
the floor. In the first place, Squire
Politicus, where are your primary,
meetings held r. Are they not.held
in drinking-houses ~r, 4
So, Pr acknowledge they are.
Par. BIS there not great deal
of drinking at and before the meet
ipg2Hk&@I .M IKVhGI
So. P.-Well, suppose there is ?
Par Bid you ever know a
nomination rejected because the
man nominated was q liquor seller
or a hard drinker?
So lP+eI cannot say that I have.
Par. B.-Have you not known
men objected to because they were
temperance men !? l3IHl1ld
So, P.--I have known such oh, 1
jected to because their temperance
made them SO unpopular that our
party would lose the election.
They could not get chosen-not in /,
this town.
Par. B.-Then the rum party
have always had it their own way
have they not? And the alliance
has been between rum and politics,
and not between temperance and j
politics Isft4 not so? Be an
honest man, and answer.
So. P,-You can't corner me,
Parson Brown, and yeulneed not |
Try IT., Look, il you want facts. at d
The State OF Maine. 1t IS here ydtt {
temperance men have fairlyusurped '
The government. They have driven 4
of honest men out 6f {
heir employment, destroyed their q
and even fairly compelled n
great numbers to quit the State, - 3
This is what | call uniting temp er- $
'nce and politics. 4
Par B, INV ELI what 'didyou CALI d
t when the Legislature licensed a
men to sell liquor, and the poor y
louses and jailsgWere filed With I
drpnkards r That was s
lniting temperance and politics, a
vas il pat2 Nov LIDO hot see, Fl
'qpire Politicus, but You must have I,
t one way or the other. You have i
Q act. There is no escaping. YOU il
must either 60 for men that will Ii, '
ense the traffic, ana thus cause /,
.gunkenness to tll the land, or you. N
aust goAfof 4 Maine law AndI q,
ppeal to you as an honest man, to W
ay which is best. Do you wish IL
1.-THE drunkenness and beggary and fa
Y
rime which has flied the land this 81
Wenty years still continued ? DO al
qsEapt to. hear, under your own in
'indow, at the midnight hour, the 81
ry ofIInPuPrd7erSW IP SWDq you want to 1t
ee our young men demoralized m
nd struck dowhain tisif youth, 4 "
isgrace to their families and to So at
.ety, when they might have been a
s Ornaments and supporters? If Al
ou do, then unite rum and politics N
loose distillers and brewers and pa
quor-sellers, and men who are in +,