Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-05-06

: w france men 10 make al
otReis lameful and abominabl
, especially vixen such mighty inte.
J ests hang on the election of th
regular candidate. We are bound
! as honest fien, to sustain our part
and those great political principle
1--we hold to.
Par. Bi-Squire Politieas, we g
as much for the regular nomination
asyog,proyided you give us acan
didate who will promote the great
est good of the State; but if you
giye'usone who will uphold tn,
rum traffic, and do the greatest pos
siblei injury to the State, / see no
how'We can cohscientiohsly dolit
We are bound to promote the great
est good Of the peopIern7rr
So. P.-But do you say, Mr.
Brown, that any of your temper.
anee notions are ito be placed in
the scale with the triumph Of oul
great political principles ? and will
you sacrifice those principles to
Temperament ~ .
Par BY no means, my dear
sir. The very men we put in nom
ination are the men who will 'sus-
tain and carry out those principles,
and all we ask is, that you put
them in your regular nomination.
and then we will carry them with a
rush "A. Vf O. .i iEII UC
So. P.--I tell you, Parson Brown,
you can't do it, not in this town
ou may set up your temperance
candidate to the end of the world,
and you can't elect hin. Andthen
you divide the party and lose the
election.
Far B.-Tbat shows you what |
told you before--that you are all
uniting rum and politics, and that
yol are all suceumbing to the rum
power You assert that your po-
litical principles can only be sus-
tanned BY this union, We deny it..
And if your political temple stands
on ann hogshead, then let it fall.
If your party is Of necessity allied
to all the drunkenness and crime of
the land, woe unto it. But we are
bound as honest men, Squire Polit-
ieusyto consult the greatest good.
of the whole, Assert that party
politics constitutesit. We deny it.
We ask what one point, Bank Tar
If or Subtreasury, that has long di
vided the political parties, is to be I
to Temperance ir its
bearings upon the peace and pros |
perity of the community? Here
are, under the reign of intemper-
ance, an hundred million Of dollars |
wasted ANNUALLY upon Intoxicating
liquors. Here are 10000 men an7
luallyt filling drunkards' graves.A
Here are poor-houses and iails fill
ID with the wretched victims Of
strong drink. Here are two thirds
# all your taxes levied upon you
'y the traffic What act of any po-
itical party ever did SO much for
he country asrwould an act which
would leave the country withouta
lrunken pauper and almost without
,rimep But, Squire Politicus, we
ire not for the sacrifice Of a single
principle; We shall uphold
very good principle, and, at the
anne time rid the nation cf this
errible evil. See what Maine has
Ione. Men. have not there sacri-
ICED their political principles; and
'et legislators, chosen as would .
hoose them, have banished liquor
ellingin grog-shops from the State,
nd, craving your pardon, landlord. !
rom tavern bars, too; add we in
end your bar shall 60 by and 7hy-- |,
ut we want you to keep a public ]
ouse, just the man for us in this !
illage; but see, | say, what this !,
in politics has done inj !.
Iaine-how quiet are its streets, !
nd howare two millions of dollars,
'orse than wasted, now saved to !
lie State, to be expended on the
lrrns, and houses, and schools, r
.c. This is glorious legislation A
i'd how was it obtained 7 By 60 !:
e to the ballot box and choosing n
lch men as would make the law. n
mattered less to the temperance r
en- to which party the man they [
oted for belonged. The great s.
lestion was, Will he give US such u
law as we need to save the State ? c,
nd they gloriously succeeded. D
ow, Squire Politicus, here is true "
Sacrifice your predi7 o
atioue to tho UoOd of5 tho State |