Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-09


On Wednesday afternoon about 20
persons from this and neighboring
counties. in and out of the District,
calling themselves ProbibitiOnists,
met at TempIar Hall and went through
the motions of nominating a ticket.
And these are the nominations made
as they we're solemDly reported from
a committee and adopted in bulk: J..
". Lindsey, for Congress Prof. VIII
Iiams for Senator T. G. Lewis for
Prosecuting Attorney J. S. Sanders
(Demoerat) for Sheriff: William Cruik-
shank for Commissioner; John Littell
for Coroner /; Samuel Rheem for In
frmary Director. Why Professor
Williams should have been done the
injustice Of a nomination We cannot
imagine as be has given this movement
no shadow of counteuance or encour-
agement. Perhaps to nominate was
deemed the most efectual way to in
jure him, and we concur IN that view
Prior to this gathering the persons
under whose auspices il was called aud
who have been conspicuously hob
nobbing with leading Democrats q. de
it their business to address a series OF
inquiries TO each Of our candidates and
to preserve appearances-to those OF
the Democracy. as to his views 10 re-
lation to a prohibitory Law. This 81 l.
emn performance having evoked sever
al responses a delegate to Wednesday :
gathering moved to have that of Gen.
Beatty read. This was promptly op.
posed and the motion not even put, il
being evidently feared that the letter
might reach some lurking vein Of rea-
son and bring confusion to the con-
vention. A motion was promptly sub
stituted and passed that the letters be
published and they we're furnished, in
full to the organ Of this so-caIled ney
party but we're carefully Withheld from
US. For this Partially we presume We
are indebted to a leading spirit of the
''new party who is also a leading
spirit of the Democratic organ and
who has been largely instrumental in
getting this new movement on foot
with the view, as he hopes, of dividing
the Republican vote in the interest Of
Democracy. What his peculiar title
to be considered a temperance man is
we are at loss to imagine.
That this movement is gotten up in
the interests of Copperheadism no one
who has given it the most casual OBJ
serVation can for a moment doubt
That It can accomplish anything for
the good of temperance no man of
candid common sense believes. It's
only effect. so far as that cause is con
cerned, viii be to damage it. This is
fully realized and conceded by nine
tenths of the real temperance men Of
Ohio, and hence this movement has
received no encouragement or endorse
ment from any temperance organiza-
ton. The State Temperance Alliance
which is an organization comprising
all the temperance societies of Ohio
has, explicitly and positively con-
demned it.
So far as the movement in this coun-
ty is concerned it can have no other
practical result than to iDjure the tenn
perance cause to the extent of its pow
er for mischief. In its effect there
fore it is not temperance movement
but the opposite, and it can scarcely
help but weaken the barriers against
the evil it pretends to oppose. In
stead of educating and increasing tenn
peranee sentiment, twill be more
likely to create a reaction in the op-
posite direction and discourage the eff
forts of large and influential class,
who see no good in this movement and
have done quite as much for the cause
as any who are engaged in it.
In the questions which were ad'
dressed to our candidates by the new
party, through its DemScratic, and
of course 7irluous Secretary, nC
allusion was made or Importance
given to the practice Of temper
ance. To our view this is vastl!
more important than theories how
ever finely spuD, and We are by M
means unwilling to have a comparison
made in this important particular be
tween the gentlemen on our ticket and
their competitors either on the regular
Democratic OF. the so-ealled prohibi.
tion ticket. One of our candidates has
person ally informed US that he never
tasted whisky in his life. We do not
suppose this fact will gain him any
Democratic votes or secure those Of
the so called Prohibitionists, but can
any Of the latter say as much