Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-06-30
THURSDAY, JUNE 80, 1870.
The State Temperance Convention.

Whilst we have ne disposition to dOub
! tbe sincerity and good intentions of th'
forty or fifty friends of the good cause o
Temperance, who met at Columbus a few
days since. and put in nomination a ticket
for State officers, solely upon the platform
OF temperance, we, with as much honesty
of heart and purpose as we are willing tc
accord to them, claim the right to doubt
tho proprietY Of their movement. The
cause of Temperance has no warmer friend
or more ardent advocate than we, and we
trust that we will be the last to do any
thing that would have tendency to re
tard the prosperity of cause which our
pen has advocated for more than thirty
years.
In our State there are two great polite
al parties: neither of these parties have at
any time abandoned the principles and
political ideas that have formed the dis
tinctive line that has so long marked the
uluefoucs DeGWeou theLu' ms SAou nus
continued to promulgate its own ideas of
policy and political economy, the Repub-
lican party alone has upon occasions where
it had the lower to do good for the cause
of temperance, morality and humanity,
welded its influence and its power to pro.
mote these worthy causes; this we know
to be true. We are sorry to say that so
far ae our Observation o1tsnda. tho oppo.
nsnts Of the Republicans have never unit
ed with the Republicans in their efforts
to suppress the evil influences of the God
of Bacehus. individuals among them have
acted with temperance organizations, but
they have always given evidence Ofa veal
ness in the knees when a question can
up in form that involved the prompt &C.
tion Of tho party in its favor. There are
men in both political parties, we know,
who would not give their influence in fa-
vor Of Temperance measures, but where
there is one Republican who would not
do this, there are ten Democrats who wo'd
oppose every effort at reformation in the
direction of temperance and sobrety.
Now, in our mind, it is as clear as the
noon-day sun that party based upon the
one idea of Temperance cannot succeed; it
has not tho ghost Of chance for success
If we are correct in this conclusion, what
is the best policy to be pursued by the
friends of the cause? 1t strikes us that
the friends of temperance should weigh
the matter well before they cast their
votes in such way as to effect no good to
the cause they design to benefit, but
which would add strength against them;
fer we pity the Sagacity of the man who
cHnHVt $40 that nlne,tenths or more of the
votes that. .wo'd be given to separate tenn
peraucO ticket, with that single idea, wo'd
be drawn from the Republican party, thus
leaving the best friends of temperance an
easy prey to the political power Of the en-
emisS Of the temperance cause.
The question then centerS down to this
narrow point; Gan the Temperance ticket,
nominated at Columbus carry votes
enough from the Republican party to de.
feat that party, and put the elections into
the hands of the Democratic party, which
is the enemy both of the Republican par
ty and of the party and policy Of the po-
liticSl temperance organization; for the
votes that will be cast for the temperance
party, as we have already said, will have
to come from the republican party; for, as
distinguished political orator has humor-
ously, but truthfully remarked, Demo
Gratis never water their whisky nor vote
split ticket"