Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-24

nemies is a novel way of promoting its
interests. Ifit is the correct policy the I
umsellers are the best promoters of tenn
,erance and all temperance organiza-
ions had better be abolished. The
sooner the cause gets nd of its friends
md flies to the bosom of its enemies the
sooner will we have the temperance
The admissions of our correspondent
we think carry the inevitable conclusion
that the more this prohibition movement
is promoted the more the Democratic
party is profted. His declaration that
Of Democrats will flock to the
of prohibition is wholly gratuit-
Gus. There is not a corporal's guard Of
Democrats in the State who could be in
duced, under any circumstances, to vote
the prohibition ticket. This is political
truism so palpable that scarcely a DEM
ocrat will be found to dispute it. The
''unco guid'' of the temperance family
themselves admit it, for if the Democrat
ic party is good recruiting ground why
do they not go to the Democratic press
with their communications Andif the
Republican party is so good a temper
ance party that all the proselytes to pro-
hibition are to be obtained therefrom,
why should any sincere. friend of tenn
perance labor to defeat it? To thatpar-
ty we are indebted for all the temperance
legislation we have, or hope to have,
while from the Democracy the temper
ance reform-or any other reform-has
never received the least assistance or en-
couragement. As Senator Morton has
aptly said, "The Republican party is the
great reform party of the country" It
is the party of progress, while the De
mocracy IS notoriously the party of re-
action and conservatism. Yet here are
few men claiming to represent the only
earnest and practical temperance idea
confessedIy laboring to weaken and de-
feat the Republican party and to
strengthen and encourage the Democ-
racy! And thereby the temperance
cause is to be greatly benefited and we
are to have a great and overpowering
temperance revival! And when the
Democracy and the Whisky Ring have
triumphed and their grip shall be laid
upon the machinery Of the State govern
ment, no doubt our prohibitionist friends
will be greatly edited and go into an
ecstasy of rejoicing. For then the tenn
perance millennium will be near at hand.
Our correspondent fears that the
Young Democracy will take a leap for
ward and outstrip US in the race of pro-
gress When the Young Democracy
gets so rampant as to force a prohibition
plank into a Democratic platform, coun.
ty, state or national. We hope cur frien6
will give US due notice. That either the
young or old Democracy are so much
enamored of cold water as an exclusive
beverage there are as yet no hopeful in
dicatioRs. While the Young Democrac,
| Of New York are repeating the excis,
laws, we do not hear that the Young De
mocracy of Ohio are taking exception:
to their action.
But our correspondent tells US that i
| the Republicans do not do certain things
the Prohibitionists will do certain othe
things which will be dreadful in thei
consequences. We answer that the Pro
hibitioRists. SO far as represented at Co
lumbus. have already done all they
threaten. In order to have made thi:
threat available, its execution should no
have preceded its proclamation. Be
sides. if it is to affect the Democracy a
well as ourselves, why was it not made t,
apply tothem equally7 There is nothin,
said about what the Probitionists will d.
provided the Democracy do not wall
the chalk according to the views of tn
!. forty delegates" This would be a YER
solemn state of affairs for the Republi
cans were not the verdict already ren
dered against them and the sentence pu
in execution. Parties, as well as individ
1 uals, are not so much concerned abou
trials past as those which are to come.
1t IS not our purpose by anything here
e in contained to question the sincerity o
: honesty of the forty gentlemen VIII
: composed the Columbus meet;no The,
r claim to have the temperance caus
E dearly at heart. and we shall not cues
: ton the validity of that claim. Br
r they are mistaken, and we fear, bot
S for their own sakes and that ofthe caus
= they advocate, dangerously mistaken.-
A good cause my be injured even MOI
z BY the indiscretion of its friends tha
e the open opposition of its enemies. An
y when we say cause in this connectio
: we mean that of TEMPERANCE, not that {
e zg0Hi5ikioN Even should the issue q
|. to a prohibitory liquor law be forced il
i to the present canvass what good woul
! be accomplished ? The officers we .haV
f to elect this fall can neither make or e1
IF force any laws relating to temperate,
y Besides is it not well to enquire whetht
ie we had not better enforce the laws "
t. have before seeking more stringent legi
lation? And five cannot enforce our pre-
a entstatutes against rum selling viii we /
O likely, in all candor, TO enforce a pr
!. fhibitorv enactment Such law place
Y upon our statute books in the Presel
: state Of public opinion would simply b