The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-06
The Temperance FOOIery

The Temperance FOOlery.
The Democrats are extremely anxious
to get up Temperance tickets, in every
locality where they can find Republi-
cans green enough, or mean enough, to
aid the Democracy in this way. The
effort has been persistently made in this
county-not to get up a temperance
ticket, but to persuade green temper
ance Republicans to bolt the ticket,
and thus give the Democrats at least a
half vote, by refusing to vote the Re
publican ticket.
Mr.. Bundy, in his temperance address
at the Sabbath School picnic, very
truthfully said, that the laws of Ohio,
now in full force, are ample and suffi-
cient, if faithfully enforced, to utterly
destroy the liquor traffic, and that what
is now needed is an educated public
opinion that will have the laws enforced.
What is the use of any more strin-
gent laws, when the excellent laws now
in force remain dead letter?
The New York Tribune has the fol-
lowing sensible and pertinent remarks
on this subject;
LIQUOR IN PoLTTtCs. .E
Of the Twenty thousand liquor-sel-
Iers (more or less) in this State, at least
ninety nine in every hundred are zeal
GUS aud active partisans Of Sham De-
mocracy-in good part, because they
know that the Liquor Traffic can always
expect greater favor and will secure
more perfect immunity at the hands of
that party than of any other that is like
" to shape the Legislation and munich
pal administration of our State. Not
being fools nor madmen, the rumsel-
lers do not throw away their votes, but
use them so that they will most effect
lively tell. They might get up special
Liquor party, in favor ofample License
or of perfectly Free Trade in Alcoholic
beverages; but they know that this
would be playing right into the hands
of the Prohibitionists: SO they wisely
forbear.
The Republican party of our State i;
this day at least Twenty Thou'and vo-
ters weaker than it would have been haG
it been allowed to ignore and decline
legislation on Liquor. We claim no cred
il for it on this account: had it tried t
do so it might have lost more votes still
vet the fact is worth considering. There
is no State in the Union where politica
agitation in the interest of Prohibition
does not and will not weaken the Re
pubicans, by driving thousands fron
their ranks into those of the Democrats
All the Temperance Legislation we have
had in this State has been the work oI
Republicans; all the anti Temperate
legislation and Judicial notification il
aid thereof has been the work of tn
Democrats: and so it will be to the cut
/ of the chapter.
We do not complain that certain Pre-
; hibitionists have got up State Ticke
and propose to give it so many votes
, possible. OF course, they know tina
ninety-nine in every hundred of ther
will be taken from the Republicans, an
that the Democratic party will b
strengthened in proportion. 1t is onl
. necessary to poll all the votes OF RI
publican Prohibitionists for the distinC
' tive Prohibition ticket to insure Den
ocratic Free Rum triumph in ever
: County of our State. This wouI
crafty the leaders of the movement
D perhaps it would satisfy their follower
n We 90 the other way-that which ha
q secured all that has yet been for Ten
perance, and we presume all that wi
> be.
' And the Tribune further says:
We don't exactly understand VIII
running a "Prohibitory" candidate +
Congress means, but that is just VIII
= they are doing in the Ohio With Dl
n trict. Of course, the only result of ii
!. must be to draw off Republican vote
!. in district in which the party has
. votes to spare, the sum total being tn
o democrat" who must be stran!
y "Democrat' indeed il "prohibitor,
/ ia his views or practice, will be sent
i Washington, where he will laugh, ov
:, his whiskey. and-water, at a most
u spectacle portion of his constituen
'e At the last election, the Republicans
this district had only about 900 plura
er ty. BY vigorous and well-timed spl
. ting we have no doubt OF the feasibi
. ty of whiting this down to less tn
rs nothing at all, should such consul