Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-15

the matter, 1, for my own part, have
done with it. I confess / am greatly
lastonished that the question should
come to me in that shape. What! have
/ committed so grave an Offense in en-
dorsiny the Temperance party that /
must needs do penance. i, an old Re
publican, and Republican still, except
it may be with the difference OF single
term, and that term too cOntrovenlng
not one jot or little of Republican prin-
ciples? Or has it come to this, that be-
ing found on Temperance ticket l am
virtuous overmuch, and must needs
dishonor myself a little, by going back
on principles I have already endorsed,
before my moral character Is OF the
status required to qualify me to come
Before the Republican Convention as a
candidate for office? Certainly it is not
meant that Republieanism and Temper
ance are antagonistic to each other? No
certainly none of this. My position on
the Temperance ticket was simply mis-
understood, and the question, or the
situation. in. all of its bearings was not
fully comprehended. This alone must
explain a position which IN no view of
the case promises any advantage to the
Republican party and only asks for my
political dishonOr and death. Why! if
the Prohibition vote can defeat your
party in any case, would my name on
your ticket when 1 had disgracefully
left the Prohibition party change the
result? Would they not then vote
against me to a mai? !? Would the
Republicans themselves then think
me worthy Of vote? To nominate
me, and still leave me on the ticket to
run it would be better than that. Your
nomination of one, now on the temper
ance ticket, would in a measure draw
the sympathies of that party to the old
party with which they had been for
years identified, and in measure cool
their ardour. This. would have been
better than nothing. But to have nom-
mated me on your ticket with the as
surance that, in that case / would not
electioneer for the Prohibition ticket
as such, would at least have brought to
your party my strength as a candidate
on the Prohibition ticket. Moreover
ii would have been SO much of a con-
cession to the Temperance men, and
would have given them SO much of a
hope of. electing one of their. men
(Which they co1ld not otherwise have)'
that ! doubt WheN they would have
caref to run the btlanee of the ticket.
They might and probably would have
their organization nOminally,
but most likely it would be found after
the election that, but few more If any
than the organizers of the party had
voted it. 1, for one, would be willing
to compromise by you taking one of our
men, and giving us a clear temperance
ticket besides, provided the party with
which I am identified on the temper
ance question would be willing for it.. l
But as to what the party would do I
cannot tell. will do nothing that is
not acceptable to The, party leaders.
You viii see by the commencement
of this answer that T intended to pub
lish it withholding your name. But it
has not come out to he such an article
as I would like to publish, and I have
no time to re:wrfte it. Therefore, 7
send it to you Just as it is. - =
Istppose the best thing now to be
done iJnot to present my name befoI e
the Convention - Therefore just let ME
drop. - -. .'.' :. ~. ~. ~
thank you for your kindness to me,
and in any event regard me as your
friend ~ Respeetfuliy,5ilii..',, =; '','' ,'', -
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