Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-01
The Temperance question in the State
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The Columbus correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer is an antiquated fos-
sil older than Noah's Flood. He is sorely
exercised over the manifest failure OF
the liquor interest to control the State
Legislature. 1t. Gov. Mueller being a
German, is pitched into savagely by
those who do the slang-whanging Tor the
whiskeyites, as faithless to the national
tastes, beliefs, etc, of the German Amer
leans. Gov. Mueller is accused of hay-
ing promised during the canvass last
Iall that if elected be would appoint the
standing committee on Temperance in
the Senate, so as to have q majority
favorable to a modification of the Adair
law. Butthe Enquirer man records, with
much apparent disappointment, the fact
that when the time came to appoint
committee, the President of the Senate
made the committee to consist o T 'Messrs
Jones, of lrumbull, Bell. UpdsGraf and
Ames, opposed to any change. and
Messrs. Brinsmade, Schif and Mellow
ell in favor Of a modification OF the law
-four Republicans to three Democrats
-!our ultra Temperance men to three
liberals
The correspondent further states
that
Mr.. Jones, OF Trumbull, the Chair
man, is silent on the subject. Mr.. Bell,
of Medina, is equally so, yet more quiet
10 his demonstrations. Mr.. Updegraff,
of jefferson, has no charity for any man
that takes glass of beer, and holds the
seller of liqucr as a man beyond the pale
of Christianity and salvation. Mr..
Amos, of Monroe, who, as a member of
the last Senate, voted for the Adair
Liquor Law, is unconditiOnally opposed
to It's modification or repeal. When the
Committee was appointed by Lieutenant
Governor Mueller, the name Of John G..
Thompson stood on the list, in the place
now occupied by Mr.. Amos. Mr.. Jones,
of Trumbull, saw the list before it was
announced to the Senate, and in COM
pany with Mr.. Bell the demand was
made that it be changed.
"What arguments these WORTHLESS used,
I, of course, know not, but this I do
know: that after a two hours talk Lit.
Gov. Mueller substituted Senator Amos
for Senator Thompson, and that change
gave the Western Reserve Prohibition
Temperance men the entire control of
the Committee. And that Committee
commands the situation. On the 22nd
Of February last a bill to modify the
Adair liquor law was referred TO the
Committee. The Chairman has called
no meeting of his Committee, no action
has been taken on the bill, and no notice
by the Committee has been taken OF the
tens Of thousands Of petitions for mOdi-
ficaIion of the law. All efforts to get the
bill 70 amend the law reported back to
the Senate have failed. A resolution
offered in the Senate 20 fOrceS report
was voted down. When Governor
Mueller's Committee sees a time when
a majority Of the advocates of a change
is absent from the Senate, the bill will
be referred back and temporarily post
poned, and that will be the end of il.
"Last night at the Neil House some Of
Mueller's Cincinnati friends, who hap
pened to be brewers, and among them
men that, previous 10 the election, he
had made pledges as to the course he
would pursue If elected, took the reere-
ant to task for his violated promises,
particularly as to his appointment of
fanatic Committee on Temperance
Gravely and solemnly he (Mueller) as
serted that he thought he was appointing
an anti-temperance committee, and he
was deceived in the men. This assertion
will not bear the test of truth. When
Jones, of Trumbull, made Mueller
change the name of Thompson, Of
Franklin, for Amos, of Monroe, he knew
as well as did jones, of Trumbull, him
self that that change was fatal to any
repeal or modification Of helaw."
The temper of the foregoing shows
how keenly the opponents Of the pres
ent liquor law realize the hopelessness
of their efforts to secure any modiiea-
ton. We give place to the article to
show the bitter spirit Of the repealers.