Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-14
Shall the Temperance Tidal Wave
be Lost.

In view of the fact, that the time is
approaching, when we will be called upon
to select candidates to fill our various
county and township Offices, l appeal to
the voters of Marshall county to consider
well the great and good cause of temper
ance, that is agitating the mind of com
munity, to such a fervent degree, at the
present time Shall all the efforts, the
prayers and entreaties, the good that has
already been accomplished and the hopes
built thereon, and the fond anticipations
of our mothers, wives, sisters and daugh
tiers, be ignored and lost, by our failure to
confirm and support them at the ballot
box, or will we say by our efforts and our
votes, which speak louder than words
that we appreciate their good work, and
will aid and support them by electing TO
office, men who arc not only qualified to
conduct the business affairs Of their office
correctly ard honestly, but men who are
of good moral reputation, and strictly
temperate in its most unlimited sense.
Bat the objection is raised; what can our
officers do, if the people will not hunt up
the offending parties and call their attea-
ton to them? answer, they can do
much were all our civil officers and legal
professors strictly temparate, and had no
sympathy whatever with the vcnder, nor
the drinker of intoxicating liquors, there
would not be so much trouble in getting
judgement when case did come up,
neither would there be so much occasion
for hunting them up; but. on the other
hand, so long as we have officers who are
in sympathy with, and in fact patronizing
the liquor dealer, what encouragement is
it To any one, TO make any effort to bring
the guilty to account, and what good re-
suits can we hope from the Temperance
movement, III til we make temperance
leading qualification in our selection of
candidates for office? We hear of numer-
Gus cases where the Temperance party
have been defeated, through the sympathy
of officers and legal professors for the
opposite party, when, at the same time,
the force OF argument and testimony was
in favor of the temperance cause. Such
cases in fact have come under our own
immediate observation. do not argue
that all our officers are in sympathy with
the liquor element, but that some arc, can
not be successfully denied And now
since the great temperance tide has
brought the important question more for
cibly to view, let us, as voters, steer our
ship across the wave and sail on with the
tide, our chart and compass Qhe good
women of the temperance canse) are
pointing us to a glorious land just little
ahead, on which, if we will lend helping
hand, they will aid us to land safely and
join with us in the song of victory over
intemperance. Let us then, fellow citi-
tens, look we'll to our interest, not sup
port any candidate for any Office, who
has the least sympathy with, or respect
for the liquor traffic, simply because he
belongs to the same party. to which we
belong but lay aside all party feelings,
and vote for principle and not party, and
thereby give to the good women of our
land, the blessed assurance that their eff
forts have not been in vain.
EZRA X. BARNHILL.