The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-14

SeNR two weeks since the Prohibitionists
held their State Convention and put full State
Ticket INTO the field, to be slaughtered OF
course IT is not Of the slaughter we propose
to speak, for that matter is no business Of ours.
Weeuppose that there were many conscientious
and good men in that assembage, who acted
from pure motives and who have the best inter
ests Of the public at heart They do a great
deal OF labor for the Temperance cause, and
claim to be heart and hand with all friends OF
temperance and good order. These men all
belong, by affinity, to one or the other OF the
great parties o. the country, and mostly acted
with them Up to recent period. They have
sought 10 enforce their own peculiar notions on
the party to which they have affiliated, but be-
coming dissatisfied with the apparent slow
progress o. their IDEAS, have concluded to
abandon old party associations and form a new
organization having but single idea or one
principle They leave behind them d great
many persons who are ready and willing to aid
them IN the good work within the political
partyto which they belong. but who will not
abandon their party and sacrifice every other
political principle for tie sake Of joining an
where their efforts Will be barren of results.
This is rot all. The friends OF temperance
who remain are not only weakened but are
placed in false position. Having been aban-
doned by portion OF their friends in tho
cause. their influence is weakened in their party
80 far as this one measure is concerned, and
men holding TO different views are often NOM
mated to an Office, when the result might have
been otherwise had these temperance friends
remained with them and labored for the NOM
NATION OF men holding opinions in common
with themselves. When voting time comes,
the members OF the new organization, who
who we're able to count genuine temperance
mon by the thousand are astonshed to find
them dwindle down to few hundred in a State
or County. The fact is, such result Is no
matter Of surprise when IT is recollected that
mon generally affiliate and adhere to political
organizations representing broader and more
enlarged views ct governmental policy than
any ever put forth by any organization repre-
senting but one idea or principle.
To illustrate our meaning we will take q
single example. 1t is well known to our read
ers that the TRUE NoRTHERNEp Is a radical
temperance paper; and temperance men we'll
know t&st they can rely on it as an advocate OF
that pr,ociplo whenever necessity arises for
ANYTHING to be said on that topic. Now, this
Prohibition movement puts this journal in a
false position just as it puts many OF it's best
workers IN the good cause in this: the TRUE
HoB,HEREER is journal having decided politi-
cal proclivites. 1t is thoroughly Republican in
poGtice. II viii not step aside to advocate any
one idea to the neglect or sacrifice Of those
principles held to-day by that party. This
Journal Will support the nominees Of Its party
yet it reeerves the right to crIticise the fitness
OF any msn for any place up to the time OF the
nominations. We will strive for personal and
individual preferences, in which one individual
may not always succeed. Viewing, as this
journal does. that the nominations by it's con-
'enuons Is but the expression of the will and
op'hion OF tie mass through its repre- senta-
.se ,7 S"osen Tor that purpose, the nominee is
JuSuy entitled to the unreserved support OF
Tue Journal which is the advocate OF the doc
trines OF which the candidate ia bu, /. re,ro-
sentative. - -'P''
ho'd'ng to the views Indicated above. the
Prohibition candidates have nosb,ns, g., -
from This sheet TIL after election. " '2F'''