The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01
From the Indianapolis Journal.
A TIDAL WAVE.

From the indianapolis Journal.
A TIDAL WAVE.
Trouble i'm the Democratic Ranks In
the Third Distrfct-The PropOsesl
Temperance State COnventtOn-&ser.
mans and their Demands.
NEW ALBANY, June 20, 1874.
May an old line Democrat, who has
voted the ticket of his party regularly
for twenty-six years, through evil re-
port as well as good, be permitted to
express his views of the late Republi-
can State Convention through the col
umns of the Journal? If SO, then he /
will say the work of that convention,
divested of the usual Introductory
whereases and therefores, was such
step in advance of similar political
convocations as commends itself to
every thoughtful. sober minded, pa
triotic citizen. There is a boldness,a q
fres eshness, a yisor in the platform that
marks a new era, we may h0re, in pO-
litical action, and places the party that
promulgates it in the forward lead Of
progress; ignoring all class legislation;
planting itself squarely upon the solid
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political action; meeting the moral as
we'll as political issues Of the day face
to face, and with invincible intrepidity
stepping up into that higher plane of
political economy that the advancing
civilization and refinement Of the pres
ent has marked out unmistakably as
the one in which the nation must trav-
ell if our vast material interests are to
be developed, the citizens of the Re-
public made better men and women,
and the purity of our institutions and
their perpetuity continued. And
herein.
THE TEMPERANCE DEMOCRATS
of the Third Congressional District,
and they number hundreds of the best
| and heretofore most active men of the
party, endorse the platform and will
| vote for the candidates who stand
upon it. This may sound strange
from district heretofore the strong
hold of Democracy in Indiana, and
the truth of the statement may be
doubted by those in other sections of
the State not informed as to the most
remarkable revolution that has taken
place in public sentiment in this dis
trict during the past eight or ten
months, particularly upon the subject
of temperance No party can stand
in Floyd, Clark, Harrison or Wash
ington counties that opposes itself to
the Baxter law. This is bold declar-
alton, to be sure; but it is proved in
the result of the municipal election in
! New Albany last month. The issue
was squarely made up in that contest;
BAXTER LAW AND ANTI BAXTER LAW;
temperance and danti-temperance. The
Democratic party entered the contest
backed by its previous majority OF not
less than four hundred and fifty. 1t
held party conventions in every ward
and nominated its candidates, all of
whom took bold stand against the
Baxter law. The saloon keepers fur
nished from their tills several thou
sands of dollars to be spent in cor
rupting voters; they threw open their
bars to the bummers and riff-raff, to
the scallawags and loaters, and for
nearly month whisky and beer fow-
ed free as water; they imported voters
from the out townships; denounced
the best women of the city as no bet
ter than the common women of the
town, because they engaged in the
crusade; and literally the flood gates
of hell itself seemed to have been
raised and all the streams of vice
turned loose by this party's candidates
and adherents to carry the election
Yet on this square, well-defned issue
the temperance men met these hordes
and utterly routed them by the splen.
did majority of three hundred anG
thirty-four on the popular vote. L
was the temperance Democrats ane
the temperance Republicans wht
gained this grand victory; for tn,
whisky Republicans, including goot
many Republican Germans, voted ant
worked with the whisky Democrats
making common cause together. Ant
the temperance sentiment is but littl
less strong in the county of Floyd an,
other counties of the district than il
New Albany. There is not singl
licensed saloon in Washington coun
ty; at Jefersonville, Clark county
where the anti-temperance sentimen
has heretofore been strongest am
most turbulent, five or six saloon
} have gone down under the prayers 9
the women. In other parts of Clark
and in Harrison, jackson, Bartholo
new and Brown counties, the spiri
,, of temperance is spreading like fire i
dry stubble; and what shall stand be
fore it? The people Of Indiana, if tn
Democratic party, at Its State Con
J vention, utters any uncertain sound
upon, or ignores or opposes, the ten
, perance reform, may confidently loo
, for sweeping majority in the Thir
!, Congressional District for the Reput
lican ticket; for in such event th
temperance Democrats, almost to
man, will vote for the candidates upo
: that ticket. There is no mistake
. this. Neither is the declaration pl
, forth as an idle boast; the fact will
! established. 7, ,-
. SHALL WHISKY RULE!
3 This question is bold one to be pr
{ forth in State political canvass; b,
: it is, nevertheless, the all-absorbin
: issue that is to be met in the presel
campaign in this part Of the Stat
!, Shall the people of Indiana yield the
: moral conviction to any class of fo
t eign born citizens who would NAL
Q the whisky and beer traffic free, brea
a down our Sunday laws, drive the B
a BILE from the public schools, and ope
the rural districts to the tide of vi,
and crime that now floods most of Il
+ cities of the State? These are que
3 tions the people of Indiana are calle
: upon to answer at the next electio
e And who made this issue? The S
: loon keepers and liquor dealers, ar
: German editors of Indiana. And
;. in doing SO they have shaken loose .
0 avalanche that will sweep over the
y with destructive force. they alone a