The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-11-13
THE WEATHER

THE Cleveland LeGdeT. Ia comment
ing Oh '-the work Of the prohibitionists
in the recent elections. says:
Having succeeded. in several States,
in securing the insertion of temperance
planks in the Republican platforms, the
ProhibitionIsts went still further and
nominated and supported their own
little one idea tickets, thus thowing
many Republican Districts into the
hands Of the Democrats. As an exam
pie OF how the thing worked, We copy
fewiigureS from the election returns from
Pittsburg. The official vote of Alleghe-
ny county stands a. follows. Judge OF
Supreme Court:
Woods, Dem"craiic. Ii, ,41G
Dixon, Republican 1904
Black, ProhiI'iiiOni~t. ni~t..-...--...2,jI =, ,jI9
As will be seen, the split off of the
Prohibtionists divided the Republican
strength and gave the Democrats a vic
tory in county naturally Republican.
The same proportion is true of the 9TH
er officers on rhe State ticket.
Again, take the Twenty-third Con-
gressional District OF Pennsylvania. For
Congress:
10. .-sis-
Baync Republican. ----.-...... 1896
Cochran's majority over Bayne 21O
Purviance, PrOhibitiOHist. g, ,003
Had the two thousand votes thrown
away Oh Purviance been given to Bayne,
the Republican candidate, he would have
gone to Congress, with handsome ma
iority. As it is, the Democrat creeps
through, with a majority of only 210
over his chief competitor In Massa
chusetts, the Republicans lost their
Governor because he promised, if elect
ed, to enforce the prohibitory laws, while
the Democratic candidate, as every one
knows, will make tLeI:I dead letter
In the face OF truths like these it is
idle to ignore the fact that the cause of
temperance reform has received stun
ming and disastrous blow throughout
the country. The mischief, begun in
Ohio, has been consummated still more
completely in other States. Had the
prohibitionists, after getting the Repub-
licans to adopt their plank, stuck to
their generous allies, and fought the
campaign through bravely and unitedly,
the Republicans might afford to take
their defeat philosOphicaliy. But the
prohibitionists did not do this. Because
they could not get everything, because
there was here and there on the Repub-
lican ticket some one whose record on
the temperance question they did not
regard absolutely clear. they abandoned
the alliance, went back 10 their own
camp, and, by throwing away their votes
on a hopeless ticket, aided in securing
the defeat of the only leading political
ri.is .nfr,ot..v- I,.u afT,.faI
anything practical in the way of temper
ance reform. The result is that there is
brought into power party which will
snub the advocates of temperance, laugh
at their protests, open the saloons, repeal
existing liquor laws and make rum free
again.
The course pursued by the Prohibi-
tionists in the Tenth District showed
that they fully understood the impract-
liability of gaining any advantage as a
separate party, and the greater portion
of them voted the Republican ticket
The result was the election of DIR Fos-
ter, whose defeat would. at the present
time, have been calamity. In Han
cock county the Prohibi;ioniStS stood
braveIy up and voted with the Republi-
cans. They recognized and appreciated
the services of that great party in the
movement of Temperance Reform, aud
determined to aid them in that direction.
The conduct of the Prohibitionists OF
this county deserves the commentator
of all those who have the welfare of So
,.iety and the Government at heart.