The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-22

Iipolis Bulletin. edited by that talented
and shrewd politician, Congressman
Vance:
Gen. Cary is still the warm friend of
temperance-now as in the days of the
past, its strong advocate.
That secures the prohibition vote of
old Gallia
In Ironton, where they will get drunk,
and cut and slash, the Democrat claims
that Cary is no temperance man at all,
but that he is hand and glove with the
bummers So in Cincinnati, where there
are no truly good men except Deacon
Smith, and then the Volksfreund says;
The Hon. Samuel F. Cary, candidate
for Lieutenant Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket, has called on US, and de-
clared, without any circumlocution, that
he is opposed to all compulsory temper
ance laws, and that he not only can
stand on the anti-temperance plank OF
the Democratic party of Ohio, but also lie
down on it and roll around on it" He
will use the first fitting opportunity to
publicly express himself clearly and
frankly on this point.
By this kind of strategy. we temper
ance fanatics expect to elect Cary, and
when Allen dies Cary will be Governor.
As he believes liquor sellers to be greater
criminals than horse thieves and muir
derers, of course when he gets to be Gov
ernor he will put them all in the Peni-
tentiary. and send their idiotie children
to the asylum. This will end the race,
and be the shortest and surest road to
prohibition OF course the prohibition
lists will see the feasibility of this strate-
gy, and come to the front for Cary.
But, can Cary be trusted2 Now hear
what the Cincinnati Commercial says-a
paper that cannot tell lie. And this
was written and published on the 4th of
July, and on the Sabbath at that Of
course it is the truth:
There were sinister predictions from
those who accepted the Enquirer's view
of General Cary's character, that, in his
opening speech of the canvass for Lieu
tenant Governor, which he made at
GAINESVILLE yesterday, he would 60 back
upon his record as temperance man
and Prohibitionist. We had no appre-
hension on that score After a forty
years wrestle with the demon of the
still and all his minions, General Cary
would no more consent to compromise
than would Christian after his successful
wrestle with Apollyon. He told the good
people of Barnesville fatty that he had
not tasted drop of Intoxicating liquor
in forty years, and would not drink a
glass of it to be Lieutenant Governor or
Governor of the State, or even President
of the United States. His nate of the
destructive fluid is as hot and intense as
it was when he was Knight of the Or
der of the Sons of Temperance, and sat
for his picture, with the full regalia of
the Order or1iamenting his person.
He is not, to be sure, as confident OF
the success of legal expedients to sup
press the evil as he once was, which is
very natural. The young are always con-
fident, and apt to 'underrate the obsta-
cles to be overcome in order to start the
world on a new line of progress. Very
few men whose heads have been frosted
by time retain the ardor and confidence
of their youth. They find by experience
that men spin along the groove in which
their ancestors went, and are as hard to
get out of it as street passenger car that
has taken the wrong switch. General
Cary says he has doubts now whether
any of the expedients resorted to to sup
press the traffic will ever accomplish the
desired result.
But he does not condemn the expedi
ents. He simply leaves it to others to
try experiments as he has tried them
If the people think they can suppress the
evil by legislation, General Cary will not
put himself in opposition to it. He rec
ognizes the evil as broadly as the Prohi
bitionists, and has no word to say fol
those who engage in it. He does not
mitigate his opinion of the liquor seller
He held them a few years ago to be
criminal above all other criminals, and
of course holds that opinion now. But
his aggressive work is done, at least feI
the present, and until it is known wheth
er he is elected Lieutenant Governor
| Just now he would not object to receive
the votes of the liquor sellers, and pro
poses truce in the warfare. That is as
far as he is willing to go. If they will
vote for him he will cease to wage wal
for the time being
| General Cary told the GAINESVILLE Dem
ocrats what we knew he would be able tc
tell the entire people of Ohio, namely
| that he can endure the entire State Dem
ocratic platform. including the fourteenth
| resolution, WHICH Slnply pro1eeIS dSdlnS
any legislation interfering with customs
and habits innocent in themselves.
Of course he can. All cold water people
can We thus see the admirable shrewd
ness of the committee which drafted the
resolution. Had the committee resolved
that we, the Democracy of Ohio, protes
against any sumptuary laws interfering
with customs and habits evil or mischiev
Gus in themselves, General Cary would
no more have indorsed it than he would
drink a glass of grog to be made Lieuten
ant Governor. But as it stands, he can
with great cheerfulness, and with consis
tent regard for his reputation as tenn
perance orator and advocate of prohibi
ton by law, sanction the resolution
adopted by the Bunker Hill Convention
We take great pleasure in referring tC
this BarnesVille speech, because it con
firms US in our opinion of General Cary:
steadfastness to his temperance princi
Piles, and puts the treacherous Enquirer
to confusion. Its wicked attempt to
make the General a traitor to his pro
foundest convictions, and to persuade
him to blight by word and act the repu
tation gained by forty years of incessant
warfare upon the internal traffic in
liquors, is fttingly rebuked at the outset
of the canvass.