The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-10
EROsI ,yEsr ELKTON.
WEST ELKToN, O., /.
July Sd, 1871

July Sd, 1875
EDITOR EATON DEMocRAT:-
l notice in this weeks Register a
1 statement to this effect: ssSome of the
Prohibition leadersin this county were
members of the Republican County
Convention, and declared that there
was 10 use III throwing away their
votes on men who could not be elect
ed" Now, what | have to say Is this,
that / defy and challenge the Register
to give the name of a single man who
has ever been recognized as a leader in
the Prohibition party in this county,
and as having appeared in the Repub-
lican Convention. Certainly, the Reg
lister man cannot be acquainted with
the Prohibition party and its aims, or
he was very willing to be misled in
publishing the above statement. Now,
Bob, whenever you hear a man say that
he is Prohibitionist, and then talks
about throwing his vote away on men
flat cannot be elected, you may put
him down as a ~stupendous fraud. We
will venture further, that any man who
knowingly represents himself as a lead-
er of a party advocating so grand an
llGd, anu LilCI -bllhS dOObI~ III III
away his vote is a man who generally
votes a. he drinks; if he pretends to
pray he gives his prayer on the heaven
side and his vote on the hell side ofthe
question of temperance. We will guar
antee that the Prohibition leaders of
Preble county that Bob Williams seen
in his Republican Convention, will
vote this fall as they aver have done,
for the whisky Republican party, and
will vote with the Register man for
Charles Foster for Governor, a man
whom Louis Shade, of the Washington
Sentinel" and general lobbyist for the
brewers in the United States, and who
tells the brewers to "stand by Foster as
he stood by them when in Congress-"
Shade says Foster remained with him
on the floor of the House all night in
order that he might assist in getting
through the two "spigot bills" which
was wholly in the interest of the brew
ers of the United States, and no doubt
those Prohibitionists that the editor
saw in the Convention will vote for
Hickenlooper, who said on the occas-
ion Of a serenade given him soon after
his nomination for the Lieut.. Govern.
OASuip, tuat ~ Was AHOIO pACoSduL W
hear the popping of champaign bottles
than the cracking of musketry," and
as soon as he had finished his speech
he invited the crowd into his house and
the liquor flowed freely. Men like
Foster and Hickenlooper are the men
that the Register tells temperance men
to vote for! think he can depend or
the Prohibitionists that he saw in his
Convention; they are Prohibitionists
on dress parade and win vote the
straight Republican ticket every time.
And now for the benefit of the Regis
ter l will inform the editor, that if he
will go to the Court House some time
about the first of August, he will see
the leaders of the Prohibition party OF
this county, as they intend to doom"
about that time aud ask for a ''red hot
campaign" Isay that the Prohibition
Convention will come off some time
about the LIST of August, and we expect
to have the largest Convention ever
held III this county. We will inform
you through the Democrat" when
the time is definitely fixed.
PROHIBITIONIST.