The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-09
THE GOD AND MORALITY PARTY ON
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.

After mature reflection, abundant eau
cusing and consultation, the God and
morality" party-the ethercalized and sane
cluded TO kill the temperance bill-to pro
hibit prohibition. In the subimity OF
mendacity and duplcity they have
concluded To set down on their
pledges to the temperance people OF
the State and refuse TO strike lick
against liquor. The Republican party Nester-
day knocked the last prop from under the
temperance superstructure Temperance men
and women had erected, and notwithstand-
ing seven Democrats came To their rescue,
the Temperance God and morality Repub-
licans refused To redeem their pledges TO
their constituent. and the whole
thing tumbled about their ears in
ruins. Those temperance advocates
when candidates refused when elected
and clothed with power to Saili on saloons.
They were not stimulated to vote against
stimulants. The temperance people of the
State who had the pledges OF these recreant
Republicans that they would pass a stringent
temperance law, will continue to see drunk
ards ON their biers while their Representa-
tives are silent upon the subject of
beer. They seem To have forgotten
God, and become the deyOtees of grog.
Fhey sling in bills by scores, but not against
gin slings. They toady To toddy. They
eXpend great deal of wind but not against
wine. They brandsh words but not against
brandy. They bounce everything but bour-
bon. Their temptations have overcome their
temperance. Their procliyitie> are declivi-
ties. Their legislative rummage i not
against rum. The session Of the l.egiS-
lature has almost run its course.
Its end draweth nigh, but Republicans
have managed, in spite of the aid extended
by seven Democratic votes in the senate, to
effectually kill what they were pledged To
sustain. The temperance people now see
just what the pledges of the God and NOR
ality party are worth. These Republicans
have come to the conclusion that to pass a
temperance law Gust what they were
pledged to do will injure the Republican
party They recognize the fact that To make
loud professions of piety and purity is a
good way 10 catch votes, but now they de
clare that to-redeem their pledges will blow
the Republican party TO atoms.
The temperance people of the State, who
trusted their God and morality temperance
candidates, may now fairly estimate them.
They can contemplate them at their leisure.
On one hand is their professionalism
pledges: on the other their practices and
their failures. What will the temperance
people of Indiana think of such tod and
morality and Temperance Republicans?
To what profound depths of ny
pocrisy will they be consigned? They
asked to have the power and pledged its eX-
erclse for the passage of sweeping temper
ance law The power was bestowed and ii
these God and morality and temperance
Republicans were dead as the builders Of
Thebes they could not be of less value 10
temperance people. They say to pass
temperance law would ruin our party
Republicanism can not survive with a
temperance law on its back. If we
have TO choose between God, morality and
temperance, and the Republican party, We
will hold on TO the party. Such is the stuff
Republican pledges are made of, and the
wheedled and cheated temperance people
who voted for Republican candidates be-
cause they pledged themselves to pass tenn
perance law will be likely to steer clear of
them and the likes of them in future.