New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-28
TEMPERANCE AND COMMON SENSE.

The Temperance advocates in Ohio have
nominated State ticket and propose to make
separate campaign. This is their declaration
Put into tho language of practical politics.
their action means simply that they will help
the Democrats to gain possession of the State
They cannot hope to elect their own ticket and
by putting it III the field they merely furnish an
opportunity for several thousand Republicans
to vote in the air. No temperance man will
deny that the votes for his candidates will come
bodily from the Republican party. Demo-
crat who leaves his party out of zeal for tenn
pcrance is II person yet to be discovered. II
ought not to be difficult to convince any sensi-
bic advocate of temperance that everything he
does to aid the Democratic party is direct in
jury TO his own cause. The question is not
whether he will put his own party or the Demo-
cratic in power, but whether he will give his
vote to defeat the Republicans and to give
power to the Democrats. Twist and turn the
subject a, ne may, that is all he can make of it.
lie says no wishes to suppress the grog-shops
yet he gives his vote to place power ia the
hands of the party which makes the grog-shop
the centre of its political movements Every
grOg shop in Ohio will be pastered with notices
OF Democratic meetings and ornamented with
portraits OF Democratic candidates. A notice
of Republican rally or the portrait of Re-
publican candidate in one of those shops looks
strangely out of place.
The Temperance advocates in Ohio are as
well aware of these facts as anyone else. and
we cannot believe they will be so mislcd as to
disregard them. There are indications that
many of them will not Mr.. Freeman Thorn.
of Geneva, WAS asked to accept the nomination
for Lieutenant Governor on the Temperance
ticket, but declined in letter in which he
made this manly and sensible declaration al
"neither desire the position, nor do believe
that by accepting the nomination for it
awould in any way be aiding the cause of tenn
@perance. l have, to the best of my ability
~worked for efficient temperance legislation,
"and expect to continue to do so, and to do it AZ
81 Republican. From close and careful study
of tho whole question Of temperance legisla-
I" ton, believe that the course for temperance
" men to pursue is to concentrate their efforts
"upOn the Legislature, endeavoring to secure
|" the nomination of earnest temperance men as
candidates for the Legislature by one or tho
@Other or both Of tho dominant political par
I" ties, making their influence felt in the primary
"meetings and conventions of those parties.n
The wisdom of that course is scf-evident II
does not, like separate State ticket, stand on
the fallaciOus idea that the surest way to aid
the temperance cause is to surrender it to the
control of its btterest enemies.
Maine is passing through IN experience which
the temperance people in Ohio will be wise to
profit by. At the last election tho Temperance
party in Maine were not satisfied with the man.
ner in which the Republicans accepted their
principles. They therefore put up separate
tickets of their own, and in many instances
succeeded in electing the Democratic candi-
dates. The city of Portland was one of the
localities which had tho benefit of this @re-
FORM" A correspondent of The Boston Tran
eller, writing from that city few days ago.
thus describes what has happened:
Hero, in the home Of prohibition where the Mama
Liquor Law originated, be had liquors OF all kinda
and III any quantity 1t estimated that there are In tho
limits OF this city over two hundred places where huor
Gun be bought The clubs have it, hotels keep It. the
drug stores sell It, the lunch dispense it, and the
grogshops retail large quantities 1t is even kent
on draught 80 bold have the sellers become yenr 400
1t was with much difficulty glass of beer could be OBJ
tanned Still the Initiated could find it, Now anyone ean
get any and all he peases to call for And how did tina
change come abouta 1t resulted from tho action of the
temperance men,wbo not satisfied with the efolent
work OF the Republican shcr who enforced the law 40
thoroughly as to virtually stop the traffic. They must
have change, and hence they boted the Republican
nomination for sheriff. and assisted the Democrats and
Greenbackera to elect theirs And 1t was dtinotly nm