New-York tribune., 1882-08-15


issue. their svmpathies are openly displayed on
the side of free rum and no Sunday. Ihey are
in uncopcealcd alliance with the hquor-pro-
du.ers and liouor-sellers and make no attempt
TO disguise the fact that if they are put IN power
,ho ,;,,,r interests will be allowed to have
their own way.
In a contest like this it is natural 10 suppose
that the Republicans will have an easy ''c.orS'
II must be that an overwhelming majority OF the
peopls of the State are on their side IN favor
of defending and strengthening the moral ana
religious forces in the commonwealth But
inst here the CrOaker comes III and declares
that this is not the case. He has examined the
field and has decided that the majority or the
people are in favor of a whiskey domination
There is o familiar air about this Croaker. lie
appears every year about this time. lie comes
always in the disguise of Republican, thoueh
the most careless observer can see easily
enough that he is Democrat, and tells us pre-
cisely how the State is to be lost. lie knows
all about it. and can give you exact hgures.
He starts oft this year with the familiar an
nouncement that the Democrats are harmoni-
GUS and confident and that the Republicans are
divided. Then VIC are told that the indefati-
command of the Democratic forces and is san
g1lne of success. OF course; John U. lho'pp-
son has been sanguine OF success every year IOr
the past quarter of a century, but lie has oeen
beaten pretty regularly in spite OF that TACT
He is always most sanguine when his cause is
most hopeless. Then, the Croaker tells us, the
Democrats have plenty Of money. The liquor
dealers are fairly flooding them with 1t.
Drinks will be free throughout the State, ana
no man who will promise to vote the Demo
cratic ticket will be allowed to go thirsty.
Then, again, there is trouble among the col
ored voters, and many of them threaten 10
vote the Democratic ticket because the RepuD-
lcans have not given them Offices enough.
Finally, the Prohibitonsts are dissatisfied
with the Republican position, and will vote
solidly in favor of their own candidates.
There is more of the CIoaker's diagnosis, but
these are the principal points. 1t is easy to see
that he is an echo not of Republican fears but
OF Democratic hopes. No Republican wonid De
alarmed 10y the array OF bugbears which lie
cOniures up with which to frighten hlmseif.
John G.. Thompson long ago ceased to be
bugbear 10 Republicans. He is simply wind
bag. AS for the food Of Democratic money,
that signifies nothing. Ohio is not purchas-
able State. If the Democrats actually haze the
money, it will simply be distributed among the
lean and hungry of their own kind. Concern
ing the help of the rumselers and the free flow
of whiskey, there is only one thing to be SAID.
The more of that sort of thing the Democrats
have the larger will he the Republican vote.
The late Mr. Bookwalter will bear personal
testimony to the truth of that observation lie
went through Ohio last year rolling barrel OF
money and barrel of whiskey side by side.
He passed cut the money with one hand and
set upr the whiskey with the ether. When
the ballots were counted on election day Mr..
Bookwater was found to be nearly 2j,OOO
votes behind Governor Foster, Notwithstanding
the fact that the PrOhibitionists polled over
10000 votes for their own candidates.
We are confident that the result will not be
unlike this when the returns are made in Octo-
ber If there is any change it will be in the in
creased size of the Republican vote and a cor
responding falling oft in the Prohibition vote.
1t is incredible that many of the PTOhibitiOnists
will refuse to vote with the Republicans. If
they hesitate now, they will not long after the
flow of whskey begins. They cannot fail to
see that the bitter opposition of the rumselers
is ample evidence that the Republicans are the
best friends of the temperance cause. In short,
the fight this wear is more than ever fight OF
Christian homes against grOg-shops and we do
not believe there is any doubt about the posi-
tion of a vast majority of the people of Ohio on
that question.