The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-19
WE TOLD YOU S0.r
Bloomington Bull etin.

into corner and with much mysterious
head-shaking Is saying to him
we told you So"
10 which the Temperance Republican
replies
"ToId me whatr
Average Republican Editor,-Didn't we
tell you that II you persisted in your
foolish attempt to prohibit the sale of in
toxicating liquors in Illinois, you would
defeat the great Republican party-the
party OF great moral ideas, of progress, APP
preparations and official Datlonage2 Didn't
wei
Temperance Republican How can that
bet Hayentwe Republicans always said
that Democrats were the whiskey men,
and that sc were Gods own people, op-
posed to sIavery-to polygamy-to gam.
bllng-to drunkenness --to all unr.ght.
eousness2 We have abolished slavery and
are gradually attacking polygamy-very
| gradually. Shall we now hesitate 10 attack
the demon Of Alcohol, and thus strike
blow alta gigantic evll2 By doing so will
We not weaken the Democratic partyl II
we refuse to do So, will we not offend the
religious element Of our own party-the
great Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist
churchesi Can we afford to hesitate on 50
momentous = question: Can We refuse to
do righti
Average Republican Editor-Givc that
kind of talk to gosIings IN politics. We
want none Of it. 1t is stuff You and !
know, that the Republican party will never
be defeated by the dessertion of the preach.
or and church element. The preacher is
machine man. He follows, with a hymn
and prayer, wherever he is led, and his
gentle flock follows after him. He knows
what is right, but he will never break away
from the party to do the right. He is only
| the champion of the right when it is ex.
pedient for the party TO do the right. So
during twenty years and more, he has.
made his political bed with saloonkeeprs'
ermtkers, whiskymaker, ignora ce, long
haired lunacy Of every kind, Bob Ingereol!
coGrTGtlhg elements of which our party is
composed, and has SMILED about the de-.
pravity of the democratic party, illing it
the party Of ungodliness, inebrlety ana
thievery. We can't drive him away from
US. But the whisky element Of our party
is more sensitive The moment we intimate
that we are opposed to the evil Of saloons il
begins to kick" and what is the result9
The defeat of the great Republican party.
Look ut Ohio, The moment the saloon
and beer element Of our party went over to
the Democrats, we lost the state-o5t the
state made sacred by the dust Of Garfield.
Don't you seel We must keep the whisky
element on our side, or We must perish as
a party. 1t has kept us in power for long
years, and we must cling toit as the ak Of
our political salvation.
Temperance Republican VIVA would
you have US dor
Average Republican Editor. Do! Why
cry. "Down with Prohibition, and up with
the flowing bowl" This must be our
shibboeth or we must go out Of politics.
We must keep the whisky element or be
defeated. The moment the Democrats SO.
cure that element We are gone We must
keep it, We must all get drunk often 20
show the whisky aud beer element that we
are all right. Instead Of using unferment-
cd wine IN the churches every good Repub-
lican preacher must use beer hereafter. In
this way we may continue unity and power
in the great Republican party-th party
of moral ldGNs. In this way we my con-
tinuc the happy union, within the Repub
ican party-ofthe preachers and lngersoll
St. John, of Kansas, and the brewers; Nea
Dow and the dlsulIcrs; Cough and the
saloon keepers; Garfield and Guiteau; Conk
ling and Blaine; the Becchers and the Dor
sey's; theearningo Of Yale and the ignoranc,
of the cotton field, the wealth Of Wander
bilt aud Gould aud tile ,quallo Of the low
dive. In no other way tlan this can tn,
Republican party tha prnu p ,rty of per
fumei Arthur and OF the nosome Blady--
DO maintained in power. therefore tn,
Republican cry must be: "Down with Pro
. hibiton, and up with the "becrW Do o'
sect
{ Temperance Republican Like the blinC
s man, | see clearly.
!. Average Republican Editor Take
= driukl
. Temperance Republican. For the sake q
# the Republican party yes. Beer please
$ Average Republican Editor. Good
!. whisky, please straight!