The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-24

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where there Is supposed to be an unchange-
able Republican majority, the Republican
Candidates in some form have proclaimed
themselves to be In favor Of prohibition.
Even in the adjoining district, that model
of temperance and sobriety, Mr.. d. Hogan,
the Republican Candidate for the Senate,
has found it necessary to publish card in
which he proclaims himself to be in favor
OF submitting to vote prohibition amend
ment to the Constitution. In johnson
County the Republican Candidates for
County offices have announced themselves
in favor Of prohibiting the manufacture
and sale Of vinous, sprituous and malt
| liquors. over the northern part of the
State the anti-democratic Candidates for
both branches of the Legislature are
avowed prohibitionsts And SO after a
lapse Of more than twenty five years the
skin of the political animal is being
changed, and it is fast becoming the Pro.
hibition Party which the Democracy will
have TO meet.
Ia this senatorial district, composed Of
Alexander, jackson aud Union counties,
the Prohibition Party sets up for itself
under the guide and counsel OF
leaders Of the Republican party;
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for the Legislature, Mr.. Thomas NJ. Logan,
! formerly a Democrat, and brother Of that
other Logan who was also formerly
democrat and IS now Republican Senator
and Candidate tor the United States senate.
CMr Thomas NJ. Logan is now at Hot
Springs and, lately drinking the tepid
waters, may be sober enough to accept the
nomination when he hears Of it). No
democrat will be deceived or led astray by
the nomination of the former democrat,
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Logan, by the Prohibi
ton Party at Murphysboro on Wednesday.
The avowed purpose of this prohibition
nomination is to defeat Hon. D. T. Line
gar. But the purpose will signally
fail. Upon the great questions Of lessen
ing taxation and placing proper restraints
upon railroads and other monopols, Mr..
Linegar is great leader among the PEG,
pie. His sound judgment as q lawyer, his
experience as legislator, and his fearless
defence of popular rights, render him
most valuable servant of the people, and
the people will see 10 il that no amount Of
political Juggling shall keep him out of
the next Legislature, Eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty" and the insdious
effort that is being made to defea. Mr..
Linegar under the guise of prohibition"
will warn the people that there is some.
thing deeper than prohibition" that is
seeking TO compass his defeat.
Tue thoughtess men who adopted the
resolution in the Murphysboro Prohibition
Convention, represent the same narrow
spirits Of bigotry, which enacted tue "Blue
Laws" Of Connecticut, aud which, within
the past twenty years, imprisoned demo-
Gratis for the exercise of free speech and
suppressed newspapers and trampled
on the freedom of the Press. The Murphys-
boro Prohibition Convention adopted a
resolution, that is the reverse OF true
democracy aud Of the teachings Of demo
cratic party it reads as follows:
Resolved That we are uncompromlsing
in favor of the prohibition Of the importa-
tation, exploration, manufacture, sale and
supply OF all alcoholic beverages; the pro.
hioition of all taxation, license, regulation
or legal sanction in any form of these or
other public crimes
Men who publicly resolve so wildly will
not find much following from the Demo-
cratic party. Their proper recruiting
ground is elsewhere. Men who denouuce
the importation, expectation, manufacture,
sale and supply Of alcoholic beverages" as
crimes are ignorant Of the first principles
of government ana of law, and are giving
expression to sentiments, injurious to the
trade and commerce and agriculture Of the
country and which, if carried TO their
logical conclusions, would destroy those
fundamental rights of personal liberty and
private conscience, for which our forefathers
fought at Bunker Hill and at Yorktown.
If you may properly leglsate concerning
what beverage a man shall drink, you may
properly legislate concerning what food he
shall take for the body or for the mind if
you may, by law, prohibit the manufacture
of corn into whisky, or of grapes into wine,
or Of hops and malt into beer, you may,
by law, prohibit the manufacture of books
containing Calvin's sermons, or the Pope's
pastoral letters, or Bob Ingersoll's lectures.
1t depends only on the quality and extent
Of your bigotry.