Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-19
NO MORALS REQUIRED.

Inc ONO election Is bearing fruit. The
Illinois Republicans decidedly favored
prohibition, but since the Ohio election
they begin to see new light. At the Cook
| county (Chicago) convention on Tuesday.
Herman Raster, editor of the Stats lie
twng, evolved platform which might be
considered remarkable for his party to
adopt, if it had not just experienced Sc
we're drubbing when it took the other side.
The platform has five planks, each one de-
voted to free whisky, and it sums up the
matter in the concluding resolution as fol-
lows:
"And further believing that religion, temper
ance and morals can be best inculcated by the
church, the school and the home, we therefore
utterly condemn and denounce as q measure es-
sentially unrepublican and despotic, the adop-
ton OF constitutional amendments prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of fermented or dis
titled beverages, and instruct our representatives
In the state legislature not only to resist and op-
pose all propositions to destroy individual free
dom by prOhibitory, sumptuary or ecclesiastical
laws, but especially to resist and oppose every
effort to submit to a vote of the people
any constitutional amendment like
those lately adopted in Kansas
and Iowa, or any proposition destructive
Of these inaliarable rights which in every true
popular government and aught to be placed
beyond the power of majority vote.''
It is evident that the Democrats will have
to look to their laurels. The Pennsylvania
postmaster who held Office continuously
through ten successive administrations,
and was wont to boast that he could
change his politics as often and a good
;o1> %ho. L,
ever saw, is likely to find counterpart
in the ease with which the Republicans
can change front on the temperance ques-
ton. The liquor interest having shown
fight, the Republicans surrender without
ceremony, and declare that they are the
great. original, and only thor
oughly solid prohibitionists
in the country. This Chicago
platform ought to. convince the Prohibi-
tionists that their only true policy is to
make their power felt by their third party
organization.
The Democracy is honestly and consis-
tently opposed to sumptuary laws. Its
position is creditable because it is fair,
square, open and above board. The Re
publicans came in to stand on the same
platform, but do it hypocritically after
being thrashed on the other side,and in such
| manner that neither the liquor nor tenn
perance men can respect or trust them.
A notable point in the Chicago platform
is that they go beyond the temperance
question and declare themselves opposed
to having any such thing as morals in thei,
party. This declaration will be
hailed with delight by Gil.
mon, Gordon and Il the :. other
rascals who are supporting the boiling and
| dishonest Norwegian in the Fifth Mime.
sofa district.
It is a regular bonanza in the shape Of
an endorsement for them. They never
had any morals, and are running thei,
campaign on the basis of rascality and
scoundrelism. When Knuty finds his we'll.
tanned hide hanging on the fence in No
vember, he had better take Gilman and
Gordon and emigrate to Chicago. By Sc
curing few Norwegian bankruptcy cases
/ and devoting themselves to such Other
! stealing as may come in their way in 8
country where there are mo morals" they
ought to make fair living and retrieve
their lamentable failure to secure more
plumber in Minnesota.