Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-08-21

from temperance town in Orleans
county ought to have been on record
against the license act and an fdcor OF
the ''beer and malt liquor amend
ment to that liquor law. The Glov-
er member was not on record. We
take up the doctors record IN 1880.
The two radical and important tenn
perance measures before the legisla-
ture that year, were what is known as
the Nuisance Act" and the proposed
amendment to the constitution. The
sNuisance Act" as our readers well
know is considered the strongest pro-
hibitory legislation ever enacted in
the state. The proposed constitu-
tional amendment reads as follows:
ssThe manufacture and sale of lntoX-
icating liquors, other than cider and
wine made from the fruits of this
state, shall be and are hereby for
ever prohibited, except for medicinal,
chemical and mechanical purposes !;
and the sale of cider and wine made
as aforesaid shall be so regulated
and restricted as to prevent drunken
ness, pauperism and crime" By a
reference to the House Journal of
1880, page 458-462, it will be seen
that while DR.. Templeton was present
to vote on an amendment which
came up just before the one quoted
above, he was absent, or he refused
to go on record, on this very import
ant question. What is the inference
On Tuesday, December, Z, the
''Nuisance Act came up for passage
in the house. When the yeas and
nays were called, Messrs. Templeton
of Glover, Hinckley of Chelsea and
Thayer of South Burlington, all re-
publicans, supposed, for certain rea-
sons, to be shaky on temperance leg
islation, lodged the vote. A motion
was carried that all members who
were present should be compelled to
vote. Hinckley made quite lengthy
speech, such as man might make
who has his infrmities, and voted
against the bill; Templeton rose and
stated that he should vote "No, in
the interests of temperance; :" the
other old fellow, whose face and per-
son showed which way he would nat
urally vote, made a few ridiculous
remarks and voted with the other
"dodgers." We show up this record,
both because it was claimed in the
county convention that the proposed
nominees record in the Legislature
was on the side of temperance, and
because there has been certain loose
talk, that whatever Templeton's
practices and opinions are, as a re-
publican and a representative from
the county, he will vote right
Doubtless, Sin the interests of TEN.
| perance." Under the stress of cir.
cumstances this might be true, but
we ask the candid voters of this coun.
ty, and especially the temperance
people, if it is not safer and wiser tt
vote for man whose record at home
and in the Legislature has always beer
on the side of temperance? We are
bold to state, that one of our objec
tions to DR.. Templeton's candidacy
is his standing on this vital question
of temperance, and we expect to b.
able to show that he has not stood
and does not stand where he ough
to stand, if he desires to represen
this county in the senate.
If there is any other nominee OF
the ticket, whose record or standing
on temperance is not what it ought t.
to be, the MONITOR is opposed t
him and will use it's columns to sa,
so. Men who seek offices must b
prepared to ssface the music" of op
position, if they do not stand squar
on temperance, and the new tax law