Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-03

THE VIRTUOUS REPUBLICAN
STATES

Senator Vest in a recent speech in
the senate said:-As matter Of course
the republicans are stating every.
thing but the true reason for the
result of their recent reverses.-
We heard from the Senator from
Maine [Mr. Hale] the other day,
Chamber, that an allisnce offensive
and defensive had been made betwee
the Democratic party and the whisky
interest of the country; and the Sena-
tor from Ohio Mr.. Sherman] told rs
that this was the great cause OF the
defeat of the Republican party in that
great state. Fer many years we have
been accustomed to the claim on the
part of the republican party that il
represented the temperance, the relig-
ion, and the responsibility of the
American people. 1t has been par
excellence the God-and. morality party
OF this country. Whisky aad denoc-
racy We have been told are convertible
terms. and that the great pabulum of
the democratic party has been the
fluid which was the subject matter of
debate in our deliberations of yestsr.
day. at,5la
am not astonished that this old
stale slander is revamped in this de-
bate. aud that it is done BY Senator
from Maine. That state has had q
prohibitory liquor law for ,hirty-one
years, and yet the reports of the inter-
nal revenue department show that in
the last four years the number of saloon.
keepers aud retail liquor-dealers in the
state Of Name has increased more than
100 per cent. In the reports of the In.
ternal revenue department l find the
singular fact that in 1877 Name had 402
retail liquor dealers T; in 1873, 412 (; in
1879, S94 in 1880, 747-the year of the
defeat of the democratic party and the
success OF the republican, and in 1881,
$40; an Increase of retail dealers and
saloOn.keepers from 1877 TO 1881 from
| 4O2 to 825. So it seems that
in the state of Maine and through.
out the country and even In
| this senate. large number OF re-
spectable gentlemen vote with the re-
publican party but tenaciously adhere
to the alleged habits of the democratic
party. But this is not all.
Ii we analyze the reports in regard
to the consumption of alcoholic stImu.
lants in the United States some most
remarkable facts are developed. Mr..
| Garfield received for the presidency,
4,45O,92 votes; General Hancock
received 4,447. 1888 votes, giving Gar.
feid a majority over Hancock of
3.03S. In the states which voted for
General Garfield there are by the last
nternal-revenue report los. .i98 retail
iquor-dealers. In the states which
voted Tor General Hancock there are
81 .742 giving to our brethren upon the
| opposite side Of this chamber. who
represent the Intelligence the morality,
the religion. and sobriety of the entire
country, q clear majority of SO. 1856
saloons. But that is not all.
Without meaning to be at all offen.
'lve to particular states, let US take the
population Of the respective states and
compare them-the states voting for
Garfield and those voting for Hancock.
We will commence with the state of
Maine. Maine, by the census of 1880.
has q population of 64S,936, aud has
had a prohibitory law for thirty-one
years. West Virginia has a population
OF Gle. .457, difference of about 80, 900
in population, and has no prohibitory
law. In Maine there are 800 retail
liquor. r.dealers. or to each 791 inhab.
itants; and in West Virginia there is l
10 every BIG inhabitants. There are
In Maine; Wholesale liquor.dealers, 10:
retail dealers III malt liquors, 7S; and
Wholesale dealers in malt liquor, 9; IN
West Virginia, wholesale dealers, IL;
retail dealers in malt liquors, 46; and
wholesale dealers, Z.
Take the two states, of Wisconsin
with population of 1915 ,497, and
Georgia with a population of ,542. lSO.
In Wisconsin there are 1886 retail
llquor-dealers. or to each 256 inhabi-
tants. They have almost got it there
in each household. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Cameron, of Wisconsin. Wis.
consin has recently gone democratic.
That accounts for it.
Mr. Vest. In Georgia, with POM.
lation OF ,542. .18O, there is one retail
liquor-desler to each 612 inha bitauts:
and Georgia gave something like fiity
or sixty odd thousand democratic ma.
jorlty.
Mr.. Brown. A little over $4,000.
Mr.. Vest. Take the stete of Iowa.
with population of 1,624,615: retail
liquor-dealers 4. .313, or ono to each 376
Inhabitants. Texas has population
Of 1881 ,749, aud there is one retail
liquor.deaIer to each 54S inhabitants.
Now Hampshire has population of
346.991, together with a prohibitory
liquor law, and she has retail dealers.