The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-10-25
The Cause OF IL!

out the State that a1fected leadersnlI
in the party, and assumed to be lead
ers Of public opinion and shapers OF
the political destiny of the great State
of Ohio, are now engaged in giving
reasons for the recent defeat Of the
party in this State. The one great
overshadowing reason given by these
papers is that "the Prohibitionists
sold out the Republican party
This is a grand mistake. The Re
publican leaders sold out the party
sold it, body and breeches, to the beer
jerkers and n-destroyers of Cincin-
natl and Cleveland. Had the party
refused to allow these beer-jerkers and
distillers to dictate, from their swill-
troughs, the policy of the party,
Judge Foraker might have been tri-
umphantly elected. Let us look, for
a moment, at the strange aspect of
the campaign The State Convention
could not adjourn without adopting
the Scott Law as the prominent fea-
ture of the platform. This law is OBJ
noxious to every temperance man in
the State-the only feature in it to
which any prominence was given in
the campaign being the selling out
for two hundred dollars per year, of
the right to manufacture drunkards,
ruin families, and destroy communi-
ties.
Naturally, the temperance people
took up the Second Amendment,
which was a Prohibition measure.
Here was clash at the outset-the
politicians advocating tax on crime,
as temperance measure, the temper
ance people advocating the abolition
of the crime itself.
No Republican stumper dared go
before the people and dispute the
righteousness of prohibition, and con-
sequently the Republican stumper
was compelled to say to the people:
'The Second Amendment is right,
but vote for the Scott Law-it is right
to prohibit, but vote to tar." And
this style of campaigning was carried
on vigorously. 1f any newspaper or
politician was bold and honest enough
to tell these Republican leaders that
they were bringing the party into rid
icule, and making themselves laugh
ing stock, such paper or individual
was at once denounced as not being
Republican. The Jackson Standard
tells its readers the truth, in plain
terms, without any regard to party
ties. On the fifth Of July the STAN
dard said:
"yhe Commercial Gazette says the
people of Ohio at large have taken
leave of the extremists those favoring
prohibition on this question: That
is just about as much sense as the
apologist and defender Of the dcggery
keepers ever displays. If we as Fora
kers friends continually thrust the
Scott Law into the peoples faces, as
the real Republican platform, we will
learn to our sorrow what party the
people have cut loose from"
Some of the Statesmen" of our
own party solemnly asserted that we
did not know what we were talking
about-that the Scott Law was, as
Foraker said, the most wise and just
measure ever passed" We were in
position to laugh at the ignorance or
short-sightedness Of these politi-
clans, for we knew whereof we spoke.
We more than once warned the Re
publicans-as in the paragraph quot
ed above-that the people Of Ohio
were not fools, to be whipped into
following the brewers and distillers
under the threat of being read out of
the Republican party. The result is
exactly what our readers will remem-'
Der to have read in this paper during
the campaign.
Judge Foraker took especial pains
to notify the voters of Ohio that it
would be his pleasure to vote against
both amendments. The whole mat
ter, in fact, was an attempt of the
politicians to sell the Republican par
ty to the liquor interest, and the
goods refused to materialize. Now, if
the politicians want to 'scut loose"
from us, we will be compelled to wish
them success. There are something
near three hundred and twenty thou
sand of US, and the cutting loose pro-
cess will be large affair, in our fa-
vor. But rather let the politicians
learn little wisdom from experience,
and, if they cannot endorse temper
ance measures, at least refrain from
going out Of their way to attempt to
control those who do. It was not the
ProhibItionists who sold out the Re
publican party-it was the politicians,
who underestimate the intelligence
and honesty and sobriety of the peo-
pie.
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