San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-10-23
Blaine and his Party False TO Temper
ance and Reform.

We find tho following telling arti-
Gle in the Vanguard, an outspoken
reform journal Published at st. Louis;
We are told 10 vote for Blaine TO
"save our votes" aud advance tenn
perance and prohibition. Yes, lst
Blaine says in the most emphatic pub
lie statement, ~ would make the tax
on liquors u permanent revenue to all
tho states" and Logan wants to sup
port our public schools by whiskey
revenues Blaine had six varieties
Of liquors around each plate at his
whiskey banquet at Washington last
winter. Blaine abstained from Ii
quors while at home in O prohibition
state, but drank wine when at Wash
ington! Blaine ia silent. He re-
fuses to speak. Silence in the pres
ence Of such mighty living issues as
now confront him, proves him tit
representative Of the sneaking, shuffl.
ing policy of q coward party. Blaine
u prohibitionist! Why he had a
chance to vote and speak just now
where the prohibitory amendment
was before the people Of Maine, but
he fatty refused to do eitherl Such
silence is louder than words. Blaine
can carry water on one shoulder and
whiskey on the other, therefore he is
favorite representative Of a de.
bauched party that utterly ignores
the paramount political and moral
issue before the American people.
Like o cunning cheat he cries, Tariff
"Tariff, and wool WOOL" only to
stop the ears of the people 70 the de-
spairing cry of 10000 mothers and
wives.
I'd. The Republican party al
ways did and always will defeat pro,
hibition. 1t stands directly in the
way of the will of the people and says
they shall notsay whether they will
prohibit This is the party of great
professions and weak performance.
More than score Of years it has suf-
fered Mormonism to flourish as green
bay tree and assailed this citadel OF
hell with resolutions bombarded
this Gibralter Of pollution with pa.
paper wads. Shame! shame on
such shutting and cowardice. The
Republican party permits four.
thousand saloons in the District of
Columbia where it has sole jurisdic-
ton, and in all the territories under
it's control whiskey flows as free as
water! Those who hope for prohi-
bition from such a party are doomed
to disappointment. We can not put
new VINE in old rotten bottles. That
party not only makes whiskey free in
it's territories but offers license to
every rumseller in SO states who can
pay United States license, and that
even in states that pass prohibitory
laws! There is AZ much prohibition
now under Democratic as under Re-
publican rule, if not more. The Re-
publican majority in Maine the
other day was $4,000, the majority
for prohibition was $4,000 So much
for our prospects in that party. Full
ton county, Illinois, has democratic
majority of 666. There are no sa-
looms legalized in Fulton county. In
Knox county with 124S Republican
majority, the one city of Galesburg
receives $4,000 revenue from from
saloons That is your Republican
prohibition. This is the party that
like Napoleon upon upon st. Helena
says, LET us live upon the past. "
That sits supinely at the feet of the
rum power, prating about political
platitudes, and turning its owl eyes
upon its record, a traitor to the vital
and awful issue of the hour.