Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-10-27

mohln ol August In the vicinity or
Buffalo and conversed freely with cit
iZens of Buffalo who have had access
to prime sources of information, Tam
fully convinced that what has been
reported in the papers in regard to
his misconduct must be substantially
true. They have ''wash tub full of
carefully subatantiated data" said a
prominent gentleman to me, "against
Cleveland, reaching down to the pres
ent year, more of which may yet be
given to the public" 1t will never do
for this great country to condone
such offenses, by making him their
Chief Magistrate. If these things
had not been brought before the pub
lie and proved without any tolerable
vindication. the case would have been
very different. Now to crown him
with the highest honor in the gift of
the nation would be an objectionable
offence against the family and make
it impossible to touch Mormonism in
the next fifty years.
1t has not yet ceased to be mat
ter of urgent Importance to preserve
the fruits of the late civil war. We
have reason to think that some of
them would be periIed by the ascend
ancy of the Democratic party.
Closely associated with the last
item is another which every year is
becoming of greater consequence
the purity and integrity Of the ballot.
This has reached point of extreme
urgency. Without free, uncorrupt-
ed ballot, Republican institutions are
a failure. One of the most painful
things in out present condition is the
practical disfranchisement o. large
mass of duly constituted voters in the
Gulf States by purely political vio-
lence. Besides, in many large cities
in the North, and in some towns also,
there have been ontrages perpetrated
against the suffrages of the sovereign
| people. Their sacred ballots have
been repeatedly falsified or nullifed,
and, so far as know, entirely by the
supporters oe the democratic party.
The question of Prohibition is COM
ing more and more to be determined
by the popular ballot, in the local op-
ton, and also in the constitutional
form. But if the ballot box is to be
tampered with there is no hope for
the triumph of temperance by popu-
lar measures. The friends of con-
stitutional prohibition in Ohio last
year claimed that they were defraud-
ed out of sc, 900 votes. I am unwill-
ing to do anything to put back the
cause of temperance at this time by
turning over the government, even
temporarily, into the hands of the
party chargeable with these outrages
against the ballot.
Does some one say, "It is the old
story. Wait little longer; this is
not just the time the friends of tenn
perance can afford to watt / ans
wer, it is, indeed, the old story. Pro-
; gress, reform, has always had its
seeming halts in which its friends
have held on and pushed forward.
But the noisiest and most impatient
reformers have never been the surest
supporters of good causes. Even in
seeming delays the leaven was work
ing out sure results. So far as the
temperance cause is concerned it is
; painfully evident that there must be
vast amount of patient working up
} of public sentiment before we reach
our much desired end. | confess that
[ am not as anxious shout the results
Il of immediate political action as about
lifting up the masses of the people
{ into clearer and more positive tenn
| perance convictions. No radical po-
L litical advantages, suddenly gained,
= can be maintained on so sandy
/ foundation as we now have.
The lines for temperance labor
: have been recently defined by Mr..
:. Gustafson ('sThe Foundation Of
Death," by CHM, Heath & Co.. as
" three-political, social and individu-
. al. Many persons put them in this
order. With Mr.. Gustafson | re-
verse them. We have great work
: to do in building up and preparing
the individual ; then, in social life,
= before the more radical political the
ories can be carried out. Work up
l. the two former and the latter will in
> evitably follow.
'o In the meantime, however, / would
- keep the true theory of prohibitory
! legislation before the public, agitate
u it and push it forward, as a necessa-
~ Nv process for the education of the
~ people. For the present my duty
u clearly lies with the republican party
III If vote as / pray in the pending
y contest, must vote with that party
. for to my mind, / can do more gooo
'e for humanity and for the country by
40 acting with them than with the pro
hibitory party.
ee DANIEL DoRcHEsTER.
: Natick, Oct. II, 1884.
tie A baby was born in a cemetery at Marshalltowr
n Iowa short time ago. but everywhere can be see