Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-11
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1884.
NOT A THIRD-PARTY MAN.

q. MI. Bigelow Refuses to Help the De no
| Gratis defeat Temperance.
The Union lecture bureau recently
sent circular to many leading advoca-
ties OF temperance asking their voice and
aid in support of the Uuion party favor
ing prohibition. In this circular occur
red the following paragraph:
Are you prepared to give your hearty
support, both by voice and vote, to the
platform and candidates of the National
Prohibition party, and the Union party
OF Michigan? In explanation to this
question, would say the bureau does
not require that its speakers should con-
fine themselves to the party side Of the
Prohibition issue, nor that they should
necessarily make political address, ia
in the ordinary acceptatiOn Of that term;
but for the purposes of this campaign,
the bureau does not wish to recommend
any speakers who still give their adher-
encs to the old liquor crime parties, or
who will u0t make it an especial point
to urge their auditors to seal their con
demnation of the liquor traffic by their
votes.
One OF these circulars was sent to g.
M Bigelow, a well known Prohibition
list of Newberry, Mich, and Mr.. BigelOw's
reply is so happy and so fOrcible that
the Dstr0itsPOst gladly avails itself of
the writer's permission to publish 1t. 1t
read as follows:
your circular of Aug Is asking
whether l am prepared to give my hear
ty support both by voice and vote to the
platform and candidates of the national
Prohibition party and the Union party
of Michigan, is at hand.
"In reply; am PrOhibitiOnist. My
voice and my vote and my prayers are
for that cause. allow nOparty to con-
troll nae, but use the best judgment God
has given me for the advancement of
good government and the cause of right,
But that judgment compels me to ans
wer emphatieally, No. to your question.
Il find that the only advantages ever
obtained by the cause of prohibition
have been through the Republican not
the Prohibition party.
1.-TWO years ago saw the Prohibition
party working hand in hand, with the
salO0n-men for the success of the Demo |
cratic ticket and spending their effort |
not for Prohibition but to blacken the |
character of the Republican candidate. |
saw them defeating men pledged to |
submit a prohibition amendment and |
thereby rendering such submission i'm
possible.
81 look at the Prohibition platform, |
and while endorse part of it, l cannot /
indOrse woman suffrage or some other
points. l look at the political situation
and see two great parties opposed to
each other, one of which must succeed.
BY voting for the Prohibition ticket I
should be voting to elect the Democrat
10 ticket, which would consider a ma
tiOnal calamity. The Democratic party
as the champion of the saloon, the SYM
pathizer with rebellion and the Oppres.
sion in the south, with its free-trade
principles, the menace to the business
and laboring interests of the nation,
with its boards of hungry Office seekers
who would throw the whole machinery
If government into confusion, is the
great danger we must meet to-day. 1
lock at the candidates, and the Repub-
lean candidates in state and nation
meet my approval as men in whom /
rave confidence and in whose care the
'ause of temperance will be safe. Mr..
)leveland's moral character believing
10 more than his friends ADMIT and his
declared opposition to prohibition render
lis defeat OF the first Importance.
"In view of these facts my principles
emand that in the present campaign l
Import the Republican ticket and
latform."