The Indianapolis journal., 1884-09-08
MIsLEp PRoHIRITIoNIsTs.
Votes for st. john VIII Aid the Party of the
Gro2 slhop and BnIId0zer.

Votes Tor ST John VIII Aid the RaEty OF the
Gro2 -Sliop and BnlIdoxer.
10 thss Hditor Of the New York Tmbunes
Among the political forcesaof the hour char
aeteriznd BY irrational indisidnalism and rams
pant tendeney to faction which threatens mot
only the stability of poliicalpartes but popular
government itself, reducing society to condir
tion of chaos, that one which. proposes to organ
ize.a, national Prohibition party and to give its
yote in the present election for Ex-Governor ST
john of Kansas. is, perhaps, best entitled to- re,
spect. It.certainly is more worthy of eDnsitlsrs
alton than that other party which, masqueradiug
in the sham of Independence, is laboring might
and main to bring back to power the old Dem
ocratie party and is willing to- asaassinate,
great and good party merely from personal dis
like. to James q Blaine, though TO this hour it
hssnot proved a single charge il has made
against the oBjeetsof its.spite,
The Prohibition party stands upon differeRb
footing and tits aetnatedby different motives
Though asI think tits manifestly wrong and
abnndBn1 in mischief, its members are among
the mestconscienti0ns and philanthropie of the
American people
There isno denying that these people, though
manifestly in error are actnated by pure mo-
tiyess Dominated.by sineles idea, detached
from all questions affecting the general moral
and material interests Of the country, having
heforra them am object which excludes alt else,
assuming to foliowin the footsteps of thosenobde
1nen.and women who waged a. thirty years moral
warfaresagainst slavery, and were, Instrumental
insmaking possible the overthrow Of the slave
system, these ProhibiEonists think to- do the
same for intemperanee1
Sue1a people are not to, be- ridiculed or de-
nounced ont Of their convictions. Against them
no weapons should be brought Less, effective than
reasons truth and humanity
Lest what am about to say shall be rejected
on the presumption that I have a:leaning toward
liquor, may say that I am both temperance
man and a prDhibHonist. neither drink,
smoke cnew, nor take snuff Yet am not, in
aparty sense, a Prohibitionist. or in favor Of
erecting political party upon that single issue:
certainly not at the present time, when the;
practical effect Of the Organization of such al
party toswithdraw votes from the Republican,
party; and thusto strengthen and place in power
The rum and'slaKery Demecraticsnarty.
Prom the nature and composition of the Re-
publican Marty composed of the most moral and
philanthrDpic 1.-THE American peopaes the Pro-
hibitioniparty wiu naturally draw ten vntes
party.
Il is notorious that the strength and mnstiee
of thA Democratic party iss due tostffe solid vote
of the South, and almost equally due to the solid
vote Of thesdram1shops of the Nortln
Whens theref6re, 4 am asked to vuoten for MIs
St. John, Iam asked to assist not the cause Of
temperanee or prohibition, for at presents SUCH
assistaneesissimpDssib butto placoin power q
party distinguished for itssympathy withiintimis
datiOnlaWless violence and the destruction of the
fteedoma0f the A1aalet in the Souths while itlsuph
ports theswhiskE drinking eustomspf the Norths
Ltisnofhibgsa against this, that onr ffiendssof
tlefR efRfohibiti6n party are at oppOsedalike
to- theegrpEshop and the bulldozeris whips, /
sppal6 of the efEectOf their pplitieal action
and Of the dsfenses tiaats they maizee Of. that
saRtiont
Dlsey sayy sSupposDsWeN 0adbfeat theeelee etien
a. JaneslGt Blaine and john 40 b0gauy and
tlasgoTstthrow the Republican party and bring
into, power Grower Cleveland and Thomas A.
1Fendffczs, and the old ldiDem0o1atio parity the
final result viii be good sincesonttofi the rMins
ar tlipIlepnbliHan party tlmresMill arise ~ Pro
Nilition parity, which, four years. hencsy through
dIsnnsb afCtlle wiel5edhess of fhno Dnmgerntil
narl5k will come into poHen and dnstnpEstl.e
1nunnfkctufe and trAfie in ardent spirits al
fnqsthnrE -. assumption nbsntas wildsandsir,
rafional aoIit is pnzsiblexto oOncoiye.
anppose the 1nninifdct ID fhisprohib hibitionoargul
n1ent bo granted q thing utterly opposes te