The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-21

panied to the national capital by wives and
women friends of rare intelligence, high culture,
and unquestioned moral worth"
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, OF Iowa, writes;
TT is my sincere conviction strengthed by
personal knowledge of the work the country
over, that the overthrow of the liquor traffic will
be soonest accomplished if our organizations
withhold party effort and give themselves wholly
to tine regular lines of temperance work which
have been developed by Gods providence during
the ten years since the crusade.
Further than this, L do not believe the de-
mand for national constitutional prohibition
is the best Endorsement of prohibition princl-
ples' The prohibition of the liquor traffic is not,
by either the letter or the spirit of the Consti-
ton, the subject of national legislation. Peace
able revolution according to constitutional meth
DDS, must come by State legislation. So also,
just prohibition cannot be carried IN State
till considerable number Of voters in the State
are themselves Prohibitionists, so national pro-
hibition cannot be a practical issue until con
siderable number of States are Prohibition
States When three-quarters of the States
agree, the Constitution of the United States may
be amended and national prohibition be the rule
Of the land"
Mr.. J. B. Grinnell of Iowa. was asked if he
would head the ST. John electoral ticket in that
State, and next year be the candidate for Coy
ernor He replied:
There are no absolute rules Of military war
fare in capturing fortress. more than in moral
conquests, but there is one that commends itself
to even the novice in combat, VIZ: Never heed
the counsel of your enemies. The party that
places free whisky in its platform just as hon
estly tells us, vote for St John, and though you
shoot in the air, you shall be as gods among
mortals. No, srl Two years ago, at non
partisan election, the voters opinion,
formulated into a law now on trial. This year,
under both Blaine and Butler, it is the proteo-
ton of labor and American industries vs. British
policy and lower wages, with Cleveland as
LEADER
Mr.. NJ. M. Gilchrist, onother Iowa Prohibition
list, whose name was placed upon the St. John
electoral ticket, writes:
'My name was placed on the ticket without
consulting me- but it cannot remain there with
my consent. l am a temperance man, and
Prohibitionist and cannot consent to aid in
any movement that 1 believe will injure the
cause so closely connected with the safety and
purity of the home, and prosperity of the
State While am as ardently in favor of
tonal temperance and prohibition as any who
are working zealously for the st. John
movement, yet l differ from them in Judgment
to the right way to advance the interests of the
cause"
Rev R. S. Macarthur, D. D., of New York
city, says:
''To vote for third party is virtually to throw
the Temperance vote for Cleveland and the Dem
ocratic party-the party of free rum-which has
the liquor dealers almost solidly in its ranks.
One article in my political creed is to find out
what the liquor men want you to do; and don't
do it. Now they want me to vote for Cleveland,
but if not for him, then for st. John. shall do
neither l am informed on good authority that
liquor dealer of this city, a few days ago, gave
$500 to forward the st. John campaign. On gen
eral principles always mean to oppose whatever
the liquor interests favor"
Rev. Geo. H. Gould, D. D., of Worcester,
Mass, in letter reviewing the history and
lol,o &c
''And over the broad land to-day with hardly
danger of using a misnomer, we may call it
the rum party
SIN nine-tenths of our cities. the right arm of
its power is rum.
I'm nine-tenths of our cities it carries its
every election to-day by hosting the foodgates
of free rum.
''Nineteen-twentieths of all the rumsellers in
the land now regularly and Loyalty vote with
the Democratic party. | proceed with the ar
raignment no further. Now when the
other of these two parties surely as the
shall rise on the day of the election will place
its candidates in the presidential chair for the
next four years, can any thoughtful and pa
triotic citizen hesitate as to which party he di-
rectly or indirectly will give his voteE
Rev. Q. Fl. Warren, D. D., editor of the
Northern Christian Advocate, writes;
"a national Prohibition party under the pres
ent conditions is an absurdity the result of the
illogical reasoning of men whose good intentions
and high character have not saved them from
serious mistake L am astonshed at
the exhibition of frail human nature which | see
in the persistent vituperation with which Mr.
Blaine is followed and that so many good men
have joined in it l cannot think that Christian
are filled with malice; but, if not then it is
evident that there should be salvation for the
head as well as the heart"
At meeting of the Methodist Ministers Asso-
citation, held in Troy a few days since, Rev. DR..
Chesney closed very earnest and able speech
on the issues of the day by saying,
81 am Prohibitionist, but I am also q prac=
teal ProhibtiOniSt. Two years ago / voted for
Prohibition Governor, but think making the
question a national issue is a mistake that the
American people cannot afford to make The
st. John men. cannot hope to elect their candi-
date, therefore the practical question is: Shall
we support an honest, upright candidate, who
| is pledged to carry on the good work of the Re-
publican party. or, by voting for ST. John, assist
in electing man whose party is antagonistic to
the advancement of this country and whose
private life is such that blush for his sins?
The position of the Prohibitionists, reminds me
very much of a semi humorous poem by j. Rus
sell Lowell, about lot Of tadpoles in a frog
pond. They wanted to become frogs at once,
but'could not devise way to bring it about.
Finally boy visited She frog pond one day and
dropped his jack-knife. The tadpoles secured it
and appointed a committee to cut off all their
tails. The next day the frog-pond was full of
dead tadpoes."
Such men as Ex-Governor Evans, of Colorado
| Ex-Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts,; ex-Presi
dent Theodore D. Woosey of Connecticut and
John V. Farwell and DR.. Hatfield Of Chicago,
men whose fidelity to the temperance cause
cannot bequestoned, and who in character and
ability would compare favorably with any equal
number of picked men in the United States,
appealed in vain to Mr. st. John to withdraw
and not be a help to the Democratic party.
''HOw Are You, BOys9"
lNote-When the Blaine party passed through
northern Ohio, the train stopped at a large ma