The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-24
Tie Republican Defeat in Ohio.
BY NEAL DOW.

During the canvass before the cleo
ton in Ohio, the Republican leaders
there, without exception, believe, in
the press and upon the platform, re-
pudiated the policy of Prohibition
and all sympathy with temperance
and the temperance element Of the
party, and openly begged for the
whisky and beer vote on the ground
Of the sympathy Of the party with
the liquor interest. Conspicuous
among these speakers were Senator
Sherman and the Republican candi-
date for Governor. These took espe-
cial pains to conciliate the liquor vote
by contemptuous treatment of the
temperance agitation.
Senator Sherman at the preceding
session Of Congress had given proof
Of his loyalty to the whisky interest
by introducing into the Senate and
rushing through that body bill, the
effect of which, if passed by the
House, would have been to take from
the United States treasury SS0,00O,000
and transfer it to the pockets of the
distillers! After careful survey of
the whole ground and mature deliber-
alton and calculation of the chances
the Republican bosses of Ohio deter
mined to cast in the lot of the party
with the breweries, distilleries and sa-
looms as against the homes of the peo-
pie. 1t was simply calculation Of
chances, as in other act of gambling
the bosses lost the game, that's all
there is of it, as every sensible man
could see from the beginning. The
Republican party cannot successfully
compete with the Democratic party
for the votes Of the saloons. brothels
and gambling houses; these go to the
latter by natural affinity.
After the game was up and the
Democrats had raked in the stakes,
the Republican players of the lost
game were vehement in their denun-
citation of the temperance men, be-
cause they would not vote the Repub-
lican whisky ticket. There were more
than $4,000 votes for Prohibition
and less than 100000 license votes in
support of the policy of the Republi-
can bosses. Senator Sherman so far
lost his head as to declare upon the
platform that the party must hence
forth repudiate the temperance ele-
ment OF the people-323, 900 of them
This, in fact, the party had already
done. But the line Of policy suggest
ed by the Senator reminded me Of a
story [ read in a French book years
ago; it is this:
On ships forecastle one fine sum-
mer's evening, the watch on deck were
gathered in little circle, spinning
yarns, which one Of them striving to
tell the biggest =. One Of them
said:
In a gale of wind one night | fell
overheard; no one saw me. and the
ship kept on her course. swan all
night and in the morning [ saw an
empty liquor barrel floating by, and
mounted it astride. Toward night a
great steamer came by and hailed me.
"Cask ahoy!'
''Hullo,'
"Will you come aboard?"
Where are you bound?"
''To Madras"
IL Ooallu to bolHUay, go along
and [ wouldn't go aboard. It's fact,
after two weeks navigation on my
barrel, [ sailed triumphantly into the
port Of Bombay"
The Republican party Of Ohio ap-
paars to me to be in condition like
that OF the man overheard, and Sena-
tor Sherman seems resolved to cling
to the liquor cask, while he bids the
$4,000 Prohibition voters to mind
their own business and not interfere
with ''the party"
PORTLAND, Me, January, 1884.