The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-31
It is Not Out of Politics.

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Our esteemed contemporary, the Ga
zette. says that the state republican plat
form is a compromise, upon which pro-
hibitionists and anti-prohibitiOnists can
meet, and that, therefore, prohibition
is out of politics.
Our esteemed contemporary was new
er more mistaken i'll its life; and it
makes a most shameless confession.
That prohibition should be forced to
surrender any of the ground it has
gained is too sad thought to entertain,
and the platform doesn't contemplate
anything of the kind. Mr.. GRIFFIN,
the leader of the state convention and
a prominent prohibitionist, says:
1t was admitted that prohibitiOnists
had absolute control Of the convention,
and could do exactly as they pleased,
but they early announced that they had
no desire to pay off old scores" or hu-
initiate their opponents. They did not
wish to sickle over mere words. Their
aim was to destroy the business of dram
selling, and to this end they wanted the
active and persistent support of the re-
publican party. Sensible men
will admit that, if the platform is car
ried out in good faith, the prohibition
lists will have gained a great Victory,
for they will have secured the help of
the ants in making prohibition sue
cess. The state ticket, as a
whole, is a good one. No better one
was ever nominated in this state. To
those who do not know Col. Martin, we
say you can rely implicitly on his doing
his whole duty, and he will consider it
his duty las well as his privilege to do all
he can to make prohibition an acknowl-
edged success. lie viii make his adj
miniStratiOn as striking contrast to
that of Gov. Clicks as possible.
1t seems, then, that the issue this fall
is to be upon prohibition. 1t is the on
ly issue, in fact. And JOHN y. MAR
TIN will do all he can to make prOhi-
bitiOn an acknowledged success" In
this manner is prohibition taken out of
politics. Our esteemed contemporary
the Gazette, should manfully acknOwl-
edge that prohibition is the sole tenet of
the republican party of Kansas, and
cease to make assertions which are
based upon the SuppOSitiOn that the peO-
pie of this county are fools.
The Hon. GEO. w. MARTIN in his
Junction City Union of last week, says:
The whole republican machine has
become a rotten, seething mass of by
pOcrisy and duplicity since the question
entered AS in the convention of two
years ago voting for st. John, SO we
find in this last scores of anti-prOhibi-
tioniStS voting likewise who are utter
ly unable to express their contempt for
prohibition. We find las we did two years
ago, scores who yell the lOudeSt are the
first to hunt saloon. The convention
voted down re submission, the candidate
| for Governor opposes re-SubmiSSiOn,
and yet the newspapers and leaders tell
| us to go home and make fight in the
legislative districts for re-SubmiSSiOn.
Support republican state ticket and
elect democratic Legislature. Elect a
resubmissiOn legislature and at the
same time elect a Governor who will
veto anything they may do, according
to his own expressions and the platform
upon which he is to be elected-prOvi-
ded he don't flop again before that time!
Is this the way to meet and treat a Sc
riouS public question? Various repub-
Iican, senatorial and representative con-
ventions, in different parts of the state,
made up exclusively Of prohibitiOniSts
because the ants generally remained
away from the primaries, ARE iEstructing
against re-SubmiSsiOn. The leaders and
! the organs assure us that we may, and
so encourage us, to bolt these nominal
lions. We believe it was ID. r. An
thony we heard say that the real issue
in this campaign is whether the people
of Kansas are lot of damphOOlS or not.
We claim the right as a republican
toprotest against given policy of party
action, and we also claim the right to
refuse to follow line of action which
has already been SO disastrous and must
be more so the farther it is pursued.