The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-04
ANOTHER TICKET.
The PrOhibitiOnists oil Henry County
Hold a Convention and Nominate
Candidates.

county have SHE'D their caster into the
political arena, and nominated county
and legislative ticket The convention
was held in Galva this week, where the
cold waterites are supposed to have had
regular love feast. W. H. Repine, of
the Woodruff Dispatch, was nominated
for representative, George W. Shaw, for
states attorney, and j. p CHASER for
coroner. Delegates were also appointed
to congressional convention The fol-
lowing platform was adopted;
Be it resolved by the Henry county
prohibitionists in convention assembled:
/. That the position of both the dem
ocratic and republican parties on the
liquor question, leaves us no alternative
but to organize third party.
,. That the fact that the general gov>
eminent is the principal partner in the
liquor traffic, that it controls the business
a. nation SD far as the public revenue is
concerned, also utterly so far as the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories are
concerned. is of itself sufficient proof of
the necessity of a third party organiza
ton.
3. That we believe licensing of the
traffic to be wrong in principle. 1t is
crime to be suppressed, not an evil to be
regulated, and we declare high license to
be a step backward in the temperance
cause.
t. That we urge our temperance
friends in both the old parties to come
ont now for God, for home, and for our
native land, and begin now to vote their
principles and not be longer bound by
party affiliations and party policies.
5. That We fail to see the consistency
of protesting Christians, who preach and
pray loudly for prohibition all of the days
of the year excepting election day.
g. That to call themselves republican
prohibitiOnists but not fanatics, is as abs
surd as to claim to be republican demo
Gratis but not cranks.
7. That the eQuivocal position of James
G. Blaine in striving to carry republican
beer on one shoulder and prohibition wa
ter on the other, stamps him moral
coward.
8. That we unhesitatingly declare it as
our opinion that the office of Prosecuting
Attorney in this county ought to be filled
by sound temperance man OF unb!cm-
ished reputation and unquestioned integ>
rity.
9. That we commend our nominee, q.
W. Shaw, of GeneseO, as such q man, and
We declare that no man ought to fill that
Office for fonr consecutive terms.
10. That in our nominee for represen>
tative, William NJ. Repine. local editor of
the Woodruff Dispatch, We recognize the
only distinctively prohibition editor in
this representative district, and we COM
mend him to all the friends OF temperance
in Rock Island and Henry counties as
worthy their support.
II. That we indOrse the bold and I'M,
equivocal stand taken by the national
prohibition party on the subject of WON
an suffrage.
This is quite platform, truly, ant
leads one to believe that the prohibition
lists mean business. The real object o.
the cold water fellows is very clear-tht
defeat of II. G.. cleveland, of this county
Bro. Smithe, of the Cambridge Chronicle
is one of the leaders in the cause, but TIT
committee on resolutions evidently 10
nored him, when they said, ''in Mr.. Re
pine we recognize the only distinctively
prohibition editor in this representative
district" Smithe, in his last publication
thus refers to Cleaveland, in speaking o
the republican convention:
"Of Mr.. II. G. Cleaveland, of Rock Isl
and, who was also renominated for rep
resentative by the same convention, thi
cannot be said. He is unfit for and I'M
worthy of the office, and has already re
Elected in it quite enough discredit upor
the district. We will not vote for him ant
we will not ask others to vote for him
This is what we declared without reserve
long Before the nomination, would be on
course ifhis name should be put upon TIKI
ticket; and we desire now to announce i
her, in as few words possible"
This must be gall and NORWOOD t.
the friends of Cleaveand The incOn
sistency of Smiths views on the two can,
didates- Cleaveland and Mowers -
is quite remarkable While h
is willing to support Mowers he shut
his heart against our Cleaveland. Now
ers is no more of a prohibltionist than i
Cleaveland, and if the good people o
Henry county think so, they are wofully
in the dark on the subject. 1t is trut
that he did not make such hullabaloo a
Springfield as did our festive Harry, bu
We doubt very much whether he visite(
any Y. NJ. c. A. rooms or cold water so
ciables while at the capital
The whole row, however is in the re
publican camp, and thus the ARGUS cal
be a complacent observer without mixing
up in the carnage. We will watch tn,
internecine battle from afar, as it were
and as our Paddelford is finding the pc,
litical field a veritable bed of roses, w
will give the under dog an Occasional
boost in our humble way. Before TIL
election is over we expect to see Henr,
county shaken from core to circumference
and all around the edges with politica
feryOr. She has already three candidate
for legislative h0nors, and there are sew
eral more readyto pop up at a moment
notice.
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