The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12

In the whole south 10 not ma re-
corded Is, 600 Prob .bition votes. Every
Southern State went for unmitigated
Democracy Miss Wizards ghost ma
terialized. on the 4th of November, into
1853 electoral votes solid for free rum
and the lost cause. Could there be .
more pitiful contrast between promise
and performance? Is it any
wonder that unhome-like. masculine.
old-party veterans should. in the
first flush of ungallant anger, call
Miss Willard "a Democratic cat s-paw?"
But the Prohibition vote has yet a
sadder tale to tell. 1t was made the
test of integrity and of purity. as well
as of temperance. The New York In
dependent, a strong Prohibition paper
whose proprietor. Mr.. Henry c. Bowen,
as Federal officer, Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue in the Brooklyn district
when Hon. Hugh McCulloch was Sec
rotary OF the Treasury under President
johnson, must have very accurate
conception of Official uprightness, at
least of what Mr.. McCulloch's idea Of
official uprightness used to be-charac-
terizes the Prohibition candidate as the
lone candidate in the field whose
official and moral uprightness can not
be impeached." The Prohibition vote
was entreated from .'every man who
wants to enter his moral protest in No
vember." The name of the Prohibition
candidate was declared to "stand for
morality as well as for Prohibition; he
has gained an untold strength among
those who have turned to him as the
one candidate who embodies personal
and official purity"
1T is quite certain" said the iucor-
ruptible ex-Collector. ''that the Repub-
lican and the Democratic candidates
are not really wanted, either of them,
by the respectable and conscientious
voters of this country. The best men
of both parties are at heart opposed to
them. and will not vote for them.
Good men of all parties will hang their
heads with shame if either should be
successful" These men-the good, the
best-were declared to be fiocking to
the standard of st. John, whose move
ment represents the only hope, polit-
ically, of the home, the church and the
Nation" Great surprises were pre-
dicted on this basis. when men come
to face the issue in November. with ali
local questions laid aside, and consider
conscientiously their duty to- the coun-
try, to the cause of morals and right
eOusness, they will pronounce verdict
which will have no Joy in it for bad
men," In the West the St. John vote
will be especially large. In New York
it is likely to be much greater than is
generally supposed. Through New
England thousands of dissatisfied Re-
publicans will vote for st. John" 1.-The
surprise in November Will be, not that
this or that one was elected. but that so
many were bold enough to burst all
ties in support of official and personal
purity. No comparison could be made
between the personal character of the
Republican. the Democratic and the
Prohibition candidates, that would not
be detrimental to the two former the
latter being 1.-The only unassailable can
didate in the field "
The IndepeRdent was mistaken.
There was one comparison that could
be made by that old English method, a
jury of the vicinage. The jury of the
yicinage passed verdict of the Repub-
lican candidate. From his own ward,
his own CITY, his own county, his own
State, the Republican candidate receiv-
ed larger majority than any candi-
date had received for twenty years. The
majority rose instantly
around him from less than 5000 to more
than 10000. In the State of his birth,
it rose from 81, 900 TO $1,000. The DEM
Ocrat;e candidate maintained the
of his party. and received in
his own state total vote of more than
half a million. The Prohibition candi-
date in his own State-of which, like
the Democratic candidate he had once
been Governor-received 4,273 votes
In the same State the Republican can
didate received 153, 1886 votes. In the
State of MIR. st. Johns home, where
he was best known, and where
the Prohibition cause was best
its candidate received
less than two per cent. of
the total vote. This is not decisive of
the personal characters of the candi-
dates, but it is comparison of their
personal characters, in which the detri- |
ment does not fall where the Prohibit
lion umpire said that it would fall: and |
it falls 80 far away from the place pre-
dicted as to be decisive of the umpire s.
instinct for truth.
In the whole country-from New En-. |
gland, from New York, from the
aroused West, and the prohibitory
South-out of ten million voters, the
of those that iiocked to the
standard of official integrity and moral
purity, who pronounced for, God and
home and native land-dissatisiied Re-
publieans and enthusiastic. Prohibition
told-was exactly $4,000.
We are forbidden to doubt that this
was a test vote. The Independent,
before election, PRONOUNCED the claim
d President Woolsey,s. Judge Noah |
Davis and others, that the. Prohibition |
party did not represent the Prohibition |
StS. TO be ''almost ridiculous We are |
obliged to consider it a, representative |
vote. Eliminating the $4,000 confessed |
we have: out of ten mil |
ions of voters, fifty thousand flocking |
FOR official integrity and moral purity. |
Forty-eight hundred thousand bad men |
their heads over 81 bad mans |
victory, forty-eight hundred thousand
had men shaking their heads over
! bad mans defeat, and only fifty thou
sand good men to hang their heads for
shame. / am not familiar with the sta |
Iistics of the Old World. bat l am afraid
that Sodom hadl a. better chance than
the Great Republic. The Independent
was right in one. respect-it is sur.
prise. Mr.. St Johns untold strength
still remains untold but his told |
strength, as the. one candidate that sm-
bodies personal and official psrify.
seems to indicate. that he embodies it +