Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-07
THE WAY TO FIGHT Is TO FIGHT.


The Republicans of Ohio have a contest
before them in which if they win they will
achieve a double victory--and that is the
triumph over their old enemy the Demo
cratic party, and their heretofore secret,
understanding foe, the so-called Prohibi-
bitionists 1t is fortunate that the latter
has thrown of all DISCUSSES and have
openly avowed through their leader St
John that the Republican party of all
| other parties should be beaten in this con
test 1t is not a question now as to what
the real temperance advocates of Ohio
may owe to the Republican party, neither
is it a question to be considered as to
what the Republican party has suffered in
attempts to aid the people in protecting
themselves against the ruin that rum has
made and is making in the homes of so
many of our people. 1t is enough to know
that what the Republicans have essayed to
do has met the opposition Of the liquor
traffic because it struck at what to them
appeared vulnerable points, while al the
same time the partisan Prohibitionists
oppose the Republicans and in so doing
have richly merited the smiles Of the liquor
interest and the highest praise and tender
est sympathy Of the Democratic party. The
leaders of the partisan Prohibtionist can
lily disguise the fact that they are pleased,
hattered and cajoled by the Democratic
party in this fight; they apparently do not
so much care as to the source from which
the praise comes as they do care that they
are wheedled and made much of by some
body. The partizan Prohibtionist who
sat under St. Johns eulogy of the South
ern rebels, and the beittlement Of the loyal
| North; who even were so frantic in their
worship of this arrant falsilier as to cheer
when he praised disloyalty and dishonored
patriotism, as he did in the late conven-
ton in this city, have little to recommend
them to men Of right judgment and ordn-
ary common sense. The party whose rep,
resentatiyes do not know enough to know
that in accepting st. Johns champion
ship, they become the apologists of the
Copiah Miss murderers-murders and
outrages, that the Democratic administra-
ton admits and condemns-has no
power to link the noble cause of
Temperance with such infamy.
1t is not remarkable when all things are
considered that the opposition to the Re.
publican party take for themselves at
once the unenyiable position as apologists
for rebellion and treason. 1t is, by con.
trast, lasting honor to the Republican
party that this is true, and it leaves to the
Republicans the noble duty of Wrestling
the government from its enemies, Of re-
deeming the old flag from infamy and per
petuating loyalty and patriotism in this
country. The Democratic party is skuk-
ing behind the partisan Prohibitionists in
Ohio for plain purpose, it is their only
hope, but it is a false hope, for all these
DISCUSSES will be torn aside and the same
old Democratic party will be exposed be-
hind this iiimsy wall of gauzs. The Re.
publican party has been cast down, but
not destroyed; its field OF usefulness is
only made the more plain by temporary
defeat, and it is on the road to glorious
victory in Ohio.