The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-06-19
The North American Gail.


ton When she starts out to make point,
| there is nothing in the heavens above. in
the earth beneath. or i'll the waters under
the earth that will prevent her making it.
| IL there are any facts in her way, so much
the worse for the facts. For their own
sakes, she would prefer that they were not
there; but if they strbbornly remain. it is
not her fault but their misfortune.
In the last North Ameyicdn Rerie,r she
starts ont to show the insgnificance of the
| Prohibition party vote last November. She
| finds in her way the fact that $50, 900 votes
were east. not only for st. John, but for
other Prohibition candidates whose sup
port could not by any process of reasoning
be attributed to mere dissatisfaction with
Blaine and Cleveland. An awkward man
would have run slap bang against the fact,
and bruised his shns Not so this gifted
woman. She disposes of it in this satrical
way:
sin the whole country-from New England
| from New York, from the aroused West and
the Prohibitory South-out of ten million
voters, the number of those that tioclled to the
standard of official integrity and moral purity,
| who pronounced for God and home and native
| lane-dissatistied Republicans and cnthusias-
| tic Prohibtionists, all told-was exactly 5000.
Didn't we tell you? The truth is the
official returns obtained by Tie Voice direct
from the different Secretaries of State give
a vote of over $50, 900; the Tribune almanac
does likewise; the Handbook of Prohibit
ton follows suit 1t makes no difference.
The fact has no business there. and it has
to go.
She starts out to make the point that Mr..
Blaine is the embodiment of personal in
tegrty, and has the confidence of the voters
in his own State. There is another fact in
her way here. Poor fact. The records
show that Mr.. Blaine's majority in Maine
last November was less than any Republi-
can candidate except Garfield has received
since the Republican party came into
power. Here is the vote, as given in the
tribune almanac:
1864: whole vote cast, l06,Oli: Rep. vote, ii, :
s03 Rep. majority, 1882.
1863 whole vote cast, 1883: Rep. vote, 10
1872: whole vote cast, 9Oj09: Rep. vote, 81, :
422 Rep. majority 32,335.
1876: whole vote cast, l1G,241: Rep. vote, 66.-
300 Rep. majority, 1885
1880: whole vote cast, l43720: Rep. vote, a.
059 Rep. majority 4,22j.
1884: whole vote cast, 1870 49,; Rep. vote. -
209 Rep. majority, 1886.
Gail doesn't falter moment She dis
poses of this obstruction gently but firmly.
She says:
The jury of the vicinage passed verdict on
the Republican candidate. From his own
ward. his own county, his own State, the Re
publican candidate received larger majority
than any candidate had received for twenty
years. The Republican majority rose instant
ly around him from less than 5000 to more than
10000. In the State OF his birth, it rose from
81 900 to $1,000
She starts out to show that the Prohibit
ton party, by refusing to vote for Republi-
can candidates, is simply numbering the
temperance cause--killing it dead in fact
She illustrates it by case in her own State
the recent election i'll Portland. Another
ugly fact or two stand before her. Their
fate is sealed This is the fact as stated by
Neal Dow in Tie Voice, April Both, con-
firmed by correspondent after correspond
ent, asserted by the members of the recent
Maine NJ. +. Conference (see first pagc),
and hitherto denied by none;
Edaor The Ioice.-This moming-Tuesday
April ellis the grand day of the week in our
municipal court for the trial of arrested per-
sons, including drunkards The number is
usually from ten to twenty: this morning there
was not one, and it is only three weeks yester
day since the Republican hopes in Portland
were ANONYMOUSLY beaten ut our city election
and a Democrat was elected Mayor and Dem
ocratic City Marshal was appointed The aver
agearrests i'm our city, for all offences, has been
about fifty per week, for several years Com
pairing the first three weeks of April 1875, with
the corresponding weeks of April, 1884, we find
the following result:
Whole number of arrests in 1884