The Indianapolis journal., 1886-07-21


Democrats you car who refuse to accept the
statement that the saioon business Is an limo
cent business to join the third party. Ii will do
all such Democrats good, and they will feel better
with you than whore they are now. twill cripple
the Liquor League to the extent Of the votes you
secure from the Democrats. You viii promote
the cause of temperance most effectively by so
doing. ! am generous enough. as Republican,
to consent that the third parsy shall be made up
entirely from recruits from the Democratic
party. Indeed, / would like to see the temper
ance Democrats in better company, than they
are now. If they will not form localoption
organization within their own party-if they
have concluded that it is useless to try to do any
thing inside of the Democratic party-then if
they will not come with u.s. sincefely hope they
will go to you / urge the third party to make
the effort have faith in the outcome for the
reason that the Democratic party has always
taken loving paternalintere in all third party
movements, and have eyer been ready to furnish
anything wanted but votes. They might now,
under the present surroundings, even furnish.
invountariy few voters,
The last utterauce of the Democratic party in
their State convention is pitful apology and
shamefaced defense of the Liquor League. No
other party got down so low and eat so much
dirt as the Indiana Democracy. The first duty
OF the temperance msn of all parties in Indiana
is to unite and defeat that party at the polls.
Let them unite on the great American principle
of submitting the whole matter to the sovereign
of reform so long as the Democrats control the
Legislature. The Liquor League holds the first
mortgage on the Indiana Democracy In Geof-
gia. Kentucky, Virginia and many other Demo
cratic States they are closing the saloons By
local-option laws Recently the Democrats of
Iowa passed a resolution unanimously. at
their State convention, indorsing local op
ton. It is left to the Indiana Dem
ocrat to have the utterance put in
his mouth by the Liquor League that the govern
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calculated to confer the greatest good upon the
greatest number, without sacrificing the rights
OF persons or property. and leaving the innocent
creeds, habits, customs, and business of the
people unfettered by sumptuary laws, class
legislation eXtortonate monopoliSts." They
had shame enough left to try to conceal the
innocency of the liquor business. by the use of
many words and by surrounding it with q
variety of popular platitudes They evidently
thought that the temperance Democrat would
not see it. In that they were right They did
not see it, They knew the Liquor League would
make the discovery. And so they did,
and voted the ticket straight, and the
last Legislature was the result-the worst, the
very worst. we have ever had in the State.
A Legislature that in the interest of the Liquor
League and Democracy made an apportionmeIt
law to determine in advance without consulting
the people who vote the political character of the
next Legislature so that the minority might rule
the majority, prompted by entirely the same mo-
tive that calls to political uses the shotgun in
Mississippi, and the tissue ballot in South Caro-
lima. The lines on map of that apportionment
bill show Jefferson county is foated through
Clarke into Floyd. and Jennings through Scott
into Clarke, and Morgan into Brown, and Yer
million through Vigo into Sullivan, and Eikhart
through Noble into DeKalb, and so on. until the
long, crooked lines look more like the isother-
NAL lines of map to give the temperature of
the country, rather than showing of legislative
districts. 1t Is not a matter of surprise, that
such body of men would refuse to make any
thorough examination of the State treasury, to
see if the peoples money was safe. or that they
would refuse to pass the necessary appropriation
bills at the regular session, SO as to compel the
Governor to call them in special session. so that
they might exist that much longer at the public
expense. To prevent the recurrence of such
public calamity, and the disgrace of such an
other Legislature is the high motive that
prompted the calling of this convention. Let us
act wisely and well.
Peter S. Kennedy, Barnabas G. Hobbs, John
B. Conner, Thomas Boyd and George NJ. Wright
retired for conference. In the interim Hon.
John " Hadley of Danville made very enter
tanning speech, filed with the logic of common
sense regarding the liquor question
The chairman of the committee on resolutions,
Hon. Peter s. Kennedy, reported the following
as the work of the committee. The resolutions
were read by Secretary Ray in voice that sent
them ringing through the hall:
Resolved That political organization based wholly
capital and desgnd to work exclusively in the in
terests of single class utterly regardless of public
welfare is dangerous to the community and should be
promptly rebuked
Resolved, That the Liquor League of America is
such political organization, and that its arrogance
and dictaon IN demanding legislation for its sole ben.
eft regardless of the lives and morals of the people
and its open refusal to obey the laws for the regua
of huc sHa1o
demnaton.
Resolved That the utterance of the last Democratic
State convention plainly shows that the Democratic
politicians of Indiana under the complete control
of the Liquor League in this State and that in order
to destroy the power Of the Liquor League in Indiana
it is the first duty of all men in the Stare
to combine and defeat the Democratic party at the
next election
Resolved. That local option in our judgment is an
assertion of the American principle that the majority
shall rule and we favor this common ground upon
which of all parties meet for the enactment
of aw which will submit the question to the people
of each ward township or county whether the bust
ness OF selling ntoxicants shall be permitted in said
localities; and
Whereas The traffic in liquor has under that most
effective license common consent. in the absence of
all restrictive law, extended and intrencied itself
greatly increasing the evils flowing from it.; and,
Whereas The refusal to regulate and restrain the
traffic where public sentiment viii not suppress it. is
wicked participation in great wrong, which no en-
Gghtened Judgment or conscience, can sanction nor
moral sense justify; therefore,
Resolved, That where the traffic by failure of the
people to suppress it, is allowed to exist we are in
favor of putting it under the restrictions and penal
ties of law which shall in some adequate measure
compel it to bear the burdens imposes on society
well as some measure of public dsapprobaton.
Resolved, That executive committee of thirteen
be appointed by the president of this convention who
shall be chairman thereof and that said committee
be authorized to appoint delegates to the National
Republican Anti-saioon Conference, to be held in
Chicago the 10th day of September, 1856. and to
call such future meetings OF this body as may be
deemed necessary.
Speaking TO the resolutions, Mr.. Kennedy
said that the great trouble now in every depart
ment of business is lack of patience The
difference between rs and prohibition
friends is not great They have not patience
and we have. That is all They want to do
everything at once and we do not They will
have to learn to do things by piecemeal You
remember DR.. Franklin's story of the boy who
dropped two apples every time he tried to pick
that story We nrnnnsa 70 taka n rart at :