Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-26
PRO AND CON.
Animated Discussion of the Third PATTY
Question.
Hhe Advocates OF the Party R.a,v w.
ted.

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yesterday there was an animated di.cus.;o,
OF the third party question at the Dro.a.,
camp Ground, participated in BY Gen. Ne.,
LOW and Voiney Gushing FOR the affirmative
new Mr. LeLacheur, Rev. d. B. Randall
negative. There was very fair attendance
Inc efforts of the chairman, Rev. Mr. Me-
lntyrs of Brunswick, were frequently 20.
CURED to keep order. The battle was onansd
at 8 o'clock A. M. by
Mr.. Volney Cushing.
Mr. Gushing on opening said this m,e,;no
represen ed difference in method in the wav
Vi reaching certain ends, between the friends
Oh temperance. He claimed that probihition
c0uid only be obtained through new nation.
al prohlDltlon party. Neither party can
oe successful to-day without the aid of the
oaioon keeper, and as new party was needed
In old anti slavery days, so to day a new
paiV required. We say that party that
mas liquor wing cannot be trusted with the
control of the liquor questions. We have a
small party of prohibitionists, and MANY
temperance men are voting with the republi-
can party hoping it will become an anti-sa.
loon party. Mr.. Gushing held that both par-
tles would do something for prohibition in
IOcaiitIes, but nothing as national parties.
Ihey would do nothing where their interests
were antagonized.
Inc only party that can successfully
cope with the liquor interests is one de.
voted to the work. The old parties are more
anxious to whip each other than to beat the
liquor traffic. What lie the result? Rum in
fiuences both of the old parties and the LIQUOR
men control them.
MIR. Gushing did not believe, because the
republican party had managed the slavery
problem, that it could cope with the rum
power.
Another reason for a temperance party ::
we see clearly that the democratic and repub-
llcan organizations are not temperance parties,
and as the States are influenced by the nat.
lonal parties we find that there is no hope in
Maine.
Mr. Gushing held that the law was not en-
forced IN Maine, and that in the cities of
Maine rum was almost af free as water He
did not believe the old parties meant to crush
the saloon. Mr.. Bodwell's letter and the
platform of the party did not say thing
about enforcement of the law. Politicians
are duping the temperance men here in Maine
by giving law and then NOT enforcing it,
The speaker wanted a party that would en-
force the law; party that would unite
against the saloons and crush them out. The
union of the anti slavery wings and demo-
Gratis was likened to the nnon of temperance
men to-day. Men from both parties in
Maine, he claimed, were uniting.
As parties are organized now the liquor
men have the advantage.
In closing the speaker said there were
three questions taking hold of the American
people, First. that the saloon must be
crushed; second, that it must be crushed by
political party; third, that it must be a
new party.
Rev Mr.. LeLacheur
took the platform at 10 o'clock A NJ and de-
livered most telling argument. hear, he
said, that prohibition party is necessary.
We say that prohibition party is necessary,
because the people of Maine say yes My
predecessor does not dare to say a ything
about the grand record of the republican par
ty. He talked about the Southern States but
let Maine alone. Thirty years ago the re-
publican party, the g9andest prohlbitory par
ty the State or nation has ever seen, was
organized and has gwen the State almost a
national reputation for its temperance princit
pies. What has this party done 1t
has gwen US the constitutional temperance
duleuutUeul anu every thdt
level headed committees of the legislature
have deemed wise to adopt. A few years ago
my brethren we were advised to take the
temperance question out of party politics.
And so we passed the prohibitory amendment.
At that same election the third party candi-
date received less than 2000 votes, while the
members of the great prohibtory party cast
GA 900 votes for the amendment. This shows
what the people thought of third party.
Every wear but one the republican party has
endorsed temperance since the beginning OF
its existence. The last convention enacted the
grandest plank in its platform, on temperance,
that any party ever did. The republican
party put the temperance text books in the
schools and enacted over thirty temperance
amendments.
Mr.. LeLacheur read from speech deliver
ed by Mr.. Dow where he spoke of the Maine
law as a grand success and said there was no
liquor sold in Maine [laughter]. | could
have said that myself. Dow said "ln the
State of Name there is not one tenth part as
much rum sold as before the law" . yes, go
kill the republican party which made the
law! Last June in speech delivered IN
Portland Mr. Dow claimed that there was not
one twentieth as much rum sold now as be-
fore the law was enacted. Dow wrote to an
English journal that 100000 had been
saved to Maine by the grand old prohibitory
party and $4,000, 900 indirectly; that as a
result of the law Maine had become from one
of the poorest to one of the most prosperous in
the Union. Kill out the republican party just
now
The speaker showed that the platform OF
the prohibitory party endorsed the republican
marty and its prohibition record, at the same
time blessing God for the progress the third
nartv was making against the republicans.
Mr.. LeLscheur read from the prohlbtory
platform and asserted that it proved that OF
the twenty-eight years the republicans had
been in power, twenty-five the cause OF tenn
perance had been advanced.
The speaker cited several third-term men
and their inconsistent stand.
few men in the State say they are pro-
bibitionists. Did yoB ever think there are
democratic and republican prohibltlonlsts!
about the enforcement of the law: Did it
ever occur to you that it is not the parry ths1
enforces the laws but the people! Ii IN
church there were five hypocrites would you
condemn all the other one hundred and nve
righteous members? The same in the State !;
bacause the law is partially enforced IN 10
c;ties. 10 it any reason that the other 400
,nwrs where the law is enforced should
.acsiva condemnation? The enforcement of
tho law in Portland was reviewed and
!, WAS shown that the republican mayor
and citv marshal of Portland were en-
forcing the law as vel or oetter
than the same democratic officials did.