The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-07-15
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PROHIBITION POLITICS.
The following letter to the New York
Tribune from correspondent az Trenton,
n. j., may be of interest to the Repub-
lIcans and ProhIbitionists In our own state,
so We give il in full without comment:
The advocates Of temperance In New
Jersey says they must have q third party,
because there is no hope of anything being
done by the Republican party. Do they
ever think how little right they have %
ask anything OF the Republican party
Years ago they organized their third party
and aVo we'd that It was against the Repub-
lican party, and expected 20 buIid success
only on It's ruins. That was the start Of
the third party. And since then they
have put nominations into senate and
assembly districts year after yeaK-and If
the districts were close, aided in the cleo
ton of the Democratic candidate; II they
were not the only result was column OF
scattered votes. Even in. congressional
districts where temperance could not be
an issue, they have run candidates only to
annoy and antagonize the Republican
ticket. Let the real friends of temperance
think what has been gain by this course.
Nothing. HaYe they elected single can
didate of their ownf Have they secured
single measure Of temperance legisla-
ton.
This is the record of temperance men Of
the third party. Look now at the record
of temperance men in the Republican
party-men who stand In the ranks of the
party, and have been faithfully working
to build up temperance sentiment In that
party.
A local option bill was before the last
legislature. II was passed by the Repub.
lIcan senate; 20 votes were In its favor IN
the Assembly, Is were from Republicans
more than half the 81 Republican mem
bers OF that body. These Is members
were elected In districts where Prohibit
tionists ran candidates against them, only
to aid in the election of whisky Demo-
Gratis. What do these friends OF prohibI-
ton propose for the futureG To run pro-
hibition candidates to defeat, r, publican
candidates in these very districts. They
also propose to advance the cause of tenn
perance by throwing the state government
OF New Jersey into the hands Of the DEM
ocratic party, which makes no disguise of
its hostility TO sll temperance legislation.
The governor is to be elected for three
years; so are the senator's who are to be
voted for TO I'LL the vacancies next fall.
Consider for moment the offices and the
power the Prohioitionists will thus help
TO place in the possession of the Demo
cratic party, excluding all hope of tenn
perance legislation for three years at least
and probably more.
The governor for three years seven SEN
ators for terms of three years each. who
will have votes in two elections for United
States senators; sixty members of the as
sembly; secretary of state; assistant secre-
| tarY of state; state treasurer; state con.
troller; attorney general; q chancellor, fol
seven years; two vice-chancellors, six
| judges of the supreme court; three judges
or the courts of errors and appeals; seven
law judges; torty-slx lay judges; seven
district court judges; thirteen prosecutors
| of the pleas; clerk Of the supreme court
state librarian chief of the bureau of labor
statistics; two commissioners of the sink
ing fund; three riparian commissioners
five commissioners of pilotage; three mem
bsrs of the state board of health; three
state assessors; state prison keeper.
Besides these these arc large number
of officials, some salaried and some whose
| offices are merely honorary, but all OF
whom have influence, such as commits
sioners OF fisheries, surveyors general and
the managers, officials and employees of the
state reformatory, educational and char
liable institutions; county supsrintendents
of public instruction, the state military
officers, etc. The judges of the supreme
court. the law judges and the lay judges
and the prosecutors of the pleas, all have
duties 20 perform Ia connection with grant
ing licenses for the sale of liquor and in
the prosecution and punishment of viola
tors of the liquol laws. And yet the Pro-
hibitiOniste, if they can, will hand over to
the Democratic party this whole business
of regulating and restricting the liquor
traffic, just because majority in the Re-
publican party do not come up to their
extreme notions of prohibition.
Most of the offices herein enumerated
as these that are to be filled by the govern.
or and legislature during the next three
years are of long tenure, some of them fol
seven years, the greater number for five
years. With the Democratic party en-.
trenched behind all this patronage and
| power in so small state, does any sane
person believe there could be any temper.
| ance legislation, however mild, In New
Jersey for the next five yearsI
| But what do the ProhibitIonist leaders
care? They say they are going TO show
their power-poWer for evil. They boas
that the conditions in New Jersey thiI
year are so favorable for them that they
will challenge National attention by strik
ing such blow in New Jersey as will
surely begin the disintegration of the Re
publican party. 1t would seem that thu
duty of genuine, honest temperance Re
/ public6ns to stand firm in the party rank
was never palmer. 81.