Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-01-01
DISINTEGRATION OF PARTIES.

No ono making even cursor7 digest
Of current politics can fail to note that
vide dissatisfaction is making itself mani
fest 10 the ranks of the Republican party.
The loss TO that organization Of the great
State of New York Is boldly charged by
respectable portion Of the Republican
press to be the result OF the Saloon policy
pursued by the party leaders in which
they have manifested nn utter Disregard
OF the feelings and convictions of right OF
large portion OF the best element of the
party. This shameful treatment of the
most disinterested and patriotic portion
OF its adherents, many OF whom are the
charter members whose heroic struggles
wrung victory from the slave power upon
the great moral issue OF that day. Slavery,
a sin against God and a crime against
humanity, canno, be persistently pursued
without arousing that spirit Of puritanic
resistance to wrong which was the marked
feature OF former struggle. Such men
are patient under insult, generous and
forgiving to a fault, but there is limit
to their patience, n measure to their for
bearnnce, and the eruption which Is likely
to follow will crush out the rum power
from Republican politics or will crush OH
the Republican party.
Appropose Of ,his, a call has Issued
from convention oil anti-saloon Repub-
iicans of Topeka, Kansas, for n National
convention to meet IN the city OF Toledo,
in May next, for the purpose of aaassing
heir influence that it may assert itself in
orcing the party to take up this issue.
The reasons which these Kansas Republi-
cans sets forth as iuslifying sucli call.
will be received as amply sufficient by
every earnest temperance man in the
ranks, and should this convention be held
(Which earnestly hope it may) the strug-
gle will begin III earnest between these di-
verae elements for the supremacy of
party, and this contest, once begun, there
will he no suicease only in unconditional
surrender of one or other of the contest
ants. Should, therefore, the anti saloon
element show any considerable degree OF
strength in the proposed convention, we
may look Tor disruption OF party ties
| We know that there are nulliludes OF
earnest temperance men who have moi
seen their way clear to abandon party
whose brilliant National career has bound
them in fel,ers and made them blind to
It's faults; have yet an intense hatred II
march cheek by jowl with ruu, sellers lo
the polls and vote for candidates who have
been nominated by the saloon interest las
for instance Messrs Brumback and Baum.
back, of Toledo for the purpose Of pro-
tecting their interest in this internal bust
ness These men have the sense to see
that here is another "irrepressible conflict,
and that 1t is pressing to the front steadily
despite all party efforts for its suppression
that it will not down, whether platform,
recognize or parties dispise. No part,
ever yet successfully battled against an,
great question of reform, vital to human
interest. Any sush ap attempt Ia siinpl,
AN invitation 10 be crushed beneath il,
ponderous wheels.
Look at the Federal party, the first grea
party OF the country, crushed beneath tn,
democratic idea the Whig party crushe,
to atoms in the anti-slavery reform-ant
such will be the fate of either one or tn,
other OF the great parties OF the day in tn,
solution of this question. But will til,
republican party accept the inevitable
and again make this grand issue its mis-.
sion, hs II did the anti slavery cause1 w,
believe il will not. It's moral power t.
accept OF such an issue is gone. Gone ar
its mighty leaders who held principle
paramount and struggled for the right Le-
cause It was right, and the magnatism of
| a
ed drew all men like minded alter il. Ii
their stead we find the politician politi
in all things, slower law" men with polit.
ical ethics rising no higher than the tri
umph OF party; adopts In "ways that ar
dark and tricks thut are mean" scorninj
neither bribery, nor chicanery in measure
OF party success, and this class of mel
have got such grasp upon the party tha
so foreign to their natures-their plysica
as well as their mental habits.
So the attempt to make this mart,
issue, come when II will, must disrup al
party iies, and this convention will be OBJ
posed by all who sock the immedIal,
rather than the ultimate success OF th,
orgsnizalion. One thing, however, thi
movement has made clear complet,
Qualification of third party prohibition
They maintained that the old parties sr,
controlled by the organized liquor powe
of the country, hopelessly controlled, ant
that they could no longer vote AT thei
diciaiion, nor maintain political nlllanc,
with a power thst aimed TO strike dow
whatever they held sacred Of "God, hom
and native land"
This truth Ia now confessed by prol,ibi
tiOnists who llaye an far maintain thai