The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-14
How NOn-P Partisan PrOhibltiOnists are
Controlled.

The Washington Sentinel, brew
ers' National organ, says: "No
leading Democrat in the South
raises his voice in favor of perse-
cuted liberty, which is now being
crushed out; not a Democrat OPP
posed Blair's bill providing for a
National commission of inquiry
into the effects Of the liquor traffic
nor against Senator Colquit's bill
to prohibit the liquor traffic in the
District of Columbia, and the con-
sequence will be a Republican
House in the next Congress-"
Whyp Because the managers
of the liquor sellers organization
know they hold the balance of
power in Ohio, Indiana, West Va,
Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut,
New Jersey, and New York, and,
by the votes they control, can turn
either or all these States, Repub-
lican or Democratic, and thus car
ry the presidential election.
The liquor dealers said in 1884
that the next president would be a
Democrat. How did they know?
They knew that they could control
votes enough in eight close states
to carry them, and but for Mr..
Blaine's prostrating himself at the
feet of the rum power and eating
dirt by going back on some Of the
finest sentiments he ever uttered,
Cleveland would have had the
electoral votes Of several more
states. The Republican party of
the close states had bid SO high
for the temperance vote that the
liquor men made them get down
and beg before they would yield
them any of the close states; and
now the managers of the liquor
dealers organization have only to
notify the liquor dealers in some
twenty close Democratic congress
sional districts to throw their votes
for the Republican candidate and
the next Lower House is Repub-
lican.
In nearly all the Southern States
the Democratic majority is so
large that the liquor dealers know
they cannot win by threats of par
ty defeat, so they resort to that
mastery strategy they know SC
we'll how to use, not having any
politics or principles of their own,
and say to the Democratic Nation
al Committee: "You must STOP
this Democratic prohibition in the
South, or we'll make YOU" and SC
the Democratic National Commit.
tee send word to the leaders Of
their party in the South, saying
"You lust say to the officers, whose
business it is to enforce the pro.
hibition laws, that they are only
to seem to enforce them, but re.
quire more testimony to convict
leave every man unhurt; &c
through the forms, but see that
it don't prohibit, and thus bring
the law into disrepute and it soon
becomes dead-letter, or is re-
pealed; our business is prosper.
Gus; personal liberty is vindicated,
and your party carries the presi-
dental election in 1885," Thus,
you see, the same policy as used
towards the Republicans in the
last campaign with regard to the
strong Republican states of Iowa
and Kansas.
Liquor dealers are coercing
counties and states through the
needs of the National Democratic
party. "Do this" they say, cor
the next House will be Republi-
can and you lose the next presi-
dency."
In the year 1881 and 'S3 from
thirteen to fifteen congressman
didn't do the bidding of the liq-
uor dealers to their satisfaction;
their names were handed to Mr..
Schade, the liquor dealers Ma
tional counsel at Washington; he
sent them to the saloon men in
their several districts, and every
one was defeated at the following
election. No doubt he has already
sent the names of twenty Demo-
cratic congressman in close dis
tricts to the liquor dealers of their
several districts with orders for
their defeat, which will give the
next congress to the Republicans.