Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-10-01

self and Others
General Dow-Oh Yes, but those
amendments don't amount to anything.
When went to the legislature "A few
years ago, in company with Mr. Dingley,
to ask for amendments to the law, he
said Now, you must not ask too
much. -
Correspondent--Iave not six repubi-
can states passed II prohibitory law and
some OF them put it in their coustitu-
tons
General Dow-Ycs, but take the case of
Rhode Island. for instance. The bosses
submitted 1t to the people, not having the
rcmotest idea that it would be adopted.
lhey were amazed at the result ana i'm
mediately put the enforcement of the law
in the hands OF one OF the worst rum
mics in the state.
CORES Ondent-Well, General, Senator
Aldrich whom / believe to he an honor
able man, has given me quite IA different
version of that matter.
General Dow-Oh he is n republican
get my news about it from the Provi
dence JOUrnul.
spondent-llave you known of any
democratic state giving the people an OPP
portunity to vote on prohibition
General Dow-Why, the south is farther
ahead than the north. One half of Geur
gia, good half of Tennessee and other
sout hern states have prohibition.
spondent-They have local option
the same as many northern states, nut no
southern state has prohibitory law. In
the south they are influenced by "A desire
10 Keep liqnUr away from the cOlOred man
50 that they will he more dOcile.
General Dow-lt don't matter what they
are influenced by. The republican party
will not put down the rum traffic and we
mean to make an end of the republican
party, When the republican party fails
DIT the next presidential election, as it Will
tail, there will be an end Of the republi
can party. We don't expect to succeed in
ISIS, but look out for us in 1892 The re
publican party is between us and the grOg
shops and it will get hit badly. We say
to 1t Get out of the way or you will
get hurt
spondent-It was thought for
about - years that the democratic party
was killed and believe that you shared
iii that opinion.
General Dow-Well, tell you that you
can XIII the democratic party, because 1t
has no soul We are going to build our
party on the ruins of the republican party.
II we had another month to work and
$1,000 to work with, we would beat the re
publican party out of their boots in this
state. We shall poll twice as many votes
as we did before.
reSpondent-As st. John got 2lGO
you look for about 1000 third party votes,
then;
don't know how many more, but that
Will he a gain of 100 per cent. We have
no skilled party managers.
Cores Ondeut-WhN, Mr.. Finch, the
chairman of your national committee, Is
an experienced democratic manager and
there is 81. John.
General Dow-The chairman of our
state committee is inexperienced. Mr.
Blaine ought not to have said that our
imported speakers are paid by the demo
Gratis. II he said that as fact, hc lies.
happen to know how much st. John gets
PAID, because | contributed to it myself
more than | wanted to. He gets so II
night. He refused to speak at Augusta
and Bangor because they couldn't raise
the money to pay him. The other paid
speaker is Il confederate colonel from Ken
lucky.
The above conversation took place on
steamboat Il stenograpner being present.
SOME OF GEN. BOWS PREVIOUS STATEMENTS
In March, 1883, Gen. Dow stated in a
letter over his signature printed in the
New York sun:
The quantity of liquor sold in Maine
L. not more than One-twentieth Of what il
was before the law. Every distilery and
brewery in the state has been suppressed
there Is not one remaining"
nat same year General Dow wrote as
follows to the Rev. Charles ID. Crane,
New Jersey clergyman
The Maine law was enacted i'm 1851,
ana from that date to this it has been Il
great success"
Only 10 months ago he published let
ter containing this declaration
The Maine law is as well executed As
any other on our statutes
Gen. Dow is now over 50 years old and
it might be supposed that his memory of
facts and of his own words, was failing