The Monitor., 1886-12-03


whose election was secured by the direct
or indirect use of boodle were TO be ousted.
there would not be enough left to consti-
tute the Committee ON Elections Camden
Posi-
This reminds us of the Salem county
man who was brought before his church
to answer charge of lieing in horse
trade His defense was that if the church
undertook to turn ont every member that
had lied about horse there wouldn't be
any members left Seriously the above is
q sweeping charge for party paper to
make and it is evidently intended to cut
both ways, but there is not, we imagine, a
man on top Of ground who has had any in
sight into the inner political methods of
the old parties who will not be prepared to
say that it is substantially correct. More's
the shame and the pity
The editor of the Woodstown MONITOR
is pleased to regard the temperance prom
ise in the Republican platform as dubious
in meaning and calculated to serve a
double purpose. 1t may be that Bro. Fegg
is such a master of diction that he could
express more clearly and concisely what
the Republican convention aimed at, but
it would be very dali child who would
misinterpret or fail to perfectly understand
the meani ig of the plank in question.
is so plain that the running may read and
it speaks i'll for the good sense OF the
Prohibition organs to affect disbe-
lief in its sincerity. The Republican party
has hitherto redeemed all its pledges and
there is no reason whatever to doubt its
good faith in the recent stand taken on the
temperance question. One thing i Ger
tain, If the prohib itian or proper regula-
OF the liquor traflc were To depend upon
the motion OF the third party, tile present
generation would not live to enjoy it, bene-
its " J. Press.
We haven't seen any Temperance prom
Use" in the Republican platform aud We
don think the plank is dubious in mean-
ing Even a child conld understand it. as
you say. 1t means that the party is in
favor Of handing over to the vote of the
people the regulation, control or prohibit
ton of the rum traffic at elections to be
held Tor that purpose Il isn't what the
plank does mean but what the party or
gans try to make MS believe it means and
as to these points, the organs try tomake MS
believe that il makes tae Republican party
a temperance party. But it don't. Tie
plank nowhere says that the party is in
favor of temperance. It nowhere says
that thc party is in favor OF regulating the
rnm traffic, or OF controlling it, or of pro-
hibiting it. It nowhere says which of
these modes of dealing with the question
it fivors 1t now here says that when the
question ef Prohibition gets before the peo-
pie, if it ever does that the Republican
party is in favor Of voting against rum and
for Prohibition. \ free but truthful read
ing of the plank would sound this way:
I'VE haven't any opinions as a party abeut
the merits Of the temperance question, er
of the different ways of dealing with the
rum business, but We know we're between
the devil and the deep sea and if we favcr
one side we'll lose votes, and if we favor
the other side we lose votes and we don't
the NEST woes, so we don't dare to tumble
and we will just put in few words about
Abraham Lincoln. which W i'll sound well.
aud tell the people we guess they had bet
ter handle the question themselves. 1t
went be worth while to tell them just how
We propose to get the question before
them. They must trnst MS for that aS they
have in the past. Bro. Chew knows that
the Republican party is not, as a party,
committed to the living principle of Pro-
hibition or even to any definite idea OF re-
striction or regulation. Twenty thousand
votes for General Fisk shows that the num-
Der of others who are finding this out and
acting accordingly is increasing. 1t is not
necessary 10 call in question whether the
Republican party has Sr has not hitherto
redeemed all its pledges, because IN this
point it makes no pledge and it has taken
no ''recent stand on the Temperance ques-
tion, unless it has been done since the elec-
wants to hold its temperance element much
longer. When the party 'takes stand
on the right side of this question there
won't be a rumseler left in it. The kind
ef temperance plank that is wanted is one
on which all these geutfy and their support
ers, hackers and sympathizers will walk
out of the party in quick marching time
The rum faction will find cut quick
enough when the Republican party gets to
he a temperance party, AID temperance
voters needn't be in hurry TO move into
the house before they see signs Of rummies
moving ont. Our esteemed contemporary
thinks that il the prohibition or proper reg
ulation ef the liquor traffic depends on the
motion OF the third party tho prospect is
very gloomy. Leave out the regulation
part. Bro, when you speak OF the third
party. They are not in the regulating
business. They mean prohibtion--the
outlawry of the rum traffic. They are not
to regulate it, but 20 kill it, As
well talk Of regulating a tiger as the cruel,
rum business And as to
whether the party will get there, Bre. Chew
and all the rest of rs will be better able to
udre few years later We don't think
Ihe odds are largely in favor Of the Repub-
lean party at any rate. for while the third
1arty lacks numbers as yet, they have the
disposition and intention and the numbers
/. T. f,ri. ! ~