The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-08

our ticket this yezE-
Tie Prohibition platform, willie hot
Ignoring other issues. says further. we
belssre tie rum traffic i an ufnnitigz,ed
I eysa and tfsat tie best Interests of tie III
man.ly and the state demand that It 10
abolished, and sc VII, If T.ssible, elect
legislator and officials tlat #ill enact and
eaasree h.ws 70 that end Tie question
is r. fore tie people here aud uoN.
Fancy tie Republican panty Of the days
u Fremont and Lincoln adopting 4 resolu-
.loa ike thfs.
We declare that tic Republican party
5 "a favor 81 tie submission of the ques-
Kos x tia regulation, control ~ prOhi0i-
tIon d the slave trade to 1he y0tes Of the
People At eIeciieFa- Specially provided for
tbis puEIsSsc-
Ho4 long aoa.d 1t probably have been
before slavery Vould lave been #iped ont?
Sot . slave holder 81. 1le country bat
Nolld have Beea sIliHg 70 base lie qaes-
t5oa u popular fgte at elections specially
pagy5l.d f9r this purlysc. provided The
-~leetssI.s raiegn,dto siaie lines.
And il.er. j. nDt au inlelligeu, ram@elIer
IN Ser Jelsey to-day. aho. II eornered,
a..ald na admit tie tralh ii .he deelar-
alton eubd5rd il Tie pl4iforui u Tues
day St4te Convention, that i. wa- the right
Of tie p@yplr - decide tAe liquor question
ioF ~thernslye-.
Here 10 tas plank:
Tie Republican party had its fyunda-
ti0n ia the belief III the virtue and iBteiii-
gene u TIE people; it has aiways held
IT. its great le4def. Abraham Lincoln,
that ihls q Government u tie people, BY
tIe leoplc and fgr tise people; So there
fore declare lisa the Republican party Of
New Jerry - IN favor Of the submission
81 the question % tie regulation, control
or prohibition ri tie liquor traffic 10 the
s9tes Of tie people a. elections specially
provided f9r this purpose
Not & 2ofd a. 20 the merits ri the liquor
gaesllnn. $gt an intimation that the
party j. IL favor Of prohibiting. controlling
~ even regulating the ruinous traffic ia
stg5ng drink. Ept tie most shadowy in
d~ieatiyn of a leaning toward the right side
.iae question, bsi simply q cold-blooied
kicking Of the assse ont If the realm of
politics to the people, a. if parties"
ald people we're composed u entirely
distinct classes u ltnman beings. each
having jnrodjetion orer different matters.
Not "a thoaeht the great leader, Abra-
liam Lincoln. The platform he stood
ulsyn Ia 1870 denounced, ii Old fashioned
English, the slave trade as "a crime
ag4ina; humanity and a burning shame TO
gur country and age, terms as applicable
to-day - the rum traffic as 70 the slave
trade II 1850, and called upon Congress
r. 't=ke profHp. and efficient measures
fpf Tie total and final suppression ri that
execraDlc traffic.
Tie Republican parry lad its founda-
ton in tire belief in tic virtue and intelli-
gene. u The people, but that, while n1u
ased as az argument in favor Of the party
not touching She temperance issue, did not
hinder tho party at rs foundation from
saying in tie convention that nominated
John e.. Fremont, 1T IS both the right and
the duty u Congress ~ prohibit In the
Tcrritores the@e twin relics of barbarisrn,
slavery and p~olysamy."
That IL tie way tic Republican party,
in it, foundation, mot and handled living
i~ssues, and by it, courage and convictions,
gathered ibe people aroma il and assumed
the rule.
No man can dispute the statement that
tie issue between Rum and Temperance is
to-day Is impoTtant and momcntons In It's
BEARINGS on the prosperity of our nation
al that between slavery and anti-slayery
in the days gone by. The Republican
party in New Jersey recognizes it al an
issue. bat instead Of meeting it as it did
the other issue, it seeks 70 cyade ii and
calls, not very loudly, FOR it's settlement
some other way. Any way Or no way we
s%uyicct would BE- satisfactory, 50 long a.
it does not disturb old party harmony.
The party in New Jersey has made up it's
record and taken It's stand on the temper
apce question and It sill be a disappoint-
mont 70 many sincere temperance men in
lis ranks.
The day has gone by when appeals TO
tie memory Of Abraham Lincoln and the
early Republican fathers will carry the
party through a campaign. More Of the
spirit of Lincoln and his contemporaries in
meeting grave issues is what Is needed.