The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-23
ANTI-sALOON REPUBLICANS.

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the saloon and liqaor element from
politics, land it eliminated in nation
al convent on held last week in
Chicago, which was participated in
by regularly accredited delegates
from nineteen states. The original
scope Of the movement is briefly
told in the following extract from an
interview with the chairman Of the
national organizing committee:
The party is not asked to indorse
prohibition or any specific measure.
We want the party to adopt a differ
ent line of policy. having for its OBJ
siect the destruction or serious Grip
bling of the liquor business and we
will endeavor to secure the insertion
of such plank in every Republican
platform, county. state and national.
Senator Window Of this state,
chairman of the Chicago convention,
enlarged upon the object Of the
movement in his speech of accept
ance, of which the following extracts
are given:
We are here under the call of true and 10y.
nj Republicans desiring through that party
70 accomplish what We believe will be b
grea: good for the American people. For
myself never had the slightest thought
of attempting TO organize new political
party think that such thought does not
enter the minds OF any other delegates here.
The party that freed the slave, that dignined
human labor, that enforced the homestead
law, that suppressed the great rebellion,
that defended Its honor In peace and ad-
yanced IL to the front rank Of the nations OF
the earth is good enough for me. The record
OF the party for twenty years shows It's will
ungness to grapple this new issue and
carry II to victory. The issue IL as grave as
any that the Republican party ever had to
meet in the past. 1t solves itself into the
question whether the saloon element IL to
dominate the politics OF the nation They
did not desire to dictate to the party, but to
urge IL to accept the Issue which has been
rendered It hy the saloon element and Ii
quor interest Of the country. The party
would be forced TO take up the question at
no distant day, and the sooner they. dtd IL
the better it would be for the party, the peo'
pie and the poll teal interests OF oar soin.
try. Tho liquor power OF this country has
come In 10 stay. The econo mical aspect ~
the one TO look at. The enormous waste
produced by the saloons OF the country Is
not TO be compared. because II exceeds the
waste OF any other element IN the country.
There are 10000 Hen who are engaged in tie
saloen business who, did saloons not exist.
would be engaged In Industries OF the comn-
try. Then add 10 that the 500 900 or COZ, 900
drunkards made by the saloon power OF this
country. I understand that 5000, 100000 Is
spent every year In maintaining the saloons,
more than the taxes OF any industry. and
the loss falls, not upon those best able to
bear It, but upon the poor. The saloons are
the natural allies OF anarchy and 1t strikes
its deadly, damning blows at the tendcrcst
part of tho government. II there be one
evil II is use OF money ut the ballot boz. In
the legislature and elsewhere. 1t Is al open
secret everywhere that money has entered
the politics OF this country. II il shaken In
your face, and you are told that unless you
humble yourself to this power you cannot
be sent To u legislature, congress, or any
where else. A party is needed to meet this
power Oh political grounds and stamp out
this nursery OF anarchy and crime. The sa.
looms have captured tho Democratic party
power. body and soul. They have put In
nomination in my state man who repre-
sents the very Incarnation Of saloon power, a
man who Is In favor OF keeping FALCONS open
every day and Sunday. We have nice Is
sue TO meet. and am glad they have put
this man in nomination. need not tell
you tn At IL Is the supreme power In your
cities. II elects youl mayor oh. IL there Is
q gentleman from Chicago here will apol-
ogize. It elects your councilmen and
overrides yeu with rum. The great city OF
New York, where the saloon power IL para
mount, Is regular Sodom Of saloon power,
and has become nothing lets than rum
ridden bed of political corruption. We
know this power we have to fight. We know
It's strength. know that courage Is as con,
tagisus as cowardice, and We can rally the
Republican party, to which We belong. and
don't think they arc ready to be governed
by this saloon power. Ifyou can induce the
Republican party to accept this issue and
push II forward. the day will be m arked
day In history. He then spoke for thirty
minutes on the general issue. He touched
on ProhibitIonists, and said 1t was his view
that they could carry out their purpose in a
better way. In following the lead OF the Re-
publican party they would find that that
party had said that slavery should extend
no farther. and on that platform slavery was
absolutely abolished. II the Republican
party would declare for high license, local
option and recognize the right OF the people
to vote on the question directly when they
wished to do so. ali lovers Of temperance
should follow that lead.
Unfortunately the convention fail
ed to respond to the temperate tone
above indicated, but drifted into the
prohibition channel and passed a
series of resolutions which will not
receive the endorsement of that
great temperance element within
tho party not yet prepared to at
tempt the enforcement of radical de-
struction and total prohibition OF
the liquor taffic in all its phases. The
resolutions are all we'll enough in
their place, but they seek to commit
the party too far at the outset. But
this prediction is here recorded the
humiliation Of the liquor traffic will
come at no far distant day, and it
will come through tho Republican
party; but like other great reforms
wrought out by. the party, it will
proceed step by step as fast as it can
educate the masses up to an appreci.
alton Of the righteousness and feast.
bility of the reform-not by an at
tempt to do the revolutionary work
OF a decade in single year. The fol-
lowing are the resolutions as adopt
cd:
Tho Anti-Saloon Republicans, by their re-
representatives. in national conference as
sembled, do declare as follows:
First-That the liquor trafdc. as II exists l
to-day In the United States, 10 the enemy OF |
society," fruitful source Of corruption in
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