Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-30
JINGO BLAINE.

In accord with the promise made, the
DEMOCRAT begins to-day the publication OF
the views OF Eastern journalists on Blaines
Sebago speech, and opens the ball with
the following from the New York SIM
The speech delivered by Mr., blaine yester-
day at Sehago Lake does not fully answer
the question that has been uppermost in
speculative minds, Put into language as
free from. euphemism as the thought itself,
the question is this: Has the Republican
leader decided that the Prohihitionist vote |
will be worth more To him in 1888 if he runs \
again for President, than the German
and the support of the distilerai - ,ote
ers' interests? lid brew
We do not mean to ~
tive presents it, say that the alterna-
aess to NJ .at with such brutal direct
h'' ..f. Blaine's own intellect, even n
moments of most private and candid
less; and Mr.. Blaine is a politician, IN the
largest sense of the word There ls hardly
any doubt that If either of the great parties
should take up prohibition as national
issue. declaring itself unreservedly in favor
of a prohibitory amendment to the Cons'itu.
tion of the United States, and in favor of
the suppression Oft liquor traffic through
out the country, the third party which is
pow growing to portentious dimensions dimensions
would disappear as n distinct. political
organization. II is in order to force pro
hibition on the Republican party that the
men who care more for that cause than for
old ties of political allegiance now refuse to
be cajoled, bought, or bullied by 'hc Repub-
lican leaders.
On the other hand Nj. Blaine knows, as
everybody else knows, that the Prohibitions
lat vote can be Won back only by the sacri.
foe of another large and important element
of Republican strength. Would tho gain
be greater than the loss2 That is the ques
tion; and if Brother Blaine knew the answer
the dryads of the pine woods around Sebagc
Lake would have come forth yesterday tc
see what mortal it was that spoke with
voice so full of happiness.
But so far as Mr. Blaines first speech il
the Maine canvass shows, he retains tn
same disposition to looalize the prohibition
issue as he manifested two years ago, whel
he neglected to vote either yes or mo- ol
the prohibitory amendment to the Main
Constitution.
1t will be seen from the foregoing tina
the great lingo orator is tied mp in
knot, the cn,ls of which are-nOt, doe
the Republican party shoulder Prohib
ton from principle, and because they ar
in accord with its spirit and purpose, hu
can we afford to give the German voi
and the political influence of the wealth
liquor men away, for the solid. .ote {
the Prohibitionists? and I've has decide
Of principle for all these years, as Blain
claimed it had, with the Republica
party, he would have gone to the poll
two years ago and voted Eyes" for tn
constitutional amendment in favor
Prohibition in Maine, and all the crow
OF reporters and wire Founders that hun
around him would have sent ont, the fai
broadcast to the world, and the ilanns
in which the great Jingo statesman pr
in his balloy for Prohibition would no
be in the .grammer-school readers for Ii
tie boys to commit to memory, as e,
pressive Of the love OF the great straddle
for the temperance cause. On the col
trary, he chose to dodge the issue right i
his own home, and by that act he scale
the doom Of his party, for overloaded {
the oft-deieated Maine Prohibitionis
were with grievances from the Republ
cans OF Maine, this last straw broke Il
hack of their patience and they bolte
the party in body. b. me would no
like to cajole them back again, and in
bombastic manner stabs the best trier
he ever had-the liquor manufacdurer-
in order to show how earnest Ae is. TIL
upshot will be that both the liquor ma
facturer and those who use it, with IL
Prohibitionists and those who favor thu
measure, will turn their backs on Il
lingo statesman, and with the small bl
healthy party OF Mugwumps, consigIl. b
boom to the bottomless pits OF npwher
and give some other man with a. betts
record the chance to enter the arena, ap
attempt to infuse new, liia, intp, tls =
publican corpse. The manl VT
fee cat in New York, is, Gs'' ~ The
the.mpyes, apdRs heis' .ety watcl
Of all the .sfhenafr' thoroughly abr
world, Rlsn' - known to the polit
he sid" % will find large thor
3D. - of his boom when he squa
.,ws his hand. Go on with the mu
trot out the great straddler and let
people see how really rotten in prime
but ripe in chcanery he is.
CRANKS.