River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-07

out pretext, in justice or necessity, with
the ultimate end Of adding half dozen
additional Southern States, by the aid Of
which forever to dominate the Republic
1t is this interest which is clamoring for
free trade. that it may by law and cir
cumstance reduce the laboring men Of
the North to thesame condition TO which
they have by violence and bloodshed
reduced their own laborers. II is this
interest which, paying only three-tenths
of the taxes of the Nation, consumes
seven-tenths in appropriations for postal
service, internal Improvements and APP
preparations. A vote for Democratic
member of congress, or for a member of
assembly who will be called upon to vote
for United States senator, is vote 10
riyet still more closely the iron shackles
with which the Southern oligarchy is
binding the people of the North, and that
with the assistance of the very men who
are thus being entrammeled.
For eighteen months we have had
reform President. Has there been
anything in his acts which commends
him, or the party back of him, to the
consideration of conscientious voters who
failed to find all that they desired in the
Republican party? If any one act of his
administration can be pointed to as being
more excellent than like acts of pre-
ceding administrations, have failed to
note it. Especially in the appointments
YVES he expected to be superhuman in his
Judgment and discretion in selecting good
men and rejecting bad. There never has
been an administration which placed in
Office so many criminals-corvicts, de-
faulters, thieves and bribe-takers. He
even places such an one next TO himself,
in the cabinet, to direct the legal ma
chinery Of the government. What hope
of reform" is there in civil service
which retains a Garland as Attorney
General?
The chief danger to the Republican
party now lies in the desertion of many
of its best men, who conscientlously,
though think mistakenly, aim to effect
great reform in our state through the
fundamentally Of third party. With
these men-the rank and file-are asso-
ciated as leaders some men who, while
they well know that their efforts can
result only in the success of the Demo-
cratic party, with resultant increase of
the evils they claim to deplore, are yet
willing-anXious-to ACCOMPLISH such a
result. That this charge is not an un-
founded one may be proven by reading
any one of the Prohibition campaign
papers. In every case its attacks are
directed against the Reput lean party; in
no case have seen any editorial excori-
ating the Democratic party as in the
interests of liquor dealers and saloons.
There must be some occult reason for this
which is not made known to the voters Of
the party. Why the Republican party
should come in for all the condemnation
is beyond surmise, when, for instance, in
Madison, which has seventy saloons,
sixty-nine are run by Democrats, and
one by Republican. In River Falls the
proportion is greater, one hundred per
cent. being owned by Democrats, if my
recollection serves me. On the other
hand, the Observation-Disclosures, party
composed of liquor dealers and their
adherents ia this state, have sent out
circulars approving of the Democratic
platform, and advising their followers to
vote the Democratic ticket. Why not fire
few hot shot into that party also? All
we ask is fair chance, without discrim-
nation. Republican temperance men,
when invoked TO vote the third party
ticket, will do well to ponder the result of
such vote, and the peculiarly of the tao
tics used by interested, self-saeking edi-
tors and office seekers in the the Prohibit
ton field.
/ see that Prof. McGregor, of Eau Claire,
who was nominated on the Labor ticket
for State Superintendent, has declined,
with the added suggestion that Prof.
Thayer will make first-class Superin-
tendent, and advising his friends to vote
for Thayer, as he himself proposes to do.
G.B. NJ.