The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-09-23
Teeth for Ten Dollars at the office
of Dr. Jones, Dentist.

DuuWell, nopuDllcdH Candidate IOr
Governor of Maine, received a plural
ity of 1851. Maine has been known
for years as Prohibition State, and
both the great parties contain strong
Prohibition element. Yet in Maine,
as in other States, few cranks were
vigorously opposed to Prohibition,
unless they should be set up in front
Of the movement, and given all the
glory of it, and even in this State Of
strong anti-liquor laws, ran State
ticket-and received vote Of 1880.
This can of course only have ten
dency to retard the work Of Temper
ance Just as it has been in Ohio.
When the question Of Prohibition was
squarely put before the people by the
Legislature, more than half the voters
in the State voted for it. Then came
the usual departure. A small squad
of voters drew off to one side, pro-
claimed themselves the only people
who, Trad any right to claim to favor
Temperance-unless others should
fall. In with them and waste time and
energy in useless wind-work, and all
mem bers of the two great parties-but
more particularly the Republican
party denounced as hypocrites,
,scoundrels, and other terms of endear-
: ment. We had Party Prohibitions
ist-a man we always regarded as
well-meaning man-tell us that he
could not see how we could fail to vote
the Prohibition ticket, and not be a
scoundrel. Friends, that is not the
way to advance the cause Of Temper
ance. There are thousands. of good
Temperance. men in both the great
parties in Ohio, who can favor Tenn
perance, vote their party tickets, and
be gentlemen. at the same time.
The policy of the Party Prohibi-
tionists this year is to make an on
slaught upon the Republican party,
all along the line, with the hope of
demoralizing the party to the extent
that county here and there may be
captured next year, on the Legislative
ticket. In other. words, they would
cripple the Republican party by abuse.
ST. John-decidedly the worst politi-
cal fraud this country ever produced
divides his valuable time between de-
nouncing intemperance and the Re
publican party, and eulogizing the
Solid South. Andsthese are the meth
ods used to win the intelligent voters
Of the Republican party over to the
third party movement!
We had some experience with one
Of these Prohibition Evangelists,
few years ago, when the question was
up in shape which removed it from
politics. We were on a Committee,
and the Secretary wrote a noted
speaker, stating that we were getting
up@a basket-meeting, and would like
to have speech from him. Promptly
came the reply: Fifty Dollars and
Expenses" Again we wrote him,
asking him if he would make a short
address in the evening, also. Oh, yes!
He would be pleased to do so-his
heart was in the work; but he must
have fifty dollars morei
There are great many good, earnest
people engaged in agitating the Tenn
perance question, and some of the
ablest men in the country have re-
Gently organized the anti-saloon move
ment, but Temperance reform will
not be brought about by small squad
Of people drawing away and abusing
all who do not follow them. The
Temperance sentiment is growing in
the old parties, and there is a good
prospect Of a better state of politics
in the near future. Should the ''Pro-
hibitionists" use their efforts to correct |
the evil where they claim it exists, in
the old parties, there might be some
thing practical accomplished. Intel
ligent Republicans will not favor the
style Of Reform which comes through |
the success of the Democratic party.
John Mcbride was elected to tbe