The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-17
Prohibition Foes of Temperance.

thing of the Republican party
Years ago they organized their third
party and avowed that 1t was against
the Republican party, and expected
to build success only on its ruin.
That was the start of the third party.
And since then they have put nomi-
nations into Senate and Assembly
districts year after year-and if the
districts were lclose, aided in the
election of the Democratic candi-
dates /; If they were not the only re-
suit was column of scattering votes.
Even IN Congressional districts where
Temperance could not be an issue, they
have ran candidates only to annoy
and antagonize the Republican tick
ct. Let the real friends of temper
ance think what has been gained by
this course. Nothing. Have they
elected single candidate of their
own? Have they secured single
measure of temperance legislation
This is the record of temperance
men as third party. Look now at
the record of temperance men in the
Republican party-men who stood in
the ranks of the party, and have
been faithfully working to build up
temperance sentiment in that party.
A local option bill was before the
last Legislature. 1t was passed by
the Republican Senate; % votes
were in its favor in the Assembly, IL
were from Republicans-more than
half the 81 Republican members of
that body. These Is members were
elected in districts where Prohibition
lists ran candidates against them only
to aid in the election of whiskey
Democrats. What do these friends
of prohibition propose for the fu-
ture? To run prohibition candi-
dates to defeat Republican candidates
In these very districts. They also
propose to advance the cause of tenn.
perance by throwing the State Gov
eminent of New Jersey into the
hands of the Democratic party. which
makes no disguise of hostility to all
temperance legislation. The Gov
ernor is to be elected for three years !;
so are the Senators who are to be
voted for to fill the vacancies next
fall. Consider for moment the Off
ces and the power the Prohibitionists
will thus help to place in the possess
sion of the Democratic party, exclud-
ing all hope of temperance legislation
for three years at least and probably
more:
The Governor for three years ; sew
en- Senators for terms of three years
each. who will have votes in two
elections for United States Senators /;
sixty members of the Assembly; Sec.
rotary of State; Assistant Secretary
of State; State Treasurer; State
Comptroller |; Attorney General: a
Chancellor for seven years two vice
Chancellors six Judges of the Su-
preme Court; three Judges of the
Court of Errors and Appeals; seven
I.aw Judges; forty-six Lay Judges {;
seven District Court Judges; thirteen
Prosecutors of the Pleas Clerk of the
Supreme Cont; State Librarian {;
Chief of the Bureau of Labor Stats.
tics two Commissioners of the Sink
ing Fund three Riparian Commits.
sioners five Commissioners of Pilot
age threei members of the State
Board of Health; three State Asses
sors a State Prison Keeper.
Besides these there are large num-
Der of officials salaried and some
whose offices are merely honorary,
bat all of whom have influence, such
as Commissioners of Fisheries, Sur
yeyors-G General. and the managers,
officials and employees of the State
Reformatory,S superintendent of pub
lie Instruction, the State military Of
ficers, etc.+ The Judges of the Su-
preme Court, the Law Judges, and
the Lay Judges, and the Prosecutors
of the Pleas, all have duties to per-
foam, in connection with granting Ii
eeuses for the sale of liquor and in
the prosecution and punishment of
violators of the liquor laws. And
yet the Prohibitionists, if they can.
will hand over to the Democratic
party this whole business of regulat-
ing and restricting the liquor traffic.
Just because a majority of the Re-
publican party do not come up to
their extreme notions of prohibit
ton.
Most of the Offices herein enumera-
ted, as those that are to be filled by
the Governor and Legislature during
the next three years, are of long ten
are, some of them for seven years, the
greater number for five years. With
the Democratic party intrenched be-
hind all this patronage and power, lin