Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-12


as elsewhere, over the late actions O,
the Prohibitionists. Some had been Sc
sanguine as to think that the Prohibi.
tionists would deal out some little en-.
couragement to them, but in that direc.
tion have folded their tents like the
Arabs and silently stole awayn since
the Canton convention. The Dow Law,
they find, doesn't pacify their cold
water opponents, and they feel some
what discomforted to say the least.
Your correspondent recently in con-
versation with one ofColumbus' most
prominent ministers got the gist of the
thing, as it doubtless showed the exact
state of affairs. He says that he has
long felt that the Republicans were not
doing the rightthing in regard to the
temperance question, and as to the Dow
law, although it may have enforced
prohibition in some places, still, in
some of the most essential points, is
nothing but a failure.
"Do you think the Prohibitionists
will make any better show this year
than last?" was asked.
"Yes, / think they will, - he said. ~
have talked with good many, espe-
cially with men of my own profession,
men who have always voted the straight
Republican ticket, and never thought
OF voting any other, who begin to feel
as do. Some have declared that they
would vote the Prohibition ticket thfs
fall and would use their influence in its
behalf, while others have not gone
quite SO far as that, but say that they
are not quite decided as to that, out
they are terribly dissatisfied with the
attitude of the Republicans on the tenn
perance question, and may not vote
that ticket this fall.n
There are many more who have lost
their enthusiasm towards the grand old
party and talk as if they would just as
soon vote the Prohibition ticket as not,
and perhaps by that means they can
spite the Republican party and spur it
up to prohibition in earnest and do
something, instead ofgoing around the
bush and making pretensions of doing
something, while in reality they are
only setting up scare-crow and don't
even mean to do anything effective.
Another class talk that there is now
no difference between the two old par
ties and it makes no difference to them
which succeeds, so they intend to give
their influence to the third party.
Professor w. G.. Frost, last year can
didate for lieutenant governor, at
the Canton convention gave the
battle cry, and probably echoed the
sentiment of nine-tenths of the party
when he said that the Prohibition
party wanted nothing to do with the
Republicans. There is literally not a |
particle of sympathy between them.
The talk that the Prohibitionists are
cutting their own throats by cutting
loose from the Republicans and assis:- |
ing the Democrats only brings smile |
to Prohibition enthusiasts. They are
not so easily fooled as that. They have
studied the Scriptures enough to know |
that one cannot be "neither for nor
against The Republicans scored |
them numerically during the last two
and it would now be inn
possible for the two parties to sit down
together. But what is now most per-
picking to the Republicans is, how are
they going to keep any more of their
own members from entering that de-
tested party? The prospects now are
that the enthusiastic cold water men
will be more harshly berated than ever
before. They read the Republican pa
pers, and are not at all disturbed at be-
ing called Democratic allies,n for thew
openly declare that they have more re-
spect for the Democrats than for the
Republicans, as they come out honestly
and they know what to expect from
them. The prospects for this year are
that they will not hedge particle and
will go into the fight with more deter
mination than they did last year.
Some claim that their vote this year
will be nearly double last years vote,
while o great many of them think that
their vote will be increased by several
thousand. They intend to have a few
speakers from abroad and have home
talent work every village and school
district in the state.
They are too Intelligent to be thrown
off the track by redhot Republican
organs, which are trying to make them
feel that to run their own ticket or to
aid the Democrats is to ruin their pros
poets. The slang about coal oil "De-
democratic frauds" and
Henry Doodle Payne" has become too
nsipid to even have the slightest effect
lpon them. They seem to be heartily
United and determined to make an eff
ective campaign, and all the Republi-
'an organs ofthe state put together can
lot stop them.
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