The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-30
THIRD PARTY ACTION.

General Neal Dow says ''the mission of the
Prohibition party is ito smash the Republican
party" The Cincinnati Enquirer announces,
with double-leaded emphasis, the Prohibition
nominations in the State of Pennsylvania,
saying of Mr.. Charles S. Wolfe, the nominee
for Governor, that sit was his practical leader
ship of the Republican bolt which defeated
General Beaver for Governor in 1882, and his
influence, combined with the extreme popular
ity of the Democratic nominee, General
Black, is likely to defeat General Beaver again
in 1886" In New York, that colossal
fraud, St. John, is speaking in the
interest Of the Democracy. In Ohio,
DR.. Leonard and other leaders of Prohibition
denounce Francis Murphy because he will not
join them in their crusade against the Repub-
lican party, for the overthrow of which they
seem to care great deal more than for the
reform of drunkards, and the spread of indi-
vidual temperance In Indiana it is the same
thing Those who are leaders in the third
party movement seem to care only for the de-
feat of the Republican party, and, to accomp-
plish that, unite their voices and votes
with party that is welded to the
Liquor League, and that blasphe-
mously caricatured Jesus Christ as
the head of the liquor business. Mr.. Wolfe,
of Pennsylvania, was Republican until he
was defeated in his ambition for office. The
same thing is true in every State. Many of
the leaders of the third party are men actua-
ated by malice because the Republican party
There are many honest and true hearted men
who have been deluded into following these
leaders" by reason of their great desire to
do something to check the evils of
the drink traffic; but they must see
that the camp into which they are
being led is simply one Of macontents and
mischief makers, and not of men with a
single purpose to aid in great and honorable
moral reformation. The most incorporate
men are these alleged temperance" men; they
are the worst enemies of the cause they
would advance. Temperance reform has been
retarded wherever they have worked, and has
been advanced only where the good sense of
the people has led them to give no counte-
of Indiana the political Prohibitionists are the
recognized allies of the Democratic Liquor
League alliance, as they are in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and elsewhere. Democrats are smart
enough to know this, and to plan their cam
paigns upon that fact We do not believe
that many men in Indiana will be deluded
this year by fine words and specious appear
ances. If they desire to help the Dem
ociatic party they should be honest
enough to do it openly and courage
ously. The fight is between the Dem
ocratic party and the Liquor League on the
one hand, and the Republican party on the
other Every man in the State knows this;
all diversions can but aid the whisky party
and the whisky power. Either the Republican
party will control the State and Legislature,
or the Democratic liquor alliance. How will
honest and candid men, men who have no
fancied grievances TO revenge or arrogance Of
pride to subserve work and vote9 This is a
question that must be answered on the con-
science and judgment of every voter not
under the impulse of injustice or passionate
appeal, but in the quiet of the home, around
the hearthstone, in that great, free parliament
where the American citizen sits in the sover-
eighty of his individual manhood.
LIQUOR LEGISLATION.