Wichita eagle., 1888-09-22
ghe aaliha a1u Eagle: Saturday 1oru September

the polls, and SO act as to defeat the tenn
perance candidate? If that is religious
action it is of that kind that would con-
sign thousand souls to the eternal fires,
hoping that by such terrific examples
one poor worm of the dust might be
saved. l concede that if there had been
any reasonable probability of the cleo
ton of the Prohibition candidate. then
these prohibitionists would have been JUS
titled in voting for him. because he more
directly represented their cause than did
Mr.. Hoar, but every one of them knew,
and must know at the time he cast his
vote that Mr.. Abbey had no show of an
election, and that they were deliberately
casting their votes in such a manner as
to strengthen the cause of the man who
was the enemy of temperance legislation.
Let US bring the truths taught by this
| illustration home to our fair state Of
Kansas. Is there any doubt in the mind
OF any reasonable man that L. Z. Hum
phrey, the candidate of the Republican
party for governor, or John Martin, the
| candidate of the Democratic party for
governor, will be elected at the Novem-
Der election: The Republican party in
this state, by its legislation. has closed
the open saloon, and the Republican
party, by its legislation and by its Off
Gals, has enforced the prohibition law as
far as it was possible to do it under the
circumstances. The Democratic party
in this state has been the persistent foe
of all this kind of legislation. There is
no doubt but that the Republican party
in this state has been the consistent and
ton, while the Democratic party has
| a
uous foe of all such legisla-
ton. There is not the slightest
possibility or chance for the election of
the gubernatoriaI candidate of the Pro-
hibition party at the coming election.
| The workers in the Democratic party
have been instant in season and out of
season to get Republicans to withdraw
from the Republican party and join the
Prohibition party.
IT IS KIND OF WARFARE
that is as old as the human race.
Whenever, in the history of the world,
two armies, equal in numbers and eff
cheney, have met upon the battle field
the strategic general has attempted to
divide the forces of his opponent. If he
could by strategy or maneuyer separate
brigade or division from the army of
| take no part in the engagement, he knew
that 1t would weaken the strength of his
antagonist and strengthen his own
chances for victory. The party lin the
minority always seeks to weaken the
strength of the party in the majority. If
it can not do this by securing acouisi-
tons to its own ranks it will use every
effort to lessen the ranks of the party
against which it is fighting. So long as
St. John was a Republican the Demo-
cratic snake-in-the grass. darted forth its
most venemous vernacular at
him and the cause he represented. As
soon as he organized a third party,
and sought to draw from the Republican
ranks, it raised its head in an approving
way, since which time they have We'd
with each other as to who should be the
great Annanias in decrying the merits
and bowling about the dement's of the
Republican party. They are working
together to accomplish the same pur-
pose, but by different methods. The
Democracy, by direct methods, seek to
open the saloon; the third party, by in
direct methods. gives to it aid and COM
fort. The third party deserts those who
have been friends of the temperance
cause. and the party which has closed
the open saloon-which, by the help of
God, will keep them clOsed-and by such
action strengthens and upholds the arms
of the foes of temperance legislation and
temperance action.
1t is time for the Christian men and
Christian women of this state to think
for themselves upon this subject. 1t is
time when all temperance people should
carefully consider the logical result of
such action. 1t is time for the people to
examine into results and see if the enc
mics of the temperance cause are not
making use of them for the purpose of
again opening the saloons of the state
and presenting the cup of temptation
to the lips Of the weak and
the young. Let there be an
end to this false and distorted cry that
for the purpose of aiding the temper
ance cause the only party in favor of
temperance legislation must be destroyed.
1t is time that this mockery of mis-
guided and illogical zeal should cease,
and that the language of the greatest of
human teachers should be written upon
every temperance heart-''He that's not
for me Is against me.
There is another organization that is
being made use of by the Democratic
party to effect its purposes and ends. |
Not only has the Democratic party been
the enemy Of all temperance legislation, |
but it has always and for all time been |
the enemy of labor. 1t was the progen- |
itor of human slavery in America. 1t |
perpetuated that slavery by fraud after |
fraud and by encroachment after en- |
croachment upon the rights of the peo-
pie, until the conscience OF humanity /
was aroused and spoke in earnest voice
THUS far shalt thou 60 and no farther" |
This same party violated its promise, and |
in the flush of victory oerleaped its
ambition and brought down upon it the |
arm of loyalty which, at the point of the |
bayonet, destroyed forever human sla- |
very in this country and dignitied labor |
with the coronet of citizenship.
Having failed upon the battle fields to
degrade the American labor, it bided its |
time until restored to power by the mis- |
guided confidence of the people. it has |
began its warfare through the instru- /
mentality of free trade and the Golden |
club advocates in England and America. |
CHALLENGE ANY MAN
to show one line of statute enacted /
by the Democratic party as a |
party that has tendency to |
improve the laboring classes of the Unit |
ed States How could it be otherwise |
when we glance at the history and the |
tendency and the inclination of the lead |
ers that control the Democratic party OF |
the United States? Who is it that does /
not know that in the southern states
states that had slavery prior to the war