Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-29
REPUBLICAN DEFENSE.
rHn PE0HIBIEIoN Party AHn
THE CANDIDATES.
A Reply to the Remarks Of Rev j. ID
Q. Hanna at n Third Party Meet.
ing IN Wilmington on sat.
uFday HvsninE Last.
REV j. d. O. BArSA,

able aud eloquent address as Seven
teenth and U nion streets, In this oity,
In behalf OF tie candidates OF the Pro
hilthon pNrty for Prts'dsnt and Vice
Pfeslceas OF the United States. 81 far
20 your remarks were denuuuiatory Of
saloons, am 10 heatty Aooord with you,
0ut when you Propo'e % q remedy for
the saloon evil, the third party gene ally
known IS the Prohibition, 1 respsot
fully and honestly diseni from tfe
premisea Jou occupy, and am dilp)sed
20 turn critic upon tone Of your arRu
mebts.
You said In the oommepCem ent OF yout
address that you expected nothing from
the Democratic party, as II had entire
~ turned The cola shoulder upon the
cause and fmphAytoklly declared ttseli
oppohsd 10 sumptuAry legislation, You
rather admired the blunt honesty with
whioh the Democratic party had re.
Ieoted all entraatles In behalf OF ten.
perAnoe legislation. PaihinR on 10 the
Republican party you held 1t up as
hypoo iticAl, promising TO do some
ching fof Temperance bat taking care
not 70 do l.. Bstween the q Vt refusal OF
he Democratic party TO make promises
10 favor OF temperance legislation and
.he refusal Of the Republican par,y TO
carry out lite promises, you saw NO other
course to pursue lhSn to join in vi b the
third pAity, known Rs the Prohibition
party, and see what could be done With
q. These are not your exact words,
bat tbs fjreRoinE Is about the tenor OF
sour remarks,
You also stated end repeated the
siAtemOnt that you had alWAys been a
conscientious DsmporAt until you
Joined the Prohibition party. Being q
Democrat Is no req ohon against you
or any one, Leither 10 It o reflsJtlon to
be Republican or . ProhIbltionist. /
would much rather bslleve that tht
mslorlty OF the supporters OF either
party were honest In that support than
tl believe that they were governed by
merosnAry and partisan motives, and
frankly sAy that do believe they are
honest in that support
Brother Hanna, when you jumped
out Of the Democratic party you jump.
I'd too fer and entirely Overleaped the
party that ls the author of nearly ali
the prohlbltory On 1 temperance leaitlA
len In the HAatern, Nortbsrn aud Wes-
tern Slater. Would not detFAoi from
the reputation Of the Democratic pArty
~ deny ing to II the fall credit OF pass
nR the htst ProhlbitoFy law IA the
State Of NJ line, After that the party
seems to hRve fallen into . state OF "Ino-
4uOuB deEuetude," AB PFefi1ent Olsve
land would call It and In all the history
OF temperance leRislAtion for the States
referred 10 we oAn hnd more temperance
lauIels with which 10 Geek the brow o.
the Democratic party, II 10 trus that
down 10 some Of tho extreme Southern
states . system Of local option laws
prevail, which Is all TO the credit OF tbs
Democrats In thoss States, even Il
leading IN ltlve Is TO keep the negroes
soter. You said In yCuf Femsfks that
the Democrats Of Maryland refused TO
do anything for Prohibition.
Beg pardon, Brother HannR, but q
full tiedgsd Republican n uat come TO
the defense OF The Maryland DemocTGtb
so far ns they have gone In Temperance
legislation. They have doIe more IN
Maryland, more right down honest,
square legislation In response 10
the request OF the psopie OF the
counties than in any other State OF the
Union, Where the Democrats have full
power As . consequence Ceoil, HAr.
ford and more oourtles IN the STATE
have total prohibition, and more than
two thirds Of the counties have partial
prohibition. / mean by that, that most
Of the election distrlots have adopted
local option. A deAttar Is never turned
10 . request for local option whore q
majority OF the oltiz 10 voters seem 10
ba 10 favor Of II. The people Of DalA.
ware would have been glad could they
but have had like leRislAtorB. The
Democrats Of Maryland have done well
and deserve prAlGe rather thsn ceasure
But now lei us t4ke Q look around
through the eastern, northern and west
sIn states and sec what has bten done
and who has doas II In favor Of temper.
ance legislation. IihAve already given
the Democrats the credit Of passing tho
prohibltoIy liquor Law 10 Maine, and /
regret that l cannot give them the
credit OF passing more, bat theEe the
record euds.
was glad to hear you oouha Hot the
report that Prohibition was failure In
Maine, except in large cities, where
there is not moral sentiment en0u Oh TO
support 1t. think understood you to
quote Neal DIV As saying that 80 per
cent. OF the sale OF liquor was prohlb.
lied by prohibition, and were II not for
the large oilien 1t would all be proAib
ted.
Brother Hanna, bad ycu felt disposed
you Wculd have had no difii julty In
showing that the Republican party has
been the Iuthor of oil the prOhibitoIy,
local option and high license laws thai
have been pAsGe1 In the Northern States
and you would hAva had As little tTou
Bile to show that when any Of those laws
have besn repealed, the Democratic
party did or 1t was done in legislatures
where each party was nearly equal aud
the votes Of few Republicans allied
with the Democrats effected the object.
have no stAtistios nor records Of leg f.
lAtlon OF hand to assist mo in what
I'm writing, but 1t requires no taxing Of
the memory to rscoiiect that . native
AmeElosn legislature passed . prnhi6i-
tory law for Delaware In 1855, but in
1887 q Democratic legislature went
hack 60 'oF license. l reoOlleot that
about the same time Myron Il. Clark
WAS elected . Whig Governor OF New
York, Wh9u 9 Legislature Of the fame
politics passed a prohibltory law, but h
Democratic legislature followed AID
wiped 1t from the htatuse books.
/ only refer TO these instances to chow
that In the earlier stages Of tempeTano
legislation the opposition TO the Demo-
cratic party was always In favor Of
keeping pace with public opinion 10
lsgislstlug for the moral questions OF
the day. Iu these two instances pen-
toned the opposition was ut fault sno
travelled faster than public opinion.
This, my dear brother. Is whas you 10
gnuF uwarn UnRhin0 lnVe for your new