Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-26
BIG BID FOR RUM VOTES.
CHAIRMAN QUAY GIVES HIS GERMAN
BUREAU FULL SWING.
The Republican National Committee Cir
culating Liquor Literature of the Most
Outspoken Kinda Document Filled
with Offensive Appeals to Saloon
Keepers.
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,,s Below T., We =. print extracts from German
Bureau of the National Republican Committee
is sending out by the thousands among the Ger
man voters OF the land. II anything further
publican leaders in regard to the temperance
question this would do it.
a., Here is paper-eyidently made especially for
AL over with appeals to the Germans to support
the Republican party because it is the party so
TINS paper declares) most favorable to the inter-
great force on the plank in the Republican ma
tional platform, which reaffirms the party's
AunsWerying devotion" to "the personal rights
territories OF the Union, aud assures its read
ers that that plank was inserted in the platform
to please the Germans, and to show that the
sures them that General Harrison is a man Of
"liberaP ideas who will "spit upon" the little
Temperance plank tackled to the platform at the
This Republican document is u large four-page
sheet, with nine long columns to each page. Any
Temperance Republican VINO is able to read Ger
man will be amazed upon perusing it. 1t is
literally filled with appeals to saloonkeepers and
saloon lovers to support Harrison and Morton.
1t prints the Republican national platform, with
the Temperance and morality" plank left out,
In one of the articles embraced in the document
the Boutelle resolution is spoken of as
THAT small, sickly and weak addendum which
temperance plank.
In another place it is called a awishy-washy
temperance resolution" In an article contrast
declaration of the national iauor-dealers the
Tribune says:
Compared with this, the morality and tenn
perance blossom of the Chicago convention is
surely an innocent little weed"
Upon the flrst page of the document this par
agraph is printed, in bold type, in nine different
places
1.-The Prohibitionists declare it to be their
purpose to defeat the Republican party and
elect the Democratic ticket. Is it the purpose
in this matter? Will reasoning German voters
give their support to the auxiliary forces of the
irohibitionisus?"
The document prominently and persisenttlv
claims that the declaration of the Repubican
national platform, reafirming "unsWervins de-
votion to the personal rights and liberties OF
citizens in all the States and Territories of the
Union" is straight-out, incorporating
liquor utterance. In an article entitled "A
Word Concerning the Republican Platform, :"
the following is said:
"The Democrats as is well known omitted
all mention of personal liberty. The Repub-
lican platform, however, declares itself clearly
for the personal rights and liberties OF the citi-
zens, q declaration which is like q lump of lead
in the stomachs of the Muckers."
Concerning the candidates. this precious docu-
ment says:
Harrison and Morton come from States
in which the German influence has prevented
all earnest prohibition efforts, and this ques-
ulcu Cney are ABOVE Ill QOuDCS. II elected they
will stick to their platform, which declares for
Personal Liberty, and, like Greeley spit upon
the empty temperance resolution which is not q
part of the PLATFORM.
The saloons are thus warned to beware Of
Groy Cleveland:
President Cleveland has within year gone
over completely into the camp OF tho Prohibit
tionists He has sworn off drinking, and the
Prohibitionists are ],aradng him all over the
country as one of their shining examples.
Cleveland has suppressed respectable saloon,
which was on tho road leading to his country
home near Washington
Ii any Repub lean temperance man thinks of
voting for Harrison, let him read this, which.
be it remembered is being sent over tho coun-
try by the authority of the Republican National
Committee:
THAT the NIuckers have organized u party of
their own is u true blessing The benefit which
the Democrats will derive from it is more than
count erbalanced by the moral prott which will
accrue to tho Republicans. So long as it had
would remain III the old parties, the Aago-
American clement of the Republican lnrty for
the sake of possible success, was too much in
clinsd to make concessions: but already q Diff
fsrent wild is blowing. Since the latter have
elected to so their own way the English-speak-
great deal more sensible position and several
| influential papers that formerly made love to
| the Prohibllionists now openly say what We
Germans always have said. The only wish we
| now have is that the Republican party will shut
| the door as quickly as possible, so that the
Mucker can never enter again"
Remember. the pupcr filled with such utter
| auces is sent out by the Republican National
| Committee and paid tor by it, The German Bu-
reau is working under the directions OF that COM
! mittee in the same building, and all its expenses
are paid by that committee.