The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
They WILL RUN.
Candidates Fisk and Brooks of the Pro-
hibitiOn Party Write Their Letters of
Acceptance-A Synopsis of Each.

| Candidates Fisk and Brooks of the Pro-
hibition Party Write Their Letters of
Acceptance-A Synopsis of Each.
CHICAGO, Aug. Letters of acceptance
| have been received by Chairman st. John,
of the notification committee from the
Presidential and Vice Presidential nomi-
nees of the Prohibition party, Clinton B.
Fisk and John A. Brooks. Mr.. Fisk's letter
is dated at Seabright, n. j., July p. After
the usual expression of thanks for the honor
conferred, he proceeds to give an outline
of the present standing of the party.
"Within a few years. he says, ''the
temperance reform has altogether changed
front" The writer claimed that
temperance forces no longer face
human appetite; their warfare is
now directed against legislation and
the purpose of political parties. He de-
clares that reforming the individual is not
| enough, the State must also be reformed;
harmony must exist between the policy of
great commonwealth and sound economic
principles. On this point he says:
"A reform so vast as this we advocate, in
volving such radical changes in State and Ma
tional policy, is utterly dependent for its agita
lion and contamination upon some party
agent or force. To give it success, to
u
that party force or agent must be in
full acl ord with the reform, and must
have in itself the power of successful achieve
ment apart from those elements and influences
| alien to the reform. No party which is made
| public administrator by the enemies of temper
| ance, or which owes the election of its candi-
| dates to saloon influences, can ever establish
| prohibition as binding fact i'll government
anywhere"
1 II. 1ly c+afn hot 1ryoc xryifh nof
| reluctance that he accepted these conclu-
| sions and came to admit the need of new
| party, and after mild eulogy upon the
| party to which he formerly belonged, the
| Republican, he says:
| 81 have seen no hour of regret. Every day
| since then has shown yet more clearly the logic
of my course and the inevitable truth of my
conclusions. In Michigan, in Texas, in Ten
| nessee and Oregon so-called non-partisan eff
| forts to establish prohibition have failed,
through partisan necessity, born of liquor eie
ments in old party composition In Iowa,
Rhode Island and Maine the laws have been
shamelessly deted for like reason. The en-
tire trend of things these last four years has
proved hopeless the broader range of prohibit
| ton effect through non-partisan means, and
| equally futile as contamination, the narrower
methods of local option and high license;
VIII lie from the Supreme Court itself has
come, with startling emphasis, declaration
| SO Matchmaking this reform that it can never
| be made of local or State limitation again. No
| lines of territorial wish or will can hereafter
bar the liquor traffic and its fearful brood while
| by National policy that traffic is recognized as
| leg innate, and while under that policy the
| National Government derives revenue there
| from"
Here Mr.. Fisk quotes word or two from
| the National Republican convention at
| Chicago. 1.-THE first concern of good gov
| ernment," he quotes, ''is the virtue and
| coh, IF 10 ho NV of
| the home.n Attacking the sincerity of the
men who used this language, and then in
| sorting free whisky plank, he says
| Revenue, then, is not governments chief
| concern whether coming from internal taxa
| ton or from tariff on importations; and any
source of revenue which discounts the virtue
and sobriety of the people, and begets impurity
| in the home should be the first object assailed
] by every party protesting to seek good govern
| ment, While the revenue derived from
| such source should be the first to be forsworn
NOT alternative1y, for sake of a protective
| tariff, but positively, for sake of protection
| dearer and more vital than the tariff can ever
| yield. Had not left the Republican party four
| years ago, 1 should be compelled to leave it
| now, when, after reading the words have
| quoted from a resolution supplemental
| to, but not included in, its PLATFORM and find.
| ing in these words my own idea OF Govern
ment's chief concern set forth, I search the
| platform through in vain to find condemnation
of the saloon. or hint or purpose to assal it, or
| any sign of moral consciousness that the saloon
| is curse, and its income too unholy for the
| Nation to share.
'sIf the chief concern has no place in a
| partys platform and a party has no policy as
| to that chief concern that party does not
| deserve the support of the men who love good
government and would see it main aimed"
Here he says the "chief concern of the
Prohibition party is for the purity of home
and the virtue and sobriety of the people;
| it ascribed this in plain, unmistakable
terms at the Indianapolis convention, and
| it further plainly said that the burdens of
| taxation should be removed from food,
| clothing and other necessaries of life
| Concluding, Mr. Fisk says:
"AndI rejoice that standing on the plat
| form so well framed at Indianapolis, which so
! admirably recognizes other great principles
| than this of prohibtion-declaring, as we do de-
| clare, that citizenship rests on no mere crcum.
stance of race color sex or nationality, and al.
irming, as we always shall affirm, the full rights
| OF citizenship for all, standing ever, as we
must, for the defense Of the weak and the op-
| pressed, we can and do assert that prohibition
| is the dominant issue in Nationalpolit cs, and
we can and do invite 70 full party fellowship all
| who on this one dominant issue are with us
| agreed believing that as we settle this broad
| question for the right, so shall we best con.
serve the welfare of our entire Natl on and Of
| every class within it; so shall we make certain
| the wise and speedy settlement of every lesser
question involved and arising; so snail we
| prove ourselves Cnr1Stlan paJriOUS ana OfQaln
| the perpetuity of this Christian Republic
| The letter from John A. Brooks, candi-
| date for Vice-President, was dated August
| /, at Kansas City He declared that in
| accepting the honor he proposed to do all
| in his power to carry the banner of his
| party to victory and expressed his con-
! fidence in the platform upon which he had
! been called to stand. 1t makes its appeal,
| he says, not to one section but to the
whole country. Upon the capital and la
Dor question Mr.. Brooks thus expresses
| himself:
1.-The pending conflict between organized
capital and labor IS one of the most imminent
| dangers to which the Republic is exposed.
| That an abnormal condition of society exis S..
and one too, that is dangerous to public well
| fare, will not be denied. Each party platform
| proclaims the fact. The farmer and wage
| worker continue with difficulty the unequal
conflict for just remuneration, while combined
capital with ease accumulates its millions.
With each succeeding year the farmer be-
comes poorer, while the latter increases in
we 9TH"
| He next takes up the question of tariff:
1--WE need not be surprised that the tariff
| should elicit some consideration in this cam
| paign. When the import tax upon any given
| article approximates the point OF prohibition,
| and foreign competition is shut of, the trust
| cam certainly the more readily control the
| market value of the product. 1t is matter Of
| serious consideration That bne trusts are
against wholesome revision Of the tariff"
He writes at great length upon the SUBJ
ject of Prohibition, and in concluding,
says:
| 81 can not too greatly empha size the wisdom
| of your convention in making prohibition of the
| liquor traffic the one great test of fellowship
in the Prohibition party would not detract
| from the relative Importance of other ques-
| tons formulated in the platform, such as Civil
| Serv ce reform. polygamy, trusts, and. es
| pecially the great question of suffrage, but am
| firmly OF the opinion that with prohibition at
ia ned we shall the more readily correct all
| other existing wrongs
Larry Donovan Loses His Life in jumping
| from London Bridge.
New YORK, Aug. ga cable message
was received from George W. Atkinson
announcing that Larry Donovan jumped
from the Hungerford bridge over the
Thames, London, and was drowned
| Lawrence M. Donovan, who has made a
number OF daring jumps, first leaped into no.
| toriety from the BROOKLYN bridge August g.