Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-19

loon Dill, allowing saloons to add music to their
H soctions and giving the Mayor power to grant
etc. The high license bills we're parpossiy 40
famed that they Disseminated against Ger. ain
nsenocratic cities and were only passed, as was
in hole" AA'A.'
Ia ~ an indication OF the temper OF the party
.enuels III that State today their platform ust
Icepps sea aoes not dare to speak out for Oh
a,,ti ois convention Q very mild temperance res
olution was Missed down. and the men ion of
bittes delegates from Iowa to Chicago
th syefly cursed by the leading Republicans and
snelr organs IN that state. The last Republican
EsuDernatofial candidate for New York was the
the es nhea OF Wine company The Chairman of
est VINE grower in the Union.
a,o,,t me lact thai county option is very largely
Is %a IN the south and but little in the Norsh
HMIesaltucky Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
Wissouri North Carolina, Texas, virginiu, and
o or th Nar GIN. nave county option laws.
JIYrsey and California Il, have county option
lave, While Tennessee and South Carolina have
i9ws almost equivalent to such. OF the yj
Democratic, ~ ~
lo.l The national platform utterances of the
af ppaonean party are not reassuring to temper
n session Mt PHILADELPHIA passed the folIowinv
nlsolution plank 49,:
me republican PARTY propose to respect the
7ghts Reserved by the people to themselves as
Yareluly as tho powers delegated by them to
Ene state and Federal Government. 1t disap-
@ OF the resort to unconstitutional laws tor
With the rights not surrendered by the people to
either tr, the STATE or National Governments"
luis resolution Its author, MIR. Herman Ras-
{e1, explained, meant the discountenancing of
GbInn6fnnnQ nd k,,r,
LAY laws" This explanation Gen. Allen, OF
OSHKOSH, member OF Platform Committee, in
The brewers during that year worked for the
Republican ticket. Said Mr.. Claus.n. President
OF me United IN; States Brewers Association, in
the Republication convention in Phi:adelphia.
iii his opening spec h:
The Presidential election which takes place
teis 1all may change the aspects OF that 1.-THE
Democratic] party.
AT the Cincinnati convention they have
placed ut the head OF the ticket O man Horace
greeley whose antscedents will warrant him q
plant tool in the hands of the temperance party.
ana none OF you gentlemen Gun support HIM. 1t
is necessary for you to make an issue at this
election; throughout the entire country, and al
though L nave peionged to the Democratic party
ever since had q vote, would sooner vote for
the Republican ticket than cast my vote for
such q candidate.
June T. 1873. President Clausen said, speaking
OF the defeat of Greeley and the triumph of the
Republican party:
The last Presidential election has shown
what unity among us can do"
In the platform Of 1884 the Raster resolution
was practically indorsed But the platform of
erty. 1t says:
I've reattirm our answering devotion to the
personal rights and liberties Of all citizens in all
the States and Territories"
The temperance plank adopted at Chicago is
used to some extcnt as an argument for the
party. The fact that not one Republican speaker
hNnvN
that 1t rarely appears in published platforms,
should indicate something. The Resolution
reads q
=, aThe first concern of all good government is
purity. of the home. The Republican party
cordially syinpathizes with all wise and we'll
directed efforts for the promotion of Temperance
and morality"
The first concern was made the very last con-
Germ at the convention and has been made of
absolutely at no concern by the party. 1t was
fore 1t passed., and he said it was not 80 strong
resolution as the liquor dealers had passed.
The National Liquor Dealers resolution is:
Ifesolced, That We are in favor of both public
and private morality and good order and popular
education.
"Resolvsd That we most earnestly favor tenn.
perence, and most strongly condemn intemper-
! The Republican temperance resolution has
not driven single saloonist away from the
party, and leading papers, such as the Cincin-
natl Conme!cial- Gazette and Chicago Tribune
aec.sse that 1t means absolutely nothing.
Not q single Republican State platform de.
clares f0r national prohibition.
~ The newspaper uGteraa.ces of tn, party are
drifting farther and farther from prohibition.
The following are few Of their utterances:
The Cincinnati Commercials Gazette of Feb. 8,
1887, says:
ut is vain to say that the Republican, party
must and shall become Il prohibition party. 1t
must and shall do no such thing. Those who
are in it simply to make it SO might ss we'll go
at once, for they will not succeed
This same paper says:
4The Republican party is done with the tenn
lerance question"
And again:
and in other Ohio cities that are substantially
Republican club houses"
Being questioned about three weeks ago con-
corning this utterance it reatfirmed it without
qualification.
The Davenport Gazette (Rep). of Iowa, says:
1.-THE Republican party Of Iowa is not only not
prohibition and it will not be. On that peg you
may hang your hat"
The Chicago Tribune SAYS:
prohibition must be prohibited in the kepub-
lican party"
"tThe b ewers' interests in Ohio are in no
moro danger from the Republican than from the
Democratic administration"
at is not wise to conceal the fact that the
puSlicans. and that their patrons are largely
The st. Louis Globe Democrat (Rep.) says:
"The Republican party has nothing to gain by
adopting prohibition or any similar doctrine"
The st. Paul Pioneer Press says, Feb. %; IS:
@The Republican party, nationally, is not g.
Prohibition party, and it is not likely to be so
transformed at any future date. 1t does not
consider the liquor question rs an issue proper
ly national at ALL"
The Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.), July q, 1887,
says:
"The thigh licensed law [of Minnesota is in
tended to help the saloon man il he will permit
it so to do So think, gentlemen, before
you defy that public sentiment which permit ed
high license instead OF prohibition
Editorials of the same tenor Gun be found in
the following Republican papers of 1885 The
New York Tribune, Feb and March II; Phila-
dephia Press, March %; Cleveland Leader,
March II; New York Times March II /; Brooklyn
Times, Sept. II; New York Press, March 2O and
almos any other leading Republican paper that
has discussed the subject within u year.
e.. That tho Republican party contains thou
sands OF the weaithiest and shrewlest liquor
manufacturers and dealers in the nation is in
itself proof that the party does not threaten the
life of the traffic. We have given in this article
the speeches of Mr. Clausen in 1872 and 73,
showing the vote of the Brewers Association
and its following to be for the Republican can-
didate. It is also we'll known to our readers that
Sheridan Shook, the lending liquor-dealer of
New York, is an influential lobbyist ut Albany,
and was tho head of the New York delegation
to the late Chicago convention. Buffalo" Miller,
President Of tho National Distillers' Association
is a noted Republican politician.
Peter Her of Omaha. tue leading distiller of