New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-04
TIE THIRD PARTY VOTE IN THIS STATE

THE THIRD PARTY VOTE IN IHIS STATE
How is General Fisk going to run in this
State? viii Lowell headed temperance men
support or cut him7 Is the third party vote to
increase or decrease this fall?
These questions are likely to be answered in
q manner which will convince those that are
using prohibition as a stalking-horse that they
have reckoned without their host. MIR. st. John
has virtually confessed that General flsKs
candidacy is not an honest one. st. John STOOD
I'D in the indianapolis Convention and de-
clared that the mission of the Prohibition party
is to destroy the Republican party. That Is TO
say. General Fisk is running, not in the In
terest of REFORM but of politics. Are genuine
friends of temperance throughout New-f ork
prepared to countenance movement aimed at
the existence of the Republican party we
believe net. We believe that the course OF
events has convinced them that the triumph OF
the cause which they have at heart does not lie
that way, We believe that they have come to
realize that TO destroy the Republican party, as
Mr. st. John and the other industrious mana
gers of the Prohibition machine are laboring to
do, would be to lose practically all that tenn
perance reform has gained in this State and
last Legislature which was Republican in both
branches. made magnificent fight for temper
ance. Opposed to the Republican Senators
and Assemblymen was Democratic minority,
a Democratic Governor and desperate lQPby.
The Republicans passed judicious High
License bill and resolution providing for the
submission of prohibition amendment to the
Constitution to popular vote. In other
words, they met the best expectations Of the
temperance reformers The Democratic legis-
lators fought these measures at every STEP
and Governor Fil vetoed the bill for reasons
which simply served to show that his action
was entirely unjusti6able. That is the record
of the two parties in Newly ork this year on
temperance And in the face OF it, MIR. st.
John has the assurance to ask the temperance
people Of New FORK to join him in bis attempt
to destroy the Republican party.
And there is another cogent reason why this
st. John-Fisk movement to destroy the Repub-
lican party is calculated to fail miserably in
New York. The Indianapolis Convention ex-
pressed itself strongly against any attempt to
regulate the liquor traffic but those who have
hitherto supported the third party movement
in this State are by no means unanimous in
support Of such proposition Many of them
favor the High-License bill which passed this
year, and Mr.. Funk, the Editor Of " The Voice."
in an open letter in effect Endorsed the license
system, by urging Mr.. Crosby to support bill
forbidding the issue of licenses in any Assembly
District until the number Of saloons shall be
reduced to the proportion of at least one to 500
population"
The Republicans may well be satisfied with
the outlook. Their party has earned the con-
fdence of temperance men by the enactment Of
temperance measures representing the intelli-
gent demand Of the hour-not the demand of
extremists, but of those who are conservative
Of the public veal. General Fisk has right
to count upon the votes Of all those who desire
to see the Republican party destroyed. There
is no reason why the National Democratic Com
mittee should not pay his campaign expenses
But why should any temperance man in the
State of Newly ork countenance his candidacy :?