The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-16

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"Yell. what of the elections, and what
about your vote in the country at large p
the World representative asked of the Gen
eral.
"We cannot yet tell about our vote he
replied. "Returns are coming IN slowly,
but l Judge it will be 800, 900 or more, just
about what I nave been expecting since n
survey Of the field two months ago.
a much larger vote, but no one cam
paigning from State to State during
the last few weeks would put it above
what the returns are showing. Three hun
bred thousand votes for our cause, stand
ing firm as a stone wall through the most
holly contested Presidential campaign in
forty four years, is a sublime spectacle.
clad it not been for the Free Trade
scare we would have polled 600, 900 votes.
1t was a tariff campaign during which
nearly every voter was written to, entreat-
ed and implored to vote just this one time
more with his old PARTY and all this led
some of our friends back into their old en-
campments for this onetime-and restrain
ed and turned back a host of good men on
their way to our camp.
"My mail for weeks has been crowded
with letters from a vast number of Prohi-
bltionists who came to us from the Re-
publican party, stating that the writers were
inclined to help the old party in it's effort
to resist Free Trade. A large number of
communications came to me from Prohibi-
tionists recruited from the Democratic
party, announcing an inclination to vote
this one time with their old political COM
rades in the interest Of tariff reform, and
then come back and reunite with us in the
war against the saloon.
SIN the States of New York and New
Jersey the action of our last Legislature in
giving us a high license local option mea-
sure had its influence upon many who con-
sidered that the Republican party had done
something for temperance. In New York
State the vigorous canvass of Warner Mil,
Ter in behalf of high license had its effects;
but take it all in all, we have reason to be
grateful for the splendid results attained
by the Prohibition party.
"Wc shall continue the fight without
interruption. The saloon is Just as bad
now as it was before election, and it's tri-
umph in New York will make it more I'M
pudent and audacious than ever. Can any
one doubt the supremacy of the saloon in
our politics, when by its power David B.
Hill can be elected Governor against the
combined good influences arrayed in opposi-
ton to him -?
sit was the saloon that manipulated the
forces that slaughtered Miller and Erhardt
and gave New York State to Hill and Har-
rison and made Grant Mayor of the city of
New York.
"By and by" said the cold water leader,
1.-THE good people of this country will stand
together in the fight against the liquor
traffic. 1t will become the dominant issue
from this time forward. We see no cause
for encouragement, not the slightest.
The new campaign is already under way"
The General spoke in high terms of Gen.
Harrison as soldier and citizen, as also of
Vice-President-elect Morton, for whom he
has a high regard. He thought that no
man ever made a greater political blunder
than did President Cleveland in choosing
the last, instead of the first, year of an Ad-
ministration for a hand-to-hand fight on
the tariff question. To an interrogation of
what he thought the Republican party
would do on the question of temperance
now that they are coming into National
supremacy once more, he said
''That is problematical. Their oppor-
tunity is very great. If Gen. Harrison in
his inaugural would emphasize the Boutelle
postscript to the Chicago platform, that
the first concern Of all good government is
the virtue and sobriety of the people and
the purity of home and would say that
people and home have no such foe as the
liquor traffic and that it ought to be outlaw
ed as criminal-that would be a good be-
ginning.
"We would then expect him to recon-
mend to Congress in his first annual mes
sage prompt legislation for the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages and their transportation into
the District of Columbia and all our Terri
tories, and wherever else the United States
have exclusive jurisdiction. We should
expect him to recommend that Congress
promptly provide for a Commission of
Inquiry into whatever pertains to the liquor
traffic in this country into the immense
waste of money and worse waste of man.
hood through the Infamous business: and.
further, recommend that Congress should
speedily submit to the States an amend
ment TO tue Constitution forever prohibit
ing the manufacture, Importation, exporta-
ton, transportation and sale of alcoholic
beverages in the United States of America.
with the White House and both wings
of the Capitol in Republican control there
will be no lack of opportunity for them to
demonstrate the sincerity of their declara-
ton, that the first concern of all good
government is the virtue and sobriety of
the people and the purity of home.'"
At our old stand at the corner you
may expect to find as good an as
sortment as at any other store in