Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-08-18
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CHICAGO, Aug. 6.--The letters of 10 |
csptanee Of General Clinton B. Fisk and
John A. Brooks, the prohibition candidates
for president and vice-president Of the
United States, were made public this after.
noon. GeReral Fisk's letter, dated Sea,
bright, N. j., July "a. opens with aD ex.
preston Of the grateful sense Of honor con.
ferred by the indianapolis convention, and,
after formally accepting the nomination,
proceeds as follows: within few year
the temperance reform has altogether
changed 'front.' In the great conflict
which has been and is yet waging
the temperance forces no longer face
the human appetite and habit alone.
They oppose legislation, laws, the purpos'
Of political parties, the policy and station
Of tho nation. What law creates law alone
can kill. The creature OF law-the saloon
| liquor trafiic--can die only at the laws
hand. or only at the hands Of the laws ex'
ecutor. IL Is not enough that we reform
| the individual We must reform the states
| so broad demand as this can be met in
but one way. IL has been we'll said that a
/ political reform can become fact in gov
ernment only through q political partJ
that administers the government re
/ form so vast as this we advocate, involving
| such radical changes in the state and IL
the national policy, is utterly dedendeni
for its agitation and contamination upor
some party force.
The national democratic party. in ia
| platform, ntters no words IN condemnation
Of the greatest foe 70 the republic, th
liquor traffic.
ut was with great reluctance that cam'
/ TO admit the imperaiiyeness OF a new party
while vet the party Of my choice, the ma
tional republican party, maintained its or
ganizati0n / have seen no hour OF regret
Every 1ay since then has shown NOR
clearly the logic OF my course and the iney
liable truth OF my conclusions la Nichi
gan, in Texas, 10 Tennessee and Oregon
Eo-calied nom bipartisan efforts 10 es
tablish prohibition. have failed
through partisan necessity, born o
the liquor elements in the oil
party composition. In Iowa, Rhode Islam
and Maine the laws have 70 be shameful
detied for the same reason. The entir
trend OF things these last four year
has proven hopeless the broader range
prohibition effected through nonpartisa
! means, and equally futile as a final consr
nation. the narrower methods OF local 81
ton and high license, while from the 81
prems court itself has come, with startiin
emphasis, a declaration so natonalizin
this reform that II can never be made I
local OF state limitation again.
The frst concern Of good government
sAid.th recent national republican conven
ton ST Chicago, lie the yirtne and sohriet
OF the people and the purity Of the home.
, | II the ehief concern has no place IN 10
! party's platform. and the party has
, policy as 10 that chief concern, that part
|, does not deserve the support OF men wh
love good government and would see
maintained. The prohibition party's che
couosrn is Cor the purity Of the home an
the virtue and sobrieiy of the people.
That party Is not lAbor's truest friend
which would bar the importation Of pat
pers from abroad, or close the tariff door
: competition 10 pauperizs foreign indu
Il try, and then, by the liquor system, pc
petuata the manufacture Of paupers an
!, criminals in our own midst, with wno'
" honest poople must compete, and Wno'
d LARGELY honest labor must support"