Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-14

clared that sobriety was the first concern
ment of nation, and that it sympathized
with all well-directed efforts to promote
temperance, it antagonized the Democratic
party Numerically, by making distinc
tive and well-defned issue with it, and
arraying itself as distinctly on the side of
prohibition as did the Democratic party
against it.
The RECoRD-UNIoN has been censured
by some small-beer papers and politicians
for having placed this irrefragible inter
probation upon the language of the plat
form. We have been accused even of
treachery to the Republican party. Some
of our feebly-forcible contemporaries have
attempted to place the party in the posi-
ton Of having in this declaration perpe-
trated low cunning trick, by the formula
ton of platform which could be pro-
fessed in its full significance in Kansas
and Iowa, and be repudiated in the
more whisky-loving States; that, in
other words, instead of meaning prohibi-
ton, the party meant hypocrisy. Against
this most vicious and scoundrelly inter-
probation we enter the protest of genuine
Republican convictions. The Republican
party has never at any time in its National
Conventions been guilty of this species of
double dealing, ana we do not believe it is
chargeable with it in this instance There
is not one single declaration in all its plat
form which will contribute more largely
! to its success than this prohibition plank
Right here in California the declaration
that sobrlety is a Government of the Gov
eminent, and that the Republican party is
in favor, not of the manufacture and sale
of liquors, but of well directed efforts to
promote temperance, will rally to its stand
| ard two votes for every one that 1t will
lose; while on the other hand, the cringing
cowardly, debasing declaration of the Dem
ocratic party against the so-called "sump-
tuary laws will lose it the respect Of
manly Democrats everywhere. California
will give the Republican ticket larger
majority than it gave four years ago, when
| Blaine carried the State by over thirteen
thousand, and at least ten thousand of that
Republican majority is referable to the
incoming of Eastern colonists and settlers,
and especially in Southern California,
where the new towns exhibit large major
ity in favor of prohibition.
The prohibition sentiment is a con-
stantly increasing one, and the prohibition
vote correspondingly an augmenting one !;
the Republican party has therefore, every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by the
position it has taken, and its most sneak
ing and cowardly enemies are to be found
among those who construe its open decla-
ration in favor of legal regulation of the
liquor traffic to be hypocritical pretense,
intended for consumption in Kansas and
Iowa, but to be read backwards in the dis
tilleries, breweries and saloons of Califor-
mia. mall contests which may exist, or may
hereafter arise between sobriety on the
one hand, and the unrestricted license of
the liquor traffic on the other, the RECORD
UNION will, in consonance with the Ma
tional Republican party, heartily sympa-
| thize with all well-directed efforts for the
promotion of temperance.