Wichita eagle., 1888-08-21
WHERE pRoH1EIr1oN LEADS los.

| Judgment, provided proper effort has
been made to reach the truth. But when
any man INDUCES in bitter personal as
saults and gross Misrepresentation while
pretending to champion a great moral
cause We hardly know whether to pity
him because of his stupidity or condemn
| his insincerity.
| So-called prohibitionists declare them
| selves as the great conscience party of
the age, voting as we pray, inspired
| by love of God and home and native
land They indignantly deny the
charge that they arc Democratic allies
and are trying 10 defeat the party that
has done more than all others for the
cause OF temperance. But any Repubii-
can who leans toward the third party
could easily see where Prohibition lead
ership would land him if he had heard
the speech delivered last Friday evening
at Arkansas City by Rev. j. II. Monroe,
OF Wichita. From first to last, with but
little exception, it was q Democratic eff
fort-denouncing Republicans and Re
publican measures and misrepresenting
the Republican policy. Prohibition
arguments in the speech We're as scarce
as prohibition voters in the audience.
and staple Democratic arguments We're
about as numerous as Democratic voters,
Of whom there were several Judging
from the frequent applause that greeted
the speakers for free trade and against
Republican free whisky and tax on
neceSsarleS.'
Il want to ask, said the speaker, eff
any Democrat here viii say he believes
we viii ever get prohibition through his
party" No answer That Is right, We
always know where Democrats stand.
Now let me ask if there is any Re-
publican who will claim that we will
ever get prohibition through his party"
The answer was not expected but it
came. Yes, We'll get it that way q
blamed sight quicker than you will
through your party. Brother NJ. was
seemingly so disconnected at the ready
answer and the laughter which followed
that he seemed not TO hear it, and went
ahead assuming that the answer of
course would be no He proceeded to
arraign the latter party then for alleged
insincerity and hypocrisy.
To the assertion that it had done more
than all the other parties for prohibition,
he replied by pointing to the southern
states in which under local option laws
SO many counties had voted prohibition.
OF course all this was Democratic.
But when it came to the northern
states that had adopted prohibition it
was mere coincidence that such states
had a Republican ajority. In Kansas
the law succeeded through non-parti--
san votes" In Iowa the Republicans be-
came afraid of the Prohibs. and said IF
you wont vote against us we'll submit
an amendment" etc. So in Maine.
Rhode Island was not noticed at all.
The speaker then extolled the Repnb-
lican party of Kansas for having so
many grand and noble men in it but,
sad to relate. it is led by Jeems Halo
well. Bill Hackney and Jim Leggett.
caiOled the ladies of the w. c.
I. [. into voting for him for mayor on
his promise to down the joints, and he
afterward stood in with the joints. He
also received $4,000 year from the S.
F. r. R. Co. if he would never send any
body to Topeka or Washington that
were opposed to railroads. Query Has
Col. Bill factory at Winfield from
which he can turn out to order legisla-
tors for Kansas and the u. s.? Big man
and very generous is Col Bill to do all |
that for only $780, Leggett's sin was
'he tried to side track the Prohibition
party once and believing the end .justi-
led the means he announced himself a
travelled with St. John a
ong time, tried to buy him off
with $4,000 furnished by the Republi-
IAN party and l don't know but he slept
With him."
What a list of crimes for Col Jim to
answer for The first was bad enough,
)ut as to the second, and of all things
he last sin-weI. Col. Jim must have
wanted to reach the end pretty bad to
esort to such means as those Just
alluded to. As to the third he has
Boss" Germans word that it cost like
-. and that is to say just twice the
um offered by the Republicans to get
1t. John to go the other way.
But Bro. Munroe did not deal in per-
Qualities alone. He discussed principles
90, He pronounced the tariff discus
ion ''all bosh, quoting Senators In
,alls and Plumb to sustain him, and the
Ct liquor dealers who simply
Use the tariff question as blind to cover
Up the real great question. But before
ong the orator was wading into the
tariff question III a way that would
make free trader ashamed of himself
{ not his party. Now / believe some
hings are two high. We have been
uilding at Wichita. I bought lumber
t q cost of $4,000 of which $3.50 was
aritf tax. Where did that go! I
t went to such lumber kings ,
5 Alger, of Michigan, who
ould thus go down to Chicago and buy
herman delegates from the south.
Now a word about the Chicago plat
orm: Ii declares in favor of free whisky
ather than take off any of the tariff tax .
nd Is III favor of taking the tax off to-
acco. Any person with five grains I
sood grains) Of common sense knows if :
e has read the Chicago platform that 1t
avs no such thing, and he knows, too,
he has thought at all. that there Is a
ifference between the rates of protective
3riff and the principle of a protective
iriff. 1t Is the latter that the Republic
ans propose to maintain and not the
primer for the rates can be varied "a C
circumstances require and warrant. and j
he protective principle can remain in I
act. Any one. be he Democrat or Pro-
ibitionist OF what not, who does not
y that distinction and also see the true
osition of the Republican party on the
high tariff and free whisky" question
so stupid that he can't. or so stub
orn and unfair that he won't see il.
Thus does 3fr. M. commit his
arty to the Democratic policy.
But says he, Il Don't Ike to
: called Z Democratic side show.
z, no. Bro. Monroe, your party IS no
niger side show, il has a full right !
ow to 20 inside the big tent and be