The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-07-13
Friday, July 1S, 1SSS.
A prohibition County Convention


State Central Committee or Cecil Co.," pub.
fishes a call which will be found in the pres
ent issue of the MIDLAND JOURNAL, for the
meeting of mass convention at Elkton on
the 18th inst. to select delegates to represent
the county al the State Prohibition Conven-
ton which will meet at Glendon Park in
Baltimore county or August End. There
being no party organization in this county,
a meeting of free lances is called, and all
who are in favor of pushing the fight to a
finish against the saloon are invited to at
tend.
II requires quite stock Of moral courage
for one man to issue call and attempt to
head movement political which the zeal
Gus members of both the dominant old par
ties oppose lest an incursion into the ter.
ritofy Of politics should draw away some OF
their recruits 10 enlist under the new can
didate's banner. There are no other move
ments Of society show, in SO strong a light,
the contradiction in human nature, as polit
ical parties and religious denominations.
The history of UNCONVENTIONAL forms, of the
latter, is traced by trail of blood and per
secution up though the ages, which is fading
out though the faint lnutterings of the
storm are still heard in the distance. Old
political parties fight with a relentless bitter
ness every new party which presumes TO
enter the field and ask for recognition. The
Temperance sentiment is very strong every
where, but there is nothing SO rouses
thoroughgoing party man Of either of the
old parties as 10 talk of placing clean cut
temperance plank in their platforms, while
the whiskey interest can get plank in the
platforms every time with thin disguise
about it, Both the old parties SHE'D little
at the whiskey plank in the platforms of '8S,
hut the plank is there all the same.
The Raster plank formerly placed in the
Republican platform to hold the German
beer vote, has never been repudiated but
reafhrmed by every succeeding National
Convention. And the "antlsumptuary''
plank put in the Democratic platform of
1884 was embodied in the platform of 'S8
by unanimous endorsement at ST. Lonis.
The liquor interest expresses entire sasisfac-
ton with these platforms. Both parties
wish to retain the whiskey land beer vote,
and dare not take ground againt them.
Many determined, conscientious temper
ance men declare that no party can serve
two masters, the saloon and temperance;
that it must cleave to one and abhor the
other, hence they have broken off and set
up for themselves, and ARE making super
human efforts TO organize in every State and
every County in the Union. The party is
placing full tickets in the field, raising
money, organizing clubs, employing large
numbers Of the best platform speakers in the
country; in short making an aggressive and
determined political fight all along the
lines, and those who fancy they will rot
make as large vote as st. John did, have
not kept themselves posted, and will learn
that they have been greatly mistaken. AT
the Prohibition New York State Conven-
tion held last week full ticket was placed
in the field and 81 900 subscribed in few
minutes to help sustain it. Thirty thous-
and dollars was raised at their National
Conyention. The efforts being put forth by
the party this fall are probably ten times as
great as in 1884. The party has number
of papers working in its interest, some Of
them among the ablest edited in the country,
amongst the latter might be named the
New York Voice, the weekly circulation Of
which approximates 10000 copies. A.
copy of the Voice is mailed to every minis
ter in the United States, paid for out Of a
voluntary fund that has reached $4,000
To suppose that such an organized effort
as is Icing made by the temperance party
to achieve a commanding position as
National political party, in which some OF
the ablest men in the nation are enlisted,
will peter out and prove futile, shows an in
excLsable lack Of information.
The w. G. It. U. if not voluntary allies
to the Prohibition party, are unavoidably
aiders and recruiters for its ranks. While
the coquetling CT old political parties with
the liquor element cannot fail to drive away
from both by degrees, strong, conscientious,
thinking men.
The liquor interest have brewing and
liquor associations State and National, the
most complete and powerful of any interest
in the country, who can place half million
of dollars in their treasury with the fash of
the telegraph. These liquor associations
are formed for political purposes mainly,
and are carrying every case up 10 the high
est courts which is decided against them.
There are two saloons run in the capitol
buildipg at Washington which keep large
per centage of the members half drunk, as
evidenced by the blackguard rows which
weekly occur in Congress. When bill to