The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-07-14
JUDGE RYLAND REPLIES.
He Gives His Reasons for support
ing Cleveland IA nd Thurman.

LEXINGTON, Mo, June 80, 1888.
TO Mc E'dttOr Of The RepMbic:-
Dear Sir:-I received the above circu-
lar inclosed iii Il letter, addressed to me
by warm personal friend in Kansas
City, Mo-, making the following inqui-
ry OF me:-
Can you support the principles en-
bodied in inclOsed circular? We (the
temperance people of this congre ssional
districD want to run good man on
our ticket. / wish to support YOU in
our club and would like to have All cx-
preston from you of your pfiiciples Il,
the coming campaign. FRnHAp "a ~ I'd
be a temperance man. 1H d{EHatxH}A
great many men who are,i pea{iN "a, I
perance men aud yet will hang to tbd
old parties and gulp down saloons and
all rather than join the new party.
know of no man who eau bear our
standard with more honor TO the cause
than you can"
Will you permit me to answer
through the columns of your paper that
while it is true that | am temperance
man, and for the home against the
saloon, my principles as democrat are
unchanged. i am not prohibitiOnist,
nor yet subscriber to the doctrine OF
the right of women to vote. For wears
| have labored for the strict enforce
ment of the laws of the state regulating
the liquor traffic, and to inculcate by
precept and example the doctrine of
temperance. 1t is my candid opinion
that the state should, by statute law,
| abolish the saloon. With no such
places of resort for the idle vicious and
intemperate--no palaces of sin where
the respectable citizen may, by the
power of his example and the still
worse custom and system of treating
| allure others to destruction, and the
Christian influences of home and the
power of the gospel of the Son of God
put forth in earnest, the cause of tenn
perance must triumph. Recognizing
the fact that women and children are
| the sufferers from the curse of intein.
perance, and svmpathizing with them
| in all my soul, am not astonished at
the wall of sorrow that comes from
| broken hearts and desOlated homes,
| and the endeavor OF woman to correct
the evil by asking for the power of the
ballot to aid her in the work of reform
But if our mothers, wives, sisters aud
daughters cannot persuade the men to
give them the protection they need by
the influence OF their love, their virtue
and their honor, the power of the ballot
will not conquer it for them.
The contest this year ia to bo memor.
able in the history of this country. We
have men and principles with which a.
democrats to go before the country land
in this contest, without abstlng one jol
or little of my temperance views, ex.
pect to fight for temperance, home
God and my native land under the
leadership of Cleveland and Thurman
With that sublime utterance of Andre "
Jackson, embodying the true principle
of government: PROTECTING all alike
and granting tavors to uone," inscribed
upon our banner, and because the
principles involving life, liberty and hap
piness nay, the very existence of oul
government itself, and which have sus
lained the people in the deepest hou
of gloom and pierced the thickes
cloud with the light of their immOrta
hope are on trial, can do nothing bet
ter to further the interests OF my coun
trymeu than 10 plead with them Il
stand firm in their faith of these princi
plies and and in their triumph in NOvem
Der. AENoPHnN RYLANp,