The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-03

Judge Greene in his interesting and
scholarly letter accepting the nomina-
ton Of the Prohibition party for dele
gate to congress disposes in . single
sentence Of the Republican party. Of
which he was long favored member.
He assumes that it has no permanent
place in national politics and that the
ideas Of government which were for
INFLATED by Alexander Hamilton and
commanded the support Of Daniel
Webster. Henry Clay and Abraham
Lincoln will soon be unrepresented by
a political party. He says:
There are to-day in this country only two
parties really national, both In representa-
ton and efficiency, namely the Prohibition
and the Democratic parties. These two, or
their successors. with great changes In
numbers aud personnel, will. before many
Issues presented by the Prohibition party
In national contest. wherein the Prohi BIZ
ton party, or Its successors, shall have the
mastery. i
In other words, Judge Greene ex-
poets the Republican party to perish
before mary years have passed and
the Prohibition party to defeat the De-
mocrscy and become the dominant
political party Of the nation. These
4 two parties, tine Democratic and the
Prohibition. are in his opinion the
only two parties really national both
in representation and efficiency. The
precise meaning OF this phrase is not
clear. The principles of the Republi-
can party are older than the constitu-
ton and they viii continue to exist as
long ~ government itself. Ii Judge
Greene means to assert that these
principles are not national In their
scope and nature. he makes a slip
scarcely 20 bcexpccted from one 50 gem
orally regarded A. close reasoner. II,
on the other hand, he means TO imply
that the usefulness Of the Republican
party has been impaired and that it
has been rendered a sectional party
BY the action of the. southern states in
arrayiag themselves soliiiy against it,
his logic is again a; fault. II is true
that the Republican party has not for
almost twelve years been able 10 carry
any southern state save Virginia. Ii
has. however. maintained its oryaniza-
ton in every state, and in ISL came
within four thou aud votes OF carving
Delaware aud Fiariia. within seven
teen thousand of carrying Louisiana,
within eighteen Thousand OF carrying
North Carolina, within ten thousand
Of carving Tennessee and within five
shuSand of carrying wcs; Virginia.
To say il il rot national parry in
repre- seatat-oa and efficiency because
il los, these states by narros margins
and In the same breath ,o declare that
the Prohibition parry is such a party.
il CONTRACT .ian OF ideas OF which no
man should he guilty The PFohihi-
ton party has never carried a single
state. 1t has never carried a ecassrs-
siaaal distviet In most o. the SOUTH
crn states it, candidate a the last
aecsiisaiil eieetioa did TO, receive a
single vote And Yet Judge Greene
declare that this IS ana;iosaI party in
rcpre~entl,soa aud eli iency and that
ths Republican, party i. nol. In wha,
ssasc i this tFue. Judge Gseenes Isl
the party whi,h carries :wcn,y states
..ss national taan the party which car
rsss nonef + the purity which cun-
&c = &. tue electoral VOTES oi every
STATE less nasssaal than the patty
which n Elsny sta,es ! without ether
esacsoaey and eprsscs;Afsoas
Eveu admitting thai tbs Repaid Han,