The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-27

the democrats next November, nor what
| principle would have been settled if the
| Republicans instead of the Democrats had
been triumphant in the last national con-
| test.
| SO let it be distinctly understood that the
Prohibitionists are not waging guerrilla
warfare. Our flag is flying. our drums are
beating and we are going on with the bat
| tie. Applause.
| | remember little experience of mine
during the last State campaign in Mich-
| gan. was coming down on the Lake
Shore Road and fell in conversation with
| gentleman on the train. He soon discov-
cred that was Prohibitionist and about
that time | made the discovery that he was
quite an ardent Republican. We were two
OF the most candid and polite gentlemen, |
think, in the entire State, and we talked
this matter over with great plainness and
with entire frankness. We chatted on
mile after mile. The afternoon wore away,
and as We were approaching the city of
Sturgis, where | was to leave the train, he
said to me: Il don't see this case as you
see it; / don't understand as you do, butt
he said, 81 am rather pleased with your
frank way of stating the case. Now if all
the Prohibitionists thought as you do,
there would never be any unkind feeling
between us" said | did not see why
there should be any unkindly feeling; that
we Prohibitionists were a very happy peo-
pie. He said 'sif they would all talk as you
do we wonld not agree. of course, but we
should very agreeably agree to disagree.
"Now," said he. ''there is that man Dickie
over at Albion. Laughter. Why" said
he. she doesn't know anything about this
temperance reform; he has simply gone
crazy, the man is stark mad; he wants to
tear down and destroy the grand old Re-
publican party" GLaughter.l | said,
lyon are sure?" Eyes, sir" I asked
him if he knew the gentleman. He said
he had never met him, but he had gather
ed some information from the Chicago
Tribune, the Detroit Tribune, the Grand
Rapids Eagle. the Lansing Republican, and
other sources of light in dark places.
Laughter. Well, after the train reached
the city Of Sturgis, took him by the hand
and SAID: 81 have enjoyed this converse
ton very much, and if you ever come
through my town would be glad to have
you stop off, q wanted him to ask me
where lived, &c.), laughter, and he
said: ~ don't know where you live
"Well. y said, 81 live in Albion, and my
name is Diekie." loud laughter and APP
plausel.
Now | simply related that anecdote to
show the false light in which our friends,
the enemy, would put us il they could.
Why, as | read great many OF these Re-
publican papers in the north, | find the
same thing reversed in the Democratic
papers of the south. To read some of their
editorials we might believe that we were
band of Modocs with feathers in our hair,
war paint upon our cheeks and tomahawks
in our hands, out on the war path looking
for Republican scalps. [Great laughter.
Let me assn re you that we are nothing of
the kind. We love our Republican breth
rem. We extol the splendid record of the
Republican party. Our arms are wide
open to receive them, [laughter] and we
are preaching this Gospel of Prohibition
because we have profound faith in the par
ty Democrat and the party Republican.
[Applausel.
Why, | am sure If We thought the Dem
ocrats or Republicans were one half as
mean as each party says the other is. we
would not undertake to do anything on the
line of a prohibitory reform. If thought
the Democrats were one half as bad as the
New York Tribune insists they all are; if
| believed one quarter of what | read in
the Democratic press about our Republic
can friends, | would advise these good
Prohibitionists to stop this nonsense at
once The best thing we could do would
be to go home, lead calm, uneventful and
unexcitable lives and possibly we might be
able to outlive these political rascals, and
after they are all dead we will undertake
to do something. [Laughter.l
But we are trying to do something now.
because we believe that the average Amer
lean citizen is man ready to look into
these great questions, and although we
sometimes chafe under the slowness of our
progress, yet we believe the average citi-
zen is ready to follow his conscience wher
ever conscience leads. Applause.
Our hope of the ultimate success of this
movement in not founded upon Prohibit
tionists. They are splendid men and they
are by no means so lonesome as they used
to be "a voice "No, Sir'') fancy if the
effort were made To morrow that either the
Democrats or Republicans eould outvote
us; but as surely as God reigns, the time
is coming when we shall outvote them.
Loud applausel. And Of course that can
only be accomplished By winning the good
men from both the Democratic and Re |
publican parties. [Applausel.
Then let us dispossess the minds of our
opponents Of all this nonsense that we
hear that we Prohibitioniats are waging a |
crusade of personal abuse. Why | go on |
the platform all over the country and say |
better things about the Republican party |
than you could hire Democrat to say, |