Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-28
THE @. o. p. AND PROHIBITION.

ID. W. GrandOn V~sntilates the Republican
Temperance Professions.
TO he Editor ofhs Register:
l am mo- authorized to speak for the
Third party people of West Virginia, or
this section of the State, but rs an indi-
vidual and straight party man, 1 desire to
say that 1 am heartily pleased with your
editorial in Saturday. paper on the Third
Party" You tell us you are opposed to
prohibition in principle, and to the PrOhi-
bition party in politics, so that we know
where to find you; yet you are fair enough
to say those who believe in prohibition
Ought not to fight the only distinctive Pro-
hibition party. The ProhibItionists ask
nOthing but fair play, and on that platform
they are willing to meet all opponents
Those Republicans who are now so
bitterly opposing the organization of the
Prohibition party are not well posted. The
fact il, the third party has been organized
ia this State since 1885. IL was organized
before the amendment was submitted, and
IN point of fact the politicians were anx-
Gus TO submit the amendment during the
last legislature, in order 20 settle the ques-
tion and get rid OF the third party, tor the
reason that it is growing and there is no
telling where it is going to stop. 1t was
not organized to carry the amendment, al
though the members as individuals and the
organization a. q whole are solid for the
measure. The third party men favor the
amendment because they believe the prin-
ciple correct, and when once engratted in
the constitution By q vote of the people it
is not likely to ever be anrulled They
don't and can't expect to see it en-
forced any better than the laws we
now have are enforced, until such time as
their oEn organization becomes strong
enough 20 got control of the enforcement
Ct the law. The third party is organized
to get control Of the government from
President down 10 Constable. 1t is q Ma.
tional, not u State party. Then, it will
make atr0ng anti-liquOr laws, and put in
office none but strong anti-lquOr mel to
enforce them. Bring "a liquor seller who
has been selling contrary to law before a
Prohibition Judge, prosecuted By q Prohi-
bition States Attorney before a PrOhibi-
ton Jury, and the witnesses summoned by
a Prohibition sheriff or constable. who will
not 20 out after them by sending word
AHEAD that he's got a summons for them
and they had better keep out of the way,
and by the time that liquor man gets
through and serves elk months or q year
ia o felon's cell, he will not have the III.
dacity to say that prohibition don't pro;
hibit. y,dfSeE"
Asmatters now staSaS ,robihitior dissent
pprOhr, ana can make the strongest
- %hoc55titGry law in the world, and it won't
lint IN a saloon. Ii takes live, thinking,
a,ting officials in full sympathy with
the law to enforce il. The Third party
was organized to build up an organisation
opposed to the legalized saloon aud to
elect men from constable up to president,
who will enforce hat Oposition. 1t was
not organized to carry the amendment, al
though the organization aud its members
a. individuals will do two-thirds OF the
work that will he done III the State. They
did it in Michigan, Texas, Tennessee and
Oregon. and the same will bs true here.
Those Republican politicians who are kick
ing the Third party know that it has grown
10 it's present proportions on account OF
the duplicity of the Republican party on
this question. They had control OF the
nation twenty four years and under
the laws made by that party the
| LIQUOR traffic grew and ionrished
through every day and every hour of their
| administration. 1t grows aud tlourishes
undertheir administration in Pennsylvania
where Blaine's majority was 80 big it could
hardly he counted, and in Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan, Massachusetts,, and every State
they control, with one or two exceptions,
and in these excepted States the people
Democrats, Republicans and Prohibs-
passed the law which the Republican Off
cials hut half enforce.
In West Virginia, in 1884, in their State
convention, the party voted down a reso-
luton only favoripg submission by 3l3 to
1903 votes, or over three to one. Only four
years ago that party put itself on record a.
| opposed to letting the people
decide for themselves whether
they wanted a prokibitory law. Yet de-
spite all these facts, which cannot be de-
MED, YOU will hear their temperance
speakers and papers declaring that nearly
all the temperance, religion, education, re-
finement, sobriety and everything that is
good and great and grand and glorious Is
confined exclusively to the Republican
party. IL is this double dealing and
trsonhsrv that he's built nm the Third