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

laughter. Why they told us that tht
stars wonld drop out Of the armament al
night and that the silvery moon in a
spasm of modesty would draw sulphur.
Gus cloud over her face. Laughter
They assured us that seed time and har-
vest would come no more; that the whole
course of nature would be reversed
Butthe simple fact is that Mr.. Cleve-
land was elected, and after a good old or
thodox fashion the sun has risen every
morning since. [Laughterl. The stars
shine as of yore and the silvery moon
rides in the night sky just as she did mn
der Republican administration. laugh
teri.
We are great people and good people,
and sad as the application may be, we are
too great and too good to be destroyed even
by Democratic success. GApplausel. We
Prohibtionists think 50 much of you both,
my friends of the Republican and Demo-
catic parties, that if we simply want fair
and decent administration of the public af-
fairs, if We want the taxes levied and col
lected, the routine business Of the Govern
ment administered, we are quite satisfied
that it will be done with fair competency
and with good degree of honesty, wheth-
er the Democrats beat the Republicans
or the Republicans beat the Democrats.
[Applause].
But We are further satisfied of another
important thing. No matter whether the
Democrats beat the Republicans or the
Republicans beat the Democrats, the sa-
loon goes right on, goes on without let or
hindrance. The liquor traffic of these
United States does not tremble when it
contemplates the possibility of Republi-
can success next November, nor does it
look with whitened face when it thinks
that the Democrats may once more win in
the national affairs.
Well, the Democratic party does not
profess to be for us. The Republican
party, on the other hand, very frequently
takes pains to tell ms that it is the trne
temperance party; that it has done the
get temperance legislation in the future it
must be through the fundamentally of
the Republican party.
| wish to examine that proposition brief
ly and to call to my aid some very reliable
Republican authorities. will read to you
one or two extracts from various Republi-
~ n ma nars and the ,ttaranaec If o,.a ,1r sx5,
leading politicians. | think we have a
pei feet right to put the Republican party
on trial in this matter and determine if we
can what is the attitude of that party to-
tracts without comment as far as possible.
Remember now, that you Republicans are
being complimented. | could not say a
more complimentary thing about the Re-
publican party in connection with this
matter than simply to say we put the Re
publican party on trial. The Democrats
plead guilty. Now You Republicans keep
sweet. Remember that the Democratic
party has been sent out to be hung while
we put the Republican party on trial.
Laughter
Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, says ''The
Republican party is not for Prohibition. !"
/ hope these reporters, if they omit
everything else, win put down this good
Republican testimony. [Laughterl.
Judge Foraker, now Governor of Ohio,
says The Republican party is not tenn
perance party
The New York Tribune says, 'sThe Re-
publican party is not Prohibition party"
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
says, at would not, We admit, help Pro-
hibition to elect the Republican party, be-
cause as a party it opposes Prohibition"
The St. Louis Globe Democrat says:
THE Republican party has nothing to
gain by adopting Prohibition"
The Chicago Tribune says: Prohibition
must be prohibited by the Republican
party"
Harper's Heeklg says: "The Republican
party will take no steps that will ALLEVIATE
the saloon vote.
The Cincinnati Commercial once more
says: the Republican party is done with
temperance.
L. S. Senator John Sherman says:
Temperance parties and organizations of
spirit of our institutions"
Ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio, said dur
ing tile amendment campaign ia that
State: ''The Republicans are going to
conflict The Legislature at this time
must not be embarrassed with the Prohi-
bition amendment. 1t must be defeated,
and it was defeated at the same election
that gave the Republicans control of the
state OF Ohio.
Here is one from the Chicago Tribune,
a very unkind cut indeed, but no Repub
lican will make long faces at dose of this
character, because it comes from an ortho-
dox Republican journal. 1t says: 1T Is
undeniable that great majority OF the
beer saloons are run by Republicans aud a
great majority of their patrons are Repub-
licans also" lApplausel.
will not read any more of them, but
have little slip here to which | desire to
call your attention. You know that last
spring in the State of Michigan we bad an
amendment campaign. For four conseeu-
tive sessions of the State Legislature the
temperance people of Michigan had petit
toned the Legislature to submit an amend
ment to the State Constitution. We had
been refused that submission. Last year,
in the latter part of the month of January,
mark, without single petition before the
State Legislature they rushed joint reso-
luton submitting the amendment through