St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-11
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN.
Republicans Seek to Succeed by
Double Dealing.
TO the Editor of the Globe

To the Editor of the Globe.
The duplicity of the managers of the
Republican party canvass in this state
and throughout the nation, is so out
rageOus as to demand the Severest re-
Duke. In dealing with the prohibition
question these committees keep two
classes of literature, one for the Prohi-
bitiOnistS and one for the saloon keep
ers and their friends. While our tenn
perance and Christian people are being
hoodwinked by Albert Griffin, Bombs"
setting forth that the Republican party
is the only temperance party, the
same committees, from the same rooms,
are sending documents in German,
such as the st. Louis Tribune, a copy
of which is now before me,
which assures liquor dealers and
their friends that the Repub-
lican party is not a temperance party,
and that their interests are safer with
that party than with the Democrats.
From documents sent to Germans and
liquor men quote: 1.-THE moral of this
is that the German voters in each state
must ally themselves with that party
which is the least infected with this
temperance coutagiOn, and so far as ma
tiOnal politics is concerned, that party
is the Republican. 1t had the courage
TO declare III 1872: We oppose prOhibi-
tiOn,' and to this day has not retreated
from this position" Again. ''Harri-
son, as well as Morton. come from
states in which the German influence
has prevented all earnest prohibition
efforts, and on this question they are
above all doubts. If elected they will
stick to their platform, which declares
fp. Ii nv
spit upon the empty temperance resO-
luton, which is not part of the plat
FORM"
Or, Nowhere have the Germans
better opportunity to become acQualnt-
ed with the unreliability OF the Demo-
cratic party and prohibition than in
Missouri, and in this state brewers and
SalOoukeeperS are prosecuted and OPP
pressed to such an extent that With one
accord they have turned their backs
upon the Democratic party and will
vote the Republican ticket"
| could fill column or two of the
GLOBE with these quotations. Now re
member that this paper is sent out by
the tens of thousands from the head
quarters of the Republican league in
Minneapolis and St. Paul, and also at
national headquarters in New York.
To Prohibitionists they send the follow
ing:
Gen. Harrison is an active Christian
and a life long total abStainer and an
outspoken opponent of the liquor power,
whose nomination was opposed on the
ground that it would insure the hostility
of the entire saloon fraternity.
'Gen. Harrison is the nominee of
party that has always contained within
its ranks large majority of the tenn
perance men of the country and has
been growing increasingly hostile to the
saloon every year"
The only states in which prohibition
is maintained to-day are Republican
states"
''Thc Boutelle resolution commits the
Republican party to active hostility to
the saloon curse"
Third party men may befOg them
selves, go off on tangentS and side issues,
put the cart before the horse, pose as
martyrs or grow angry to their hearts
content, but after all, on election day
they will find themselves face to face
with the fact, that to vote for Gen. Har-
risOn is to vote for prohibition"
lin fact it is clear that irresistible in
f1uences are encouraging, persuading
and compelling the Republican party 20
become everywhere the avowed cham
pion of the home and irrecOncilable
enemy of the saloon"
The Republican party ''sympathizes
with morality" and then sends out
leaflet headed "Our Candidates
and from his reported speech at Dan
vile, Ind, Nov. %. 1857, deliberately
cuts out the following sentence: Il do
not believe in state prohibition" and
then asks the support of the temper
ance and Christian men,"
Permit me to beg of temperance and
Christian men not to be led to throw
away their votes on such hypocritical
party. If you want prohibition vote
for it with the Prohibition party.
w. W. SATTERLEE.