St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-21
APRoHIBITION PARTY.

The intensely partisan Republican
papers not unexpectedly disagree with
the GLOBE, that one of the chief needs
of Dakota, in political way, is pro-
hibitiOn organization, in line with the
st. John party of the states, and they
are ungenerOuS enough to impute to the
GLOBE motives not distinctly patriotic
or disinterested. These Republican
friends take various views and are quite
unjust, but there is partial compensa-
ton for the loss of their favor in the
fact that on this line there is harmony
and cOmpaniOnship with the estimable
ladies of the W. c. T. U. and the Pro-
hibition party. Mrs. H. NJ. BARKER.
the amiabIe, graceful and eloquent
president of the Dakota w. G. Il. u,
and one of the most effective public adj
yocates of the local option cause, states
that now, having routed the liquid forces
at the polls. letters are coming to her
from all directions asking what shall be
the next step. She responds, in melO-
diOus but ringing voice, above the
clamOr of selfish and groveling parti-
sans, Nov we will organize the Prohi-
bitiOn party!" and exhorts her fol-
lowers all to take hold of the work
The Huron Standard, the news
paper organ of the W. G. T. u.
and prohibition, says that of the
letters sent out, but one in fifty ELECTS
response, discouraging the organization
of the Prohibition party. 1t says, fur
Their, that in Dakota the contest of the
future will be between the Prohibition
party and the Democratic party, the
Republican party being the weak
brother tagging in the rear. A few
like KANoUsE and PLUAiMER, who are
looking only for the lOaves and fishes in
sight may fall away, but, if the STAN
dard and Mrs. BARKER are good proph-
cts, those who are for prohibition
from principle viii be found
in the ranks of the new
party. The Chicago Statesman, Miss
WILLARD's home organ, and still higher
authority asserts that the Republican
party is in the hands of the whisky ele-
ment, and the splurge Of the little fac
ton that calls itself anti-saloOn Repub.
lican, is mere side-show and device tc
keep the honest prohibitionists from
leaving the party. This is no doubt as
true in Dakota as in Illinois, so far as
the managing element of the Republi
can party is concerned. Some of theil
organs now bitterly assail the
Standard, Mrs. BARKER, and the
others who are organizing the
prohibition party. They say they have
reluctantly bent to the arid breezes Il
keep the extremists in the party, and
that it is ungrateful now not to STAY
with them and save the g. O. p. 1
there are reasons for national prohibi
ton party in the states it should mani
festly include that persuasion in Da
kota, as well as elsewhere. They find
precedent in the old abolition party
But for that advance guard of men will
single purpose they insist that SLAYER,
would not have been destroyed ant
the slave power OverthrOwn. The,
represent similar antagonist
to the whisky power and urge that they
will accomplish as little by relianc
upon the Republicans as the old aboli
tionists would have done by Emporium
ing the Wing or Democratic parties. IT
make the issue with the slave powe
successful it was necessary first to de
stroy the Wing party. Now the Re
publican party is the great stumblin!
block in the way of the new departure
With this view logically entrenched il
their minds, it is not likely that tn
wild appeals of the Republican organ
and leaders to stay with them will b
very effective. AS an essential factO
to their enduring success these ney
party people demand woman suffrage