Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-21
QUAY DRAWS THE LINE.

VUAl DRAWS lHE LINE.
y NOTHING TO- DO EITHER FOR OR
AGAINST TEMPERANCE"
y We Are Not Working: Along the Tenn
persnce Line This. Fall "-Ho Keeps q
Wsll-known Liquor Advocate Busily ut
Work Booming the, Harrison and Nor
ton Campaign Among tho Personal Lib
erty Germans.
| from. tho, voice.l
hnce line this fall. The committee as
committee has nothing to do either for or
against temperance" So spake Matthew
Stanley Quay. on behalf Of the National Re-
publican Committee, to Voice reporter.
Upon this very competent authority the
Harrison and Morton campaign has nothing
TO do with the temperance issue. There is
no representative Of the cause o. item per-
Ance and morality the first concern" Of
good government. ut Republican headquar-
oers. The antt-saloon Republicans receive
tional Committee. The Albert Griffin side
show Is located two. miles away from the
National. Committee rooms. It Is far down
town. at No. Broadway-within convenient
jumping of distance of the dock.
The tnto-saloon Republicans are not so
thtrd-story front room ut the headquarters
OF the National Republican Committee. No.
81 fifth avenue. one OF the well-knOwn per-
soma! liberty. anti-ProhibitiOn. and anti
Sunday law advocates Of the country. Mr..
L. Y. Habercorn., Of Washington. D: c.. is
meAt Of the Harrison aud Morton cam
pMgA. The Prohibition champions who
went to Washington last spring to plead for
the passage. OF temperance measures BY
They looked in vain. for Republicans to join
in their plea. The only Republicans who
appeared in the committee-rooms were Mr..
Habercdrn and Simon Wolf, and they stood
up to deAounoe prohibition. The facts were
given considerable publicity at the time.
spoke OF them at length.
The activity of the ProhibitiOnists at
Washington stirred up the liquor men,. They
arranged nor public ulass.meeting i'll
March. whose sole purpose was to defend
the liquor traffic. Brewers and liquor-deal-
this meeting. There were few other men
who took an interest in its success. One Of
the most conspicuous OF these was L. w.
Habercorn-
United States Senator Matthew 8. Quay
was at Washington all Of last spring. Mr..
would be injustice to him to suppose that
the activity a Mr.. Habercorn in behalf Of
liquor escaped his notice.
Senator Quay is now Chairman Of the Ma
tional Republican Committee; L. w. Haber-
corn, the LIQUOR advocate is one OF his most
trusted leutenants. 4
Mr.. HARERCORN TAI4Ks-THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY NOT A TEMPERANCE PARTY.
I Mr.. HabeFcorn is at the head OF the Ger
man department Of the committee. He con-
ducts large correspondence. sees to the
organization Of German Republican clubs.
and translates, writes and sends out Repub-
hcan appeals to the German voters.
| A representative of the Voice called on
Mr.. Habercorn and interviewed him about
his work. After speaking In general terms
OF the enthusiasm OF the Germans every
where for Harrison and Morton. he said:
The Germans recognize only one issue in
the national campaign-the tariff issue.
| They can't be turned from the Republican
party by raising any other imaginary issues.
such as the temperance issue. There was
atfrst some dissatisfaction with the Bout
telle resolution. but as it declares only for
temperance. which the Germans never
| did oppose but advocate. and not for prohi-
biti0n, which they do oppose. they are not
willing to be led into false controversy
While we Germans advocate temperance
is not a prohibition party. and we can
4 therefore. consistently act with it. Prohibi
tion is not national issue. for according II
| the decision of the Supreme Court the liquor
trafhc is left entirely to local police regula.
ayes, opposed prohibition bills at Wash
ington, But in doing so l did not represent
the liquor organizations directly or indi.
rectly. acted on two grOunds-hrst. rs an
individual: and second. and especially
in accordance with the general desire
Of the German Republicans. and the views
| hx, ho 7
QUAY's sAY-"wE ARE NOT WORKING ALONG
| THE TEMPERANCE LINE.
Chairman Quay of the Republican Nation
al Committee has the reputation OF being
Inaccessible to newspaper men. but a Voice
reporter found him enjoying cigar in his
private office. and inclined to be socihble
1T is reported. Senator. that the Republican
National Committee is making specia
efforts to organize the German voters In the
party" said the reporter.
70. nothing more along that line thar
along Others We are simply trying to ge
all the votes we can.
1T is understood that you have German
from Washington. Mr.. Habercorn. engaged
in editing and preparing literature for thu
German voters.
was tho National Committee aware
when it engaged Mr.. Habercorn. that he il
u strong opponent Of Prohibition. and tina
he appeared before Congressional commit
tees at Washington last spring in opposition
to temperance legislation?"
mo, sir. we did not know it. How do yo'
know it?"
1T is a notorious fact. Mr.. Quay. and Mr.
Habercorn is very candid in owning that h
did so appear"
well, we don't inquire into mans tenn
perance principles when we hire him here
The committee rs whole has nothing to d
either for or against temperance, Person
ally am temperance man. have don
more for prohibition in Pennsylvania thai
any other man in the State. Mr.. Habercor
is skillful translator and q good secretary
and so far as 1 know is not u drinking man.
But is it not rather inconsistent with tn
professions Of the Republican party. espe
cially with the Boutelle resolution, to engag
man OF his known principles?"
Il don't know whether it is or not. W
can t ask q man to express himself when n
comes here. We are not working along tn
temperance line this fall. We are here
elect Harrison and Morton. and we propos
to use all legitimate means TO get votes 10
them"
THE MOST ACTIVE OF THEPARTIEs
The New York ''Times" on Our Wonderf'
Agitation in Connecticut.
The New York Times lately contained
long letter from Connecticut correspon
dent which very thoroughly. and intel
IL. off