Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-07
THIRD PARTY LEADER
PIsKR GIVES THE REASON FOR THE FAITH
THAT'S IN HIN.
Why Prohbifonist Ought 10 Join the Third Party
"A Party Necessary TO Enforce the Law
A National Issue Demands
National Organization.

CHlCAGO, August 6.-The letters OF &C
ceptance of the National Prohibition Party
candidates for President and Vice Presi
dent were made public here this afternoon
The letter of General Clinton B. Fisk
candidate for President, is dated at Sea
bright, N. j., July Is. The opening para
graph expresses grateful sense OF th'
honor conferred upon him by the Indian
apolis convention, and formally accept'
the nomination. 1t then proceeds as fol
lows:
1t has been we'll said: "A political re
form can become fact in government only
through political party that administer
government A reform SO vast as this w
advocate, involving such radical change.
in State and national policy is utterly de
pendent, for its agitation and consumma
ton, upon some party agent or force.
\. 1t was with great reluctance
that l accepted these conclusions and
came to admit the imperative need of 8
new party, while yet the party of my
choice, the National Republican party
maintained its organization.
1t cost me the sacrifice Of cher.
ished association, when four years
ago enrolled myself in the ranks of party
Prohibitionists, under the flag of Prohibi'
tion, bleached show white by the tears OF
smitten women and children through gen.
erations of sorrow and want. have Seen
no hour Of regret. Every day since then
has shown yet more clearly the logic OF
my course, and the inevitable truth of my
conclusions.
'In Michigan, in Texas, in Tennessee
and Oregon, so-called non-partisan efforts
to establish prohibition have failed,
through partisan necessity, born OF
liquor elements in old party compost.
ton. In Iowa, Rhode Island and Maine,
the laws have been shamlessly 'defied
for like reason. The entire trend OF
things, these last four years, has
proven hopeless the broader range of pro-
hibition effect through non-partisan means,
and equally futile, as final consumma-
ton. the narrower methods of Local option
and high license, while from the Supreme
Court itself has come, with startling en-
phasis, a declaration so Matchmaking this
reform that il can never be made of local
or State limitation again.
1.-The first concern of good govern
ment,' said the recent National Republi-
can Convention at Chicago, is the virtue
and sobriety of the people and the purity
of the home Revenue, then, is not the
governments chief concern, whether COM
ing from internal taxation or tariff on
importation; and any source OF
revenue which discounts the virtue
and sobriety of the people and begets i'm
purity in the home should be the fret OBJ
ject assailed by every party professng to
seek good government; while the revenue
derived from such q source should be the
first to be forsworn-not alternatively, for
sake of a protective tariff, but positively,
for sake of protection dearer and more
vital than the tariff can ever yield.
Had l not left the Republican party
four years ago, should be COM
pelled to leave it it now, when, after read
ing the words have quoted, from a reso-
luton supplemental to but not included in
it's platform, and finding in these words
my own idea of governments chief concrn
set forth. | search the long platform
through in vain to find condemnation OF
the saloon, or hint of purpose to assail it.,
or any sign of moral consciousness that the
saloon is curse, and its income too unholy
for the nation to share.
''If the chief concern has no place in a
party's platform, and a party has no
policy as to that chief concern, that party
does not deserve the support of men who
love good government and would see il
maintained. The Prohib-
tion party's chief concern is for
the purity of the home and the virtue
and sobriety of the people. The
party is not labor's truest friend
which would bar the importation OF pau
pers from abroad, or close the tariff door OF
competition to pauperize foreign industry,
and when by liquor system, perpetuate
manufacture of paupers and criminals in
our own midst, with whom homes labor
must compete and whom largely honest
labor must support"
The letter closes with review Of the
principles of Prohibition.