Morris tribune., 1888-04-25
PROHIBITION Column.
EDITED BY THE PROHIBITION CLUE
REPUBLICAN AND LIQUOR DEALERS
AGREE.

3 There is bastard article going the
rounds of tue Republican press to the
effect that there is q growing change
of sentiment in Maine in favor of
high license as opposed to the present
law.
The article bears the unmistakable
tear marks" of the National Brewers
Association and was undoubtedly
fathered by the Publication Commit
tee of that organization. When such
sponssrless articles appear in the
press their illegitimate source should
be considered in order that they may
be estimated at their proper value.
The article in question appeared
in the Minneapolis Evening
Journal of Apr. 18th and the same
issue of the Journal bases a leader on
it the substance of which is that high
license is the only move on the po-
litical chess board that affords any
promises of checkmating the Prohi-
bitionists.
What we wish to call particular at
tention to is the coincidence ofopinion
that exists between the Cop press
and the various liquor dealers associ-
atoms as to the best means of regulat-
ing the liquor traffic. Indeed there
are reasonable grounds for believing
that in the recent high license move
ment the Republican party is but fol-
lowing in road mapped out for it by
the liquor dealers organizations. Of
course the rank and file of the g. 0. p.
are to "child like and bland" to be
aware that they are in the leading
strings of the saloon keepers.
IF honest temperance men are not
to get their dues until these two
thieves (g. o. D. and liquor dealers)
fall out then their prospects for the
immediate future are gloomy indeed.
The competition for the liquor vote
still goes on. Up to date the demo-
Gratis are slightly ahead in st. Paul,
they having put four brewers and
distillers on their city ticket, while
the conscience of the party
of great moral ideas draws the
line at three. This is likely to be
balanced up, however, as DIR. Muir
phey has declined the republican
nomination for Mayor, and it is prob
able that no candidate will now be
put in the field against distiller-Ma-
yor Smith,. w. Prohibitionist.
Where are the ante-saloonists who
according to "Republican" are going
to control the primaries for prohibi-
ton? s 81
This leads US to ask where, he has
found evidence to warrant the as
sumption, for it is mere assumption,
that the Ante Saloon Republicans
would attempt in the coming cam
paign to control the primaries for
prohibition? Where is their organi-
zation? Aside from their National
organization we must confess that we
don't know, except that they may
have loose sort of an organization
in New York State. Perhaps IRE
publican" can tell us? sAs
Many OF the delegates to the Nation
al Republican Convention have al
ready been appointed and we have
yet to learn that the Anti's have die
tated any appointments or in any
way influenced them. Perhaps they
have; but it would hardly seem prob
able that they would get down to
business before their National Com
ference which by the way has been
postponed until May End. ;. ,...t
We predict that they will attempt
nothing but to secure the ineoTpora-
tion in their Nationallplatform of some
sort of a high license Janus-faced
temperance plank which the liquor
dealer have approved before hand.