Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-08

shall be suppressed and absolutely DESTROYED.
md the design and trend of all Il ,islation adj
yocated in the interest of temperance is in
this direction.
The people. sometimes impeded by petty
courts and partisan prostitution. have always
been sustained by the highest judicial author
IT, The late decision of the United States
Supreme Court on the property Interests
sometimes claimed TO be outraged by pro-
aibition laws sweeps away the last legal en-
-renchment of the traffic in the States This
is matter for congratulation TO all temperance
people, and, gentlemen, bid you take notice
that the only dissenting opinion was give. by
Democratic member of the court. Gap
plause.)
The PARTYs TEMPERANCE RECORD.
And further observe that the extent of this
State restriction is greatest where Republican
nsjorities are the largest. Loud applause.
We remember that the State that lei our
columns when they last marched 10 victory
under the lameuted Garfield enthusiastic
cheeriDg) was Iowa that Kansas vas not IA
behind that Vermont has perennial record
as green as her hills. and pure as her marble
beds that in Maine ''the woods are full OF
EN-" (cheers and laughter, Prohibition Re
publican voters; and Little Rhody,' who
never los, her record till. more ambitions
than some of her sisters, she entered Il {
list against the liquor traffic, and now victorl-
Gus redeems herself and again takes her
place in the Republican column and sound
the first note of victory 10 the campaign OF
1888. applause again and again renewed. J
These are the We Prohibition States
What State gave the largest majority in the
late campain, the campaign " hich eliminated
in putting in minority President in tn,
White House: II was Pennsylvania. Thi.
State has today the most effective of So
called restrictive laws. Her last Legislator,
voted to submit Constitutional Prohibition 10
he people and the late Republican conven-
ton pledged the honor of the party that the
next Legislature should ratfy the action OF
the last, thus affording the people the best
opportunity to express in the most diguified
manner known to the law their will concern
ing the traffic. (Applause.)
Massachusetts has done the same thing
and the great State of New York has also in
this manner respected the popular demand
TO do this in a Presidential year indicates
| conscientious conviction ON the part of temp,
erance men and sagacity on the part of poll
| ticians.
Inc OtHcf great htpubIlcdn States are Only
delayed by the dominance of the money
power of the liquor traffic and the criminal
classes massed IN their great cities-Chjcago
Peoria, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit.
1t is not clear, then, that the dominant
sentiment of the country as whole demand.
the overthrow of tho saloon power? And thai
this dominance is gre att st in the Republican
States? applause Are we not therefore
driven to the conclusion that the party mus
respect this dominant sentiment by pleiging
the people that its rel resentatives at Wash
| ington shall harmonic National Legislation
with the sentiment in he States!
| Gentlemen of the Republican party. fou
years ago the National Convention was asked
| by temperance men AID women to embody
temperance plank in the platform. pledgin,
| the party TO submit ,,atioual Constitutions
| Prohibition to the votes of the States. Th
was not done. do not censure you for thai
refusal | do not now ask the party to de
clare for National Constitutional Prohibition
1t might perhaps have won on that platform
| 1t did not win without it.
GROWTH OF TEMPERANCE SENTIMENT.
| During these four years the volume o
temperance sentiment has greatly increased
evidenced by the enactment of State law
| anu iutI bttttT enforcement. ana DN lOca
option in town and cities. The arrogance o
the liquor traffic has also intensified thi
struggle, and the brutal rabble has made it
history in blood. The Republican party can
not longer avoid declaring itself upon tn
side of the home against the saloon, or, b.
the conspiracy of silence, taking the side o
the saloon against the home.
If the Republican platform is built AM
the candidates are nominated with the hop
of eyading the question and holding the sa
loon element of Chicago and Cincinnati an,
the temperance voters of New York an,
Indiana ID the same plank, the result will b
disastrous, and history may record of Novem
her, lSsS, that there went Brutus' dagger
through
God grant that of the Republican party
may not be said But yesterday the wor
of Caesar might have stood against the world
Now lies he there, and none so poor to d
him reverance." (Applause.)
The people have decreed that the saloo
shall be destroyed, and they will repudiat
the party which binders the solution of thei
decree; they will sustain the party which i
platform and candidates respects their con
victons and hastens with willing power t
aid in enforcing their will, in all places unde
national jurisdiction and in all legslatio
within the scope of national authority
Loud applause