New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-15
FISK AND BROOKS.
The Prohibition Candidates for President and
Vice President Write Letters Of Acceptance.

Inc Pf0hlDllOn Candidates Tor PRESIDENT and
Vice President Write Letters Of Acceptance.
The following is a synopsis of Gen. Fisks
letter of acceptance:
Within a few years the temperance reform
has altogether changed front. Temperance
forces no longer face human appetite and
habit alone; they oppose legislation, law, the
state and nation. What law creates law
alone can kill. The creatures of law, the
saloon, the liquor traffic can die only at the
laws executor. 1t is not enough that we re-
form the individual; we must reform the
state. The policy of great common
wealths of whole people must be
remade and put in harmony with
demand as this can be met in but one way.
"A political reform can become fact in gov
eminent only through a political party that
administers government. A reform SO vast
as this we advocate, involving such radical
changes in state and national policy, is ut
terly dependent for it's agitation and con-
summation on some party agent or force to
give it shape. The national Democratic
party in it's platform utters no word in con-
domination OF the greatest foe in the republic
the liquor traffic. In Michigan, in Texas,
in Tennessee and in Oregon so-called non.
partisan efforts to establish prohibition
have failed through partisan necessity s'The
first concern of good government" says the
recent national convention at Chicago, els
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 from tariff
on importations, and any source Of revenue
which discounts sssthe virtue and sobriety of
the people and begets impurity in the home
should be the first object assailed by every
party processing to seek good government.
The Republican party knows to-day, and
knew at Chicago in June, that the public
surplus, which in 1884 itdeclared dangerous,
and then proposed to reduce, comes-about
80 per cent of lt-from q source more danger
Gus than the surplus-the liquor traffic
The Prohibition party's sschief concern" is
for the purity of the home and the virtue
and sobriety of the people. / shall bear with
glad and reyerent hands the only party
standard on which is inscribed, ssF or God and
Home and Native Land: We can and do
assert that prohibition is ssthe dominant is
sue in national politics. and we can and do
Invite to full party fellowship all who on
this one dominant issue are with us agreed =
John A. Brooks letter accepting the vice
presidential nomination on the Prohibition
ticket is as follows:
After acknowledging the honor conferred
upon him, he denounces in the strongest
terms mOnopolies and trusts which he says
are against wholesome revision of the tar
if. He says the country will hold each o1
the three great political parties to its plat
form and that the platform of the prohibi-
ton party is the wisest Of the three. He
does not hesitate to declare that the surplus
in the treasury is a constant menace to the
business interests of the country. The pros.
pect Of removing the tax from whisky must
depend altogether upon the purpose intended
70 be accomplished By such removal. The