The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-17

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and lies like any culprit caught in crime.
/ But it is true, and a score of Christian
Prohibitionists in New York are ready to
swear to the facts.
From the document room in the base
ment of the National Republican commit
tees headquarters have been sent out
| batch after batch of The st. Louis Tri-
| bune, O German paper, which contains
| frantic appeals for the solid German vote,
on the ground that the Republican party
| is the only party favoring personal lib
erty" and the saloon interests.
The work is being done through the
| German bureau of the committee, which
is headed by L. w. Habercorn, liquor
advocate from Washington, D. @. This
German bureau has quarters occupying
| the third floor of the national committees
building at SO Fifth avenue. Mr.. Haber-
corn has under him many secretaries and
clerks. The German bureau is, indeed,
an important adjunct of the national COM
mittee. While the anti-saloon Republi-
cans receive no recognition whatever from
the Republican campaign managers, and
while Mrs. Fosters women's Republican
national committee is not permitted to
conduct any part of it's work at the Fifth
avenue headquarters, the German (or
factor that it is operated under the i'm
mediate notice of the committee, and an
entire floor of the committees building is
devoted to it's use.
In order to capture the beer vote the
! national Republican committee has pur-
chased thousands of copies of an extra
/ edition" of The st. Louis Tribune, paper
with q usual circulation of only about
| 1000 copies. Note that this is an extra"
| issued under tho orders of the national
committee for the special purpose of pro-
pitiating the German saloonists.
These 90 out from the headquarters,
95 Fifth avenue under Senator's Quay's
own supervision, while Mrs Fosters
| temperance slush is mailed from an OBJ
| scure room distance removed therefrom.
| While Mrs. Foster wheedles simple non
MES on Fourteenth street, Mr.. Quay
'makes it solid with the boys" on Fifth
| avenue.
But what does this document say?
Well, the following is fair sample of the
bill of fare and we submit it to temper
ance Republicans, with the question:
GLOW do you like the victuals? If you
swallow this, won't you be eating erow?'
This document prominently and persist
emily claims that the declaration of the
Republican national platform, reaffirming
"unswcrving devotion to the personal
rights and liberties of citizens in all the
states and territories of the Union, is
straight out, uncompromising liquor ut
terance. In an article entitled, "a Word
Concerning the Republican Platform, ="
the following is said:
1.-THE Democrats, as is well known
omitted all mention of personal liberty
The Republican platform, however, de-
clares itself clearly for the personal rights
and liberties of the citizens, declaration
which is like lump of lead in the stom-
achs of the Muckers.
Concerning the candidates, this pre-
tious document says:
Harrison as well as Morton comes from
states in which the German influence has
prevented all earnest Prohibition efforts,
and on this question they are above all
doubts. If elected they will stick to their
platform, which declares for personal
liberty, and spit upon the empty temper
ance resolution which is not a part of the
platform"
The document is literally filed with ap-
peals to saloon keepers and saloon lovers
to support Harrison and Morton. 1t prints
the Republican national platform with the
Temperance and morality" plank left
out. In one of the articles embraced in
the document the Boutelle resolution is
spoken of as
"That small, sickly and weak addendum
which the Republicans tackled on to their
platform as temperance plank"
In another place it is called "wishy-
washy temperance resolution" In an ar
ticle contrasting the Boutelle resolution
with the temperance declaration of tho
national liquor dealers, The Tribune says:
Compared with this, the morality and
temperance blossom of the Chicago con-
vention is surely an innocent little weed ;"
Upon the first page of the document
this paragraph is printed in bold type, in
nine different places:
1.-The Prohibitionists declare it to be
their purpose to defeat the Republican
party and elect the Democratic ticket Is
it the purpose of the German voters to
help the Prohibitionists in this matter2
Will reasoning German voters give their
support to the auxiliary forces of the Pro
hibftionists?"
The saloons are thus warned to beware
of Grover Cleveland:
president Cleveland has within year
gone over completely into the camp of
the Prohibitionists. He has sworn off
drinking, and the Prohibitionists are
parading him all over the country as one
of their shining examples. Cleveland has
suppressed a respectable saloon, which
was on the road leading to his country
homo near Washington.
Temperance Republicans are STYLED
"muckers, and it is repeatedly declared