The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-08-25

Rev j b Quiggs preached. There were
but few conversions this year.
Temperance Politics III the Fifth
District.
NORTH EAST. Md, August 90, 1888.
Editor Whig:-I do not mind hearing
straight-out Democrat try to make
Temperance Republicans believe that
the clause in the R publican national
platform recommending the repeal of
the tax on alcohol spirits used in the
arts. means free whiskey. This we may
expect. But when | hear a man who
processes temperance above everything
else using the same argument in the in
terest of the Democratic party, and at
heart Democrat, with such | confess |
have very little patience According to
my notion this manner of proceeding is
not honest. Ii the time has come when
the general government no longer needs
the money derived from the internal
revenue tax on whiskey, the fault l find
with the Republican platform is that it
does not recommend the total abolition
on the tax on alcoholic liquors. Then
these gentlemen would have something
to talk about and the whole management
of the whiskey business would be left to
the States. Were this the case the people
could have high license. low license, or
no license, or local option, or whatever
system the majority in a state should
approve. This seems to be, to my mind,
practical treatment of the evil. As for
those gentlemen who can't find any
liquor made in this country good enough
for them to drink. the government should
put on such liquors such duty, that if
they must have imported liquors let them
pay for them.
ABOUT MIR. ST JOHN
Voting and working as did to abolish
the sale of Intoxicating liquors in Cecil
county, | can't for the life of me see
what good can be accomplished by plac-
ing prohibition candidate in the field
for president. Mr.. St. John was elected
by the Republicans governor of Kansas.
He wanted second term but the Repub-
licans of that state found he was crank
and turned him down. He was nomi-
mated for President in 1884 by what may
be called self appointed convention,
which nomination he gladly accepted
for the sake of notoriety, to spite the
Republicans and to help defeat Mr..
Blaine. The latter was his principal OBJ.
ject and it has been charged that there
was "boodle" in it for him. A short
time ago he delivered an address at Glyn-
don. The Baltimore Herald, which is
an independent paper, said that his ad-
dress could very easily have been taken
for Democratic stump speech.
ABOUT GENERAL FISK.
About the same kind of a convention
has nominated General Fisk for the
presidency. Is hot General Harrison a
consistent temperance man? He is so
known all over this country by any and
every body who wants to know the fact.
Now General Fisk is known as an up
right, honorable and religious man. We
will not say that he is not personally all
that his most ardent supporters claim he
is, but he did one thing l cannot admire,
he got the Tract Printing House of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to print
one million copies of tract to be used
as a campaign document containing four
thousand words, and almost the exact
repetition of the Prohibition party plat
form. The bill for printing was charged
to the Methodist Church, and cost Gen
eral Fisk nothing. In talking with peo-
pie here find be will get some votes.
Some will vote for him conscientiously
believing they will be doing right in so
doing. Some will vote for him to be odd
and contrary. Others will vote for him
on account of their disappointments in
political aspirations and from failure to
be recognized by their party. These
men can be found in both parties, chey
are persons who overrate themselves.
Such of these as are Democrats will
create all the enthusiasm among Rspub-
licans they can for General Fisk, think
ing and hoping if General Harrison is
defeated they may possibly get something
under Cleveland to pay them for their
work. Of course, how they vote them
selves no one can tell. They talk Fisk
this is all we know. There are some
others here who will vote for General
Fisk under the idea of making pioneers
or martyrs of themselves in the temper
ance cause. They imagine that about
one Thousand years hence there will be
monuments erected to their memories
all over the country. The one great
trouble with this hope is the difficulty
their posterity will have in tracing up
their relationship after so many years.
These men have vain hope of being to
the temperance cause what John Wesley
was to the Methodist Church. what A bra
ham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Owen
Lovejoy, John Hickman, Charles Sumner
and a host of other worthless were to
slavery. expect the same condition
described could be found al! over the
country. hope to see a square campaign
this fall. This thing of pretending to be
great temperance men and at the same
time doing all they can privately for the
Democratic party has been too common
in this district. Our people, however,
can see as far through a milestone as
those who pick it, and this kind of
electioneering in the Fifth district has
long since reached point where for bear
anoe ceases to be virtue. 1t will now
lose more than it will gain for those who
attempt it.
A TEMPERANCE REPUBLICAN.