News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-30

supposed L WAS u IEOulDlGlOulSG.
suspect / was one before you wei
born. No saloon keeper where [ hay
lived for the last 80 years has doub
ed it. No enemy of the saloon in m
community ever questioned it. | hav
run the gauntlet of stones, knives
pistols and threatened with hanging;
drownings and burnings, with th
usual star, feathers and rail- accom-
paniments. For six years l tough
with the "beasts" of that moder
"Ephesus" where Haddock fell.
was so "orthodox" a Prohibitions
that the first "third party" convention
that ever met in Iowa made me can
didate for Governor-in my absenc
and without my knowledge-and
did not back down from the race
That third party kept up its fight I'm
til the Republican party agreed Il
submit prohibitory amendment t.
vote Of the people of Iowa. Thi
hand wrote the resolution that wen
into the platform, and when that res
olution carried, I nominated Sherman
for Governor in the convention, ant
Immediately proclaimed to the Prohi
bitionists of Iowa that the time haC
come for every temperance man t.
rally to the support of the Republican
party, both on account of its attitude
on the question of temperance, anC
also because of the fact that the sa
loonists all over the State were repu
dating the party for giving US E.,
chance to vote upon the saloon ques
ton. The result was an overwhelm
ing majority for prohibition, followed
by the enactment of the best, and il
the main the best enforced, prohibito
~ law on this planet, and to-day the
Republican party is the Prohibition
party in Iowa. Instead of Prohibi
tionists of Iowa new stultifying them
selves, by going back on the party
that has done so much for our cause
we are hoping and believing that the
"sober second thought" of our breth
rem in other States will lead them tc
do as we have done. We did not
fight the Republican party as these
third party champions are doing. We
pressed the claims of our homes and
our hearts upon the politicians and
fought only the saloon. So that when
we were able to command the atten-
ton of the party, it had not been
made our enemy by our abuse and
utilization. Not SO these third party
evangelists. Their chief 'organ, "
having a Copperhead editor of Con-
federate "proclivities," spews out
more venomous screed against the Re-
publican party than it has shown
toward the saloons and the devil and
the Democratic party altogether That
which makes copperheads and traitors
hate the Republican party should and
will make true and loyal citizens.
Ponder we'll before casting your vote
where it will inevitably strengthen
and perpetuate in power the party
that is the ally both of the rebel and
the saloon keeper. Furthermore /
may as well say right here that when
,he third party convention nominated
ex-rebel General Brooks for Vice Pres
dent, it ''reckoned without its host"
Or rather it reckoned itself out of
host" of votes that it otherwise might
nave secured. Men may pirate as they
ike about "reviving old animosities"
and about forgiveness" and all that.
[ can and will forgive any ex-rebel
who repents of his treason, hut for
yiveness does not compel me to vote
or him for an Office that no ex-traitor
ought ever to be nominated to fill.
Every man IN the rebel army who had
iense enough to be a general ought to
lave been ''fiXed" so that neither the
rebels of the South or the
hort-sighted Prohibitionists of the
North would have chance to vote
or them. They should have been
Iisfranchised and some of their sshin-
ne lights" hung before the third par
y was Matched. Another thing: the
Democratic party are already laying
lans and raising money to help boom |
be third party prohibition ticket in
II the doubtful States. This sug-
estive fact has leaked out from their
ighest councils. The saloons and
'hiskey rings will ''come down" hand
omely to aid this boom, because if it
only big enough, the Democratic
arty, with it's saloons and hoodlums,
i'll rule the country four years long
=. When the devil wants a thing
ght bad L don't want it at all. When
e begins to encourage and cooper
-e IN any measure, however sacred,
e want to forecast little, other
Use "the very elect" may become his
'ol for scuttling the only ark of safe
? for loyalty, virtue and humanity
that can possibly reach the
lrbor of success. Harrison and
.orton are men whose names, whose
'litical and private character, and
hose unpopularity with the saloon
ement all conspire to afford to
oughtful men the surest guarantee
the safety of the cause of temper
ce in their hands. The "Boutelle
solution" commits the Republican .
rty to active hostility to the sa- =
On course. The organs of the whis- .
y rings so interpret it, and are rail- :;
ng their cohorts against that party. !
lis is our day of great opportunity. =
It Prohibitionists of other States be {
wise in their generation as the Pro-
oitionists of Iowa, and the record :,
that party throughout the nation. :
It if the third party shall again de- !
It the Republicans and continue the .
minion of democracy, treason,
odlumism, let me say to the mad
ders of that movement, as Mordecai N
d to Esther, "Think not with thy /
f that thou shalt escape" Think
to make yourself other than the
Ching stock of those triumphing
)dlums. Think not-as some par
wreckers so fondly hope-that the
publican party will then fall to
ces, and that its members will gray
e naturally to those who are now
Ising them like pick-pockets. Think ps
that the Republican party, whose |
.ory is the history of the nations nj
est statesmen, truest patriots, saint
t martyrs and most ilustrious war
s-the party of the Union soldier
the ever multiplying generation
sons whose glory is that their veins
enriched with the blood of the q
on enlHipr- marty nf froolDro "a