Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-17
PROHIBITION LEADERS.
Letters of Acceptance From
Gen. Fisk and DIR. Brooks.
The Prohibition Nominees Express
Their Views.

The letters or acceptance or the NaUlonal
Prohibition party candidates for President
and ce-President have just been made pub
lie The opening paragraph in the commu-
nication of General Clinton B. Fisk expresses
grateful sense of the honor conferred upon
! him by the indianapolis Convention and
| formally accepts the nomination 1t then
proceeds in part as follows: 1T IS
not enough that we reform the lndl-
vidual; must reform the State The
policy of great commonwealth OF a whole
people must be remade and put in harmony
with sound economic principles, the true Co
operation of industrial effort, the essential
conditions of national prosperity, and genu-
inc brotherhood of man.
THE National Democratic party IN It's
platform utters word in condemnation OF
the greatest foe to the Republic-the liquor
traffic That party having steadfastly
in its utUerances at National Conventions
maintained its allegiance to the Amerl-
can saloon, it was no disappointment
to any one that at st. Louis in 1888
it reaffirmed its old position on this, the
greatest question now being debated among
men. 1t was with great reluctance that L
came to admit the Imperative need of new
party while yet the party of my choice-the
National Republican party-ma1ntalned its
cherished associations when four years
ago enrolled myself in the
ranks of party PrOhibitioniSts under the flag
of prohibition, bIeached snowy white by the
generations of sorrow and want. Every
day since then has shown yet more clear
ly the logic of my course and the
Inevitable truth of my conclusions. In
Michigan, in Texas, in Tennessee, and Ore
gOn, So-called non partisan effects to estab
ligh prohibition have failed through par
tisan necessity, born of liquor elements in old
party composition. In Iowa, Rhode Island
and Maine the laws have been shamefully de-
fed for like reasons From the Supreme
Court itself has come with startling en-
phasis declaration so Matchmaking this re-
form that it can never be made of local or
State Limitation again
1.-The first concern of good Government"
said the recent National Republican Con-
sobriety of the people and the purity Of the
home. 1 search the long Republican plat
form through in vain to find cOndemna-
ton OF the saloon, or hint of purpose to
ness that the saloon is a curse, and its
income too unholy for the nation to
share. If the first concern has no place in
partys platform, and party has no policy
as to that first concern, that party d Oes not
deserve the support of men who love good
government and would see it maintained.
The Prohibition party's first concern is for
the purity of the home and the virtue anu
sobriety of the people.
THAT party is not labors truest friend
which would bar the importation of paupers
from abroad, or close the tariff door of com
petition to pauperize foreign industry, and
then by a liquor system perpetuate the
manufacture of paupers and criminals in our
own midst, with whom honest labor must
compete, and whom, largely, honest labor
must support.
II rejoice that, standing on the platform
SO we'll framed at Indianapolis which so ad-
mirably recognizes other great principles
than this of prohibition, declaring, as we do
declare, that citizenship rests on no
mere circumstance of color, sex or
nationality, and affirming, as we always
shall affirm, the full rights of citi-
Zenship for all, standing ever, as we must,
for the defence of the weak and the op-
pressed, we can and do assert that prohibit
ton is the dominant issue in national politics:
and we can and do invite to full party fell
lowship all who on this one dominant issue
are with us agreed, believing that as
we settle this broad question for
the right so shall we best conserve the well
fare of our entire nation and of every class
within it, and so shall we make certain the
wise and speedy settlement of every lesser
question involved and arising.''
DIR. John A. Brooks, in his letter accepting |
the Vice-Presidency, after acknowledging !
the honor conferred upon him, denounced |
and trusts, and says that trusts |
are against wholesome revision of the |
tariff: He commends the platform OF the |
prohibition party and concludes by some |
regarding the sanctity of the |
home, refers to the evil influence of saloons, |
ndorses woman Suffrage and the work of |
women for prohibition, and again thanks the |
convention for the honor of the nomina
lion.