Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-20
The dear home faces, where,pon
The lltful freight paled and shOnA

Now comes along the Republican party
and in the interest Of the monopolies it has
fostered. and the war tariff it would main-
tain. assumes the same position as Sam
Randall. the high-tarifr Democrat. who
never posed as d reformer! threatens to
take off the tax, and brazenly talks of its
disregard OF whisky ring behests' on the
very day when it has showed under the plea
of gifted j. Ellen Foster and good Albert
Griffin for an anti-saloon plank!
Verify, the hands are the hands of Jacob.
but the smell is the smell of Esau!
Democrats as of old are sold to the liquor
power, and Republicans have flung their
standards to the breeze, inscribed. 'Protec-
ton for Vested Irtcrests-Freo Trade in
Boys Prohibitionists take UP the challenge
and reply: Protection for the Homc-no
trade at all in Alcoholic Poison
We have before us vivid illustrations Of
ton, as in Iowa. Kansas. and Maine; Demo-
cratic prohibition. as in Georgia. Mississippi.
| and Tennessee: and Prohibition prohibition,
as represented by Fisk and Brooks and the
million men who will vote for them this fall.
The crack of the party whip silenccs all but
his kindly face, is a regular Grifflns head to
his party, not to say skull and bones, sits
meekly in his delegation and makes no pro-
! test against the utter silence of the platform
| from which he prophesied so much The
anti-saloon boom goes out of sight even be-
| fore the weakest Of the nine personal booms
has disappeared, and the platform is as
unanimous as one of Nasbys Democratic
| primaries. Prohibition prohibition is tho
only genuine article, twelve inches to the
foot or sixteen ounces to the pound. be-
cause it alone has the environment of sue
| cess. tho backing of q constituency. So
long us party's hand is down deep in the
saloon-keeper's pocket it cannot cry out
against him. and SO long as every other
breath among the delegates gives beer and
| whisky tokens, no temperance plank can
| possibly go in,
"One million votes for Fisk and Brooks!
That must be our aim. Nothing less is
worthy of the outlook and emergen Cyl.
will have more to do with gathering in this
harvest Of pure ballots than anybody else.
for more and more as time goes on it will
prove true. You win OF lose. you rise or
fall with us. But imagine a woman speak
ing in this fashion: My son. your first vote
favor of the Monroe doctrines or a wife
thus appealing to her husband: My dear.
| l beseech you to change your vote to the
party that will protect our American fish
cries; or sweetheart speaking thus:
| 'Adolphus, I cannot in conscience favor
your suit longer unless you will promise to
declare by your ballot in November for the
rehabilitation of our merchant marine On
the other hand. who does not know that all
over this land to-day mctherly women. sis
terly women, sweet. pure girls. are saying
already to their nearest and best. Won't
you please vote for the Home; won't you
represent us at the polls?' And they will be
saying this at a thousand polling places next
autumn, and best Of all our pray ers are for
| you, noble brothers, no less than our SYM
| pathies and our work.
Miss Willard then. in an eloquent perora-
ton paid tribute to candidates Fisk and
| Brooks. The great meeting then closed
with the benedicton.