Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-13
THE COMING QUESTION.

Prohibition the Live Issue K.pub
Leaders Oh senator P:,lm.r's Spccd
Detroit.
Washington special to Chicago Daily Ne-
Considerable interest has been eyr
here by the reported utterances of Sen
Palmer at the meeting of the Mich
Club i'll Detroit Saturday night. Thet
kilograms in the newspapers announce
he declared that the time had come
the Republican party must take up
prohibition movement; that prohibitiol
to be the chief issue of the immed
future, and that the Republican
would soon find that it must disintegra,
adopt that issue. Senator Frye has
Gently made a similar declarat
and Senator Blair has alv
tackled that way. but coming b
Senator Palmer, who has nj
been suspected Of sympathy with the
hlbitionists, there is naturally quite
sation. l have talked with dozen
more Republican Senators and Repres1
atives, and find that some of them ID
the correctness Of the telegraphic REP
At least one declared that Palmer wa:
such fool as to make speech Of
kind. Others prefer to wait and real
actly what he did say before comm@
themselves Oh the prudence of the u1
ances. In fact, l could not find one ont
the dozen Republican leaders who
give an Endorsement of Senator Palm
suggestion, or even discuss the quest
publicly. They would talk confdenti
about the subject, and would permit nj
quote what they said without mention
their names.
Said one Senator: Il believe that PAID
has hit the nail on the head. 1 have b
feeling that way myself for some time
nave seen that We were approaching Il
close to the question, and, as party.
must take one side or the other. Ii will I
be many years before the American peol
Will be asked to decide at the polls whetl !
or not this is Christian nation. It's
whether the name of the Almighty she'll
recognized in the Constitution: it is not
preservation of the Sabbath; it is (
whether the Bible shall be taught in :
public schools, but the issue is whe4
temperance and morality shall be requ1
by law, and the weak classes of the peoa
DC protected from the evils of intoxcati
liquors, as they are now from similar yiel
Inc Democratic party is not expected
advocate any such line of political N
ICY, but some party has got to do
and the Republicans must or 90
pieces. We can't run moro than d
more campaign on the bloody shirt.
there is such political terrorism exe1
ing all over the country wherever l1
foreign population resides that none Of
ti;1 say whether we drink beer OF d,
Ihe last time was candidate for otfc,l
report was circulated that I was menu
OF a church, and lost q great many vol
that way. My temperance habits were vi
known, but if I had come out suuarely Al
prohlbltlonist l should have been bad
beaten.
Coniidentially, I am q Know-nothld
ana think We have got just about as ma
foreigners i'll our body polite as we G
take care of for the next ten or tweI
years. l think it would be wise to Sd
down the gates against immigration
awhile, but dare not say so, for it wou
De the end of my political career. Prol
bition and know nothinpisn1 are one q
sne same thing, and when the issue
larry drawn you will find the foreign pop
latlon all on one side. Palmer and II
q, are right, but they have more courage til
their party"
l'eit the Republicans for ProhibitiO
Jesse I. Hutchens, city solicitor and
member OF the Republican Central Co
has caused sensation among 10
POI poi''l G by formally Withdrawing trt
lne Republican to join tile Prohibit
party. Convinced of the evil of liqu'
selling, he says he cannot favor the licel
ing OF 1t. He is also convinced that
az between the Republican a
D .e Mocratlc parties is SO great that no Pr
ninltion Democrat would vote Republic
llcket, no matter how strong q temperar
pay orm the Republican party may ado
!. n n therefore, is compelled to join v
me frohlbltionists.- Wabash (Ind) d
patch to Chicago News.