St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-08
The Prohibitionists Smile and
Say the Tide Is Turning
Their Way.
Hugh Harrison Declares the
Republican Party May
Order It's Coffin.
Secretary Wells Points to the
Spring Elections in Mime
sofa and Smiles.
The Cold Water Party Rejoices
Over the Apparent Good
Time Coming.

Hugh Harrison, of Harrison, Earring
ton & Co., is rather remarkable man
in politics. He was an ardent Republi-
can few years ago, but b came dis
gusted with the lack of princi
pie in that party and joined
the Prohibitionists. In 1884 he voted
for Cleveland. and says now that it will
cost him quite pang not to vote for
him this year; but he is ProhibitiOnist
from the ground up and will support
the nominee of that party. He talks
very forcibly. He believes the Repub-
lican party is doomed to fall, and he
would not be surprised if out of the new
Democracy would be built up the COM
ing victorious party of prohibition. He
said yesterday:
HUGH HARRISON TALKS.
"What is the outlook? Many straws
indicate that the Republican party in
its national platform will formally
adopt the license policy. The liquor
dealers have Endorsed the system in
national convention. A great many
respectable but deluded people support
it as temperance measure, so the poll
ticians and party organs clamOr for it
as the only barrier that will stem the
tide of rising prohibition and save the
party. If such a plank is inserted the
knell is sounded, and the party may
order its coffin at once. Good people
may be hoodwinked for while; prOhi-
bitiOn may be stood off for while, but
it will as surely triumph over license as
did abolition over all the hypOcritical
tactics of the Wing party to regulate
OLE hu
postponed the day of emanci-
patton forty years infiicting untold
misery upon millions of human
beings, all the while kindling fire that
could only be quelched with blood. If
people will but heed the lessons of
history, four years will cure them of
this high license madness. If the Dem
ocratic party sticks to it's policy of non
interference with what it calls moral
question, and the Republican party at
tempts to legislate.- on this question by
immoral methods, / predict that in 1892
the former party will be in better posi-
ton to take up prohibition consistently
and successfully than will the so-called
party of moral ideas. The liquor or
clare uncompromising hostility to pro-
hibition, and recognize high license as
their best defense. No class of trade is
so quick to know when it's interests
are in peril; no class of voters
so Independent and ready to support
that party which protects their inter-
ests, so the liquor voters will naturally
go to the Republican party, as pledged
to shield them against their implacable
enemy, the prohibition "crank." The
time has gone by when the Republican
party could make its boast as temper
ance party. By it's cowardice and double
dealing it has already driven out its
most aggressive temperance workers.
and gained nothing from the Democrats,
because of its so-called temperance leg
islatlOn. If it declares for license this
year, it will disenfranchise tens of thou
sands who cannot cOnscientiously vote
for such a doctrine, yet who may not at
present think the prohibition movement
practicable. But sagaciOuS Democratic
politicians will not be alarmed at the
Republican party's taking an attitude
of protection to the liquor traffic. The
saloon power is too shrewd, too far
sighted to identify itself wholly with
the Republican party, for this might
ALLEVIATE their hOnOred friends, the anti
saloon Republicans. The devil always
avoids an open fight, well knowing that
OH direct issue moral principles will
always triumph. The slave power
knew that their only salvation was in
keeping Democratic and Wing parties
about evenly divided upon the question
of internal improvements. AS the
slave owners lamented the destruction
of the Wing party by the Republican
party, so will bad men and professional
politicians try to divide good people
upon the tariff question, and loud will
be their lamentations when the corrupt
old party succumbs to a party of prin-
ciples, the courage to declare and the
ability to enforce them. The Repub-
ican party and the saloon must CO."