Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-07
FISK WILL RUN.
The General Sends in His Letter of Ac-
ceptance.

CHICAGO, August 6.-The letters of &C
ceptance of the national Prohibition pXrty
candidates for president and vice president
are made public this afternoon.
The letter of General Clinton B. Fisk,
candidate for president. is dated at Sea
Bright, July %. The opening paragraph
expresses grateful sense of the honor con-
ferred on him by the indianapolis conven-
ton. and formally accepts the nomination,
1t then proceeds as follows: Within a
few years the temperance reform has alto
gether changed The great conflict which
has been and is yet raging against tenn
perance forces Is by no temperate
party of the state or nation. What law
creates law alone can kill. The creature
OF law, the saloon, the liquor traffic can
die only at the laws hands or at the hands
of lawful legislation. The iniquity OF the
saloon wedlock with the licensing of sa-
looms, the liquor traffic is a bastard child
of a civilization that begat it, and that
civilization must go forever branded with
the scarlet Ct its own shame. 1t IS not
enough that we reform the individual, we
must reform the state. The policy OF
great commonwealth, of a whole people,
must be re-made and put in harmony with
a true economic principle. SO broad de-
mand as this can be met in but one way.
1t has been well said: "A political reform
can become a fact III government only
through political party that administers
government" A reform so vast as this
we advocate, involving such national
changes in state and national policy is ut
terly dependent for its agitation upon
some party agent of force.
1.-The national Democratic party in its
platform utters no word IN condemnation
of the greatest foe to the republic, the
liquor traffic, that party having steadfast
~ by its utterances at it's national conven-
tons maintained its alliance to the Amer
lean saloon and it was no disappointment
to any one that at st. Louis in 1888 ii re-
affirmed its old position on this, the great
est question now being debated among
men. 1t was with greatest reluctance that
| accepted these conclusions and came to
admit the imperative need of new party,
While yet, the party OF my choice, the ma
tional Republican party maintained It's or
ganizatiOn. 1t cost me the sacrifice of
cherished associations, when four years
ago enrolled myself in the ranks of the
party Prohibitionists under the flag of
prohibition, bleached snowy white by
the tears of Smitten woman and
children through generations Of sor
row and want. l have seen no hour
of regret. Every day since then has shown
yet more clearly the logic of my course
Gnu luC'itoplC u uli VI III SOhSAuSlcLo.
Had | not left the Republican party four
years ago, L should be compelled to leave
il now when after reading the words |
have uttered from resolution supple
mental to, but not included in, its plat
form, and finding in these words my own
idea of governments chief concern set
forth, / search the platform through in
vain to find condemnation of the saloon
or hint of purpose TO assail it, or any sign
of moral consciousness that the saloon is a
curse and its income too unholy for the
nation to snare.
If the chief concern has not place in a
party's platform and party has no policy
as to that chief concern that party does
not deserve the support of men who love
good government and would see it main
tanned ~