Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-01
SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1888:
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
sGROVER CLEVELAND,O of New York.
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT-
ALLEN q. THURMAN, of Ohio.
To enforce frugality IN public eapends
furss and abolish unnecessary tardtion.

FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DISTRICT Il
REEL b. TERRY, Of Fresno.
A SumPtuary Law PARTY.
The Republican National Convention,
after great deal of beating around the
bush, has at last come out flat-footedly
for prohibition! On the last day OF it's
session at Chicago it adopted the follow
ing plank by rising vote:
The first concern of the Government is
the virtue and sobriety of the people and
the purity of the home. The Republican
party cordially sympathiZes with all
wise and well-directed efforts for the
promotion of temperance and morality.
The Sacramento Record Union, refer
ring to this clause, comments as follows:
~Herein is a direct declaration that
temperance and morality constitute the
FIRST concern of the Government, and
that the sobriety of the people and the
purity Of the home are legitimate sub
iects of Governmental regulation. At
last the National Republican party has
declared in, favor of legal prohibition of
the use of intoxicating liquors, and the
enforcement of abstinence from their
use by law. This has been the position
of the party in MANY States, but the
platform now before the country is
the first national declaration of politi-
cal faith which has incorporated a
distinct plank in favor of governmental
regulation and prohibition of the liquor
traffic. We are heartily glad of this, and
the Democrats are welcome to all the
capital they can make out of it. Prohi-
bition is not confined to the Republican
States alone. The Prohibition strength
in Democratic Georgia is greater than in
Republican Pennsylvania. Even in
Texas, State hopslessly under the con-
troll of secession Bourbonism, the purest
OF modern Democracy, Prohibition is
becoming a burning issue, with every
prospect of carrying the State"
In 1882 the Republican party placed
itseH on q square sumptuary law plat
form, with all the paternalism thus i'm
piled, and the party was beaten by the
largest majority ever recorded in this
State. There was no question that
Etoneman's enormous majority of twen-
ty-two thousand was directly due to this
attitude of the Republicans. The same
men who rebuked the Republican party
then are in California now, and they will
vote now as they did then.
Our esteemed Sacramento contempo-
rary proceeds to identify protection and
prohibition in the following heated sem
tences:
''There is peculiar symmetry in the
platform erected of protection and pro-
hibition. They are naturally eognate
things. They are both appeals to the
latent paternalism in Government. Pro-
lection means the interposition of Gov
ernment in favor of specific industries,
and prohibition signifies governmental
elimination of specific immoralities.
Protection of labor guarantees high rate
of wages. Prohibition guarantees
the wives and children of the toll
ing millions in their full share of the
results of labor. The new position of the
Republican party is the dawn of new
and glorious era in American politics,
and the only class which will not hail it
with Joy will comprise the distiller, the
brewer, the wholesale and retail drunk
ard-makers and the saloon bosses. At
last great moral issue confronts the ma
ton and one which will not down at any
bidding. Let no cowardly temporizing
obscure the moral grandeur of this con-
test. Let the pauperizing influences OF
hee trade and free whisky stand abol-
isbed together"
Every citizen who desires to be allowed
to regulate his own habits Of life within
certain reasonable limits will not allow
any insincere and untrue twaddle about
the Democratic party being in favor OF
free trade to prevent him from voting
against . party which has formally placed
itself upon record as desiring to restrict
his personal liberty. Against the lie
that the President and his followers are
in favor of free trade they have the ex-
plicit declaration of Mr.. Cleveland in his
message OF December 9th, and of the
st. Louis Democratic National Conven-
ficn, that they are in favor Of just and
reasonable protection which shall guar
antee the prosperity Of the laborer. The
yeducti0ns sought to be made in the tariff
by the Mills bill are less than those
which the Republicans themselves de-
nnanded in 1888. The reduction on iron
is mot greater than that which was advo-
Gated by Harry Oliver, of the great iron
1sm OF Oliver. Bickell & Phillips, of
Fittsburg, in that year.
We ars glad to see our Sacramento
.cnntsmpoFary come out fatfooted in