Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-09
The Evil Consequence. OF Political Fol-


Nothing more strongly illustrates what
mischief can be done to good cause by
the mistaken course Of It's professed
friends, than the conduct Of the Third
Party In the election Of Tuesday. II pos
sible its course has been more DISASTROUS
to the cause II processes to serve than in
1884. In the great State Of New York
with nearly six millions Of people, the is
sue was plain, direct, and unmistakable,
between the friends and the opponents Of
the saloons and the terrible traffic which all
good citizens 30 much deplore. Cover
nor Hill deliberately made himself the In
strument Of the liquor dealers, who have
an army at their command and unlimited
financial resources, the product of their
criminal and destroying traffic. The Re-
publicans fully committed themselye- TO
arestrictive policy. and nominated WAR
sER MILLER for Governor, who made a
be Id determined, and ably-conducted cam
paign against the entire saloon combina-
ton He drew to his support the larger
State. He only needed the assistance
Of the Third Party prohibitionists
70 give him triumphant election and in
fict signal defeat Of the liquor dealers
and their army Of vicious and disorderly
supporters. It was plain, square issue
between Rum and Temperance. Warner
Miller and the cause he represented were
defeated by the Third Party impractica-
bles, and David Hill and his liquor allies
are holding high carnival over their un
hallowed victory. It il impossible to
make any excuse for such absurd, not to
say,treasonous action, on the part Of the
Third Party leaders. 1t il impossible TO
frame apologies for the conduct of Fisk,
St John. and those who brought the
Woman Christian Temperance Mon to
New York city in the midst Of the excit-
ing contest against the liquor allies, that
hostile influence might be exertcd
against Warner Miller and the Republi-
cans. II was the same kind Of madness
which the Liberty Party exhibited in 1910
Clay In New York and aided in the cleo
ton of Polk and the triumph Of the ultra
shareholders, an act Of criminality
from which the party Of Birney
never recovered. In New Jersey the re-
suit of Third Party action il equally to
he depored, though the sweep Of its
wicked consequences may not reach 80
far as In New York. la New Jersey the
Republicans, backed by a large majority
of the friends Of temperance, have given
the State local option, resulting in prohi-
bitiou In various counties. In New Jer-
sey, to their credit, thousands of the
Third Parry voters deserted their imprac
ticable associates and voted with the Re
publicans, but not enough to prevent the
Democrats and their liquor allies from sc
curing the electoral vote for Cleveland
and giving majority of the Legislature
to the Democrats and the liquor dealers.
Thus more fatal in their misguided action
than openly ayowed opposition, it /, i'm
possible to excuse the Third Party leaders
from treason. to which the Voice, the
New York organ. has been a most I'M
scrupulous accessory. Ii condenses and
apostrophises the folly and wickedness of
their course, by simply stating the fact
that they placed Grover Cleveland and
the Bourbons IN power in 1854, and David
Hill aud his liquor gang in the control of
the Empire State in lSSS.