The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-11

we give it up right here and now.
There is no enigma, SO far as we know,
so dense and unsolvable as that presented
by the attitude of the Republican party
toward the Prohibitionists, if one attempts
to reconcile the platform declarations OF the
former with its political action. In this
State the Republicans have filled the air
with the denunciation of the great crime
perpetrated by the New Jersey Democracy
in repeating the local option measure pass
ed by them last winter. This law they
declared was prohibition in spots and real
ly gave the people all they were prepared
to receive in the present innocuous con-
dition OF the public sentiment, and there
really seemed z great deal of truth in It.
But after a%rraigning the rum Democra-
cY'' in so vigorous terms, "roaring in the
index and laundering in the Margin" the
public naturally supposed that all that
was wanting to reiterate their undying
opportunity to express it in some authori-
tative way, and so when the State Conven-
ton Of the party assembled at Trenton
people actually held their breath in expect
the party illumination on the local option
line. Well, it come, and here it is:
The Republican party of New Jersey
stands committed by its platforms and
legislative enactments to the most thorough
measures that will be sustained by the
people and pledges itself to such legisla-
ton as will most speedily and thoroughly
eradicate the evil of intemperance. We
resent the intrusion of the liquor power as
an organized force into the politics of the
State. The attitude of the two parties on
this question is so clearly defined that nc
intelligent voter can be deceived by the
omission of either to make declaration or
the subject.
The reader will have to look more thai
once to see the words local option" men
toned.
Next came the temperance plank in tbt
platform of the Republican party for til,
State of New York, held at Saratoga Sept
25th. 1t reads:
1.-THE repeated efforts by Republican
Legislatures to secure Ballot Reform ano
thoroughly practicable temperance legisla
ton are proofs of the right purpose ano
good faith of the Republican party. Nc
step backward will be taken, and We
pledge our determination to persevcrt
until salutary and adequate provisions o.
law on these vital subjects are embodied
in the statute of the State"
That looks we'll on paper, but If tho
readers of the MONITOR had just slipped
outside of the committee room where thi,
deliverance of the party was being framed.
and interviewed the tweuty-six whisky
dealers sent as delegates from New 1orl
City alone, to say nothing of those from
other parts of the State, they could had
their eyes opened to the full intent ant
meaning of this nicely rounded generality
Last Friday evening the Charles f. Bru
der Association, an organization OF Repub
lican liquor dealers and saloon politicians
in the 10Th Assembly District, met Owe
Linden's gin-mill on the southeast corneI
of 9th street and the Boulevard TO ''rati
fy," as Tie Nail and Express put it, til,
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toga convention, at which time the follow
ing resolution was passed:
s.Resolved, by the Charles +. Brudel
Association of the 10Th Assembly District,
that we heartily approve of the platform
adopted at the recent Republican State
Convention at Saratoga, and hereby
pledge the candidates nominated at sncf
Convention our earnest and loyal support.
The leading man of this Association,
after whom it is named, Charles +. Bruder,
runs a gorgeous saloon dIagonally opposite
on the northwest corner of 9th street
After this meeting a Voice reporter inter
viewed a number of saloon proprietors
members of the Republican party, who
each and severally declared that the de.
claration meant absolutely nothing, so fal
as hostility to the saloon was concerned,
one of them, a Mr. Greacen, admitting
ssThey have got to say something, and
may as we'll say that as anything. They
won't try to force any intolerant measures
next winter. That wouldn't be good pol
ICY"
Then comes the Massachusetts Repub-
lican State Convention, which poses, OF
presses, as follows on the temperance
question:
ssIn State affairs the question deservedly
most interesting TO the people of this Com
monwealth is that of temperance. The