St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-14
MISS wIuLARD's VICTORY.

This must be Boss QUAY's off year.
He slipped up on his political machina-
tions in the state elections, and now he,
has met with another and more recent
defeat, more overwhelming than the
others. This time he has been licked
by a woman-a fact which probably adds
TO the humiliation of his overthrow.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD. the presi-
dent of the WOmal's Christian Tenn
perance union, is the lady who has the
credit Of cleaning out QUAY on the
ground of his own choosing, and she did
1t in such a thorough and skillful man.
ner as to excite the admiration of every
body. For some time past there has
q controversy between the Repub-
licans and Prohibitionists regarding the
necessity of having two parties in
the field, and both with the same object
in view. They have been agreed all
along that there was no necessity for
the two distinct organizations, but there
has been a division of opinion as to
which should be swallowed up by the
other. The Republicans claim that the
Probibitionists should be merged into
their party. On the other hand, the
PrOhibitiOnistS claim that they are the
head and the Republicans the tail of the
temperance movement, and according
to the logic of events the Republicans
should come to them, as it is easier for
MAHO1IET to go to the mountain than to
have the mountain come to MAHOMET.
The Republicans have pleaded their
numerical strength and superiority as
IN argument in support of bringing
the ProhibitionistS into their Organiza-
tion. The latter contend that numbers
count for nothing when great princi-
pie is at stake. They say thatif the Re-
publican argument had prevailed during
the first century, the Christian church
would never have been founded. The
few sturdy men and women in all ages
of the world who have held to principle
despite the Establishments of power are
the ones to whom the world is indebted
for its greatest reforms.
Thus the controversy has progressed
between the Republican and Prohibition
leaders for several years without any
definite outcome, or even prospect that
either organization would be able to
swallow the other. But when Boss QUAY
took hold of the helm of the Republican
machine 1t occurred to him to accom-
plish, by brilliant coup d. etat, what
his predecessors had failed to do by ar
gument and persuasion. He saw back
of the Prohibition movement another
very strong organization, which is, in
reality, the strength of the temperance
cause. This was the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union, an organize
ton composed of sincere Christian
women, whose piety and zeal in the
cause of righteousness have won for
them the respect of all classes.
1t was QUAY's game to capture the
w. C. T. .. and force it into an al
lance with the Republican party, and
thus drive the Prohibitionists to the
wall. To this end be hired Mrs. Eos
TER to 90 down into Iowa. and start the
ball which would roll the temperance
party right into the Republican camp.
And what mess she made of i'll She
effected the alliance in Iowa all right
enough: but it so happened that QUAY's
plan operated on the principle of the
Indians gun-it shot back harder than
Ii shot forward.
Miss WILLARD endeavored to dis
suade Mrs. FOSTER from delivering over
the w. G. T. U. to the Republican boss
In consideration of a little mess of pot
tage, but Mrs. FOSTER wouldn't
be dissuaded. On the contrary,
she declared her purpose to take
the whole organization with her.
Then it was that Miss WILLARD rose
up in the majesty of her superb woman
hood and accepted the gage of battle
her sister temperance worker had tend
cred. Under false cry of non-parti-
Banship, Mrs. FOSTER attempted to de-
lude the temperance women into the
belief that she was trying to keep the
temperance movement out of politics.
But the trick was too apparent. QUAY's
cloyen foot was seen in every move
ment that Mrs. FOSTER made. Miss
WILLARD exposed the plot, and by the
time the national convention of the w.
G. T. u. assembled in Chicago she had
massed her troops in such skillful man.
ner the QUAY-FosTER combination went
TO pieces in the first assault. Her opening
gun was broadside at Vice President
MORTON, who had been furnishing
QUAY with the money to run Mrs. Eos
TER's campaign in Iowa. The shot was
q deck sweeper. 1t carried away masts