The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-14

per cent In New Jersey, IL was very per-
ceptible in Ohio. 1t was noteworthy In
New York, il was u potent factor In
republican defeat i'm Iowa: for reasons
that are easily found i'm some instances,
as i'm New Jersey. where prohibition
pOlled u big vote last year for one OF its
most respected citizens. Clinton
Ii. Fiske, candidate for president.
In New York the case in not 30 clear,
for the reason that Mr.. Fiske's canvass
there WAS not even lukewarm, and 1t
has always been held that Mr.. Fiske was
not unwilling to let Harrison secure
that state. However. tho fact is that
prohibition did not hold it's W in the
November contests, and the republic
cans are pleased.
But the action of the convention held
i'm Chicago two days g il significant
ut this time. II was the annual meet
ing OF the women's Christian Temper
ance Union, perhaps the strongest
agency for intelligent temperance work
i'm the United states. For reasons that
are not yet clear. the members of that
body. by n vote lacking little Of unan-
unity. declared i'm favor of prohibition
and pledged it's approval Ito that party
only which declares in it's platform for
prohibition i'm state and nation"
Thereupon Mrs. j. Ellen Foster. of
Iowa, who has certainly ranked Us "a
conspicuous member of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. with
drew and most of Iowa's delegation
went with her. The seceders come
from a state thai has witnessed the
practical operation of prohibition.
1t will worry the republicans to find
this powerful organization arrayed
against them. and it in fair to assume
that the conventions vote more than
offsets all the comfort hat the republi-
cans can draw from the November re-
turns. 1t may be said that the Union
doesn't amount to much when IL comes
to getting out the vote on a p%residcn-
tial elccticn, yet all of us i..3U no.
Z~ealously the republican managers in
New York, Ohio and Illinois have
courted h support of that body, with
what distinguished courtesy Miss Will
lard, Mrs. Foster. the u Mrs. Hayes
and Others were welcomed at republi-
can mass meetings and how vocifer-
Ously applause has followed their e
ment in favor of looking Ia the repub-
lican party for wholesome Legislation
i'm favor of temperance.
In fact this powerful Union has been
hoodwinked by republicans until the
leaders are tired. and when. in the next
national campaign. Miss Willard and
her friends stump New York state. the
republican managers will dread them
more than they would all the 1t. Johns
on the face of the globe. Every cross
road Will hear of Levi 4. MOrton's
gilded bar, but. what is far more signiti-
cant. every hating voter will be told
how patiently the WOmen's Union
waited on the promise of the republican
party to undertake ~ policy of conserv-
alive temperance legislation and how
grossly that party violated its promise.
The action of the Women's Union
will do more tn give dignity n our
age To- the prohibition movement than
anything that has happened hitherto i'm
its history: and thus republican poll
ticians will find Their own broken prom
ises forged into weapons that will be
welded with desperate energy against
them.