San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-25
QUIT MONKEYING.

/ Sauo polICy .Ou tuo pIOuiuitioii 4ucS-
ton. Now is not the time to keep ST.
lence and those who value the preser-
walton of the party must take very de-
cided ground and maintain it. In
Iowa there is no cause at all adequate
| to account for the sudden change in
the election returns save that the
course of the republican leaders, in
making the republican party the
godfather of the prohibition move
ment, has disguised and alienated the
best elements of the party and COM
PEELED them, in self defense, TO teach
the party leaders a severe lesson
through the bitter experience of polit-
ical defeat. When such men as gov
ernor Kirkwood, the old republican
war governor of Iowa, man whose
true republicanism cannot be ques-
toned, and who never was afraid to
invade the camp of his political enc
mics, when a man like this deliber-
ately sewers himself from the party
and votes and iabors against its sue
cess, it is high time to call halt.
The w. G. Il. L. of the state, led by
Mrs. Ellen J. Foster, has broken
away from the national body because
of its determination to push prohibi-
ton as political issue regardless of
the consequences. This action of
Mrs. Foster will have its effects in
Iowa and commends her most hearth
ly to republican endorsement every
where. Her example will be very
generally followed in Iowa or repub-
licanism is dead there for a general
ton to come.
The trouble in Kansas, and the bit
up in that banner repu blican state !
States senator, is directly owing to |
tor Ingalls, article in the Forum |!
started the ball rolling and it will |
not cease its movement until it has |
rolled him out of the United states |
senate chamber and inflooded the |
whole state with a bitterness and |
apimosity, the effects of which will |
be felt for years to come.
The republican party cannot atto I'd |
to lose such states as.Iowa'and Kansas
in the mad race after impossible and |
impracticable reforms. The republic
can party has everything to lose and
nothing to gain from an alliance with
the prohibition party. The founda-
ton principles of the prohibitionists
are destructive of true republican
ism. True republicanism is as far
removed from prohibition on the one
hand as it is from free whisky on the
other. While resisting the encroach-
ments of the saloon influence on the
one hand the party is equally COM
mitted to the dethronement of prohi-
bition on the other. Not only So
prohibition is the sworn enemy of the
republican party. 1t feeds upon its
vitals, destroys it, laughs it to scorn
and everywhere casts its votes and
its influence for the free whisky DEM
ocracy. 1t is untrue to every profes
sion of reform which it makes and al
ways favors the democracy at the eX-
pense of the republican party while
every count and municipal return
shows that high license, the shibboleth
of the republican party. is the most
potent temperance measure in opera
ton.
Iowa has grown FESTIVE under the
yoke of burden never intended to be
saddled upon the necks ofrepublicans
by the party. 1t is not right nor just
for Iowa and Kansas thus to peril the
supremacy of republicanism, not only
at home, but in the national govern
ment, and to set up standards not &C
cepted by the national conventions of
the party. In doing so they acknowl-
edge themselves prOhibitionists first,
afterwards, or not at all.
The ban of party disapproval should
be and in time must be put upon all
efforts to make the party in any state
the mere catspaw of prohibition and
the sport of democracy. The $4,000
republican majority of Iowa has been
frittered away in the insane endeavor
to make prOhibitionists reconciled
with the republican party. The party
has become prohibition to It's own de-
structiOn and the prohibition votes
are withheld from the rep lblican cam
didates. Put it down as good repub-
lican gospel. The prohibition party
is the sworn foe of republicanism and
the republican party can not afford to
monkey with its delusions. AS the
party of high license, leaving temper
ance reform to the moral teachers and
contenting itself with placing restric-
tions around the traffic so as to pre-
vent its abuses, the republican party
will do its work. AS a matter of fact