The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
REpUBLIcANisM TRIUMPHANT.

aEPUBLIcANisM TRIUMPHANT.
The elections were held in four
Territories to adopt state constitu.
lions and to elect state officers and
representatives to Congress. At
this writing three of the states, the
Dakotas and Washington, are con-
coded to have gone Republican, and
Montana is yet doubtful; the result
will class Montana among the
doubtful states, and temporarily at
least add three new states to the
fixed Republican forces. This will
be an added element of aggressive
ness, of the Kansas and Iowa type of
Republicanism, and there promises
to be, from South Dakota at least,
an advanced radicalism on some
questions of public policy which,
passing anything which Kansas or
Iowa has seriously attempted, may
add greatly to the interest and value
of congressional sessions. If Judge
Moody goes to the Senate, as is now
expected, and carries out his deter
mination to make a vigorous fight
for national legislation prohibiting
the importation of alcoholic bever-
ages into prohibition states, Dakota
may carry the white banner at
Washington as she has done at
home.
Montana did not vote on the pro-
hibition question, Washington voted
adversely, but the two Dakotas
voted to put prohibition into their
constitutions, and before another
decision can be secured the deter
mined manhood Of these new states
will have completely banished the
saloon. The issue in South Dakota
was vigorously fought by both sides.
The liquor forces q the nation were
there, with their usual methods Of
tho boycott and the Dribe. But the
great body Of the population Of Da.
kots is made up Of, young people
who have gone West and are endur'
ing privations Of every character in
order that in the new state they may
secure homes, and such people or
not subject to the buying and bull
doing methods. Farms were mort
gagged and cattle sold to pay the
necessary expenses of this campaign
and this devotion has been icrownet
with victory. In North Dakota tn
situation was quite different; tn,
towns were against prohibition, tn
men who thought they we're, an
we're thought to be, the leading mel
in the state, considered it hopelessl
in the hands of the liquor traffic
the proportion of foreign voters i
the North state Was much larger
New England, which has gone Wes
SO largely that she was not at HON
to vote in Massachusetts and Rhod
Island elections, New England, tn
. best young blood of New England
, dominant in South Dakota, Their
was a fighting chance. But Scand
, , nayia is more largely at the Nortl
and North Dakota is . prohibitio
state because, while Americans d
SPARED, Scandinavians went to I'll
ballot box and saved the state.
Minnesota has prohibition on tw
sides, Nebraska on three sides, Mi
D souri, on two sides, and. beginnin
4 at the British Possessions, you ca
: travel to the South to the Texas lir
through Indian Territory, and wal
on prohibition soil all the wa
Minnesota, Nebraska and Nilsson
must follow soon.-Union Signal.
Here is another evidence of VIII
the Republicans are doing for Il
. country in the way of Kidding it fro
l the curse of liquor. Blot out IL
: Republican party and there wou,
D not be prohibition state in IL
: Union. The TIMES is willing
y admit that in the Republican par
there is an anti-prohibition elemen
u which if the party was destroye
}, would join the Democracy and tn,
:. give the liquor interest such majo,
y ties in all the states, that the cour
: try would sink under the load
: such degree that all laws looki1
y to the regulation and suppression
> the traffic would be wiped out.
- The Republican party is the on
> hope of salvation to this countr
" The party cannot step to the top
= the great mountain in one lol
Il mighty step, but is compelled to g
there by regular grades and q
proaches. The country under R
publican rule is going there just Ii
70 q railroad train gains the top of t
q great mountains. Let all the 20