The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-27

Under the circumstances, taking the re-
lation of the Rev. Dr. Ballard to the Re-
publican party into account and all that,
we think somebody has been pretty shah
billy treated and that somebody the reyer-
end gentleman above mentioned. We all
know how it is, nobody Is SO big fool as
to not understand the situation. There
stands the Republican party with out
stretched arms, crying itself hoarse with,
''this way gentlemen, this way for the party
of temperance and moral ideas, the \ No.
simon pure temperance party. See that
each ticket is labeled G. o. p, without
VIII ich none is genuine. Ask your candi-
date for it and take no other" The Re-
publican party filled the air with the din
of local option local option, and down this
way one could hear but little else. The
party stood for all there was in temperance,
and that all was local option, and the peo-
pie would have had it in solid chunks long
before this but for the exasperating way
the New Jersey Democrats have Of knock
ing Republican calculations into kingdom
come. Never mind, we'll show you later,
just wait till we can pull ourselves together
again and get dig at them, the wicked
| Democrats, and well show the uncircum-
cised what back bone is. Just wait till we
have our convention" But to come back
| to DR.. Ballard. Somebody must represent
| the moral side of the Republican party
down this way Brother d. Harris Smith
would hardly do. His conference duties and
the fish medal award would scarcely allow
him time James NJ. Scovel would prove a
little off as Representative of local op-
ton and temperance reform and the CON-
mittee must have known this when sizing
up suitable person to fill the bill. DR..
Scovel is homeopathic temperance physi-
clan. He is allopathic too on the other
line and works at that the most But
somebody must be had and the wonder is
that SO good, so able. and SO clean a man
as the Rev. DIR. Ballard, president of the
State Temperance Alliance, President oil
the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting Associa.
ton, ct al, should have baen secured But
he was, and the Doctor did his work on
this line as on other lines in which he has
engaged in, in a straightforward honora.
bic, and open way. In short he deserved
well of his party and deserved well of all
parties because sincere conscientious and
earnest. ''Did the party stand by him?"
| Well, we shall see farther on. Oh yes,
they made large promises and plenty OF
them and the Doctor was patted great
many times on his very broad back and
cordially invited to wade in" "Pitch
in" said they. land we'll be with you
every time" Well, the Doctor had his
convention at Trenton and everybody was
invited. Everybody is the conventional
way of putting ito come nearer the truth
perhaps, less than 20 600 were actually in
vited; two thousand by card and envelope
and the remainder through the newspapers
and pulpits. OF course the Republicans
were there in troops, tumbling over each
their appreciation of his good work in
booming the local option idea and stamp
ing out the prohibition craze. But they
didn't come, and did stay away. we'll now
they just did, that is, all but about twenty
or thirty. Enough perhaps to open the
meeting with but scarce enough to dismiss
it, and that's why we say somebody was
pretty shabbily treated.