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

would be the answer? We don't want to
do all the thinking or all the talking now,
but Just ask the Republican reader to
pause for moment or so and take the
action of the Republican States that have
recently passed Judgment on this matter
aud say what would be a true answer to
the query. Mind now, we don't ask tie
question of your enemies, but yourselves.
| Take PENNSYLVANIA with its so, 900 Repaid
Iican majority. where it was unnecessary
for single Democrat to favor the amend
ment to have it passed, and what is the
answer We know very well the answer.
| You say ''Oh, no; we didn't promise to
give YOU prohibition, not at all; we are not
Prohibitionist<, but Republicans. What
we did promise was to give you, the peo-
| pie. chance to say whether or not they
desired prohibition, and we kept our
| promise, pow didn't we?" Certainly you
did, and as party you deserve great credit
for it, aud we cheerfully grant it. Then,
as we understand the case. you didn' t
| make the concession (if giving the people
| what they have right to command be a
concession) in the interest of prohibition
at all. but simply as an act of plain duty
| toward the people, do We understand?
Well then what claim have you as party
on the Prohibitionsts that the latter are
called upon and expected to drop every
thing and follow in your lead? Now don't
it look like asking too much for the little
givene We think it does; you must know
it does.
But" says the New Jersey Republican,
didn't we give you practical prohibition
in several counties of the State through
local option?" Oh, no; beg your pardon,
friends, not by any means. Wish you had,
and if you had l want to take the occasion
right here to say that the writer of this
article would have been a Republican from
that day henceforth and so long as the
Republican party was true to itself and
the cause of humanity. You gave us local
option, true and many thanks for it. That
is more than the Democratic legislature of
this State would dared to have done, but
you didn't pass it in the counties. 1t was
the people who did that in Republican and
Democratic counties alike.
Last fall we were in one of the strongest
Republican districts of the State where
work was being done, preliminary work,
to voting on the local option question, and
who do you suppose were a. the wheel
pushing ahead with Drawn and brain this
Republican measured Republicans, :"
You say, of course. Not bit of it, not a
bit of it. Do you know land now speak
whereof know, aud can swear to before
any court in Christendom,) that not move
was made by single Republican to pub
fish the advertised call of very necessary
meeting, meeting to appoint delegates
| to the county convention, until it was al
most too late, and that the published call
would not have been made at all had it not
been for certain Democratic lawyer. him.
self never Prohibitionist, going to the
newspaper Office and on his own authority
and responsibility having the call publicly
announced. Now does that look much
like Republicans tumbling over each other
in their zeal to help Prohibition through
even so emasculated a temperance measure
as the local option law of last year?
Farther than that, when the day came
for the meeting of delegates the Prohibi-
tionsts were obliged to take the matter il
hand Ga Republican measure, mind you,,,
and held the meeting in the W. G. T. I
rooms at which we believe not single
Republican was present, certainly not a
the opening, though there may have beer
later, as a messenger was dispatched t.
bring in a delegate who was on the stree
in his own town at the time the conven
ton was being held, and who had forgotten
that such convention was to be held a
all. There's zeal for you we should say
This we know farther, and can swear t,
also. that some of the Republican leaders
high officials in the county, in that strong
Republican stronghold, hob-nobbed will
the rum Democrats Of the place in thei
effort to down local option when it com
to vote on the day of election.
Now if these things be so, fellow Repub
lcans as we know them so and believ
you know them so, can you blame US 70
standing apart little and desiring tina
your probation be extended somewhat be
fore receiving you into full membership
We would be glad, very glad, to have th
Republicans of this State take hold o
prohibition as they do of the tariff an,
some other party questions and then Their
would be no need of third party in New
Jersey.
Special.
Ii Is with nlnaSnrn that we annnnnnn L