The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-09-06
Friday. Sept. 6, 1850.
A Word to the County Prohibit
tlOniStS,

A Prohibition County Convention has
been called 10 meet at Elkton September
10th to consider the matter of nominating a
county ticket.
Good Prohibition politics suggest that the
old parties had better &c allowed to make
square record in this county next winter
with no reasonable ground afforded them for
placing the blame, il any should arise, on
the prohibitionists, for muddying tie stream
below where the wolf was drinking that cuts
the throat of the prohibition law OF the
county. The prohibs. cannot defend the
law from slaughter if the old parties decree
its death, and it were wise for them to keep
clear of all blame, when the public will
place the blame where it belongs.
We do not know that either party will
attempt the overthrow of the present prohi-
bition law of the county. 1t will prove bad
politics for them if they do. The Prohibi-
ton party as political party, If we confEe
our inquiry to the county, have in full
measure all the party is battling for in the
matter of statutory law. Our prohibitory
law was one of the advantages, and about
the last triumph, of non-partisan effort.
The whiskey power by complete organiza-
tion since has blocked every advance on that
line in future, and the building and
strengthening of the party as national
party to successfully cope with the new
strategy of the whiskey power, IN state and
national legislation, have become the Object
tive point of the Prohibition party. Hay
ing achieved the full measure OF success
within county lines, there is Lothing moie
can be accomplished within that contracted
sphere by Prohibition party, hence a
county organization has remained merely
nominal. To express party sentiment and
keep the party vote intact il a most impor-
tant Joint in party building, and this pur-
pose can be accomplished much more sue
cessfully, it seems evident, by casting their
vote for the State candidate and allowing a
county ticket to go by default. The main
object Of a Prohibition party county ticket,
under existing relations would be TO keep
the party intact, show the strength of its
vote and give public expression to the prin-
ciples of the Prohibition party. All this can
be as effectually done through the medium
of the State ticket. 1t would be bad politics
on the par, of the Prohibition party to nom
mate a county ticket atthe present time In
Cecil. Prohibition has all in this county
that the success of party ticket could give.
A successful party ticket could not defend
the law in the ligisla ture. therefore it were
better to let the old parties lay violent
hands on the law if they dare. The mex!
movement against whiskey in Maryland
must be on state and national lines, not on
county lines. Local prohibition has nearly
if not quite, had its day, the combined
whiskey power can now concentrate on any
point and defeat local efforts. 1t will soon
turn its attention to working the repeal o.
all local prohibition laws and their substitu.
ton BY High License laws, then there will
be local work every where for the Prohibi-
ton party
At the Susquehanna pa County Re.
publican Convention, the other day, Hon
Galusha A Grow said that it was useless to
try TO fight for prohibition in the Republi-
can party; that true Republicans must ac-
cept High License. This utterance of the
great Republican leader becomes all the
more significant in the face of the fact thai
Susquehanna county gave $500 MAJORITY
for the prohibition amendment.
1t is plain 10 every person who wants tc
see that the Prohibition party in the near
future will have to fight the two old parties
ON this issue-combined and marshaled
under the whiskey banner by the great
Liquor and Beer Associations of the United
States.