Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-03
TO YOUNG MEN VOTERS.

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Republicans that one of the marks O
manhood, one of the best indications O
integrity, is political consistency, ant
that as you advance in age that touch
ing your citizenship and standing as (
man you can look back upon nothing
with more satisfaction than that you have
been politically consistent. The Demo
cratic bosses, buns and leaders will en-
deavor to pursuade you that a vote fol
their old mossback ticket is vote for re
submission. While such a declaration
is a glazing lie, upon its face, and while
the triumph of the Democratic ticket
| tends to render resubmisslon an impOs-
sibility in radical Kansas, yet, granting
the claim to be true, no young Republi
can can afford to scratch or bolt his
ticket. If voting the Democratic ticket
could put an open saloon at every Other
door from the Big river to Hydraulic
avenue, with free whisky thrown in, you
cannot as young man afford to go bach
on your political convictions or back or
the party with which you have identified
yourself. The word of man who has
not bolted or scratched regular Repub-
lican ticket in thirty years for it, you
will meyer regret the manliness of stand
ing out against the promises of politi-
cal enemy, and against the persuasions
of personal friends who have no use for
your principles. Stand by your own
colors, though you never see glass OF
whisky in your lives again, or never hear
of saloon. for they are cheats when it
comes to helping anybody individually
anyhow. Granting that the Democrats
could bring about the open saloon and
reduce the price Of whisky to two glasses
for nickel, that would not profit, indi-
vidually. single young Republican
voter in this entire city, unless he want
ed to go into the saloon business himself,
and then to make anything out of the
business at two cents and half a glass
he would have to steal his whisky, and
he couldn't steal and be a very
good Republican, especially he couldn't
steal whisky, for that would be robbing
the Democratic party of that which is
dearer than life to its great majority.
We do not deny that great many DEM
Ocrats want the open saloon and plenty
of whisky, and that these Democrats
honestly think that if their ticket could
be elected that resubmission, not only,
but that whisky would come again, and
that everybody could then go off on a
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selves. My dear young fellows it is not
true The Democratic bosses know that
the election of their ticket would not
bring resubmission, and those same
Democratic bosses, however dry they
may be, don't actually desire resubmis--
sion, as it would leave them with
out anything to howl about. Besides,
if all that the Democrats are claiming
was true, if we could have hundreds OF
saloons and no end of cheap whisky, as
they promise, if we could all then go
off on bowling drunk, without dis
grazing ourselves in the eyes of those
whose respect we value, that would not
relieve us from the conviction that we
had brutalized ourselves. But however
valuable high license may be as re-
strainer of drunkenness, and however
much better the open saloon may be
better than the joint, and however much
more revenue the city might get from
the legal than from the illicit sale of
liquors, yet, and after all, no young Re-
publican can afford or permit himself to
be captured by the Democratic party.