The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-10


Our Democratic and Republican friends
are staring at each other across the party
pews and wondering which is most helped
and which most hindertd by the cute dis
fTarchisemcnt plan Matched out by the
two old party schemerS. The go it-biind
Republicans, those Who all along have
taken stock i'll the g. o. 7. rot, (that the
Prohibition party is an annex to the Dem
ocratic party, crane their uecks almost
out Of jDint in the vain endeavor TO see
how aud why the generally astute Demo-
Gratis should fire out their Democratic
allies, just to accommodate their Repub-
splitter out the belief that the whole bus
mess Is a big Democratic sell. They
smell a mice Ia the Democratic meal bag
and charge the whole arrangement as an
underhanded piece of party fuesse. In
the meantime the dead sure Democrats,
who always knew" that the Prohibition
vote 'cut iuto' the Republican vote, ale
also ratified, AID so the thing goes. But
here comes the New York World, with its
self-suficient say SO, as follows:
Every Prohibition convention that has
met thus far this yesr has had something
TO say iii criticism of the new election law,
and all of the conventions have 'harped
on the same string" The section which
displeases them is that Eieh provides that
a political party to nominate by ''certifica-
ton" must have polled at the last election
. per centum of the total vote cast in the
State, county, or other division or district
III or for mich the nomination is made.
If it did not poll 5 per cent. of the vote
east it must nominate by petition, and it
must secure the signature Of at least | per
cent. OF tie voters who voted at the pre-
vious election. In some of the Congress
sional districts Its people haYe to submit
to the ignominy of going around with
petitions begging fer signatures that it
may get its ballots printed at the expense
Of the State. The provision in the law
which the cold water men object to was
placed therein for economic reasons to pre-
vent cranks aud UPSTAIRS who might take
1t into their heads to run for office from
running the State financially with election
ballot expenses.
You see, it's all on economic grounds.
Duling the late war a soldier in the army
was expected, almost obliged, to vote il he
had to be transported all the way home to
do it, and since the war Republicans have
moved heaven and earth $50 much of it as
possible at leasi) thai q few scailawag
whites and worse scallawag darks vote
their ticket, AMI the Democratic party
have tried just as hard to prevent them
voting that way, (if not very much belied),
this, too, was regardless OF Expense, mind
you. No such ''economic" grounds to be
considered in the above.
Yes, wicked World, there is something
saved to the State in permitting the Pro-
hibitiouists to pay for their own tickets,
and compelling them to help pay for
tickets used by the other parties. A sort
OF established church plan, you see, of
running politics. The State not only
saves the expense Of printing a few thous-
and Prohibition tickets enough, perhaps,
to run a corrupt New York Judge a couple
of hours), but actually makes something
tor its party friends besides. The Proh;-
bitionists have TO pay the commissioners,
pay the clerk, pay this, that and the other,
all undoubtedly for economic reasons and