Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-03
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Religious Bodies Oppose the Passage
Of Anti-foOlie Acts.
SIX TEXAS BOYS BURIED ALIVE.
Arranging a Fight Between Sulli-
van and Corbett-Railroad
Consolidation.
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EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
They Throw Their Prohibition Following
Overheard

4hty Throw lne1r IfOmDltlOn Following
Overheard
DEs MONIES, April 2d.-The anti.prohi.
bltion movement within the Republican
party eliminated in State Conference to-
day, one hundred and ninety-six delegates
being present, representing several thou
sand Republicans. Chairman Collins, of
Keokuk, said he was lifelong prohibit
bitionist and had done all in his power to
enforce the law in his city, but had failed.
Other speeches of a similar vein were
made. Elk Governor Birkwood sent a
letter IN which, among other things, he
said: Personally favor local option and
high license, with stringent regulations,
but some of our prohibition friends say if
such change were made the Republican
party would never carry an election in
Iowa again. That looks 10 me very much
like an attempt at bulldozing, and Repub.
icans never took kindly to that mode of
argument. This policy was pursued for
some years by the extreme prohibitionists
In the Republican States that have not
adopted prohibition, and now is threatened
here. 1t has not won in the past, and |
think will not in the future"
Hon. A. b. Cumins, of Des Moines, pre-
sented report of the Committee on Reso-
lutlons, which was received with great en-
thuslasm. The resolutions declare their
unswerving allegiance to the principles of
the Republican party. as enunciated in the
Chicago platform, and continue:
We recognize the liquor traffic as one which
requires regulation, but insist that the object of
such regulation should be to minimize intem-
perance and mitigate Its evil Experience in
this, as well as other States, has cOnclusively
SHOWN that general prohibition, operating upon
ali communities alike. without respect to the
habits, conditions. circumstances or desires, is
not adapted either TO suppress intemI erance or
to promote morals, and therefore the expert
ment should be abandoned and the law SO mod
lned that those communities which desire q
change shall have the right to determine for
themselves whether intoxicating liquors should
be sold as beverage within their limits.
% we are unaiterably opposed to any attempt
state prohibition. The organic State law ought
not to have been numbered with police regula.
tion OF that character. Political organizations
have no just right to bring into the declaration
OF principles new doctrine unless it be one
upon which substantially all the members
agree large number of the Republicans of
eral prohibition. If the Republican party ad-
heres TO the present position upon this question
1t is manifest that by such adherence it tends to
exclude from its membership all those who be-
neVe the Dolcy fatal to the best interests of the
state, and inasmuch as the members of the parry
are not agreed upon the subject, there is obyi-
ousiy but ope course which the party can hon.
0rably pursue and that is to vigorously exclude
from the party platform every reference to it.
leaving each Republican member of the Legis,,
lature full liberty to act with respect to it as his
judgment may direct.
The experiment of general prohibition has
been faithfully tried, and in many portions of
the State lamentably failed. The Republican
party cannot justify its further support as a
party measure
Those members of the party holding our views
cannot. with favor to themselves longer lend
their aid to impose upon many communities all
the evils of unlicensed, unrestricted and unree-
ulated liquor-seling
For these reasons, and in the interest of NOR
ality, business and social order, we ask the
General Assembly now in session to SO amend
the prohibitory liquor law as to give to commu-
mites that so desire to act power to subject to
the minimum the license to be fixed by the
Legislature to regulate the sale or intoxicated
liquors through medium of high license and
we insist on such change in the platform of
the Republican party as will enabls US 10 stand
honest y upon it, and to assist in restoring the
party to complete supremacy