Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-07


have reason to be cheerful over the result.
The issue is nos sharply joined One par
ty ''unreservedly renews iss adhesion TO
the principle Of the prohibition OF the
suor traffic, and insists upoa the thorough |
and effective enforcement of the prohibit
tory law" The other party proposes to
rip 4, po icy adopted nearly half a cen
'ary ago ard steadily pursued for forty |
Fesrs Until IL has become ingraiued and
irmly established in our institutions. II
needs no prophet, or son Of a prophet, to /
'oreteiI tina; the experiment will be dis
,strous 10 those sho attempt IL.
auburn Gszssts Dem
We shall be very much surprised II tht
lction Of YESTERDAY . Democratic conventiop |
n committing, so tar ~ il could, the party |
o . license policy At this time. does not |
rouse = very vigorous protest from the /
Elements of the party not represented at
hat convention. The wsy in |
. hich this resolution was passed is not less
obnoxious than the fact OF its passage.
festerday's convention was called for the |
pecisi purpose Of nominating q candidate |
'or governor rendered imperative BY the |
iesth Of the candidate nominated at the |
1rst convention-and for no other purpose |
md the call specified no other purpose. At |
hat first convention the platform of the |
party VAS adopted and adopted finally and |
avery delegate so understood 1t. The license
ssae having been passed upon and decisive |
y rejected It that convention. the platform
,dopted and nothing but q candidate now
required, through the operation of an un-
foreseen contingency, the country dele
"a md ofbaYs anpnsaI n q Inapsa nj
had no reason to assume that this issue
you'd be re opened. They could not af-
lord at this season to spend their time and
money in attending q second convention
called for the single purpose of nominating
4 candidate for governor. They had conf
hence in their fello~ delegates who could
attend that their choice would be q good
one and they trusted them to make it and
to do nothing else, for there Was nothing
Else to do. The event proves. so far at
least as this resolution is concerned, that
their confidence has been misplaced and
their trust violated.
What the consequences will be remain
TO be seen.
Bath Times.
The Lewiston Journal puts the matter
about right when it observes, Gen. Neal
Dow says THE quantity of liquor now sold
in this State is not one-tw entieth so great as
it was before the prohibitory Law aud not
De-thirteth as large as il would be now
under any form Of license. The balance of
the difference in this vast waste and loss
goes to swell the value Of the property of
the State, and to better ways of living of
the people in every department of domestic
and social life" Then why do some people
cry for license1 Simply to make liquor
selling easier and cover it with a mantle Of
emi-respectability.
Portland Press
The license men have evidently taken in
the fact that the country towns are grow
ing beautifully small by degrees and beaut
fully less and they govern the mselves &C.
cordingly. 1t is safe TO say, however. that
the country towns will last out the time of
the present living Democrats, and while
they live they will fight this license scheme
to the last gasp.
Bangor Wing.
The Democratic party comedies that it
will receive some Republican votes on &C.
count of its license plank. Possibly but
when the returns are in we venture the
prediction that our friends, the enemy, will
fad that the Republicans who have then
thrown their votes away will be few and
fsr between The most sanguine license
Democrat admits that the party will be
overwhelmingly defeated this year on the
issue, but contents that it will be the enter
ing wedge for the final overthrow of pro-
hihition. lie: US see what this means. If
this programme were to be carried ont to
the letter, Just as the license men hope,
it would at least be ten years or more be-
fore the Law could be revised and this is a
low estimate allowing for the gradual
change of sentiment claimed by the license
men. In the meantime the Republicans
are to go on year after year voting the
Democratic ticket, in the most sccommo-
dating manner. Such superstition on
the part of the Democrats is absurd.
Moreover for every Republicans vote lost
in the cities three Democratic votes will be
gained in the country. The city Denoc.
racy had their turn at the wheel in Augusta.
Wednesday. The country will be heard
from at the polls in September. Maine
will stand true to prohibition.
Portland Fxpre.s
when the cat is away, the mice will
play" and when the rural democracy of
Maine are in the woods their brethren from
the cities can be relied upon to give full
sway to the metropolitan proclisities. Ac-
cordingly, when the rump of the late DEM
ocratis State convention got together yes
terfay at Augusta, the license men had it
all their own way, because the farmers
were not there. and under the leadership of
Messrs. Burns and Bass, declared how
much good they could do the ''holy cause
of Temperance if only they should be
permitted by the people of Maine to put
license" once more into the statutes of
the State.
The soicitude of Brother Bass for tenn
perance may be psrtly understood aud
there was time when the redoubtable
"original package" Burns had reason TO
believe that his efforts to promote temper
anee an sobriety in Maine would all be
lost. and the State itself go to the "demni-
ton bow-wows" because the great moral
a1d temperance ''original package reform
agency which he had esta olished In Augusta
was shut up by the ruthless hand of Judge
whitehouse But things have changed.
There is nothing nov either in State or
National Law to prevent Mr.. Michael Burns
Irtm ftsuuABk tSftfutUk Nutk. Anl
why he 10 wasting any time in 'resolutius-
for temperance when he might be behind
an 'originsi package" bar doing substantial
service for the cause he loves. at 10 cents
an Original package, is hard TO under
stand
1t has been some years since the Demo-
Gratis of Msine have com nitted themselves
TO license, The whitening bones of scores of
their leaders who have persisted in such I'M
undertaking. in the past are strewn all over
the political oa,tlefelds of the State, aud
the fate of these heroic devotees to 'ste m
perance aud sohriesy" has been encouraging.
We do rot Anticipste very great awaken
ing A. the result of the action yesterday of
Messrs. B. snd B. Before they can begin
TO do good to the 'holy cause" with their
license patent. they must carry the Lesisla
ture Of the State. get the prohibitorv
amendment submitted and adopted by the
people. and the license lag enacted. We
are very much afraid that by the time all
this ia done il will be too late for the Broth
ers B., who are we'll along IN years to reap
much advantage from the resulting good
to temperance. There are more prse lcahie
uays for them to help on the good cause
lust uow--sud Burns had better get at it be-
fore Congressional action upon the '.origi-
nai package" law is perfected. or bis ardent