The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-10-30
TIE nan OK r TIE PARTY
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aSyeGf or TWO ago. He was In
behalf oil The plinctDle Of prnIibit,nn
,rbore r.as somathibr a. a ALL. ,,o.,,,s,n.,
~ 49, a,a..a,
tisc ; asoon e.enieh' ahu she semperahce
e,cmeht IN ms own party over MS noms
nation. Whcn ne was nominated, the
fofmsl element, to a considerable degree,
refused to support him, and twas touch
ard 70 between him and his Den,ocrat,c
,iv,l AZ this stra;t IN, prnI;h;t,on
- "a, = ,,,ot aistr,ot v,..o os,.aa 80 ~
ps1i =
~ ,' =. y own. lneS were
not ASKED 70 tnuorse the lscpuoilcan
candidate, but simply to make no sep
aratc nomination. Ihey refused, made
their W nomination, supported 1t,
and tho Republican candidate came with
in q few hundred votes OF defeat
This 10 by no means an exceptional
case apparently. When the joint hear.
ing was held last June by the senate and
House committees on tire bill to. submit .
proh,b. tory amendment to the Federal
Constitution, y similar story was told
and q similar complaint made by Con-
Yrcs man Struhle or Iowa, Congressman
Morse OF massachusetts,, and Congress-
man j. ". Taylor OF ONO. All three are
Republicans, all three ayow their belief
in Prohibition, and yet, so they com.
plain, the Prohibition party, instead Of
supporting them even passively, ran can
didates In opposition. 81
we have no Y that this course on
the Tast OF Prohibitlonlsts seems to Ger
tain persons ilttie snort OF treason 70 the
cause OF Prohibition. But to us 1t seems
singular In the extreme That snch d
course a pc seriously crltlclscd. Inc
criticism arises IrDm an CnLlTG miSCOn.
ceptlon OF the purpose ana Dellef That
have given birth to a Prohibltion party.
That purpose Is TO bulld up political
organizatlon-a parLy'--aronnd inc cen
tral issue OF IrOh!blt.on. mat belief Is
That unit such an organization Is, per
lectea anu milue VICTORIOUS no pronlol.
toS! IA" o. cohseltue,Ghal a~theliuhenC
can De maue secutc. no" ehen can VIC
be expected 70 p a mar Who' IN
s'ead Oh giving ms supFort 70 sucn an
ofsanlAaeloh ins.sau !" i1ity
1hat seehs seuulousls - crush 1uaI or'
Bahizatlon ouI o cS.suehce. now cah
men VINO DeiieVe ,1ia.a Gsrtain ean,za
non IS Indispensable 10 the cause Oh fro.
hlpitloh' pun cluos mo tne hanas Oi
hemic VI that orsah.Haeio" anu SUN
MAINTAIN any cain Oh CONSISTENCY VI
sincerity: rake the case OF congress
man Morse, for cSan1pe. Hithin inc
last FEW weeks nc mas mace, through inc
Boston tieratd, an attack upon inc FRO
tilbit!on party dlstinguisnea tor lts ma
grant falsehoods. iet thc same man
%as q short time before complaining pc
cause the party whose aeatn nc seeks 10
compass was not ASSUMING nm 10 secure
official position ana i~nnuence, when ne
now uses against it, and which there Is
the point) he is III duty bound, as an
avowcd Republican, to use against it.
Nhen men make such claims upon our
rarty they are asking lis to stuitify our
selves, to rcpudiatc all the losicon which
the party has been built, and to commit
political suicide.
Well. even this might be considered, IL
!, return we were given the objects
w,,icl, we seek through such organiza-
ton. But let us consider this. What
would be attained by such a course?
What can such men promise us in re-
turn? Absolutely nothing but their good
wishes and kindly words. 1t is true they
can vote for all original passage bill, but
so did avowed alti-prohibitioniSts do
that, in order to save the license laws. 1t
Is true they can vote for a commission of
inquiry, for the submission OF a Federal
amendment, for the abolition OF the
saloons in the Capitol but they can not
secure the accomplishment OF any OF
these results, and, if the Prohibition par
s+y should pull down its own cditice In or.
der to place them in power, they would
be still less able to accomplish those re-
suits. It is true that if we elected oul
own candidates In these cases, neither
could they accomplish these results:
much less could they accomplish them il
not elected. But in the latter case. In
stead OF demolishing our own 1ounda
5ions We arc strengthening them. I'M
immediate Legislative results amount &c
nothing "netner We supper Iiiese old.
party cahoioates OF our OWL put INC one
method caves us sluiIlaed ana oenoral'
ized' WINE tne othel leaves Us VIII gu
nanceo ssrengon ~, 'I hr ; Nc ~ e om,
hlct "nlch "ione ean oiine us ~ ou'
soal
now long, W. wonoeli 70 ~ so.he :.
take glc fnis!.oan peop.e " q tna,
a mai ~ ohlce nltAou. "n oas"ii.e
political Douy oehlnu nim Is, as y ~.
former, eltller very snurt-llseu sueEes !,
or an entire failure. How long VIII Il
take for us to learn Una TINS IS repre-.
sentative form OF goscrnment ~ Is no.
the man WIN MS prlya.e views, W. 'i.
representative, anu WhaC ~ lepiescn.
tia we must vote 1oI: VI course d als
honest man IS a d;shoness, uh.rus us,
worthy rc~presentaIlse a man NM WI
JIG and steal VIII cnea. ms :, t .bn W,
ana sell ont thelf iltefesvs = .ne .onip.a
ton DC great enough. we 1ah h ~ s.o. q
IN the idea that Inc psisa.e vna aaaap y
the candlcate Is q mailer w ~ u uo =
Aucncc, 1or prl'atc !ooueanes 'ueaa:
pubic ouc !te'.,cl
do we take stock IN tae aosura 'aea isaa
one shonld vote Tor tne Dest ma wislou
regard to ms representa.rse he eh has vo,
and the partisan oDllsae.ons ne n xNa V9 q,
unfairly ana puDileaS assu sas ron, me ~
9 vote lnr men, we vote NJ aspaes tii',
form of government, a government b!
the people through their chosen repre-
sentatives, means.
The inherent weakness of all thesl
sitfzens, movements lies In the fact that