Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-08
Beaver, Beaver county,
Il VICTORY FOR RUM.

The following editorial from the To-
peka Capital is respectfully referred to
our democratic readers. VIII you vote
for any party whose leaders talk this
way about you:
The democrats and observation-disclosures
will sacrifice every other nominee on
their state ticket for Robinson and
Ives. They want the governor and at
torney general. The governor, to an
point police commissioners in all cities
of the first class, who will see that the
prOhibitOry legislation of the state IA
not enforced, and who will pardon any
whisky dealer that may be convicted:
the attorney general to order the dis
missal of all prosecution of Joint keen
ers and boot leggers. The alliance are
playing into their hands. There are no
lawyers belonging to the alliance, and
its nominees for county attorney in
every county are democrats. With a
whisky attorney general, and whisky
county attorneys In many of the cOun-
ties OF the state, whisky will occupy the
field as freely as it did under the Origi-
nal package decision. This hight for
whisky made directly by the democrat
&c and reSubmlSSlOn parties, and indl-
rectly by the peoples party, is substan-
TALLY aided by the funds of the brewers
association and the wholesale whisky
dealers. These organizations can af-
ford to furnish the champions of rum
all the money they want for campaign
purposes, because if successful, two
years Of the uninterrupted sale of the
poisonous stuff, protected by the Cover
nor, defended by the attorney general.
and shielded by the county ATTORNEYS.
will amply repay them for such an ex-
penditure.
In counties in which prohibition re-
publicans are elected county ATTORNEYS.
their efforts will be nullified by the gov
ernOr and attorney general, and thus
throughout the length and breadth of
the whole state, our prOhibitory legisla-
ton will be ruthlessly trampled under
foot.
The whisky ring does not confine its
efforts to the election of governor and
attorney general favorable to the inter.
ests; it has already set in motion suits
in the circuit court of the United States
for the district of Kansas, whereby it
hopes to have the Wilson bill declared
unconstitutional by these friendly tri.
control the state authorities and to re-
ceive from the federal judiciary a decis-
ion that will allow our fair state once
more to be polluted by the presence of
free whisky junks IN every neighbor-
hood, 1t behOoves the temperance men
of the state to make one more vigor-
Gus and united effort in behalf of the
most benefcent legislation that has
ever adorned our statue books.
Eternal vigilance is the price of tenn
perance." Tear of the thin DISCUSSES
of the democratic party in this State,
and the exposed body at once assumes
the shape and contents of whisky bot
tie. The sole plank in their platform;
the sole object of their existence and
effort; the sole power that moves them;
their only source of aid and comfort, is
whisky and the whisky interest. These
things are so plain; they are so openly
proclaimed; they are so often paraded
IN the public gaze, that no man who
sees and thinks, can possibly be deceiv-
ed. How members of the alliance who
are temperance men at heart and who
always heretofore have acted and voted
with the friends of temperance, can be
induced to think that there is a greater
or more momentous issue than that OF
the protection of their families and
those of their neighbors and all the
good people of the state from the blight
ing influence of the open saloon, is be-
yond our comprehension.
Humphrey and his success at the
polls, mean temperance, while the cleo
tion of Robinson means q victory for
rum"