The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
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1t is plainly apparent. and has been
from the beginning, as the Topeka
Capital well remarks, that the DEM
ocrats and Resubmissionists will sac
rifice every other nominee on their
State ticket for Robinson and Ives.
They want the Governor and Attorney
General. The Governor, to appoint
police commissioners in all cities of
the first class, who will see that the
prohibltory legislation Of the State lie
not enforced, and who will pardon
any whiskey dealer that may be con-
victed; the Attorney General to order
the dismissal of all prosecution of
joint keepers and bootleggers. 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 Dem
ocrats. With a whiskey Attorney
General, and whiskey county at
torneys In many Of the counties of the
State, whiskey will occupy the field
as fully as it did under the original
package decision. This fight for
whiskey made directly by the DEM
ocratic and Resubmission parties, and
indirectly by the Peoples party, is
substantially aided by the funds Of
the Brewers association and the
wholesale whiskey dealers. These
organizations can afford to furnish the
champions of rum all the money they
want for campaign purposes, because
If successful, two years of the unin-
terrupted sale of the poisonous stuff,
protected by the Governor, defended
by the Attorney General, and shielded
by the county attorneys, will amply
repay them for such an expenditure.
In counties in which prohibition re-
publicans are elected county attorneys,
their efforts will be nullified by the
Governor and Attorney General, and
thus throughout the length and
breadth of the whole State, our pro-
hibitory legislation will be ruthlessly
trampled under foot.
The whiskey ring does not confine
Its efforts to the election of a Governor
and Attorney General favorable to its
interests; 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 ny these
friendly tribunals. In view of these
attempts to control the State author
titles and to receive from the federal
Judiciary a decision that will allow
our fair State once more to be polluted
by the presence of free whiskey junks
in every neighborhood, it behooves
the temperance men of the State to
make one more vigorous and united
effort in behalf of the most beneficent
legislation that has ever adorned our
statute books.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
temperance" Tear off the thin dis
guises of the Democratic party in this
State, and the exposed body at once
assumes the shape and contents of a
whiskey bottle. The sole plank in
their platform; the sole object of their
existence aud effort; the sole power
that moves them; their only source of
aid and comfort, is whiskey and the
whiskey interest. These things are
SO plain; they are so openly pro-
claimed; they are so often paraded in
the public gaze, that no man who sees
and thinks can possibly be deceived.
How members of the Alliance who are
temperance men at heart and who al
ways 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
blighting influence of the open saloon,
is beyond our comprehension.
Humphrey and his success at the
polls mean temperance, while the
election of Robinson means a victory
for rum.