Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-12-08
ED1rED BY THE LADIEI

The editor of the Advance has a
$1,000 bond Of the Confederate states
of America which he proposes to keep
safely In his safe 1t may be yalua-
bic yet ChetopG Adodnce.
A republican editor who has a con-
federate bond in his safe, thinking
1T may be valuable yet" is an unsafe
counsellor in partisan politics.
''rhe prohibition party is a very
fine thing in theory but in practice it
accomplishes the very opposite of
what it advocates. It went into New
York few years ago and defeated
Warner Miller. an avowed temper
ance man and member of the RI E.
church, and helped to elect Hill. the
sworn enemy of temperance, and
Cleveland who as president through
his appointee, gave US the original
package decision, which left us as a
legacy the pestIferous joint and boot
logger. In this state this fall the
same party defeated Smith, life
long prohibitIonist and Methodist,
caused the election OF Lewelling who
declares that the prohibitory law
shall be dead letter as far as he IS
concerned. If the prohibition vote
had been given to Smith he would
have been elected. If you want any
thing done to defeat the cause Of ten
perance you can depend. almost il
every instance, upon the prohibition
party to do it.-Chetop0 Advance.
Warner Miller ran on the republi
can ticket for governor and was
member of the NJ. e. church, and was
on the high license platform, and al
vocated high license al over the
state. The prohibitionists are op-
posed to license high or low, and be-
lIeve with the M. E. bishops, that it is
Vicious in principle and powerless as
remedy" We believe the ''traffi
cannot be licensed without sin" n,
prohibit1onist could consistently vote
for Warner Miller Every body else
except the editor of the AdUance
seems to know that Hill and Harri
son were elected by shameful deh
of the liquor dealers of New York.
Now we are charged with defeating
Smith, lifelong Methodist and ro-
hlbitionist. Neither Smith or Level
ling dared to open their mouths pub
licly in favor Of the enforcement of
the prohibitory law. Neither of them
was entitled to the support of the
prohibitionists. Only one candidate
was. and that was the Hon. L o. Pick
ering, who declared # elected he
would enforce the prohibitory law
even if 1t required the calling out Of
the militia. If the republicans hac
voted for him, and not "thrown theil
votes away" on Smith, we would
have had prohibition in earnest.
The republicans hereabouts say
they will abandon temperance IN pol
| tics hereafter. In other words they
do not believe it pays to act the hyp
ocrite; and we think SO too.
We suppose the editor of the Ad
Uance poses as a prohibitionist. A
an evidence he supported Governo
Humphrey for congress and waile'
bitterly at his defeat, and he shout,
have known that the said Governo
Humphrey had done more to max
our prohibitory law farce and fail
ure'' than any other dozen men IN tn
state. He and the editor of the Leo
ger seem to think that the only us
for our party is to help the republ
cans when they get in close plac'
We have helped them in the pas
We voted for Kellogg against I've
Z and for Benson against Deford, an
for Afford against Bishop; and the
never say ''thank you" They seel
7 TO know no more about thankfulnel
than a zig knows about the ten con
mandments. The republicans ca
I the Peoples party Calamity How
/ ers," but the republicans have howle
more calamity in a week than IL
z Populists did in year.
Il Let the prohibitionists take cou
age. In the disintegration of parti'
5 we will be largely the gamers. L
/, Us push the good work.
A PROHIBITIoNIsT.