New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-26
A REPUBLICAN TO A PROHlBlIlONleI.
HE VOTES AS HE PR,Ys." AND THAT IS WITH
THE REPT BIICAN PARTY.

HE VOTES AS HE PRAYS," AND THAT IS WITH
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
TO The Editor Of h o TT 1 II g
sir The PIohibuonists are nothing II not pray
erful. one of their stock arguments Is, vote as
YOU pray A Prohibitionist lately flung his at his
Republican friend when the latter responded fol
lows: In reply 10 your challenge that should vote
ns pray have 10 say that Is just what do veg
uarly and consistently. ! pray earnestly and with
out ceasng for the defeat Of the Democmtic party.
and vote that way every time with great -
tmsasm. ! vote | pray, because ! wish to pisy
As | vote. vote for the defeai Of the Democratic
party because wish to pray Thy Kingdom come
OF two evils to chose the least l. the wise mans
prudence Of two evils to fight the greatest is the
true mans courage. / regard the Democratic party
as greater evil than the liquor traffic II Is to-day
the greatest menace to American institutions III has
always been annoyance and all affietlOn. ms
country would great deal better off to-day If there
never had been IN 1t Democratic party. II has de
filed every political dcccncy it has outraged every
political right. II is dscrcdted in nearly every Safe
Of the Union, and in some IL Is Under Indictment In
the courts 1t prospers in the south by forcibly
suppessing the votes Of native born citizens II pros
pers In the North by fraudnlenty exploiting tie
Of foreign born citizens The Infamous gerry
mander is its natural and latest product. TainInany
Hall is It's typical and corrupt efhorescence. III
robs the postOice 10 accomplish It's ends. II falsihes
election returns. packs the Assembly OF >t'e WIN
political brigands who have stolen their seats, ana
then rewards with the highest judicial honors the man
who his eimne to perfect the das;ardIy act.
IL has made a league offensive and defensive WIN
everything that is politically bad. There Is nothing
rotten or wrong In legislation which 1t has not
championed. and 1T l. today before the people As
the patron o. Free Trade, the advocat" OF "ldca'
banks and the promoter Of an intuidated BALLOT
Every man that has ever been convicted for ballot
box sufflng Is Democrat. The Democratic party Is
4faal
TO vote at this time for any other than the Rcpnb
ncan party would seem TO a wantOn If not wicked
waste Of the suffrage For me to vote the Prohibition
ticket with the Democratic enemy still In the p@d
unwhipped would like firing the only cartridge
| had through the window at wolf which WAS as yet
Out Of range. while tigcr was already In my mouse
about TO spring upon my child have but one
ballot; and / do not propose to split 1t in two and
give half of IL to the Democrats by voting for the
Prohibition party. In this state iNcw-1 oiD No'e
for the Prohibition party IS an assistant vote IoF the
Democratic party, and because Of the Fohibtoh No'c
this state has for years cursed with '0Vcfhof
who is the very Mcphistopheles of politics and this
year it has had a Legislature which HAS gwen u'
the worst Excise law we have ever had lad as tile
past has been which would have been worse still II
We hadn't worked every day. Sundays Included ana
sat up nights raining petitions upon the manaes "a
Albany
You will say: We'll but rrohibltionlsts must be
permitted 10 vote their principles OF cours" ana
claim the same privilege; and II cannot vote all my
principles at once, / choose TO vote my principal
principle fst-which Is the defeat OF the Denlociaue
parry.
This too should BE- the position of a thQughunl
Temperance man Prohibition will never be per
maner, ,riur,pb in this country 50 long the Demo
cratic party Is in tie field. 1t is the natural sponsor
OF the nquor trafhc. The hope OF the nquor men ~
this state l. 10 weaken the Republican vote trOusn
the Prohibition vote and thus continue uniesii'ihtr
their pandemonium OF rum. However IL may u, "
elsewhere In this state the liquor tranc skuiss DC
hind the Democratic party. ,, -. &. ,,
"You plead finally that the Prohibition vole j. t'
conscience vote 50 to II the Republican VIZ
Eminently 50, emphaucally So The kePuDnea,
vote is also the c0mmon-sen>c vote. ana coh''no
sense is as much "a divine gift moral seh-e; II
common sense pushed u all extreme Is eApIicn,y
so moral pushed 10 an extreme Is iallacIsh,
II expcdieDcy fosters bad causes. anauclsh "Ito
good causes The Master taught BE wise as serpeht'
and hsrmless as doves, Moral sense aSsis us 4
be harmless doves Moral sense assists "s I" w