The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-03-31
aArEMPEsr IN A TEAPOT"

resolutions, and ii we did have 10,
the very first opportunity would
witness our crawling out from
under.
The Topeka Capital Of q recent
date, informs us tina. as q matter OF
fact the Methodist preachers have
no sympathy with the Republican
party, that the only thing that ever
gained their support for the party
was prohibition. We don't believe
q word Of this is true, because the
clergy OF the Methodist Episcopal
church have been known as Re-
publicans ever since that party was
born. We never knew or heard tell
of one who was otherwise until the
third party prohibition monstrOsiiy
was born, and it must be said to
their credit that only very few Of
them. and by no means arespectable
representation in intelligence or
character, at that, have ever strayed
from the Republican party. We do
not believe, after calm after thought
a respectable number will do so
now. 1t might be well for them to
reflect, however, what the cOnse-
quences will be IL they carry out
their threat to secede from the Re-
publican party, even IL the party
fails to adopt q prohibition plank In
its platform. They we'll know what
they can expect from the Democratic
party, which very plainly and point
eddy expresses its views at all times
on what it is pleased to call
'sumptusry legislation" 1t should,
II it has not already done so, study
carefully the attitude Of the So
called peoples party" which would
have overthrow prohibition at the
last session of the legislature, had it
not been for a Republican senate,
and had an opportunity offered to
clutch at an imaginary advantage
for its own advancement, or the
personal aggrandizment Of its lead
srs. The Methodist ministers should
not forget that this same party
elected an Ives as attorney general
with the help Of the open enemy Of
prohibition and temperance legisla-
ton, the Democratic party. On the
other hand let it also consider the
Republican party and its attitude
toward their pet measure for the
past ten years.
Just as sure as the Methodist
church withdraws its boosted
strength of 90 votes from the Re-
publican party, just that sure will
prohibition be overthrown in Kan
sas completely, hopelessly aud with
out the remotest shadow Of its ever
again being incorporated in the laws
Of this state II the Methodists act,
as they claim by duty in this matter,
let them study well the probable
consequences before it is too late.
Here is an idea for the Capital to
ponder on during the few leisure
moments it has. IL the Methodist
preachers are not Rspu biicans, why,
in the name of common sense,
should they be allowed to dictate
what the policy of the party shall
be? The Republican party is not
machine to be run in the interest Of
its enemies, il 1t Is we are ready to
abandon IL, and admit we have been
in error for ever sffiliating with 1t.
What IL said OF the Methodist
ministers in this connection may
also be said Of the self-styled "resub-
mission Republicans" the fellows
who stand aloof and say we will
have none Of you until you declare
for universal suffrage, and they who
will not lift pound until an issue 10
made Of the free coinage OF silver.
The one lie the frs. cousin OF the
other, and the only reason any one OF
them can give for their perversity,
IL they are honest with themselves,
is that it will cruelty their old friend
and bulwark, and give their enemies
an opportunity to despoil them.
Prohibition, so far as Kansas is
concerned is, at this time, a part OF
the political history of the Republic
can party. 1t is not an issue, 1t is
not even a vagsry Of a party Of I'M
practical enthusiasts, IL Is an &C.
compllshed fact, just the same as is
the abolition Of African slavery, or
the Mckinley tariff act. II the
Methodist ministers insist that the
Republican party shall still give Ii
nourishment that is imperatively
required in other directions, then we
must protest against any further
declarations on the part Of those
ministers that prohibition is fail
ure, and it would not do TO trust the |
people to vote on it again because
they might overthrow IL. II they
have no faith in 1t how shall they,
how can they expect to be justified |
by IL? The whole thing may, as
Elder See suggests, be only "a
tempest in a teapot" bu: we would
advise him and his brothers I'm the
Of what ever name, In the
most solemn and deliberate manner,
not to be too careless OF how they
cast their votes hereafter 10 they ex-
pect prohibition to be maintained as
one Of the laws Of the state Ia which
We dwell.
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