The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-11-17
A False Position.

a raise E06ltlOn.
'The election returns of Tuesday show
that 122 Prohibitionists in Cecil threw
away just that many votes, and which j
cas-; for Mr.. Haines would have given hin
majority of So votes, and returned him II
the Senate of Maryland"
This baby act plea is made by the
Cecil Wing. Some of the ante
diluvian moss backs of the republi-
can party will occasionally he heard
to sigh, if the votes cast for the pro-
hibition ticket in New York in 1884
had been cast Tor Blaine he would
have been elected. This is false
reasoning. Votes are not cast for
primarily, the purpose of elevatine
persons, but to advance the prin-
ciples, for which a political party
has been formed, into laws.
When there was a prohibition
party ticket in the field, no candidate
in any other party had any clam on
the votes of the members of that
party. The 1853 voters who repre-
sented the prohibition party on the
7th of November in this county
were clothed with all the rights
privileges and immunities of the
voters of any other party. The
voter has the voltiOn to cast his
vote for any candidate he may see
proper, but no candidate represent
ing the principles enunciated and
represented by another party can
have any possible claim on the votes
of those who have cast their lot with
a party whose principles antagonize
the principles of the party for which
those voters stand.
There are more than 1000 prohi-
bitionists in this county but they do
not choose to unite with the prohibit
ton party. hundreds of whom cast
their votes for Mr.. Crothers, had
they cast their votes for Mr.. Haines
he would have been triumphan tly
elected. He had a much stronger
claim on their votes on personal
grounds than on the votes of the
little band who choose to represent
the party with which they had cast
their lot. Mr.. Haines would have
made as sound a prohibition candi-
date as Mr.. Roach, bat he chose, for
political considerations, to represent
an anti prohibition party aud could
establish no possible claim to the
votes of members of a totally dis
tinct and antagonistic party. He
had no claim on political grounds to
their votes, and Mr. Roach did not
forfeit his party principle claims on
moral grounds, to their votes.
The republican party is fully as
much under the dominion of the
saloon as the democrat party Clark
son, of the Iowa State Register, and
who was till recently a member of
the National Committee of the
republican party, declared that the
republican party had no utilization
with prohibition and gave official
notice of the fact at the opening of
the campaign, and by dividing the
whiskey vote with the democrat
party, succeeded in carrying that
prohibition State this fall. We
mention these facts to show that
the two old parties are completely
under saloon dictation, and that no
candidate representing either party
can establish any possible political
claim to the vote of a prohibition
party man.
We are tired of hearing this baby
act plea urged by political bosses
aud heelers of old parties in their
dotaee, and claim that members of
newer and purer political organiza-
tons owe no candidate of these old
political harlots support on either
political or moral grounds. Newer
political parties are under no obi
cations to old. decreplt and corrupt
parties, except to act as grave diggers
and pail bearers FOR them.