Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-24
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
An Honest Platform.

The platform enunciated by the re
publican state convention is cIeal
declaration of the principles of til,
| party in the nation, and is one upor
| which all republicans Of the state ma,
stand upon as the one hope for the full
| lillment Of their respective views. II
is a broad platform in that it recOg
nizeS the views Of all republicans ant
excludes none. After long and TEN
| perate debate upon the vexed state
question the following plank was
| passed.
| Resolved that prohibition is no test OF repub
| lcanism. The general assembly has given tC
| the State prOhOitOry law as strong as any thai
| has ever been enacted by any country. like
| any other criminal statute, It's retention mOdin.
| cation or repeal must be determined by the gen.
cral assembly, elected hyaUd in sympathy
with the people and to them Is RELOCATED the
subject to take such action rs they may deem
just and best IN the matter maintaining the
present law as to those portions OF the state
where it is now or can be made efficient and
giving to other localities such methods of con,
trolling and regulating the liquor traffic as will
best serve the cause of temperance and NOR
atty
There was little opposition to that
part Of the resolution RELOCATING the
question to legislative districts, but
there was close vote as to the wisdom of
retaining that part enclosed in brackets.
However, the portion 50 indicated is an
explicit promise to maintain the pre-
sent law where it is efficient, and to
furnish means of regulating the traf-
lic in the best interests of temperance
and morality in districts where the law
is dead letter.
The plank is honest in the fact that
it recognized conditions as they exist
1t accommodates itself to these cOndi-
tiOns, and where they are satisfactory
they will be maintained and where not
satisfactory an honest effort will be
made by the party to reduce the evil to
a minimum, Upon this platform the
uncompromiSing prohibitiOnists will
find the most effective agency for their
contemplated reforms, while those
whose lots are cast in places that have
maintained the traffic i'll opposition to
the rigid laws for its prohibition will
find the means for regulating it.
The republican party las made an
honest effort to maintain the prohibi-
tory law. 1t has done 50 at a great
sacrifice of power and Of the other
great principles. 1t has repeatedly
shut its eyes and resolved that the law
was success, when it was not and in
doing so committed the greatest wrong
in decicvins itself. 1t has now taken
the part of great CONSERVATION Of pub
lie good in meeting the varied existing
conditions in all parts of the state to
the end that the other great interests
it represents may not suffer and go
down to defeat with the one idea that
has met repeated disasters in recent
by this platform, as every inch of
ground now held may be maintained,
but it is a better platform in that all
the loyal republicans i'll the state who
hold different views on this one ques-
ton, may stand upon it.
TIE REPUBLICAN has been loyal to
prohibition through all the years while
its party has lost power in the State
and county. 1t has been loyal when its
business interests felt this loss of power
and patronage. and we cOncede nothing
of the righteousness of the principle ut
this time, but recognizing that in the
attempt TO sustain the law the party
has been backed by an inSinCCre ma
iority, and that it antagOniZed a fac
ton bred and educated to conflicting
ideas, yet in harmony with the repub-
lican party in all its triumphs and am
billions in the nation, we are glad that
the platform has been made broad
enough to admit the views of all. And
this is without a backward step, with
out sacrifice or injustice to the cause
of either. 1t is the province Of a party
to unite and harmonic It's elements,
without injury to the cause of any, and
that is what was done in the council of
the party held at Des MOines last week.