Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
DIVIDED BY WHISKY.
IOWA REPUBLICANS ARE SADLY
DISTRACT.
Prohibition the Speoier that Eaunts Thci
Dreams Everything Points 10 Another
Democratic Success.

nca Moines, May 13.LThcre will be- a
prohibition plank IN the ncxt platform
that Is adopted by the Republican purity
0f Iowa. OF rlis there is scarcely d
doubt There will be- no strHddlc, no
halfway business about ib The plank
VIII declare against any chuuge whatever
IN The party present and past attitude
on HE liquor question.
There has been a great revival of the
prohibition sentiment In the state during
the last month or So Il Is tidal wave
that las been felt all the way frOm COun-
ell Bluffs To Davenport, There are two
good reasons for this sudden change Of
sentiment Ia the Republican ranks. In
the first place, the result OF thr recent
Investigation Of the charge of the Iowa
State Register uEoiust the Temperance
alliance was a big feather In the cap of
the culd-wutor people aud has succeeded
In healing the breaches that have existed
In that organization for some time. The
Registers charge II will be remembered
was tu the effect that The Third party
people sold out to the Democrats for
| $500. An inquiry us to the truth Of the
| allegation was ordered by the alliance.
| The result Of tho investigation showed
oouclusiycly that tho Registers charge
was mulciOusly false. that there was
not oven q shadow OF truth In the as.
sertiOn Of the official organ of the Re
/ puuuoNWs. lllN NtINlNI Nnu u MnElNll
effect Thousands Of voters who had dc.
serted the alliance ON the strength Of the
| Registers charge, and who voted with
! the Republicans last year, are now heart
aud soul with their first love and there
they will stick. There are 10000 al
| liahcc men In Iowa, They have good
| leaders, aud the latter's plans for the
coming cnmpnien are well laid. They
| propose 60 10 To the Republican manag-
crs, hluntly inform thwm they must re
| itoratc their stand ON the question at
| prohibition or they tthe prohihitiOnisisl
| will put a ticket Of their own IN the
| gcld The Republican bosses know they
cannot hope to win with the alliance
| votes against them, While the pill IL u
bitter one they will have to swallow It,.
TRYING no SrRADDLE
Othcr things that have caused many
Republicans who were on the fence TO
come on IL aud light on the prohibition
| side arc the hundred and odd crazy
schemes suggested by the Republican
leaders for the straddling OF The question
| The most notorious Of those was that Of.
| fered by Welker Given of the Marshall
town Time Republican the famous
mulct scheme, the disorderly house orl.
nance proposal which Disguised many
good Rcpuhltsgas. II this is sample
| ~ the hquor legislation their party Is
going 10 give them they figured they
are willing TO let the law stand as II Is
though they may be heartily sick of t.
The country papers pretty accurately
reflect the sentiment out Ia the state
| Few Of them, very few, an In favor Of
making clsange The great majority
Of them want prohibition, purs and m.
adulteatcd. The keep stir and other
schemes Of the state central committee
and the extreme liberal wing Of the
party represented by A. y Cummns
will 10 down before the pnohlbldonsts
Ike straw stack before a cyclone.
This revival Of the prohibition senti.
meni means much 10 thc Democrats. Ii
Is just what they had hoped for and
what they had all along expected With
a prohibition plank 10 the Kepnbhcan
platform victory for the Democrats Is
certain, There is no room for doubt.