Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-31
MORE TREACHERY.
KANSAS PRoHIBlToRY LAW IS IN
DANGER.

/ Indications Point That the Iowa Pro-
gramme Is to BE Repeated In Kansas by
the Republican Party.
Editorially the New York Voice says:
The Kansas Republican state conven-
ton last week adopted q platform silent
upon prohibition. Nothing of this kind
has happened before to our knowledge
since the enactment of prohibition, more
than decade ago. We believe it to be
the Inauguration of deliberate pro-
gramme ON the part of the Republican
managers to overthrow prohibition in
Kansas as they have overthrown it in
Iowa.
For some time this question of max
ing no prohibition declaration in the
platform has been the subject of consid-
Grafton by the Republican politicians.
They declared that they must redeem
Kansas" this fall, and one of the ways
to do it was to win the votes of saloon
sympathizers who have heretofore look
ed askance at the Republican party i'll
Kansas. The silent platform is bid,
therefore, for the saloon vote of Kansas.
To offset this deliberate insult to the
Republican prohibitionists of Kansas,
who have heretofore constituted the
backbone of the Republican party be-
cause they believed it could be depend
ed upon to keep the state free of gin
mills, the managers have placed James
A Troutman, former president of the
State Temperance union, upon the tick
ct. The claim will be made that Trout
mans nomination indicates that the
party is just as good Prohibition par
ty as it ever was, Notwithstanding the
silent platform, and the previous good
record of the party will be used to keep
/ the prohibitionists i'll line.
But suppose that Kansas Republicans
win this year on this double faced plan
of bidding for rum voters and Prohibi-
ton voters, what will be the conse-
quence? Having won to party hereto
! fore nominally at least stanch support
er of prohibition enough whisky votes
to carry the state, does any person OF
discernment suppose that the Republic
an managers will do aught to drive
these whisky votes out of the party
which they have found necessary to its
success? On the contrary, the whisky ell
ement thus won by the silent Republic
an platform will in the future demand
still further concessions as the price of
its Republican adherence. The Repub-
lican party of Kansas has thus taken its
first step toward becoming a full fiedged
license party.
The duty of prohibitionists who still
support the Republican party, but who
love prohibition more than party, Is
plain. If they would save prohibition
for Kansas, they should, as one man,
rebulle this incipient treachery of their
party by voting this fall with the only
party in Kansas which stands unequ1v-
ocally for the prohibitory law-the Pro-
hibition party. If they refuse to sup
pOIG tllc 1Oulpltioh poiey, IL why QUAIL
cling to the Republican party, and that
party returns to power upon platform
silent upon prohibition, mark our pre-
diction: Kansas will become a license
state under Republican party admin.
istration.
The liquor mems programme, an:
oounced after the defeat of constitution
al prohibition in Pennsylvania-"Iowa,
Kansas, and then Maine"-is being
carried out by the Republican party.
That party has already wiped prohibi
ton off the statute book of Iowa, ant
today ginmills are flourishing in it,
capital city, where for 10 years not {
drop Of liquor had been openly sold il
violation Of the prohibitory law. Tht
first step in the Republican overthrow
of prohibition in Kansas has just beer
taken in the silent Republican platform
Maine Republicans, when they repealed
last year the law compelling judges tt
impose Jail penalty upon violators o.
the prohibitory law and inauguratet
the system of monthly fines for rumsell
ers, are paving the way for the over
throw of prohibition in that state.
We repeat the warning SO often made
Prohibition in no state is safe in ths
hands of party that is nationally {
license party.