Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-01-05

ing office aud making money by forms CT
religion and the psetense of serving the Lord; ,
to be paid, and we'll paid, for ''rescuing the
perishings; fed high and clothed we'll that
they may "care for the dying" In these
movements there are always many sincere
extremists, cranks, who are controlled and
put forward by those who are making money
by the movement. These eXcitaments of
Local Option elections preceding political
elections always disturbs and weakens the
Democratic party, and as they are now con-
Quoted and managed by political, Prohibit
tionsts are in violation of the agreement
made with the Democratic party.
Now shall the Democratic party allow
itself to be stabbed in the back by those who
pretend to be its friends? Shall it permit its
people to be deceived by demagogues charg-
ing that it advocates unbridled license and
seeks to do wrong? I answer emphatically,
No! Repeal the Local Option Act as it now
stands. First because there is deception in
the call OF AL election. No handful of voters
should have the power to put the State to the
cost trouble and excitement of an extra
election, when the number signing the call
are but a fraction of a ma iority of the voters
of the district, town. city OF county Second
because the Temperance people have violated
their promise to the Democratic party and are
now organizing to maintain political party
and are hiring lecturers and organizers with
political funds to push the Prohibition party
to position in the State to hold the balance
Of political power. Third, becauee the best
Temperance people i'll the State, those who
are active workers reclaimng inebriates
(not paid leeturers) believe this Prohibition
movement has crippled and Will rule til e
useful, active, moral and religious Temper
ance organization. the Good Templars and
W. e. L. U. in Virginia. Shall the Demo
cratic party go back on its principle of CLONE
Rule" in matters OF loca! Importance like
local licenses? No, let it by law sustain the
platform OF the Geo Tenplars and merely
alter the due form Of law i'll fact perfect
it by transferring it from the hastings and
the ballot box surrounded by the trickery of
electioneering and the excitement of public
canvass to the quiet and orderly precincts and
authority Of the courts. Substitute for the
Local Option Election Law the following:
That April court shall Gas of old) be the
license court. That licenses may be granted
under the present law at that court and only
at that court, and provide that il a majority of
the qualified voters of any city, town, county
or magisterial district, shall by properly
authenticated powers of attorney petition the
judge at such court not to grant liquor license
in such city, town, county OF magistarial dis
trict, none shall be granted for that year., NJ,
provide that such powers Of attorney proper
ly executed, shall be good and irrevoeable
until the adjournment of the said April
license court Now here is Prohibition by
the will of the People expressed in due Forms
of Law the cardinal plank in the platform
of the Good Templars, the only organization
in Virginia now engaged in the real work Of
saving the souls and bodies OF inebriates
A. TEMPLAR
RicAmond, Ta., Dec. 18Th, 1898.