Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-15
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLEIGH co.
RESUBMIsSION VS.. REPUBLICAN sue
CESS.

That is the heading of a circular scat.
tered about the city Thursday, and
which is signed "One In the Ranks" 1t
halls from Tower City, and may rea.
sonably be supposed to be the product
of one Kiff, of that place. It'll addressed
to the republican" Legislators, presuma-
bly, because Mr.. Kiff's prohibition party
failed to elect it's own members or to
defeat republican candidates.
A circular without an author, or rather
with an author who fails to declare his
identify, should have but little weight
with anybody. Experience has shown
that Kansas tried prohibition and
dropped from n OF the strongest re-
publican states into the populist column.
Senator Prefer, a rank pop, went into
the United States senate, Sockless Simp.
son to congress-, and later John Martin,
a democrat, became the successor of
Perkins, u republican. Iowa, from 3d.
600 republican, became the hotbed of
populism and democracy, twice electing
Boise governor.
South Dakota has a senator who boasts
that he is an indocrat. North Dakota
has a democratic senator.
Last June at the convention held at
Grand Forks prohibitlonists were we'll
cared for in the state convention, yet
Kif and his party held a separate con-
vention and spent time and money at
tempting to defeat the republican party,
and having failed to do SO they now
come forth and say it will be ruined if it
does not embrace their particular ism.
They seem oblivious to the fact that the
republican party is a much larger factor
IN human progress than the question of
resubmission or anti-resubmission.
In 1860 the republican party elected
Abraham Lincoln and malcontents said
it was the end of free government. Four
years of bloody war convinced them that
the republican party was founded upon
principles as firmly established as the
eternal hills. In 1864 the disatfected
said it would RUN the republican
party to allow the soldiers to vote in the
army, but it didn't. In 1868 the same
bowlers said Grants election would ruin
the republican party, and meant the be-
ginning of a military despotism, but it
didn't. In 1872 Horace Greeley said the
republican party was ruined unless it
G~reeleyized, but it wasn't. In 1876 the
solid south, and croakers from the north
said it was the end, for all time, of the
republican party if Hayes was seated as
president, but it wasn't. In 1880 the dis
gruntled element said tho republican
party had outlived the days Of it's USE
~fulness, and because of its extravaganza
IN giving large railroad subsidies it
would be RELOCATED to the parties of the
past, but it wasn't. In 1884, with the
modest Roman of them alp as its can
didate, it allowed Burchard "a preacher
Of the Kltf stripe), with his Rum, Ro-
manism and Rebellion" to cause It's de-
feat, but not its humiliation. In 1890 it
arose, "Phnnix-lilSe from the ashes"
and, though harassed by prohibition
Iowa and Kansas, placed in executive
power men capable OF guiding in safety
the ship Of state. In 1894 prohibition
lists, %populists and democrats combined
as our common enemy, and the present
almost bankrupt condition of the coun-
try is the result.
At the recent election the republican
party was successful, not because it was
favorable to resubmlssion or anti-resub-
mission, but because the business inter-
ests of the country required and de-
handed it's return to power. No repub-
lican voted for or against Roger Allin
because he was, or was not, a resubmis-
sionist. They voted for him because he
was a republican, an honest man, an ad-
yocate of the true principles OF correct
government-republican principles.
The corner stone of the republican
party is to allow a majority to decide
what shall be done. Its foundation is
laid too deep in the bank of freedom,
and it's walls have been set too firm with
the cement of truth to allow the quss-
ton of whether or not the people shall
have a right to say what a majority want
or do not want on the question of prohi-
bition, to cause it's defeat. It is the CON-
mon practice for men of the Kif stripe,
when other mean of defeating the re-
publican party fail, to threaten it with
humiliation If it does not discipline it's
individual members, who have opinions
antagonistic to the wish of the "holler
than thou" set.
The republican party is in far more
danger from following the croaking of
zone IN the ranks" than it is from allow
ing it's members to cast their votes for
or against resubmission, as their con-
science dictates, without having that
dizzy old ghost lit will ruin the repub-