Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
may be, for a candidate who has no
chance Of election.
METHODS OF THE RADICAL PRO-
HIBITIONISTS

METHODS OF THE RADICAL PRO-
HIBITIONISTS.
The following from the Pembina
Pioneer Express is worthy the diges-
ton Of the Observation-Disclosures in this
state:
Without impugning the motives,
methods of the ultra-prohibitionists
are open to criticism. In all northern
states where any prohibition laws and
liquor restriction statutes have been
made, all such laws have been made
by the republican party. We do not
mean by this that all republicans are
prohibitionists or that all democrats
are anti-prohibitionists. In the re-
publican party Of North Dakota and
some other states the prohibition or
liquor restriction element is in the
majority. That majority usually
shapes the po1icy of the party in this
regard. What the majority has done
is written on the statute books of
North Dakota and in the state and
many county platforms of the party.
Sometimes the other faction of the
party gets an opportunity to select a
candidate OF candidates. If they
never got anything it is quite probable
that '5hey would leave the party en-
tireiy, and thus leave the party in a
minority, and the state to democratic
control, which would mean much to
upholders OF the prohibition law as
we'll as in other matters. The prohi-
Dition majority of the republican
party recognize that there are other
questions than prohibition, and while
upholding prohibition are not unmind-
full of other Things and therefore some
times for the broadest good-consider-
ing al! things-sometimes acquiesce
in nominations and other matters. We
believe that while no party organiza-
ton is perfect, and in all things we do
not always select the best methods or
even the best men, yet as a whole it is
the best and as fragments we would
amount to nothing.
Our prohibition friends seem to
build on different principles. Half a
loal is no object, a full meal or starve
seems to be their motto, and the result
is a direct detriment to the cause they
so strenuously support. Whenever,
as this year, the republican candidates
for state officers don't happen to suit
their ideas, they go to work and NOM
mate a full or nearly full state ticket,
in opposition to the ticket of the only
party from which they can hope for
prohibition law or enforcement of THAT
law. This has been the history of the
prohibition party in almost every
northern state where any sort of pro-
Inhibition law has ben enacted.
Nine-tenths Of all the votes of the
prohibition party come from the re-
publican party. The only practical
result of a prohibition party move
ment is in a close election to defeat the
republicans. The effect within the
republican ranks is also ~demoralizing.
Men who are true republicans as well
as prohibitionists strive Within party
lines to guide the party in the direc-
bion of prohibition. They meet with
opposition within their own ranks as
we have stated, but the most disheart-
ening thing that the republican pro-
hibitiondst has to meet is not only
the want Of support from the ultras
within the ranks but their actual war
fare outside the lines, as during the
present year. and two years hence
when we meet in convention to nom
fnate candidates and we ask for a pro-
hibition plank in the platform on
which to pledge our candidates, we
will be met with a whitening finger of
scorn pointing to the vote of the pro-
Inhibition party and the reduced major
ity for Mr.. Comstock.
1t is a wonder, almost, that a pro-
hibition element can exist within the
republican party when 1t has demo-
Gratis to face, anti-prohibitionists on
every flank, and Observation-Disclosures
at their back, all waging the hottest
fight of which they are capable on the
only body of men that can or ever did
do anything for prohibition.
Reports from unprejudiced persons
who come from Alaska show that the
papers there principally controlled
by San Francisco interests and conse-
qunetly everything they publish is COL
ored to reflect on Judge Noyes. From
quently everything they publish is COL
ernor Brady, comes the statement that
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