Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-12

to repress intempGrancc, then we
don't know that either. Only one
such was claimed-as we understand
by the speakers on Sunday, and that
was provision by which the Probate
court may cite delinquents under the
Dow law TO pay up. This sounds
like what Artemus Ward used to call
"a COAX"
The successive failures of these gen.
tlemen to have passed their proposed
local option measures, argues lack
of influence on their part with the
| representatives of the people, which
would make some consider the useful
| ness Of the means employed or Of the
men employing them. 1t may be that
success in this line would cripple
them in what seems to be their chief
| function, at present,-that of making
collections. Upon that we express no
opinion.
But they all know one thing very
well, that in the election of the next
Legislature they will have no deciding
| influence or choice. The politicians, as
usual, will make up the list, and these
men will vote for it, If the Legislature
is Republican, 1t will re-elect Foraker
to the Senate, and these gentlemen
will not oppose it, although they say
he Is the attorney and representative
of all that they hate and seek TO de-
stroy. 1t is only last spring that their
reverend chief spokesman and Foraker
were going for each other in the
newspapers, and were calling names
and accusing one another in terms
that would have done credit to a couple
Of rival barkers addressing an audi
ence of panhaudlers in the Bowery.
But at the ensuing election the two
were hand in hand in support of the
old ticket-which included Foraker.
And 1t has since been announced that
they did not expect to make fight
upon him in his reelection to the
Senate
The men they are dcnouncing are
not Democrats; they are Republicans,
and they are Republicans who, If
elected, will be elected with the helm
of their votes,-or Mt least without
their open opposition. They would
not cast Il single avowed vote for a
Democratic representative mat.
ter how unobjectlonable he might be
from a temperance view, even IL he
were total abstalner.
If these gentlemen would only carry
their invectives into practice,--if they
would even be consistent enough to
join the Prohibitionists, we might
promote their seeming quarrel: but as
1t is Republican fight, which will
end in Republican votes cast by the
fighters, we must be excused from
joining ii. A portion of the sermons
of the gentlemen was made up OF
an urgent appeal for votes for Seese
who was recommended by the clergy
man whom we heard, as Represen
tatlve fit to be supported not only OF
temperance questions, but on other,
as WELL Now Seese Is Il bitter Re
publican partisan, an abject worship
per of Mark Hanna, and who will vot,
for Foraker In any event, his bein.
the attorney for the Liquor Leagu,
Notwithstanding. SO that this par
of the Sunday sermons was a politica
harnngue and nothing else, and de
serves to be dealt with as such. No
more than one, or possibly two, of tn,
clergymen of this city who thus opene,
their pulpits for these partisan har
anguers, we venture to say, woul,
dare permit like appeal to be mad
from them on behalf OF a Prohibition
candidate for office, and much less
Democrat. Democratic church mem
bers and contributors got used in 1S9
to being stigmatlzed as anarchists
repudiators and dishonest men, unde
thinly vcled generalltles. but nov
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