The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-20

natural right to exist" This work has
 won from the liquor organs of the coun-
 try the high tribute Of bitterest denun-
 citation and opposition. MT.
 Brown quoted from various liquor jour-
 nals many illustrations of the effective ness of the league work; among others
 the following from The Cleveland Ma tional Advocate the official organ of the Royal Arch a secret omni-parti- san liquor league organized to meet the anti-saloon league:
 With the liquor world it is a ques- tion of the election of men who will ] give us free government, justice and liberty. We must dismiss all party l lines and vote for the men who will give us justice. If the democratic ad- 1 ministration is best for our rights we l say vote the democratic ticket; if the 1 republican party is more in favor with us we say vote that ticket; but be- 1 fore doing so we must act in a body and give our blow when the time comes. 1 For if we do not get what is due to us, the liquor world might just as well close it's doors for the business will be in time a starvation game"
 Mir Brown closed with a number of concrete instances of anti-saloon league victories either in controlling prim- aries or in infiicting defeat where their i warning was unheeded. He spoke of the first state canvass ever made by l the league which was in Ohio in 1S99- 1 where John A. Caldwell at the dictation of the liquor league and in disregard 1 Of inc Of Ha ar+i 1oo | had been placed in nomination for the i lieutenant governorship by the repub- 1 lican state convention. Mir. Caldwell had had an unenviable record as mayor I If rum-ruled Cincinnati, and it was plain What the liquor men wanted a 1 presiding officer ill the senate who should be favorable to their interests. i The democrats nominated in opposition Judge A. w. Patrick, an upright tenn perance man. During the campaign the Wine and Spirit News declared the 1 election of Caldwell is more important than the election of anybody else on the ] ticket" The result was that MT. Gala well fell behind Judge Nash, the candi- 1 date for governor, over 3S, 900 votes, and the Cleveland Leader for November 10
 
 nate enought to be favored by the | liquor dealers. Patrick, on the contrary had the good fortune to be ! opcsed by the saloons and to receive the support of the anti-saloon league. 1 The result must be humiliating to the 1 liquor interests of Ohio. If the brew CTS and saloon keepers are wise, they will take this lesson seriously to heart. They have everything to lose and noth- l ing to gain by stirring up the question of further regulation and restriction of l their business. The more quiet they keep the better off their will be. The 1 time has passed, never to return, when they could bully the people of Ohio by 1 threatening disasters to any party or public men that excited their displeas- ure."
 But the lesson was not laid to heart. Tn spite of anti-saloon protest Cover ! nor Herrick was re-nominated for gov. ernor by the republicans in the late I campaign in Ohio. The democratic 1 party nominated Mr. Pattison, a we'll known temperance man. The comhin- ed liquor power canvassed the state for Herrick and sowed their printed ap- peals to business men and workmen far and wide. Every nerve was strained for victory. The result is known to the 1 world. Governor Herrick, the repub- 1 lican candidate, in 8 strong republican state was ignominiously defeated by a plurality for Pattison of 10000 votes. The anti-saloon league was chiefly re- sponsible for the result. The Ohio vicS tory is a splendid prophecy. The days of rum rule in American politics are numbered. There is long and hard fight ing ahead, and no situation is more diff ficult than that in our own state, but it is the Son of God who goes forth to war. "Who will follow in His train?"