Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-11-16

lLEGES TIE BUSINESS SHALL
Enjoy?
a ..sguarc Ilcay' Asked For.
Whether he meant to or not. Gov
ernor lIcrricks astonishing behavior
during the last legislative battle over
the Brannock local option bill is the
immediate cause of the present silua
ton The underlying causcs are many
and various. but the people have begun
to hotly resent Interference With their
will. as expressed in the legislative
branch of the state government. They
want a square deal Oh the liquor qucs-
ton. They want the right to say in
every section and community of the
state whether they want the saloon or
not ana they have had to fight for
fifty years to get even Il much restrict
ed fraction Of that privilege ut the
hands of the dominant parties and pol
iticians of the past half century. Mean
while Oh three different occasions the
people have declared cmphatically
against license at the polls, but that
was absolutely all the good it did
them. The liquor power has command
ed the situation SO completely that
these referendums were ignored.
Struck the Powder Magazine.
Now. the startling events of the pres
ent year have acted upon the people
like Il lighted match in Il powder maga-
zine. The churches and ministers Of
the whole state and of all denomina-
tions, with a few insignificant eXcep-
tions, have been reused to unparalleled
indignation The first spontaneous
move of the temperance forces of the
state was toward pattison, the Demo
cratic candidate for governor. But the
most astonishing development of the
past ninety days has been his blunt
refusal to respond to this state wide
appeal His previous record as a TEN
peranse man needed but n straightfor
ward, fearless declaration Oh the vital
liquor issues of the campaign, but his
letter of acceptance and all his recent
addresses have without exception stu
Iiously ignored the question If Patti
sons party had any platform express
sion or any recent utterance with re
gard TO these pressing issues there
might be some allowance made for his
singular silence, but all The traditions
Of the Democratic party in Ohio are
those of sanction for the liquor traffic
and of hostility to SO called "sump.u-
ary" law.
Here is where Candidate Watkins of
the Prohibition party scores. prohibi-
ton State Chairman Mccartney in an
important interview in this city on the
situation eharacteriZes the present
campaign as "a fight against the boss
and The good man in politics" He
told me that his party is waging the
hottest campaign in its history. Pro
( ceeding. Nr. Mccartney declared:
Fhc Paramount Issue.
In ,his state we have tried moral sua.
sion. pledge signing, high license. low H.
cense, high ,aX. low tax, local option
government monopoly and the election! OF
good meE' 70 oi!ice without regard 70 the
principles or policies Of the par,Y no,ni-
mating them. Yet the consumption OF Id
uora has increased from less thar sever
to more than twenty gallons per capita
during the last forty years and today
the liquor traffic is more defiant and more
powerful than vllen .hese measures were
hrs: conceived
The Most "Dnmning Count"
The most "dan.ning count IN the his
tory's !ndictmcnt OF .hc Democratic ant
Republican parties oe Ohio viii be her rec
ord of their att!tuae ,owar! tLis great evi
as expressed. ~ the so called Dow law. No
only i.ave they failed 20 protect .ne peopi'
By outlawing mis- lcrtfrl .ran.c. but o,
The contrary, they have protected III.
traffic, collected blackma.. .rom t. pro
noters anG turned II loose 20 prey upoI
the peop.- WITHOUT RECOURSE on
GOVERNMENT. 10th have joined I.
enacting ard neither has repealed this in
famous Enactment vh.ch .ralies o., gov
eT.nents position Is Inte.ai,e ard un
Christian as hca.hen dolatry And this
too. IN The face .: the rcsercndums o.
ISL, 1874 and '}s5 il each OF which The
people. declared against license by d large
majority
The Good Man', Myth.
III the present campaign the goo,
mar theory !. getti-g thoroughly ex
noseI f--le, mr. ,1cff.iral ''bn,