The independent-reporter., 1910-12-22
AN OLD PROHIBITION
JOURNAL
Published in Maine in
the Year 1867
Was Called the Temperance Advocate
and Drunkard'S Friend.

a Hauail lll4lf 9AftiiAFN BSlNaf '-'@
and four pages in size, came out of
some old attic or other hidden of
relics recently, and amused the finder
with its curious title in big letters,
reading. Temperance Advocate and
Drunkard's Friend"
IL WIS published somewhere in
Maine in September, 1861, when
Joshua L. Chamberlain was running
for governor, and license and prohibi-
ton were the issues of the campaign
The little old sheet, which is No
| of volume |, is noisy with protest
against the slackness of enforcement
of the liquor laws. the temperance
cause having been ignored for some
time by all the political parties.
Activities against the brewers, the
distillers, the saloonkeepers and the
grocerymen who dealt in Nv. l. goods
started with furious rush in 1851,
when DR.. John Hubbard, the Halo
well physician. and father of Gen.
Thomas Hamilton Hubbard of New
York. signed the bill that put in op-
GRAFTON the first prohibitory law
against the sale of intoxicating bey-
erages in the land.
Or Hubbard Was a sturdy demo
crat. and only one other of that poll
tlcM failh. Samuel Wells of Portland
1S56-57. was to be sent 10 Augusta.
without other party aid until the last
amazing election made Frederick W
Plaisted chief Harris NJ. Plaisted
Of Bangor. the present governor
elects father. WAS elected in 1881 by
the Democrats and greenbackers, as
was DR.. Alonzo Garcelon OF Lewiston
in 1873
So swift and unrelenting We're the
first raids of the sheriffs and thcir
deputies on the liquor dealers that
many of the brewers and distillers
were almost if not quite ruined. Sever
al plants in Portland and other places
WHERE TQlll Was IlSiiiltu II lOill ilOitAS9
es were fairly crushed, and for many
years there was a thirst in Maine as
parched and as hopeless rs perpetual
aridity.
During the years of The war the
selling of hard stuff as whisky and
rum is called in the Pine Tree State.
was carried on quite openly i'll the
cities and about the time OF The first
appearance of the "Temperance AdVo-
cate and Drunkard's Friend saloon
keepers were freely handling such
bulky beverages as ale and lager.
The four pages OF the little journal
call loudly for the friends Of temper
ance to fight manfully against the
Democrats who We're charged with
seeking to bring about a license law.
One of the columns also announces
that the Republicans did not dare to
take a public position, and calls upon
the friends of temperance to discard
both sets of candidates and vote only
for sturdy, ot-foundwanting friends
of prohibition.
The ticket recommended by the
Temperance Advocate and Drunk
ards Friend" named Joshua l.
Andrews of Biddeford, Almon Lord of
Parsonsfield and William II. Sawyer
of North Berwick for senator's; Hor-
ace Piper. clerk of court; Samuel V.
Loring OF Saco for county attorney
! (Yorkl, Samuel X. Roberts of Water
boro for county treasurer York;.
Ivory Littlefeld, Jr., for county com
missioner tYorkl. and Samuel c.
Adams OF Newfeld for register OF
deeds
Gen. Chamberlain proved to be a
popular candidate. He had enlisted in
the volunteer service in 1862. and
arose through merited promotion to
the rank of brigadier general which
was given by Gen Grant on the field
for remarkable gallantry at the as
sault on Petersburg in June. 1864
In 1871 Gen. Chamberlain became
president of BoWdoin college. a posi-
tion which he held until 1888 when he
resigned. 1t was during that year
that the Maine law was embedded in
the constitution of the State.
Itching piles provoke profanity. but
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