The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-22
c. 0. ?. SHOULD RETIRE
BARNES OR Be RUINED
New York Anti Saloon League Serves
Warning on Republican
Party.
WAR is DECLARED ON BOSS
League Secs Barnes Striving to Ride
Into Greater Power With Help OF
Brewery and Saloon Interests

New York. Nov. 21--The Anti
Saloon League OF New York advises
the Republican party to retire Will
liam Barnes, Jr., as it's representative
on the National Republican committe q
before ne ruins the party in this State
Whatever the party does, the league
believes as q result of the big gains
in the recent legislative. congressional
and no-license elections in New York
State, that the time Is ripe to declare
war on Mr.. Barnes, in which quarter
Will be neither given nor asked until
ne is permanently eliminated, actually
"a well as ostensibly, from any posi-
ton OF political control in New York.
because he emobdies in himself the
discredited political principles and
gathers to himself the vicious, stupid
and arrogant political interests wnicn
are withholding the peoples right of
elf-government on the liquor ques-
ton.
The Anti-Saloon League opposes
Mr. Barnes not because he is a boss
political machinist whose political
power is based upon the support of
The most vicious elements OF society
and the most corrupt of selfish special
interests, but because his political
power, consistently exerted in behalf
OF the liquor traffic is an obstacle to
the passage of genuine majority rule
legislation on the liqpor question in
New York State. 1t is popularity sup
posed that the greatest hindrance to
this sort of legislation in New York is
Tammany. but Tammany cannot de-
liver the goods il deprived of its dc
facto allies In the Republican party
The influence of Barnes men has been
thrown with Tammany on this oues-
ton whenever Tammany needed It
and the chairman of the excise com
mittee from Mr.. Barnes own county o,
! Albany helped furnish Tammany the
votes necessary to protect the iiquo:
traffic during the last two sessions.
CHASTITY Political Joke
One of the most grotesQue ana
CHASTITY jokes in recent political his.
tory Is the attempt of the Barnes
crowd to interpret tire defeat or the
constitution which his followers knifee
because MIR. Barnes had not been az
lowed to make 1t as bad as he desired
into mitigation of the effect of the
Syracuse verdict and an invitation L
come back" The truth is that man,
Of the decent, independent. Embossed
element CT the State opposed the Con
stitution because Mr.. Barnes had bee-
so prominent in framing It. and be
! cause lHsS suspected tfl6t the Con
/ stitutional convention IN APPARENT,
! turning him down was merely indulg
| ing in Il piece of heatricals for pubu,
! consumption.
| In addition to his political record
/ Mr.. Barnes through his paper ha:
| bitterly opposed prohibition. Judging
/ from his own utterances he believe,
| a liquor license Is a property righ
/ and therefore sacred. There il
/ abundant indication that the Rarntf
/ crowd Is now seeking by again killing
the project to enfranchise the voter,
/ of the cities of New York State OF
| the liquor question, to ride back ints
| power with the help of the franti'
! brewery and saloon interests. Tit
| New York Republican orga niZ1tior
has a chance to save the party ma
/ ticnally from embarrassment and
/ prove its good faith ut home by hang
| ing up sign this place has changet
hands
If New York Republicanism lack
/ the intelligence and character to dt
| this then the party nationally mus
| protect itself by suppressing Mr.
! Barnes unless it wants to antagoniz'
I that great body OF decent party mem
| bers who feel that it IS past time t.
| divorce PARTY management from thu
| liquor traffic