Year: 1877

to nominate men who are in accord
with temperance prehihitory princi'
Piles. II is needless to say that the Re
| publican nominee for Governor Is not
that kind of man; he is publicly
| known not 10 be. No one claims that
he il.


| A TEMPERANCE LEADERS VIEWS.
". b Weaver in State Reg ster.i
BLOOMFIELD. July ll.-Ed. Regis
tcr.-The position taken by the Re-
publican party ofthis State upon the
temperance question is gratifying
surprise to many, and a disappoint.
ment to others. The temperance peo-
pie, certainly, have no canse to COM
plain at the action of the Convention.
A greater victory was never achieved,
than crowned our efforts on the eth
of June. The Republican party in
Iowa, on that day, with its tremen-
dous majority, with its influential
press, backed up by its hold upon the
popular heart, openly and squarely
committed itself to the cause of prohi-
bition. And this committal is forev-
er beyond recall. The experiment of
Prohibition has been tried in our
State, for about twenty-five wears,
among a mixed population from al
most every zone on the globe; and
now it has been incorporated into the
settled arena of the dominant party in
the State. The nominees of the party
must of necessity, stand squarely up
on the declarations of party faith as
laid down in the platform. They are
in honor bound TO do so; and no man
has the right to judge otherwise, ex-
cept upon the most positive declara-
tions to the contrary by the parties
themselves.


am entirely satisfied. 1t is well
known that / opposed the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Gear very earnestly. !
shall support him now unreservedly,
and have faith that he will do moth
ing to undermine the expressed will
Of his party.


The action of the Convention upon
this matter Is not compromise be-
tween Mr.. Gears supporters and the
temperance men, but it is an indie
pendent, honest and bold enuncia-
tion, introduced and supported by
men who were opposing Mr.. Gears
nomination. Let the temperance
people now move up their forces and
occupy tho vantage ground already
conquered. Consolidate yoar forces
by letting The ,nortd knoo that pou In
tend 10 be reasonably. and when the
buglc sounds the advance. SO unmis-
takably hinted at in the latter part of
the eleventh resolution, all good people
will be with you. Until then. let us
give nine cheers and a tiger for the
Temperance party of Iowa, and nine
cheers more to keep its majority at
80, 200. Yours, thankfully,


J. B. WEAVER.


NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.


tClinton Herald.l


The plot to organize Temperance
political parly-which was the stimu-
iating motive and purpose oi the May
gathering will probably he carried
out. There are few people includ-
ing seine women who ought to have
been men and some men who ought to
have been women-who must engi-
neer party or die, and AZ existing.
parties are out of their reach, n new
one must be got up for their benefit.
This must be insisted On, though the
great Republican party of the State
passed temperance resolution for the
first time this very year; though Gen
Weaver and other eminent friends of
the cause counsel against it; though
Francis Murphy and other great re-
formers insist that, to strangle temper
ance, you only have To make il the
subject of law and party strife. Very
well, let Judge Maxwell and his
crowd go ahead, and see what their
scheme to divide the Republican par
ty, and set up aside-show oftheir own,
will amount to.


Knoxville Journal


There are rumors of u strong proba-
bility that the Democratic State Con-
vention at Marshalltown in August
will ratify portion or all of the In
State ticket, and also that
the Prohibitory party will do like
wise. We do not believe there is any
reasonable probability of either event
happening. The more ultra Bourbons
would not listen to such proposition
of course. We venture the prediction
that Sam Evans, NJ. M. Ham, and
other leaders of that stamp will scout
the idea of thus surrendering the
Democratic organization again to a
coalition. They have not forgotten
1872 and 1873. Lee, Dubuque, John
son, Davis, Wapello and Jefferson
counties will control the Democratic
convention, and the ultra Bourbons
will control those counties.


Would it not be a phenomenal spec
tacle to see the Bourbons and the Pro-
hibitions shouting for the same tick
ct? Would it not be equally singu-
lar and absurd to find the traditional
Democracy, who have always made
the boast that they were in favor of
1.-The money that clinks," take the
stump this fall for Lincoln rags?n A
large portion of the party would of
course be willing to surrender to any
thing, except prohibition, that could
promise them a few votes.


Newton Journal


1t Is source of great sorrow to Us
to be thus placed in a position of an
tagonism to the nominee of the Re-
publican party. We always have
tried to vote straight ticket, though
we have occasionally been obliged to
do little Strengthening for ourself of
the crooked places. We have no dis
position now to engage in factious
warfare with the party or its nominee
for Governor. We shall make no
fight unless driven to it in self defense.
We mean simply to scratch the head