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Show I Our Mail Boi' I You'll nnd It In tlio Kqaltable McMSUop ' I Poit j our Items beforo 9 a. m.VTrlday. 1 The tutpcr Is not rcupoiulble for 'npitilans cx prcl umler thin heading, except .iiea crcU tied to the editor. y PROHIBITION. , Mr. Editor. Your editorial of August 11th. under thatf hiding, "Munioipal Politics, " is .particularly .particular-ly interesting "to mo. Jfintnlnfl that tbo election this- fallf Wonj(l bingo on tho prohibition isno nut am Bomowhot surprisod to loaia'that mon who hnvo taken promiuoat parts iu tho Oitizon's movement of tho past two yoars should, just now, bo ox-porionoiug ox-porionoiug a ohango of heart. What's tho mnttor? Havo thoy just found out that it is not good to restrict tho snlo of intoxionuts? Aro tboy woak-lings woak-lings who, fearing tho dofent of thoir oauso, look tho courago of their convictions? con-victions? Or aro thoy "Prnnklo J'b," who slip thoir couviotlons into thoir inside pookot and hustlo for tho party that promises futuro oillcos or emoluments? Has thore boon "a lining up" and thoso "proralnonts" nro afraid of oiTonding Boss So-nud-so, lest ho romombor it against thom in tho futuro? Ono of tho questions flts our worthios. Which is it? we nro romiimou that next year tho county olootiou will tako place Wo woudor if that Is not having nn influonoo, wondor how mnny of those whoso honrts aro ohnglng will bob up for oflloo thou? If you know who they nro, (wo don't,) just watch nud you will aeo somo of them trylug to land n nomination. Thoy are tho "Fronklo J's". Turn thom dowu. Tho most surprising bit of information inform-ation in tho editorial is to tho effeot that somo prominent euoleslaatics nro turning ovor, belloving or pretending to beliovo, tbnt pohibition can best bo fought out ou party linos. The editor hna suroly boon mlsiuofrmed. Tho Demooratio party is so far in tho minoriy that no person desiring tho suoooss of prohibition would hope to got it through that ohauuel. Tho Sooialist party may bo passed with tho sumo common t. And Ropublloau prohibition I What a burlosquol If it wero possible to got nn sntl-whlskoy sntl-whlskoy plnnk in tho platform, who would havo nny oonfldonoo In It? Tho lending workora in the party horo aro pronouuood against prohibition nud any nttompt on tho part of tho prohibition faotlon to tako tho party out of thoir hnnds can provo nothing bottor than a oompromiso, tho com-promiso com-promiso of n mixed prohibition and nnti-prohlbltion ticket, which could stand for neither ono thing nor tho othor. Tho tom)emnco cause will stand a far bettor obnnco iu nn opou light than it will ontaugled with other i&SUOB. "Prominout eooloalnstics," or pro. inn lent anybody olso oxoopt prominent knnvos, aro not tho kind of Inon who fliokor or Hop, nor nro thoy oaslly side-tracked, und whon thoy chaugo front peoplo nro apt .to lmputo to thom wrong motives; bo if "prominent "prom-inent ecolosiastica'"- ffJot want to loso n wholo lot of iV$"o thoy havo for good, they hnd A oJ stand square with tho "prominent'' part" thoy havo taken horetoforo iu tho prohibition pro-hibition oauso. It looks as if somo body was trading tbolr convictions for tho promiso of nn oillco. A Prohibition Republican. -00 I warm vwethef otirfraltorop'lH Dixio is much' earlier than last season, and tho peoplo of Iron county who intend to lay iu a supply of fruit will do woll to eocuro what thoy need bofore it is too late. Ono huundred acres of oxoolleut grain was grown under tho Hurricane onnnl this season nnd tho farmors aro propariua to put iu ono thousand acres of fall grain, nud nro plaoiug largo ordora for fruit trees with northern nursorios. A DIXIEITE. |