Show Tim POLITICAL HOKION Tho political nlr i Is hoary with Uio sounds of tho coming struggles In the East and West and naturally all eyes turn toward Maine tho mental Mecca of all true stalwart Republicans to leun how tho people of that hot bed of 1iohl bition take to tho Jingo talk of lllatnt In order to base a claim for hiho great straddling act it was necessary for the great striddler to make somo claim careless care-less of tho fact that he had no right to I and so ho claims for tho Kc ubllciu party now that he forced to do SO that it alnajs favored Prohibition IIl1ll is the founder of all prohibiting legislation in that State sinco the issue first ores made among its people If tho ltqniblcaii party favored Prohibition in 1884 when Waino was its head and front why did ho cause the ladies of Agusta who were in attendance at tho polls to further the interests of Prohibition to bo sent away from tho polls before ho went to deposit his ballot so that ho could dodgo tho vote as ho did do Why lid not ho vote for Prohibition then whin ho semis the chosen leader of tho part for whom he now claims tho honor of supporting the measure Was not his act then a 1 direct C Hi to his professions non If ho belied be-lied his professions then when in tho exalted ex-alted position of a national ttndidatc suppliant before tho people will ho not do so again In ono settee the Itcpubh can party can truthfully claim the authorship author-ship of prohibition and that is that tho men who liao been foremost in bringing it into public attention and fit Hiding bv its fate were all Republicans of standing i2 but for many years they luuo turned their backs on the Republic cinip for the cry good reason that they met nothing noth-ing but treachery and deceit from the leaders that party and all tho promises prom-ises made by that party to them were continuously broken or violated in tho spirit if not in tho letter and tho nun who were of that party found they leaned upon a rotten support when depending upon its help and four yearn ago they bolted and organized for their own interests inter-ests independent or any party Their leading man General Neal Don who by 1mb rabid tittcruies on time subject is sometimes hold to be cranky on that ono i issue but who in tho main is ono of tho most honorable and upright of citizens addressed a largo and influential audience audi-ence of temperance people m Philadelphia Philadel-phia in 1884 and in speaking then of tho Kopubllcan deeeit and treachery practiced prac-ticed toward tho movement said Wo appealed to the Itcpubhcan State Central Committee of Maine to aid us in our struggle and they personally pledged themselves and their party to aid us and I help to bring about the desired enforcement enforce-ment of the laws but they lied to mo yes they lied and basely deceived mo and through mo the Prohibitionists of Maine and nowwa hv 1 rlccVed hono ° forth to quit tho Republican party and trust to God and our own merits for sue cess Such a man as General Dow is not likely to publicly use such expressions expres-sions unless he is right and it was noticeable no-ticeable at tho time tint no mm or paper called his assertion in question Ho is tho man to whom blue bellied Iryo alluded when ho spoke of scoundrels in the Prohibition party who were trying to beat the Republicans in Maine and to whom Blaino referred as ditutrous to tho interests of the party Ho is dinner Qua to tho party and ho has good cause to bo so for that party has all along studiously ignored his plea for help after help had been promised and now ho I knows that the hollow mockery of taking up his cause with their tongues but not their hearts is simply a beginning of a repetition of the former outrages against truth and fair dealing for which the Ho publican party of Maine has a national reputation Dow has publicly declared that ho mould join his forces with the Democratic party as under them hu would at least obtain an enforcement of the State law though the tenets of the party as a national organization hold the liquor traffic to be amenable only to such laws as govern the production and sale of other articles of manufacture and commerce It is a long time until tho National Conventions meet and the people peo-ple will have plenty of opportunities to analyze this new break of Blainod and Judge it for what it Is worth |