Show PROHIBITION Tine cry of the coming Republican eimpaign will bo Prohibition and in the light of tins past record of that party it will bo pleasant to watch just how the will shoulder this bug bear and attimpt to ride into power with it In Maine tho homo of lingo ISlaino it has been tho IlLW 1 for years but has been inoperti tine through the treachery of Rcpubl cans who rule that State and as a consequence con-sequence moro drunkenness and da baucher to tho numbei of people is evident there than in nn > other State in the Union Tho Republican part havo dallied with the question simply to pla cato Its friends and keep them from open opposition to them and to keep the liquor Interests of tho countrv on their sido becuiso most of tho mono used in Republican campaigns has been furnished by wholesale liquor men who aimed to kill prohibition Now that these liquor men feo defeat for the Republican part the will not yield up boodlo any moro and bo tho Republic part will yield 1 up them and their boodlo and try to run again by taking prohibition prohibi-tion under their wing No thought of right law or justice Is in tine act solely and ollly u matter of ncccssit for political politi-cal strength and for that the sink all their former protestations and cat crow with u zest The intelligent people of the countr 1 will bo apt to remember these things and give their votes to the part that has alwas held the liquor trade In tho same light as any other lawful trade and subject to the samo rules and never at temple to teaks capital out of tho trade or those who opposed it Prohibition like many other questions will find its own level and as the will of this majorit ullas gains In a moonlit countr it can only succeed by electing Its friends to office Whether the Prohibitionists will take t up Illaino and tine Republican ly l Ja l lgI III part as their I btandard bearer remains to bo HCOII Wo think not |