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Ex-Gov. St. Jolin in his recent speech ut Grand Kapids said : "One-hulf of the Miesissippi ia under the control of the Prohibitionlet?. The, gouth is much farthur mlv.iaccd Lu til la lliie lllMII Lile UUIlll. In Alabama, Georgia and other Southern stau's they are niaking rapid pfogfegl in temporalice work." To this iiditor Hine, of Lowell fitly "Gov. St. John's statement ibay be true. If so it provea much more tlian is admiüed. It proves tliat those states Wblch gave Gov. St. John the smallesl nuinber ot votes are 'much turther advanced in this line' than are CUoe states wblch gave blm the giefctekt numW of votes. Gov. St. John's vote in the eouth was merely a scattering vote. Not a sonthern state took auy stock in St. John or the thtrd party moveinent, and Gov. St. John condeiniis himself out of liis own moutli when he openly admits tliat prohibition is mukin; more rapid progre.-s in those stares which repudiateil Blm and wheie his party was the strougest Througli local option laws adopted by the people, irrespective of party politics, the south has accompli.-hed what it has lor the cause of teinperance." Uut tot the third party Prohibitiouists we mijiht have had the Prohibitory amendinent submitted to the vote of thé people in this state. How long will they hinder tbe cnuse they try to serve? On the same subject the following is pertinent: Prof W. G. Calderwood, of Washington Court House, O , wlm bas long been prominent in the Prohibition party, has malle a statement trom whieh the follOWn' is au extract : "When I was editor of the American Prohibitionist a good deal of the temperance literatnre and Prohibition tickets were sent out tiom iny office, pald by tlie democratie state central commlttee in checks signed by their chairman and secretary, and payable at Kiuhart's bank in Columbu;1." ïhis is oflicial confirmalion of the fact tbat the Prohibition ticket was kept iu the iield largely by the use of democratie money, as a side-sliow tor the Denelit of the democratie pariy.