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Strange Bedfellows

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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To those who are sincere temperance men, and believe in true temperance doctrines, we commend the following article, taken from The Ypsilantlan. It shows plainly that the so-called prohibition party is not fightinir for principie, but simply for the spoils, and the quickest way to get at the spoils, it believes, is to kill tlie republican party: "The Public Leader, Organ of the Wine, Beer and Spirit Trade," as it announce8 itself, is published in Detroit. Sonic one has sent us a copy of its issue for this week, with n marked article en titled, "Ilepubllciin Damphoolery." The article bittcrly attfteks the proposition for a republican declaration in favor of local option, and upon grounds strange to be asslgned in sucli a quarter. "Never was a greiiter mistake made, nor never was the party fruilty of surh an egregloua blunder,' says The Public Leader. "It would have been better by far had they stuek to thelr prohibition plank and worked it for tll it was worth." "With siic.h a plank placed prominently forward in their platform, they could offset the c ilumniesof tlie proliibitionists, gtrengthen the wavering. and hold their own against considerable odds." " When a party retrogrades, its days of usefulness are regarded aa over. From prohibition to loctil option is a backvvard step." This is the language of The Public Leader, "Oigan of the Wine, Beer and Spirit Trade." "Tlie Center, State Organ of all Michigan Ti'iuperance Societies," as It announocs itself, is als-o published in Detroit. It also bitteily attacks the proposition for a republican declaratlOD in favor of local option. "Local opiion proceeds ont he MMnptton thatconstitutional prohibition cannot be secured," eays The Center in its latest issue. "It Í9 a lowering of the ideal." "It is ignominious." "The principie of local uptlon Is wrong." " Temperance men are (Mitrnpped by it be cause it looks like suppression ; tricky politicians and laloon men know it uieans DOthlng of tlie sort."' This is the lanKUtfe of The Canter, "State Org.m of all Michigan Temperance Societies." The two "orj:ans" are wi 11 aretd. Both condemn the piopoíal for local option, and the republican party for making tlie proposal. Botli do so on the same ground : Ir is "a backward step," says the whisky organ; it U "a lowering of the ideal," says the other organ. "It ís ignominious," says The Center; "Out upon it, we say ! " says the Public Leader. Queer, ain"t it ! Aie the two Otvsna seeking the same end? lf so, what is the end? They are elearly iiniicd in lighting the republican party, and 00 the Mmt) point, and t-mploying the same ObJoCtlon. Su far at any rat, they are inaking comrnon cause, and politics truly does muke strange bedfellows.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News