The Prohibition Candidate For

president eaid a very foolish thing and did his party harm, recently, when he eaid that he had been a rebel, a slaveowner, and a fire-eating Democrat, but ihanked God that he had never been a Republican, and that he would never have that sin to answer for. This is ■worse than silliness. If having been a rebel, a slave-owner, and a fire-eating Democrat, was wrong, as he seems to admit, then having been a Republican znust have been right. If having been a Republican was a sin, as he claims, ihen it must have been right to be a rebel and a slave-owner. Whatever may be the case now, there was a time when to be a Republican was to be the enemy of rebellion, slavery, and fireeating dernocracy.