Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — THE TEMPERANCE ISSUE. [ARTICLE]

THE TEMPERANCE ISSUE.

A Letter from Hon. Neal Don, [Freeport (Ill.) Dispatch.l It having been stated that the Hon. Nea® Dow, of Maine, who was a candidate for* the Presidency on the Prohibition ticketfour years ago, would refuse to support the* National Prohibition nominations this year, and work for the success of the Republican, ticket, Russell J. Hazlett, of this city, whois the Grand Worthy Secretary of the Illinois Good Templars Grand Lodge, wrote tohim for his yiews on the question of a third, party. The following reply was receivedthis afternoon; Portland, Me., June 27, 1884. R. J. Hazlett, Grand Worthy Secretary, Goo® Templars, Freeport, III.; Dear Sir; Your note of the 24th is received. The newspaper slip you send mer* correctly reports my views as to the wiseaction of the temperance men of Maine r Kansas and lowa. The Republican party ini, those States has steadily favored prohibition and has afforded the people an opportunity to put their will as to the liquor traffic* into the constitution. I think it up for the interest of the temperancecause to show the country that theparty has lost nothing in those States by such action. As to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois r Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut,, the temperance men owe the Republican party nothing, and it has no just claim whatever on them for help in any election. You ask me if it is really true that I look, on the third party action with disfavor. So* far from that, I am sure we can never win in any other way. The sooner we come to* that the sooner we shall accomplish our* purpose. Respectfully, Neal Dow.