Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — WHAT IS HE ? [ARTICLE]

WHAT IS HE ?

‘Jim Blaine Attempting to Carry Beer Upon One Shoulder aud Cold Water Upon the Other. The Chicago Herald , an independent journal, thus comments upon Blaine’s cowardly dodging of the prohiDltion question: IT CANNOT BE DODGED. Dispatches from Maine state that Mr. Blaine refused to vote on the prohibition question. It was a State election and prohibition was an issue. In a speech delivered from the porch of his residence in the evening he said the tempcranoe question was a State and not a national issue,

and that it would be impossible for anybody to bring it into the national canvass. If that is so, why did Mr. B.aine reruse to vote yes or no on the proposition to prohibit the liquor traffic in Maine? It was a loca election, and the question was presented to him as a local issue. In refusing to vote at all he neglected his duty as a citizen, and attempted to curry favor with two hostile interests. This cannot be done. Mr Blaine cannot run for President as a Prohibitionist and as a liquor man both. He cannot receive support from the temperance unions, the Good Templars, the Prohibition leaders, and the religions press because he is a Prohibitionist, and from the Germans, Bohemians, Scandinavians, the brewers and distillers and saloon-keepers because he is a personal liberty advocate. If he was a Prohibitionist he would have voted for the prohibitory amendment. If he was opposed to sumptuary laws he would have voted against it. What la he?