Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — New York’s Anti-Saloon Republicans. [ARTICLE]

New York’s Anti-Saloon Republicans.

The character of the men who spoke at the meeting of the Anti-Saloon Republicans in New York the other day shows clearly enough that'the movement is one which is not intended to injure the saloon as much as it is to assist the Republican party. It is the result of conviction on the part of certain all-round party men that the saloon influence is too rampant in politics and must be restrained, but it does not contemplate any action which will drive the saloon Republicans iuto another party. The principal speakers were ex-Judge Noah Davis, Theodore Roosevelt and ex-Senator Windom. Every one of these gentlemen is a partisan, a man who would support by word and vote a Republican saloonkeeper before he would a Democratic saint. Other men prominent in the movement htfve the same record. No amount of rum sickens them at all if it is on their side. If a reason for the Anti-Saloon Republican organization is asked for it may be found in the fact that the real Anti-Saloon party is making much trouble for the Republican party, which does not care to take {.round on either side of the prohibition question, but which hopes, by assuming a great moral attitude signifying nothing, to stem the tide of desertion from its ranks. There is reason to believe that it will take something more than an occasional meeting of a lot of partisans under a pleasant name to convince the third party that its mission has been fulfilled.— Chicago Herald.