People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — Why Those Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

Why Those Resolutions.

Possibly all those who read in last week’s papers the Prohibition resolutions recently passed at Goodland are not so well versed in the causes of their adoption as we of Benton county. I have been reliably informed that there adoption was secured through the active efforts of Mr. Moore, chairman of the Prohibition committee of Benton county. And now for an explanation of Mr. M’s supposed motives. To begin with, Mr. Moore’s brother-in-law, Lon Sleeper, is Repuolican candidate for clerk of Benton county and Mr. Moore is giving him a warm brother-in-law’s support. At the Prohibition county convention Mr. Moore opposed naming a county ticket, and in deference to his wishes no candidate for clerk was nominated. He also used arbitrary powers as county chairman to prevent the selection of delegates to the senatorial convention favorable to Mr. Washburn, but in spite of his efforts Mr. Washburn was supported by Benton county’s delegates, as they personally knew Mr. Washburn to be a temperate man and a man of the highest integrity and abilities. But here comes what looks to be the true inwardness of Brother • in - law Moore’s action. In case of Mr. Sleeper election as clerk he would probably at once become an active member of the county officer’s association, and as he and his future associates well know they cannot hope to use Mr. Washburn in the senate to secure the repeal of the present fee and salary law for one of their own making, and as they have reason to believe that his opponent, Mr. Phares, could be of great use to them if elected, he having been a county officer for eight years, (as a Democrat) hence this shrewd move on the part of Brother-in-law Sleeper in bringing to their support Brother-in-law Moore,which has resulted in the recent Resolutions. Now, I do not deny our Prohibition friends the right of free action in this and all other matters, but they ought as well as all other honest voters to be able to see this cunningly devised scheme of as unscrupulous a set of party ringsters as ever preyed upon the helpless taxpayers of any county and every voter should ponder well on these matters before he casts his vote for state senator.

W. I. McCOLLOUGH.