The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.