The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-09
THETEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

The Prohibition Presidential Ticket
Nominated ut COIumbus-..-.The
Platform of tho Prohibition Party.
In the Pennsylvania Temperance Vim.
dtator, Of the 1st, we find the first full
report We have seen of the proceedings
Of the National Prohibition Convention,
held Mt Columbus on the 22d ultimo.
West Virginia, VIC find, was represented
by our Icllow,citizen, THOMAS HORN.
BROOK, Esq, who was made one OF the
Vice,Presidenls oi the Convention. The
following sketches OF the candidates
nominated, and the platform adopted,
will be Of interest TO those who feel an
interest in this movement. ....
JAMES BLACK,
The nominee for President, is now in his
doth year, having been born ut Lewis.
burg, Union county, Pennsylvania, Sept
81, 1923. Reared 10 habits of industry
mud thrift, and imbued with great thirst
for knowledge, he chccrfully9 labored on
farm, on the Union and Pennsylvania
Canals, rs boat driver, in saw mill
making lnth, and in M engineer corps on
the Tide Water Canal, expanding the
money thus earned for books, md in cdu
eating himself. ITe attended private
school, the public schools of Lancaster
whittier his parents moved in 1885, and
ihO | .nnpiplNttRfP A RnlntM,t Ht,hnro I,
plGted, in 1914, u good English education
with good progress in the language, read.
ing Virgil and Horace in Latin, and the
New Testament in Greek Entering the
law Office Of James L. Linn, in Ilcwsbnrg
md continuing his studies with Col. W.
j. FOrdnCy in Lancaster. lie was admit
ted to the practice Of law in 1916. FOl
the past twenty years, commencing will
the prohibitory movement which secured
Maine her prOhibitOry law of 1851, Mr.
BAck hns been u leading and efficient
worker, writer and speaker, his labors and
Influence extending from Lancaster coun.
ty to the State and thence to ncighborinG
States, until he is now the unanimous
nominee oi delegates in the National Con.
vcntiOn representing the most distan,
States ol Ito Unioli
Mr.. RlGekIs labOrs have taken the
widest possible range. Starting will
those who had no further bond OF union
than the pledge, written by him and kept
hanging in his office, he labOrcd with the
Sons of Temperance, in their carly day
and with the Good Templars, of which
order he became the G. W. e. T. of Penn.
sylvania, in 1860, and was reelected for
three successive years, and X. w. G. G.,
the second office in rank of the Il. w. G.
l.. OF North America; with the State
temperance conventions, of which he has
been almost constantly chairman of com
mittecs on resolutions, as well US a lead.
ing actor; and with the State Temperance
Union, which lie organized in 1867, and OF
which he has been president over since,
and with National ever since 1851, in con.
ventions which he was always an iniluen.
tlAl member. 4rrr, .-s.r.- ...-
In all these fields of labor, one fact has
ever been apparent, that MIR. Black was
constantly in advance Of his associates,
and was constantly struggling to induce
them 10 take advance ground on each
issue pres entcd. Thus in the National
Convention Of 1865 he laborCd earnestly
and successful against the use of ferment.
cd wine in the administration OF the
Lords Supper, and the common use OF
alcohol in medicine; in 1868, In accepting
the gage thrown down by the Brewers
Congress, and determining upon the use
Of the ballot for the promotion of
temperance; in 1860, as q member of u
committee he drafted the cal for the na.
tiUnRl convention at Chicago, of whichle
became President, and which organized
the National Prohibition Party; and in
1872 for the nomination OF national stand.
ard bearers by this party,
AT m early period In his temperance
labor, feeling tho need of books and
printed matter to inform himself on the
religious, moral and scientific aspects of
the temperance question, lie gathered
everying relating to the subject presented
by the American and English press
Probably Mr. Blacks labors win ho
best appreciated and most permanent in
results in connection with The National
Publication House, OF which he Is the
originator. represented the necessity oI
such house to the Convention Of isG5
inapaper TINT produced the most pro.
found impression, and was placed at the
head Of a committee consisting of LEADING
temperance men Of the United States, Il
carry out his own suggestions and organ
i2e the publication society. This agCnc,
has already issued over 200 distinct pub
locations, containing over 100000 900 pa
ges, Of which 100000 were published
last year. Who can estimate the inllu
cnce of these pages upon the destiny ant
welfare Of the n0tionS 30.
Politically, Mr.. Black was Democrat
until 1854, when the question Of slavery
became n political issue; was member
of the first Lancaster County Republican
Convention; present at the first Republi.
can State Convention, and n delegate Il
the first Republican National Convention
that nominated Fremont and DAYTON In
1856. He remained q Republican until
temperance became political issue, and
the formation Of the Prohibition party. {
REV, JOHN RussRI.L,
Candidate for Vice President, was born
in Livingston, N. Y, September 20, 1922,
and Is therefore in his tiItieth year
Reared at the Falls of Niagara until sew.
enteen years Of agr, he then removed Ia