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Woman's Suffrage scas discussed N very an
imated npanner-Platform and Re'olut'ons
d. adopted by them.-1he Hall ero0ded and
the discussion prolonged to late hour.
At the afternoon session of the State
Temperance Union, it was annouced that
the State Temperance Alliance of Minneso-
to would meet in the Hall for T. sg@
POLITICAL PURPOSES. - y y
At the time for the calling Of the Con-
vcntion the Hall was we'll filed with per-
sons anxious to hear what the temperance
delegates from different parts Of the State
had to say Of the political situation Of the
country.
The Convention was opened by singing
by the Hutchinson family, who sang the
song, "We are with you once again" Af-
ter which, the chairman, Mr.. Jewell, Of
Lake City, announced that the Secretary,
Rev. W. W. Satterlee, would read few
passages Of scripture and lead the assem-
bly, in prayer.
A song was then sung by the Hutchin-
SONS entitled 1.-The good time is coming
on After which the committee on perma-
nent organization reported the following
persons to fill the following Offices for the
coming year:
I. C. Stearns, President.
Mr.. Lathrop, Secretary.
Committee on Platform and Resolutions
reported the following:
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Your committee to whom the work Of
drafting resolutions was trusted, beg leave
to report the following:
!. Resolved. That the Temperance ALI
ance Of the State Of Minnesota favors only
the nomination of thorough temperance men
for oil our local, State and national Offices.
2. Resolued, That We recommend all tenn
perance men to attend primary meetings
and caucuses, and use oil honorable means
to put such men in nomination, and in case
We cannot get temperance candidates, then
We recommend independent nominations.
3. Resolved, That oil party lines and
party issues should be held in subordina-
tion to the cause Of temperance, and that
any party now in existence competent and
willing to furnish ue men who will faithful
ly represent our cause, shall have our sup
port, we being the judges.
f. Resolved, That We are in favor of such
legislation as will secure local option
throughout the State, and make msnufac-
turer and dealer in intoxicants, and own
ers of buildings responsible for the DAM
ages which may occur from his traffic.
The following resolution was reported by
the committee by substitute below was
adopted by the convention:
Resozved, That sex should be no barrier
to the exercise Of the elective franchise,
and we hail with pleasure the signs Of the
times, which indicate the approach Of wo-
mans suffrage.
Subsntuk.-R<solved, That while we re-
gret that we have not the votes Of woman
to aid us in the accomplishment of our
great object, we are grateful for the won
derful impetus that has been given to the
Temperance Reform by the prayers, the
tolls, and the self-denials of the women Of
our land, during the past year. And we
will as Temperance party hail the day
when the rig ght Of suffrage shall be con-
ferred upon them, believing that complete
victory cannot be obtained without their
votes.
l. c. STEARNS, Chairman.
J. B. TUTTLE, Secretary.
These resolutions met with much opposi-
tion, and many Of the delegates expressed
themselves as being very much dissatisfied
with them. The general opinion asthat
the temperance friends, if they wanted to
be satisfied with any political action would
have to adopt resolutions of their own, and
nominate their own candidates, for both
the Republican and Democratic and Liberal
Republican parties had become SO lamenta-
bly, corrupt, and had for the past two
years created SO unsavory a stencil in the
nostrils Of the public generally. They, in
their pure and noble party wanted to know
of no such thing as salary steals, Credit
Mobiliers and the present State land fraud.
It was the determination of all the dele
gates present. that at the coming election
they would vote the straight temperance
ticket, and in many places the temperance
people will hold their caucuses and nomi-
nate thorough temperance ticket. So
much interested was a clergyman from Du-
luth in the work Of thorough reform that he
related the following:
The caucus in our city was held on the
same evening as our prayer meeting, and