Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-11-20
The New Hampshire Prohibition
lists.

LIS NEW Hampshire EroR10ltlon- ,
lists.
The New Hampshire Prohfbitionists
held their State convention "a Concord
last Wednesday, 10th inst The atten-
dance was not large although the pro-
ceedings were decidedly spirited. The
convention organized as follow; Presi-
dent, j. NJ. Fletcher of Nashua; Secreta-
ries, Arthur DeeriDg, Pittsfeld, and E.
IL. Weston Of Whitefeld. Asa S, Kendall
of Swanzey, was nominated for Governor,
and j. NJ. Roberts of Pennington, for
Railroad Commissioner. The meeting was
addressed by C. NJ. Remission of Manches-
ter, Rev. j. W. Adams of Tnton, Dea.
Joseph Smith of Concord, Rev. A. C.
Hardy of Baskerville, and others,
The following list of resolutions were
reported by Z. II. Weston of Whitefeld,
chairman of the committee on resolutions,
and adopted as the platform of the party
for the ensuing campaign;
Whereas, The evils of intemperance, coming
directly through an illegal traffic in intoxicating
drinks, have come to be the most wide spread aud
1
| whereas, These evils are increasing among us,
augmenting fearfully our taxation, robbing our
State of men, her young men, compared with
whom gold is trash, pouring poverty, ignorance
and domestic sorrow into the lap of households
and
Whereas. Both the legislative and administra
tive departments of our State Government have
/ become almost obiviOus to these evils which
i derelicton is owing chiefly to the management of
the leaders of both political parties in the State
therefore
ResoIred, That we are opposed to the importa-
ton, manufacture and sale of intoxicating liq-
uor as beverage.
they subserve valuable principles, and when they
cease to do that they cease to have any claim up
on men of true principles.
Resotred, That party can peril nothing in
standing by laws made to subserve the best inter-
ess of the state and people. 1t peris everything
when 1t does not arraign transgressors and vio-
lators of the law.
Resolved, That there can be no greater peril to
the country than the existing party competition
fOE the liquor vote, that the Republican and DEM
, ocrat parties are now engaged in, shaping their
policy to secure that vote and to accomplish that
object are counting favor of the criminal classes,
and are bartering away public morals and the
purity of the baotboX, solely for party success.
ReSolved That the differences between the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties are but feuds of
old times and scramblings for office, and that
disreputable alliances with the rum power are
Characteristic of both.
ReSolred, THAT the action of the Republican par.
, ty of other States i'll repeating so many prohib.
itory laws and enacting license laws in their
stead, or in aiding the Democratic party to Sc
cure such legislation, is hereby branSed with our
unqualified condemnation, confirming as it does
our old conviction that both of these parties are
practically hostile to prohibition.
= Resolced, That the cry of retrenchnlent reform
and reduced taxation INDUCED in so freely by
other parties is a sham and delusion, without
collateral temperance action; and that no party
can: achieve successful results in such directions
without presenting solid and effective barrier to
the rum power.
5 ReSolced, That to establish prohibition as the
policy of the State, experience demands that the
legislative. ex' cutive and judicial departments
, of the Government should be in the hands of its
friends, supported by constituency and public
: opinion which such control will secure.
RESOLVED, That to secure success the fullest and
. widest dissemination among the people of the
n principles and aim of the Prohibition party, by
means of faithful journals, Is a necessity. The
e sooner ProhihiionistS understand that in the
main the Democratic and Republican press is
deadly hostile to prohibition, and that the vote
: in localities is accurately measured by the circu.
ation of temper ance Journals therein will the in
terest and duty of dscarding the one and sustain
n ing the other the sooner be realized.
ReSOLCed, That the intimate relations of labor
= and capital will he better understood and brought
into their normal condition of harmony and NUT
ual dependence, and the hostile influence be re-
moved when the moral, social, and pecuniary
/ burdens imposed by intemperance are removed.
:, A sober Commonwealth will prove that the true
path to labor reform, the right of the aborer and
: artisan to encouragement and protection, is a
: primary duty of Government.
ton oil the Women's Temperance League and
: other organizations to promote temperance re.
J. form by moral efforts and cooperation in the
promotion of the same.
ReSOlued, That, believing in independent act.
ion as political organization, weurge the friends
of prohibition to avoid an alliance coalition
f with either of the old political parties.
n RESOLVED, That, as prohibition on general priu.
ciples, without practical realization of its re.
suits, accomplshes but little of the great work OF
redeeming the land from the evils of intemper.
Il hereby nlpUga
perseverng efforts to SECURE a thorough enforce.
= ment of the present efficient prohibitory law.
) The Hon. Asa S, Kendall, the nominee
). of the Prohibitory Party, was born in
Burlington, formerly part of Woburn
: Mass, April 81, 1914, and is now flfty-two
f years old. In 1910 he moved to Groton,
f where he resided ten years; he afterward
t moved to Woburn, where he was quite
: extensively engaged in the tannery bust
ness. In 1851 he moved to Fitzwilliam,
n. II. and in 1867 to West Swanzey,
where he at present resides He is a
v manufacturer of leather, and is also ex.
n tensively engaged in farming. He repre-
, sented the former town in the Legislature
in 1858. Several years ago his buildings
were burned, owing, it was thought, to
his active efforts to suppress the liquor
:, traffic, involving loss of $4,000 Oh
100000. A lifelong temperance man, he
annually expends literally of his means
: to advance the cause of temperance. Mr.
4 Kendall is an honest, straightforward
:, business man, and if elected, would fill
, the Gubernatoriai chair to the satisfaction
of his friends and with honor to the State