The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-08-11
PROHIBITION CONVENTION
ENDORSES THE LOVELAND STATE
TEMPERANCE TICKET,
Mr.. DelGnO'S Speech; In Which He Re.eHs Il
Foster and the Political Parties.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, August The State ProhibI.
tion Reform Convention assembled here this
morning. There we're about two hundred dele.
gates present, which number was increased by ar.
rivals on later trains. The convention was made
up OF tine'lookinR, earnest looking men, am ong
whom there was generous sprinkling Of minis.
teB. There were also half score or more lady
delegates, which 10 an innovation on the customs
Of the older and more powerful political organi.
zations
The Convention was called to order in the Board
Of Trade room by Prof. J. w. Sharpe, of Delaware,
member OF the State Executive Committee. Rev.
VIM. NJ Kahn, Of Rome, Ashland County, was
called on TO open the proceedings with prayer,
which he did in an earnest application for the
success OF the cause. Rev. J. s. Mills, OF Wester.
ville,was next elected Temporary Chairman; Prof.
J. ". Sharpe, OF Delaware, Temporary Secretary,
and Thomas P. HOpley, Of BucyTus, Assistant,
Proper committees we're appointed, and Gideon
I. Stewart stated the Convention was In the form
OF mass convention
Afternoon Session.
The permanent officers, as given above, took
their places, and the regular business was opened
by prayer from the Rev. william H. Delano, OF
Garrethville Portage county.
The President said that the Convention would
now listen to Rev. VIM H. Deano an earnest
working temperance man.
Mr.. DelanO said that he had been raised Whig
and had stumped the State Of New York for
Abraham Lincoln. He found that the Republican
party was of no particular use, save that 1t did
away with slavery, but In that he believed God
had more to do than the Republicansso he Joined
the Prohibition party as the one in which he
could do the most good. He was pastor Of the
Baptist Church at Garretsville. he said, and be.
gan to fight intemperance by moral suasion, but
he was met on Nll sides by the question: "You
have laws why don't you enforce them2" They
did attempt to enforce the laws, and the conse.
quence ives that the liquor men put gunpoWder
under the church and blew 1t up. 1t was worth
5000 before that; now any one could have the
ruins for S25 and welcome. Brother Delano here
exhibited photograph Of the wrecked edifice
which looked, II possible, worse than Corbin's
WesteIVllle saloon atter ne temperance people
blew 1t up some years ago.
The parson went on to say that a number OF
good pf 0ple had contributed towards rebuilding
the edhce, and wanted all who could so 10 join in
with their editice. He was rewarded with con-
siderable sum. Bro. DelanO went on at some
length expressing his adherence of the intoxi
eating bowl, which he considers one of satan's
strongest Notifications He himself he said, was
the son Of a drunken father, and his son.in law
had been sentenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary from Cleveland, all because Of the aCcursed
liquor traffic. The position Of the Democrats
when they availed themselves OF the LIQUOR mems
vote 10 get into Office has been expressed BY the
lines Of the old hymn:
"This Is the way we long have sought
And mourned because we found II not"
The motto Of the Republicans in their search
for liquor votes, he said, was expressed by that
other hymn:
"If you get there before we do,
Wait for me I'm coming, too"
He was sorry, he said, that he could not stump
the entire State for Prohibition. Foster himself
acknowledged, In conversation with Rev. Boole,
the temperance worker, that he did not expect to
be re elected, and that he was only running as
matter OF feRlIy to the Republican party. He
ought not to be elected, said the speaker; and
lhereupOn there was unanimous applause
The LoVeland tCktt was adopted, and Henry
Camp, OF CoshoctOn was nominated for the va.
canoy Of attorney G neral
g. I. Stewart addressed the Convention as did
Mr.. McVay, the candidate for Lieutenamd- Gov.
ernor' platform was reported and adopted