Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-25
Illinois.
Work of the Temperance Lahore

Work of the Temperance Laborers.
 CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-The National Prohibi- tion convention resumed it's session this morning with 8 crowded attendance. The committee on credentials reported the follow ing number of delegates entitled to seats Illinois S9, Kentucky s, Maryland 1, Massa- chusetts 5, Michigan A, Minnesota :, Missis sippi l, Missouri 8, Nebraska > New Jersey l, New York 3, Ohio 72, Pennsylvania 15 South Carolina l, Tennessee II, Wisconsin g, Iowa 34 Kansas 8, Indiana ; total, :}45. The report recommended that each delegate be allowed one vote except on 8 call of States, when each State should have four votes for each representative in Congress The report was adopted. committee was appointed to promote temperance work among the colored people of the South. On the report of the committee on permanent organization I. D. Kanouse, of Wisconsin, was elected president, Mary T. Lathrop, Mary A. Woodbridge and w. w. H. Bartraw secretaries, and one vice president from each State. Hon. Gideon Stewart, of Ohio re- ported the platform of the prohibition pro lection party as follows:
 We declare in favor of the following national prin-
 
 l forced by Congress aud the government: First-The prohibition public crimes of the i'm of all alcoholic beverages
 second-The prohibition of all taxation, license, regulation or legal sanction of public criues Third-The civil and political equality and enfran
 chsement of women: his so far as it concerns me Fourth-The abolition of polygamy Fifth-The aboiston of all judicial, executive and
 legislative patronage and the election of all officers by the peopls-civil service reform
 Sixth--Tha abolition Of 6inecnro
 seventh-Universal enforced education of the youth
 of the nation with provision for the support of eh
 ctent systems of free schools in all States and Terri l Eighth-The preservation of the public lands and
 their division in limited portions to actual settlers Ninth-The abolition of all monopolies, class legis
 lation and special privileges from the government injuri Jus to the equal rights of citizens
 tons to prevent abuses of and protect tho in terests of labor and commerce.
 The report of tho committee on tempe I rance work among the freedmen of the South ! stated that the success of prohibition in the South depends upon the colored vote. If the ] blacks are ignorant the government should make provision by appropriations for indus l trial schools The report WAS adopted. Two persons from each State represented were ap pointed as an executive committee with full ! power to act as the executive of the new party. ] The convention adjourned sine die. The McMahDn Tragedy-Detectives on { he Track of the Marderers. 1 CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-Intense excitement was caused about noon to-day at Mt. Pulaski, Lo ! gan county, the scene of the McMahon triple
 butchery of last Friday. The detectives have l been on the track of the murderers since the
 tragedy and to day they discovered new evi dence duplicating well known citizens of Bea | son, Illinois, in the crime. The detectives l are now ill hot pursuit of the fugitives and ii
 caught it is probable that they will be hang ! ed to the nearest tree by the infuriated peo pie. The $7 ,OO0 reward offered has brought I able detectives into the search for the mur- derers.