West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-08-01
A GOOD DAY.
For Prohibition in Ohio.


Prohibition in Ohio.
In answer to the call for Con
vention of all friends of the cause,
regardless of party, about 800 dele
gates met in Columbus to further
the cause of the Prohibition
Amendment, now pending. Near
lily a hundred of these delegates
were of the noble Ohio women, who
are working SO grandly for their
homes. From the published pro-
ceedings, we see that experienced
workers rom Kansas took an &C
tive part. We clip from the Com
naerciaI Gazette as follows:
"While the committees were out
Mr.. A. B. Campbell, President of
the Kansas State Temperance I'm
ion, addressed the Convention. He
denied strongly that prohibition
was failure in Kansas. In three
fourths of the State, prohibition
did prohibit. It was not the prohi-
bition issue that defeated Governor
St. John. He predicted that the
prohibition candidates would be
overwhelmingly elected next Fall.
All violations of the law were be-
ing vigorously prosecuted, and now
most of the men who went to jail
in Kansas were saloon-keepers.
He had just received telegram
from Topeka, stating that ID the
first of the twenty-six prosecutions,
verdict of guilty had been found.
Most of the saloon-keepers were
emigrating to Missouri, and Ohio
would probably receive her share
Mr.. Campbell was followed by
Mr.. M. V. Bennett, editor of the
Kansas Prohibitionist. He spoke
in similar strain. Party politics
had nothing to do with prohibition
in Kansas he said, for while Mr..
Campbell was an ardent Republi-
can, he himself had always been a
Democrat. The Democratic State
Convention voted down license,
and Click was nominated on pro-
hibition platform, but he broke his
pledge, and sold himself out to the
LIQUOR men. The sentiment is so
strong against him that he could
not again be elected to any office
on the State ticket, no matter how
insignificant his opponent was,
Mr.. Campbell took an active
hand in running the Convention.
His experience was especially
sought for by the organizing COM
mittees. He is "a magnificent spec
linen of physical manhood, and in
his style of oratory is not unlike
Cough.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were
adopted
WHEREAS, The traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors as beverage has
from the beginning o. our National
existence committed it's fearful raw
ages, destroying multiplied thous-
ands of lives, devastating hundreds
of happy homes, paralizing our
industries, demoralizing our peo
pie; and
WHEREAS, The recent General
Assembly submitted two amend
ments to our State Constitution, tc
be voted on at the ensuing State
election, one of which proposes the
taxation and regulation Of the traf.
fc, coupled with the repeal of the
no-license provision of the Consti-
tuition, and the second, which pro-
poses the utter prohibition of the
traffic for purposes of beverage
and
WHEREAS, By the recent decision
of the Supreme Court the whole
su oject of regulation, including the
power to prohibit for purposes o.
beverages the sale of malt and 9th
err liquors, is already under the con
troll of the General Assembly; anc
WHEREAS, The question of pro
hioition is by the second an end
ment submitted tor the first time tt
the people of Ohio, and so submit
ted that each voter may, withou'
any sacrifice of his political princi
Piles or opposition to his politica
party. give it his support; there