Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-07-31
ST. JOHN LEADS!
William Daniel Of Maryland for Vice
President.
National Prohibition Convention.

The National Prohibition Convention
was held in Pittsburg, Pa. on the 23d of
July.
The convention was called to order
promptly at IL o'clock by Gideon l.
Stewart, and prayer was offered by Rev.
A A. Miner of Boston.
The call of the convention was then
read by W. r. w, Nelson of Chicago,
secretary.
The address of welcome was delivered
by c. l.. Rose of Pittsburg, who said IL
was very great honor and pleasant
duty TO welcome to that city represen-
tatives of the Prohibition party. The
old political parties were not competent
for the great work of reform to be done
"a work which the Prohibitionists
alone could do. Never did u party
more justly plead for help than this one,
for back OF them was century OF desc
lation wrought by the rum traffic, and
the demands of the age could only be
met By the success of the Prohibition
party. Gideon |. Stewart, chairman of
the national committee responded to
the address of welcome, and then pro-
ceeded to deliver the opening address He
referred to the relation existing between
the liquor crime and the slavery crime,
Anti-slavery men were strangely blind
to the correlation of the two evils, and
their platform of 80 years ago ignored
the fact that slavery was but the natural
offspring of the liquor crime. The anti
slavery men had done all in their power
to cut down the giant evil of slavery;
the prohibltionists meet to-day to lay
the axe ut the root of the upas tree
whose wide.spreading branches were
doing SO much to darken our republic.
He denounced every theory looking to
compromise with the liquor traffic as
crime against God and man. The
most prevalent and dangerous compro-
mise with the liquor crime was that
called local option" or local prohibit
ton" The liquor crime is national
one, and its suppression demands ma
tional legislation enacted by party
formed for that purpose. State consti-
tuhonal and statutory prohibition were
good, but as opposed TO the national
crime they are as impotent as ropes of
sand against the force of the mighty
Niagara. All Republican and Dem
ocratic prohibitionists were serfs under
the liquor power and bound by the lash
ofparty ties. This was clearly proven
by the silent contempt with which the
petition of the w. G. Il. u, presented
to the national Republican convention
by that noble women, Miss Willard,
was treated.
The mission of the prohipitionists was
to bring peace, and civil liberty under
absolute prohibition. and the reunion OF
the republic. Tho first and indispensa-
BILE step toward that reunion was the
total destruction of the two political
parties. For years there had been con.
tinued warfare between these parties,
and through all these years the people
had been demanding n new party OF
progress and reform. For this was the
prohibition party organized. 1t is 8
party which will bind in unity all relig.
ious and moral forces. The spirits Of
the founders of this mighty republic ap
peal to us to 60 forward in the work
and from the unnumbered graves o.
the victims of this giant monster, the
liquor traffic, came mute appeals for the
convention TO go hravely on in its labor
of right and justice.
The temporary organization was af
fected in the choice of William DAME
Of Maryland as chairman, and Mrs
Woodbridge, president of the Ohio
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and Charles S. Carter of Washington
ID. C., as secretaries.
Mr.. Daniels in his speech spoke o.
the progress of the temperance work il
his state, and of the results which haC
been accomplished. All due credit was
given to the grand work being done by
state organizations, but only by TIE
general government could the work in
its broadcast scope be done. The signs
of the time were propitious. There i:
victory in the air, and II is coming
soon. AT the close of the chairman:
address the convention adjourned unit
afternoon, and when it re-assembled
the memorial of the w. G. Il. u. wa:
presented by Mrs. Mary Woodbridge
of Ohio. The memorial was petition
for the edoption OF such measures as
shall secure prohibition of the maDufac
ture, expectation and importation Of
alcoholic beverages.
At the evening session the committee
on permanent organization reported
the name of Erof Samuel Dickie, presi-
dent of Albion college, Michigan, as
permanent chairman, with one vice
president from every state. Ten of the
latter were women. Prof. Dickie male
brief acknowledgment of his election.
Considerable time was spent in desul.
tory discussion of the report of the
committee on rules. By large majority
the convention refused to adopt the two
third rule in the nomination of candi-
dates and adopted the majority plan.
After the appointment of the new ma
tional committee and the transaction
of some routine business of no public
interest, the convention at 1905 adj
journed until tomorrow morning at
O'Clock.
SECOND DAYS WORK.