The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-08
WOODSTOWN NJ j. FRIDAY FEBRUARY
NATIONAL CONVENTION AGAINST
THE LIOUOR-CRIME.

NATIONAL CONVENTION AGAINST
THE LIQUOR-CRIME.
All citizens of the United States, without
distinction of section, sex, race, color, place
of birth, or former party relation, who are in
favor of the prohibition by the national gov
ernment in its constitution and laws, and its
treaties with other governments, of the man.
ufacture, sale or supply, importation and ex-
portation of alcoholic beverages, in any form,
distilled or fermented, as high crime against
/ the nation and the civilized world and who
will support the election of an administration
to enforce this prohibition, are invited to send
delegates to the national convention of the
Prohibition Home Protection party, to be
held in the city of Pittsburgh, in the state of
Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, the twenty-frst
day of May, 1884, at the hour of eleven
o'clock AN, to nominate candidates for the
offices of president and vice-president of the
United States to adopt platform of such
principles and measures of national govern
ment as are living issues before the people !;
and to transact such other business as the
convention may deem proper.
The basis of representation in the conven-
ton will be one delegate for every $50, and
fraction over 100, of the number of votes
cast for the leading candidate ON the state
ticket of the Prohibition Home Protection
party, at the last regular state election held
in the years 1882 and 1883, in each of the fol-
lowing named thirteen states, in which such
tickets were voted: California, Connecticut,
Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota New Hampshire. New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wiscon-
sin.
In all the other states, and in the territories
nj ofC o1 fho hac of
sentation will be one delegate for every $50
and fraction over 100, of the qualified voters
at general elections there, who sign the fol-
lowing:
| NATIONAL CALL.
We, the undersigned citizens of -, in the
county of -. and state Cor territory of
=, hereby unite in calling convention of
the signers of this and similar calls circulated in
this county, to be held at -, on the -
day of -, 1884, at the hour of -. for
the purpose of organizing the Prohibition Home
Protection party in this county and appointing
delegates to a state Cor territoriaD convention,
to form the party in this state Cor territory, and
to appoint delegates to the national convention
of that party to be held in the city of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, on the 2lst day of May 1884. We
hereby mutually pledge ourselves to each other,
that we will entirely separate ourselves from the
Republican and Democratic parties, and from
all political parties not opposed to the liquor
crime, and that we will do all in our power to
promote the success of the principles and candi-
dates of the Prohibition Home Protection party.
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NAMES OF NAMES OF POST OFFICE
| VOTERS. NON-voTERs. ADDRESS.
Each county convention so called will ap-
point committee of one or more of such
signers to the national call, who will unite
with the committees from other counties in
calling state Cor territoriaD convention, in
time to send delegates to this national con-
vention. All delegates to this convention will
be appointed by their several state and terri
torial conventions, and will bring certificates
of their appointment signed by the chairman
and secretary of each; and except from the
thirteen states above named, each certificate
must also contain the number of qualified
electors who have signed the national call in
such state or territory.
Every delegation to this convention will
have power to fill vacancies in its own num-
Der occurring after its appointment. ALI
| friends of the cause not accredited as dele
gates, are cordially invited to attend the ses-
sions of the convention, without taking part
in its proceedings, unless specially authorized
to do so by the convention.
GIDEON T. STEWART Chairman,
R. W. NELSON, Secretary,
A. J. JUTKINs, CIR. Secretary,
Of the national committee of the Prohibition
Home Protection party. Headquarters 81
Washington street, Chicago, III.
January %, 1884.