The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-25

the mechanic the miner aud manufacturer, and ask
investigation Of the baneful effects upon labor and
industry caused by the liquor business which will be
found the robber who lessons wages and profits,
the destroyer Of the happiness of the family
and the welfare of the laboring man. Labor
and all legitimate industry demand deverence from
the taxation and loss which this traffic imposes and
no tariff or other legislation heathy stimulate
production increase demand for capital and labor
or produce much of comfort the suppressing of
this traffic would bring to the laboring man, the
chanic, and the employers of labor throughout our
That the activity and cooperation Of the women Of
America for the promotion of temperance has in all
the history of the past been strength and
agement which we gratefully acknowledge and record
In the later and present phases of the movement for
prohibition of the license traffic by the abolition
OF drinking saloons, the purity of purpose
genee and devotion of the mothers and
daughters of the Womens Christian Temperance
Union has been eminently blessed by God. Kansas
and Iowa have been given her sheaves of rejoicing
and the education and arousing of the public mind,
and the demand for constitutional amendment now
prevailing: are largely the fruit of her prayers and
labors and we rejoice to have Christian
unit with that sharing in the labor that shall bring
the abolition OF the traffic at the polls she shall join
IN a grand Praise God from Whom all Blessings
Flow when, by law, our boys and friends shall be
free honf legal drink temptation.
That believing in the civil and political equality of
the sexes and that the ballot in the hand of
is right for her protection and would prove powerful
ally for the abolition of drinking saloons
the execution of law the promotion of reform in civil
and so believing reegate the practical outworking
of this reform to the discretion of the Prohibition
party in the several States according the condition
OF public sentiment in those States.
That gratefully we acknowledge and praise God for
the presence of His spirit, guiding the counsels and
granting the success whchhas been vouchsafed in the
progress of the temperance reform and looking to
Him from whom all wisdom and help Scome, we ask
the voters of the United States to make the principles
OF the above declarations ruling principle in the gov
ernInent of the Nation and of the States
Resolved That henceforth, the Prohibition Home
protection party, shall be called by the name Of the
Prohibition party
After the reading of the platform telegram
was read from DR.. P. H. Mcdonald, congratu-
lating the convention on the wisdom shown in
the selection of ST John as its candidate and
assuring it and him of his most sincere and cor
dial support.
The platform was then read by sections for
action. Tie first section was adopted without
discussion. The second section was character
lied by New Jersey delegate as ''multifarious
and uninteligible.n The same objection was
made by Mr.. Smith, of Illinois, who moved to
recommitit for the purpose of having it re-
formed and put in a few lines.
Mr., Neal, of New York. commended it as just
what was wanted.
Mr.. Minor of Massachusetts,; a member of the
the committee, and explained the difficulty
under which it labored. He thought il better
for the convention not to be overcritical
Mr.. Ingrahm. of Illinois, thought the platform
take the deliberate Judgment of the men and
women of the committee He thought itan able
paper, and one that would gain thousands Of
votes
A Wisconsin delegate thought it best to adopt
the platform without discussion rather than let
every member try amending it.
The discussion was put an end to by the pre-
vious question, and then the Second section
was adopted
Mr. Bartram, Of New Jersey. moved that
when the nafforno shall have hnar adnntad IL
shall be referred for reediting to James Black,
of Pennsylvania, Rev DIR. Minor, of Massachu-
sets. and John Russell, of Michigan, which was
agreed to.
DISCUSSING THE PLATFORM
Mr. Black, Of Pennsylvania chairman of the
committee, withdrew the last resolution in the
platform. that relating to change of the party 5
name.
A motion was made to adopt the remaining
sections in bulk, but suggestion was made that
the plank in relation to polygamy was not sufi-
cient It would not do to have State Constitu-
tion prohibit polygamy; it should be prohibited
in the national Constitution.
The clerk having read the remaining sections
of the platform, a motion was made for the
previous question, but it was voted down
Then a motion was made to strike out of the
third section all personal allusion to Mr. Blaine
and Mr.. Logan. This proposition led to a dis
cussion, in which Mr.. Heany, of Illinois, declared
his belief that both Blaine and Logan were on
the Republican ticket because of their action on
the liquor question Prohibitionists, he said,
could face the music and shoot where they
wanted to hit
Mr.. Russell, of Michigan, thought that Blaine
and Logan should be rebuked for asking the suf
frages Of the American people under such cir
cumStanceS
The question was taken on a motion to strike
out OF the third section-the personal allusion to
Blaine and Logan-and it was rejected by large
& Mr.. Hopkins, of New York, moved to strike
out the whole of the financial plank
After brief discussion the previous question
was ordered and the motion to strike out the
financial plank voted down, on which delegate
declared he would no longer be member of the
party.
The previous question was then ordered ON all
sections of the platform not previously acted on,
and the platform as whole was adopted amid
cheers.
Mrs. Brown, of Iowa, stated that the ladies of
the conyenvention had agreed to a memorial adj
dressed to the women of the country, the point
of which she gave, and asked that it be adopted
by the convention. 1t was adopted enthusias-
tically.
Dispatches were read from New York Boston
Portland Providence and other Eastern
towns. describing the enthusiasm with which
the nomination of Mr.. st. John had been re-
ceiyed among church going and temperance peo-
pie.
Rev. DR. Minor of Massachusetts,, one of the
three members of the committee on resolutions
to whom the platform was referred for literary
revision, said that the committee would not be
able to report to the convention for action. He
moved, however, that the name Of the party be
fixed as the Prohibition party.
Miss Willard spoke in favor of retaining the
name of Prohibition Home-protetion party
The question between Dr. Minors proposition
and Miss Wizards was taken amid much excite-
ment, and resulted 223 to 156 in favor of the
former The name of the party, therefore,
is to be the Prohibition party
The convention then, at $50, took a recess
until o'clock.
THE vICE-PRESIDENCY.
William Daniel, Of Maryland, Nominated by