Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-08-01
PROHIBITION.
Ex-Governor John p. Ct. John Nom
mated for President
Unanimously.
Hon. william Daniel. OF Maryland, AS
signed tho Second Place on the
Ticket--Thc Platform and
List OF omccrs.
THE PROCEEDINGS.

ITOnlDltlOn OOnNCntlOu WIS CHllcu 10 OTutr
at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. Lafay
cttc Hall presented scene more animated
than any seen under its roof since tho day
thirty.two years ago, when the antl-Savery
National Convention, representing all the
free slave States, assembled TO initiate
an emancipation campaign. The hall is
gaily decorated in flags, wreaths,
flowers, banners and eVergreens
Shields bearing the names OF
the various States were pend
ant from the galleries A sheet Of
canvas stretched from wall to wall bears
this inscription: Unconstitutional Conven-
tlon for the people, by the people," At the
right and left of the Presidents chair are
bowers composed of star spangled banners,
the Union Jack of old England, National
flags of Spain and Italy. Over tho chair
swings the motto: "Our homes and mothers
must be protected" Five hundred men
and women wear silken badges as delegates
to the National Convention of the Prohibi-
tion Home Protection party.
The call of the convention was then read
by w. r. w. Nelson, of Chicago secretary.
The address of welcome was delivered by @.
l.. Rose, of Pittsburgh. llo described 1t as a
come to Pittsburgh the delegates of the
National Prohibition Convention. Mover did
n party more justly plead for help than his
own. Back of them was n century of DESC
intion caused by a egalized liquor traiiic.
The demands of tho age could not be met
without Prohibition party. As Noah's ark
would not do for n steamship, neither were
old political parties suited to this day. This
was the only political party that offered to the
women OF the Nation equal rights IN managing
tho affairs of the Government The prohib-
tiou harvest could not he gathered without tho
cooperation of the women. If asked "what
tsthc influence o. women in public places"
the answer was, "Eucy Hayes" Every Nation
was interested In the work of the convention,
and when 1t came to chosen candidate for the
Presidency he should bc ono whose abors
have most richly blessed the cause of prohbi-
tion.
/ Gideon It. Stewart, chairman of the Na.
] tional Committee. responded in behalf of the
convention. The hall In which they met ad
ded, he said, its historic welcome. Nearly
thirty-two years ago the antislavery patriots
assembled In II to organize another National
then ruled and well nigh ruined tho Bepub-
lilo. He thanked the citizens of Pitts
burgh for Lafayette Hall for its majestic mem
and inspire them for the great conflict. When
he had finished his response to the address of
welcome, Mr.. Stewart. proceeded to deliver
the opening address. He referred to the re-
lation between the liquor crime and the
slavery crime. Tho anti.slayery mon, he
said, were strangely M blind to the correlation correlation
f whsS w sveTy Was the
offspring when Senator san Brown. Of Georgia
since that African slavery was the
product of Northern dlstilieries he only cch-
oed n truth shown in the whole history of the
African slave trade and slavery. America
had poured the destroying curse of the liquor
crime on Africa, and by the tnt of nvenging
Justice Africa had poured back the curse OF
mutually sustained and streugi hened each 9TH
er. The anti-savery reformers had lifted the
AK of civilliberty to cut down one great branch
ow, had darkened the republic, and to-
day they met to lay that ax to the roots OF
of oppression and injustice to labor aud of all
crime, vice, and ignorance, poverty, debase-
ment and misery. The whole compromise
sne Sor of
was sin against God and a crime against
man. Tho arguments in its support were nll
was the logic OF coiied vipers, favored
with the rhetoric of friends. Its absurdity
was equal to its infamy. One of the most
mise with the liquor crime was that .'of local
prohibition" or ''local option" A National
crime organized and in control of the Gov
q party formed for the purpose. An attempt
to reform the National Government and to
abolish a ruling crime by merely changing
as T to expect @ revoimion Of the Was sea by % the
mere winds that turn its waves
Within State limits constitutional pro-
as ppo fo tae ese
they We're as mpotsnt @ as ropes Of sand is' in the
teeth Of Niagara There were four neeminay
ut the south, and yet, in the late National Re.
publican Convention at Chicago, not n delegate
from one of those ten States has dared to sign a
was the same Hsi in the Democratic Convention. n
Thus all the Republican and Democratic Prohi.
bitionists were bound as serfs of the liquor
when the Woman's Christian Temperance Tn.
Jon, represented by the houored and worthy
head OF Miss Francis willard. stood at the
door of the Republican National Convention
pleading for the protection of homes. it was
treated with silent contempt. What could
more vividly Illustrate the object and servil-
ity OF that party 70 the liquor popwS,er and It's
Sentian " of Is5s and tie prnSibition convena anu
tion of 1884 differed in one important respect
They first ushered in a political party; tri-
ua1 uph y, toliowGa oy GivlL war, .n,s convention
was reunion. repnbIican not in mere l form
but in fact, In truth and hearts of all people.
AS & mrs, 'ar ana t ioisPens1'e M e saep 10 tbat re-
two political parties. It was of no oopse.
quence which of them went first. In the
grave OF their master, tho liquor power,
Yeayr nfter oT,a year the qu'v WAY betwnen blea,
the two great political parties was prolonged.
although these many years the cry from the
hearts of all people and all churches had been
for n new party of peace and progress. The
Prohibition party. called into being, met that
cry; reclaimed the policy which
bound unity and all religious and
moral forces Prohibition was civil
liberty against crime. License was per-
sonal liberty for crime. The air was tramped
with ,pirits, illustrious founders patriots and
sages of the republic, appealing to them to for
ward this mighty cause From ali the battle.
fields of the Nation, white-winged angels rose
TO bear their banners from the million
graves its martyred heroes and from
unnumbered millions of dark, sad
graves those who have been murdered by the
liquor crime, pale hands were rising to point
tho way. Let this convention rise to the
grandeur of its mission and do its duty fully,
bravely and right. and grateful future
would come to crown its work with faultless
glory.
The addrass ,vas l;stanad IN with c,ose
,..a,.,. auu,Soo was iis.1nou ~ W WIN M oioso
dt'ehtioi anu occasional piauuitS. lne roi-
erence to Miss Willard was greeted with
applause. and her treatment by the Repub-
I;onn oonyantio, ,,,as r,raa,ad ,,,th .hoYts =,
a.e",i oo, ~, ,on'uh w"o 6ieo'ou WIN onouIS VI
'snameF shameF
The Temporary organization was affected
In tLa ohojca ~ 'W;i1ian, non;ai 90 ~,
~ .,'o oio,ec VI ""i"n Du"i1i, VI MaiT
land, as Chairman, and Mrs. woodbridge,
President of the Ohio Women's Christian
rremnerance JTnion and Charles & Carter