The Brookhaven leader., 1884-09-11
ST. JOHN AND DANIEL.
Formally Notified of Their Nomi-
s nation.

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CuBA, N. W Aug. s5.-The noti.
6cation proceedings were held at the
st. John Camp Meeting Circui,
Grounds, q grove two miles from
Cuba village, where a temperance
camp mee11ng, to last five DAYS, is
in progress. The principal leaders
and speakers Of the prohibition
movement are in attendance, and will
address the meeting during the week
An audience OF 5000 is in attend,
arce.
The exercises opened with music
and prayer, after which Prof Dickey,
chairman of the Notification Com.
mittee, was introduced to the
audience and the candidates.
Prof. Dickey addressed the candi-
dates, St. John and VIM. Daniel, rs
follows:
Gentlemen-I am to 4speak for
this committee, representing here to-
day the National Convention of the
Prohibition party, recently in ses-
sion at Pittsburg. In harmony with
political usages and in keeping with
the dignity and importance OF the
high position in which We shall en-.
deavor to place you, we are here for
the purpose of notifying you in this
official and formal manner of your
selection as candidates of the Ma
tional Prohibition party for the
positions, respectively, Of President
and Vice President Of the United
States.
The Convention which thus
honored itself by so wise selection
was no ordinary gathering. Men
we're there who we're bowed under
the weight of many years, gathered
iu that hall to organize for the
victory Of what seemed to some a
hopeless cause.-the battle against
that other slavery.
Young men were there with the
ardor of youth and the devotion Of
heroes. Women were there: Frances
Willard, Mary Woodbridge, Mrs.
Burt, Mary Lathrop and Esther Hugh,
representatives Of the hest brains
and hearts of American woman
hood.
1t was convention of earnest
men and pure women, who we're to
express their conviction that the
Government ought to be a govern
ment of the people and by the peo-
pie and for the people, and not a
government of the saloon and by the
saloon and for the saloon.
1t was a convention representing
a powerful constituency from all
parts of our land--a constituency
composed of citizens grown tired of
the spectacle of two old political
parties rivaling each other in their
eagerness to serve the liquor traffic.
and going down upon their faces in
the dust before the Moloch of men
and crying out in the Language of
the Scripture: "Am I not thine
ass upon which thou hast ridden?"
I need not assure you that the
Prohibition party will give you the
most ardent support. We may not
succeed in electing you to the high
positions for which You have been
named, but We shall enjoy the proud
satisfaction of knowing that our
candidates were the only candidates,
and that our party was the only
party that ought to have succeeded; ;
and now, gentlemen, in the name of
the noblest manhood and the purest
womanhood of America, / invoke
the blessings OF Almighty God to
rest upon you, and may that divine
power which rules and ever rules in
the affairs Of the nation and of men,
vouchsafe unto you such measure
of strength, and Of courage, and
of wisdom as shall enable you to
bear the burdens which the National
Prohibition party with supreme
confidence now lays on you.
Gov. st. John replied as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Members of the
Committee-In receiving this formal
notice Of my nomination for the
highest Office in the gift Of the pee
pie by the National Convention OF a
Prohibition party, permit me, not
withstanding the fact that the, dis
tinctiGn was neither sought nor de-
sired by me, to assure you, in view
OF the unanimity with which it is
given, Of my high appreciation OF
the very great honor it confers.
There are more political parties in
the field to day than there are
political issues, as on the great
question as to what should be done
with the traffic of intoxicating u
quors both the Democratic and Re,
publicans parties are united in favor
of making the traffic permanent,
while the Prehibitionists demand
that it be forever placed under the
condemnation Of the laws OF the
land. Thus an issue ls clearly
made, and / think it safe to say tina,
il is only one to-day that really
reacues the heart and consciences ol
our citizens.
+. Upon this issue we 60 to the pso
pile, the source Of ell political power
to reason With, rather than preju-
dice them. Let those resort to per
sonal abuse and scandal who have
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