St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-26
VERY NICELY DONE.
VERY NICELY DUNE.
The Prohibition Candidates For
mally Placed in the
Election Field.
Prof. Dickery Announces that Their
Supporters are the Best in
the Land.
Gov. st. John Rebukes the Leading Parties
for Having no Political
Issues.
Mr.. Daniels, Only Candidate from the
South, Glorifies the Cause and
the Union.

Mr.. Daniels, Only Candidate from the
South, Glorifies the Cause and
the Union.
CUBA, N. Y, Aug. 25.-The prohibition
notification proceedings were held at the st.
John camp meeting circuit grounds, grove
two miles from Cuba. A temperance camp
meeting has been in progress for the last
five days. The principal leaders and speak
ers of the prohibition movement are in at
tendance, and will address the meeting dur
ing the week. An audience of 5000 was in
attendance. The exercises were opened
with music and prayer, after which Prof.
Dickery, chairman of the notification com
mittee, was introduced to the audience and
candidates. Prof Dickery, chairman OF the
notification committee, addressed the candi-
dates, John P. st. John and VIM. Daniel, as
follows:
SPEECH OF NOTIFICATION.
Gentlemen: am to speak for this com
mittee representing here to-day the national
convention of the Prohibition party, recently
in session at Pittsburg. In harmony with
the political usages, and in keeping with the
dignity and importance to which we shall
endeavor to place you, we are here for
the purpose of notifying you, in this official
and formal manner, Of your selection as the
candidates of the National Prohibition party
for the positions respectfully of presidentand
vice president of the United States.
| The convention which thus honored itself
| by SO wise selection was no ordinary gath
ering. Men were there bowed under the
weight of many years, who, generation ago,
gathered in the same hall to organize for
victory in what to some seemed 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, Francis Willard, and
Mary Woodbridge, and Mrs. Burt, and Mary
Lathrop, and Ester Hugh, representatives OF
the best brain and heart of American woman
hood. 1t was convention of earnest men
and pure women, who were there to express
their conviction that the government ought
to be government of the people, and by
the people, and for the people, and not
| 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; constituency COM
posed of citizens grown tired Of the spectacle
of the two old political parties rivaling each
other in their eagerness to serve
the liquor traffic, going down upon
their faces in the dust before the Moloch
Of men, and crying out in the language Of
the Scripture, IAN not thine ass, upon
which thou hast ridden!'
! / need not assure you the Prohibition
| party will give you its most ardent support.
We may not succeed in electing you to the
high position for which you have been named,
but we shall earn the proud satisfaction OF
knowing that our candidates were the only
candidates and our party was the only party
that ought to have succeeded. And now,
| gentlemen. in the name OF the noblest man
| hood and the purest womanhood of America,
/ invoke the blessing of the Almighty God
to rest upon you, and may that Divine power
which rules and overrules in the affairs of
the nation and Of men, vouchsafe unto you
such measure Of strength and courage and
wisdom as shall enable you to bear the bur-
dens which the national Prohibition party
with supreme confidence now lays upon you.
ST. JOHNS RESPONSE.
Gov. st. John responded as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and members of the COM
mttee: In receiving this formal notice of
the nomination for the highest office within
the gift of the people by the national con-
vention of the Prohibition party, permit me,
Notwithstanding the distinction was neither
sought nor desired by me, to assure you in
view Of the unanimity with which it was
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. Upon
the great question as to what should be done
with the traffic of intoxicating liquors as
/ both Ia tin
can party are united in favor of making the
traffic permanent, while the Prohibitionists
demand that it be forever placed under
the condemnation of the law of the land
| Thus an issue Is clearly made, and think it
safe to say the only real one that to-day
reaches the heart and consciences of citi-
zens. Upon this issue we go to the people,
the source OF all political power. Let US APP
peal to reason rather than to prejudice. Let
those resort to personal abuse and scandal
who have nothing better to uphold their
| course.
The Prohibition party is not organized as
a mere threat or menace. 1t is an outgrowth
of rapidly increasing crvstalized sentiment
against the great evil of the age; an evil that
! the old parties dare not attack, but against
which this young party Of the people, in de-
Tense Of homes of a nation has entered upon
a warfare that shall never cease so long
| as the flag of our countr Y
waves its protecting folds over legaized
dramshops. In this struggle let us ever re-
member we are accountable to God; that our
| duty to him is paramount to our allegiance
to any political party; that political ties will
| never, in His sight excuse a ballot for any
party that does not stand up fearlessly for
the right. The home, will have nothing to
to fear if the people vote as they pray.
DANIELS RESPONSE.
Mr. Daniels followed and said
| To the chairman and members OF the COM
mittee-I am profoundly gratifed for the
honor conferred upon me by selecting me as
one Of the standard bearers Of this great re-
form movement. / accept the nomination
for the office of vice president, and expect to
do so more formally by letter hereafter
knowing well that ii is one of responsibility
and involving no little personal sacrifice
and appreciate this honor, not merely as
personal one, but as token of appreciation
by the convention of the earnest, solid pro-
/ hibition work that has been done in nv ma
| tive state of Maryland within the few years
! past / also appreciate it as desire or our
| brethren of the north aud west to obliterate
all sectional party lines, and to build up
grand union party composed of the best ele-
ments on both sides OF the line, in array
against the worst representatives of protec-
ton; to the homes everywhere as against the
saloons This disposition is more clearly
evinced from the fact that / am the first per-
| son selected since the war from a southern
! state as a candidate for a national position,
and l trust that this action will be the har-
binger of that reign of harmony. good will
and unity throughout the land which poet
| has described.
The union of lakes,
I lard