The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-10-10
PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

AS per call, the Prohibitionists of Blue
Earth county to the number of fifteen met III
mass convention at the Court House I'm this
city yesterday.
Elder j. e. Conrad was selected as chair
man and VIM. Pearson as secretary.
Mr.. conrad stated that the object ofsthe
convention was to determine what action
should be taken upon the nomination of a
ticket. He asked for an expression on the
policy Of indorsing portions of the old party
tickets. Mr.. Geo. Allyn, of Eagle Lake OBJ
Jected to endorsing the nomination of any
man. He believed that the prohibitionists
had principle involved, and should carry
that principle out by nominating full and
| independent ticket. a...
Mr.. Pearson being called on expressed him
| self as being I'm favor of endorsing the Re
| publican county ticket, and nominating u
| Legislative one ID. Il. HUFF said that he did
| not know of single Republican nominee
| for the legislature who would pledge himself
| In favor Of a constitutional amendment, but
he did know of one Democrat who had voted
for prohibition that was before the people
for their suffrage.
Rev. Mr.. Bushnell said that he did not feel
disposed to go further than to nominate u
Legislative ticket. If full ticket were
dominated he was satisfied that the National
ticket would lose strength. and the National
ticket was what he was after.
Mr.. Grannis, OF Vernon, wanted TO know
If it was policy to endorse any men on the
opposition tickets for the purpose of catch
ing votes.
Mr.. Allyn thought, after hearing what had
been said, that 1t might be best not to 20
further than To nominate u legislative ticket,
leaving the county ticket to be filled in ut the
will Of the voter. After some further discus
sion, 1t was finally agreed best to adjourn
until one o'clock 10 sec II the number of
delegates could not be increased. Thercupon
Messrs Faddis, Mills and HUH were appoint
cd u committee on resolutions and the meet
ing adjourned for dinner.
THE FINAL WORK.
At about 1850 the convention re-asscmblcd,
but with no appreciable increase OF mom-
bers. The committee on resolutions being
ready to report, tho Secretary read the fol-
lowing us the result of their deliberations;
ResOired, That the convention endorse the
National Prohibition platform Us Il whole.
Resotred, That this convention a How no per-
until first pledged to vote for st. John and
Daniel.
Resoipei, That We as Prohibition party
nave no grounds to expect amy material help
from either OF the other parties, therefore
cannot endorse the legislative ticket OF
either OF the other parties i'll whole or i'll part.
Resoired, That we as coWmIttcc place Il
legislative ticket in the field.
Mr. Ira Reynolds, of Eagle Lake. opposed
the adoption of the resolutions. and further
opposed the nomination O! any portion OF Il
ticket. He knew of men upon the tickets al
ready nominated that were good temperance
men, and he had already committed limsclf
to their support. He believed that two
thirds Of the temperance men In the county
were occupying Il like position with himself.
He said had this convention been called be-
fore the other nominations had been made
he would have heartily joined in the move
ment, but ii was now too late. He very cOn-
sistently took the grounds that ii the prohi-
Diti0nists were ever to succeed, 1t must be
by adopting some method other than that Of
abusing or ignoring the friends of their
cause. MIR. X referred to the fact that he
was as strong a prohIbitionist us there was
In the country, and no one who knew him
could claim that no was playing a double
handed game. He also thought that the re-
solutions. requiring the pledge of every man
voting I'm the convention to the support Of
St. John was rather inconsistent.
Mr.. Allyn took the floor, and proceeded
with All extended and elaborate speech. He
demonstrated pretty conclusivcly 10 his
hearers that he is IN uncOmpromising prohi-
bitionist, honest in his belief and enthllsi-
astic in the cause of suppressing the liquor
traffic. He denied that the Republican party
of Iowa had done anything fer the cause of
prohibition voluntarily. Ii was all accomp-
lished through Il handful of prohibitionists,
who forced the party to the issue. He pro-
ceeded farther to show that the fanatics and
fools Of the present generation are bound to
be the heros of the next"
Elder Conrad felt that he must say word
and ii was to the effect that all the live men
who laid the foundation for the Republican
party were now laying the foundation for
the temperance party.
MIR. j. M. FaddiS spoke in behalf of the pro
hibitiOn movement ut considerable length.
He believed that if no moye was made to-
ward prohibition until all the States had pas
sed such Il law. no beginning would ever be
made. Even if st. John and Daniel were not
now is the time to act. He admitted that
there are good men in both the old parties,
but they were 50 cncirclcd with bad iniiuenc-
es as to dIvest them of the power to accom-
plish any good for the cause of temperance.
j. ID. Evans, Esq, Of South Bend, bclieved
the temperance cause was improving. Not
long ago he called such u convention and no
one was present but himself and Sheriff
Monks. But he never faltered. He believed
the best way to meet the enemy successfully
was TO have u ticket throughout.
After all this debate, which occupied about
an hour, vote was had upon the rcsolu-
tions, but they were adopted unanimously.
Before any further business could he pro
cc,ded with, it was necessary for those who
desired to vote, sign IL pledge TO support st.
John and the ticket. The following named
Dan lennon, the