Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-26
The Prohibition Candidates Re-
ceive their Notitica-
tion and Re-
spond.
Heavy Frosts Destroy the
Crops in Various POr-
tlOns of New
England.
Oklahoma Payne and His Boomers
in Custody at Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
rrohibition,sts in Council.

OuOaS Ns A3 AuSusO GO-oes OOuuo
camp meeting circuit grounds are two
miles from Cuba village. A Atemperance
camp meeting, to last five days, is in
progress. and the principal leaders aud
speakers of the prohibition movement
are in attendance and will address the
audience during the week. Three
thousand people are in attendance.
The exercises opened with music and
prayer, after which Professor Dicky,
chairman of the notification committee,
was introduced to the audience and
candidates, and addressed them as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen-l am to speak for the
committee represented here to-day by
the national committee of the
prohibition party recently in
session at Pittsburg and in harmony
with political usages aud in keeping
with the dignity and importance of the
high position in 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 respectively of
president and vice president of the
United States.
The convention which thus honored
itself by SO wise a selection was no
ordinary gathering; men we're there
bowed down under the weight of years,
who generation ago, met in the same
hall to organize for victo:y in what
seemed to some 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 best brain
and heart Of American womanhood. 1t
was a convention, of earnest men and
pure women who were there to express
the conviction that the government
ought to be government Of the people
and by the people, and not q govern
ment of the saloon and by the saloon
and for the saloon; it was convention
representing powerful constituency
from all points of our land; constitu-
ency composed of citizens grown tired of
the spectacle of two old political parties
reviling each other in their eagerness to
serve the liquor traffic, going down upon
their faces in the du. before the Moloch
OF men and crying ont in the language
of the scripture, IAN 1 not thine ass
upon which thou has. ridden" need
not assure you the prohibition party
will give you 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 our candidates
only, and that our party was the only
party that ought to succeed. And now,
gentlemen, in the name of the noblest
womanhood and purest manhood of
America invoke the blessing of tue
| 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 we'll
the burdens which the national prohibi.
tion party, with supreme confidence,
now lays upon you.
Gov. st. John replied as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and members of the
Committee: In receiving this formal
notification of my nomination for the
highest office within the gift of the peo.
pie. by the national convention of pro.
hibitionists, permit me, Notwithstanding
the distinction was not sought by me-
to say. that in view of the unanlmity
with which it was given, of my high ap.
probation of the great honor it confers
There is more politics in the field to-day
than there are political issues upon the
great question as to what shall be done
with the traffic in Intoxicating liquors as
beverage. Both the democratic and
Republican parties are united in favor oi
making the traffic permanent, while the
prohlbitionists demand that it be forever
placed under the condemnation OF the
laws of the land. This, as an issue Is
| clearly made and think it to be the
only one to-day that really reaches the
heart and conscience of the citizens, and
upon this Issue we go to the people,
the source of all political power. Let
us appeal to reason rather than preiu.
dice; let those resort to personal abuse
and scandal who have nothing better to
uphold their cause; the prohibition
party ls not organized as o mere threat
or menace; it is the outgrowth oi rap.
idly increasing crystalized sentiment
against the great evil of the age, an evil
that old parties dare not attack, but
against which this young party of the
people, in defense of the homes of the
nation, has entered upon.
Mr.. DAME! followed, who said to the
chairman and members OF the committee:
I am profoundly gratified for the
honor conferred upon me; accept the
nomination of the office of vice presi.
dent, and appreciate the honor, not
merely as personal one but as token
of appreciation by the convention of the
earnest, solid prohibition work that has
been done in my native state of Mary.
land within few years past; also ap.
preciate it from the fact that ] am the
first person selected since the war from
a southern state as candidate for o
national position, and trust this will be
the harbinger of that reign of harmony,
good will and unity throughout the
land which poet has described as
The union of states none can sever,
The union of hearts, the union of hands,
And the flag of the union forever.
I have but to say in conclusion that
1 shall do all in my power now and
henceforth to bear onward this prohibi.
ton standard.
Damage by Eastern Fros,s.
Boston, Aug. 25-Dispatches received
from various parts in New Hampshire,
Vermont and Connecticut report heavy
frosts last night. Crops were damaged
in many places.