The Dickinson press., 1884-04-26
Dakota NEWS NoTES.
DAKOTA PR0HIBITIoNIsTs.
The Mass Convention at Alitchen-Ths Dol.
egates and Proceedings.

The Mass Convention ut Mitchel-The Dol.
egates and Proceedings.
MITCHELL, Oak. Special, April 1.-THE terri
torial Temperance and prohibition convention
convened Tuesday night ut the court house in
this city. Alarge proportion of the delegates
and large numbers Of visitors from oil parts of
The territory were present, INSTRUMENTATION
from Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. The conven-
lion was temporarily organized in the evening
with Rev. DR.. Pardee Of Mitchell as temporary
chairman, and j. A.. Garner temporary secretary.
An address Of welcome was delivered by Rev. D.
r Atkins, Of the Congregational church of this
atty. The audience was next treated to an
subject "The house that Jack built" By a
unanimous vote, Hon. George Woodford, of I'LL
nois was telegrsplhed for, as the convention
on the political situation. A children's mass
meeting. under the auspices of the Band Of Hope.
was held at : p. m. Yesterday, which was I'D.
Scroggins, Of Yankton, and Mrs. Hanson, Of
Mount Vernon. Rev. WilmotW Whitfield delivered
an address on enforced prohibition last night.
license, which they denounce as a -delusion and
= snare. The following well-known temper
anee workers have been in attendance:
Pierre; Q. A. Phillips. Brown county; A. R.
Cornwall. Pierre: Mrs. y. ]. scoggins, -Yankton;
Mrs. !. NJ. Hartsough, Sioux Falls; Mrs, ]. a.
Mrs. Klsin, Henry, i'll; Miss Helen walker
Barry, H.; Mrs. F. Johnson, Milbank; Mrs. Z.
A. Young, Rec Heights; F. T. Dobson, Douglass
b iSpbn,g; he y. 7 :: B W rIsk' s Essshe Fa1 &; " :. G M' Ma.
Donald, Jerauld county; Rev. J. F. Hanson
md Alice Hanson; Mt. Vernon; F. B.. Fos-
;er, A%lexaq1ria; Rev; y !, :, A. seaton, N. D;
temperance alliance; Rev. D. Refenbark, Lenox
Rev. J. REYNOLDS, Parker: Rev. s. A. French,
Molsey; ]. A.. Garner, 'Yankton; Rev. 3 F.
Humphrey and wife, Kimball; Rev. w. F.
Springer, Brookings; R. H. Dolliyer, Yankton;
L. d. Kanouse, Woonsockct, and E. T. Bunch
and Rev. n. Norton, of Pierre.
1t is estimated that three-fourths of all the
ministers of South Dakota are here to work for
prohibition, and there are between four and five
hundred delegates and visitors in attendance.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
AT 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon $50 children,
members OF the Band Of Hope of this city, pa
raded the streets, carrying temperance banners,
, ND, were gwen seats in the convention being
by Mrs. Hartsough, Mrs. Scoggins, Mrs. Hum
phrey and Deacon Bidwell. An effort was made
10 cause this convention to form a new third
PARTY. which met with little favor. A platform
of principles was adopted to-day which con-
iemns tho manufacture, sale and use Of all alco-
holic liqdors as a beverage, urges the nomination
md makes constitutional prohibition the ultim-
atum. Rev. Rynolds OF Parker read q paper on
tho Signs of the Times" The report Of the
4 permanent constitutional which was adopted
by sections. L. .. Krause was elected perma-
aent president; Ed Ellis, vice president;J j. Ry-
loluS, SCcEebdIS, anu MIS-. dartS0uEh, treasurer.
Reports we're received from nearly every town and
hamlet in South Dakota, reporting temperance
alliances already established. The delegates
we're instructed to remain in the ranks of the
Republican and Democratic parties, 20 to eau
:uses and conventions and control the same as
FAR as possible, to the end that only sober and
temperance men may be nominated for Office,
ind to boycott any liquor man that may be nut
lp by either party ticket, and to work with the
steady purpose of putting and keeping temper
mce men in office, and to thus modify the body
polite, and at the earliest possible time secure a
constitution for Dakota which will enforce pro
libition. The convention will receive final re-
ports of committees in the morning when it will
adjourn.
HOME PRoTECTIONISTS.
The Home Protection party of South Dakota
convened in territorial convention to-day. tt is
\ stralSht-out prohibition party, and was i'm
ported from Iowa in the first place, and was
given form in the effort to secure a prohibition
plank in the territorial constitution adopted last
fall. About 100 delegates to the Territorial Pro
a1bltlon alliance convention now in session here
IRE also delegates to this convention, and the
drst convention gave way for a few hours this
afternoon to allow the Home Protection party
convention to assemble in the large court hall
committees appointed, and the convention ad.
iourned, to meet after the close of the Prohihi.
zion alliance convention Tomorrow. 1t is limited
that the deliberations of the Home Protection
party may not be as harmonious as those of the
Prohibition alliance convention. An interesting
meeting Is expected tomorrow. The delegates
10 these conventions represent the law abiding
md solid citizens of South Dakota, and they
are terribly in earnest.