Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-25
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. TO HELP CLEVELAND The Temperance Men Run
 A Candidate. IA PLATFORM OF PLATITUDES Which Is Accepted After
 Much Wrangling. BARNUM TO BUY THE MULES That Will Draw The Dem
 Ocratic Cart.
BARNUM TO BUY THE MULES
That Will Draw The DeTn-
 Ocratic Cart.
ST, JOHN AND DANIELS.

SIT. JOHN AND DANIELS. The Ticket Nominated By the ProhIbi. tfOnists-LtveIy Day In the ConVen. tiOn-A Platform That Is All Fol Cold Water-The Proceedings In De.
 tail.
 PITTsBURG, Pa, July 24.-The day opened
 hot. The thermometer ranged from 98 tc
 100 degrees. Delegates assembled wearing
 travelling clusters and in many instances
 outer clothing discarded and delegates took
 their seats in their shirt sleeves The Wo-
 mans Temperance union established social
 lunch under the convention hall where lem
 onade at five cents glass was freely sold.
 Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, recently
 nominated as presidential candidate by the
 anti-secret society party, was on the ground
 having great hopes of securing the nomina-
 tion of this convention. Dr. McDonald of
 California, is expected tomorrow. Prompt
 ly at 9:10 the chairman rapped for order and
 the days proceedings were opened with
 prayer by the Rev. Dr. Lee, of New York.
 The prayer was followed by the singing of
 F'Jesus, my cross have taken" A Mary
 land delegate offered resolution, which was
 not acted upon, reciting that it was the sen
 timent of the convention that Commissioner
 of Indian Affairs Price and Commissioner of
 Pensions Dudley violated the civil service rules by visiting Pittsburg with the view of influencing the action of the Prohibition con vention. In few remarks on this subject, a western delegate said that the government off, eials mentioned in the resolution found the Prohibition party could neither be bought off nor persuaded to go home prolonged ap- plause.) Upon the call of States Colonel Bab- cock presented the name of Dr. Mcdonald of California (the $1 ,000,0 900 man) as nominee for President, principally because he was feared by the liquor interest of his State. The Hon. George c. Christian of Chicago nomi- mated Governor St. John of Kansas as man who would not wage a defensive campaign and was known in every household in the land Miss Frances Willard seconded the nomination. Kentucky seconded Mcdonald as the most available man. Colonel Eustace of Maine nominated the Hon. Gideon T. Steward of Ohio, Charles M Nye of Maryland seconded the nomination of Dr. Mcdonald, and the Rev. Dr. Miner, of Boston, seconded the nomination of St. John. M. J. Tanning, of Michigan, second ed St. John. w. w. Saterlee, of Minnesota, St. John, and promised liberal con tributions to a campaign literature fund. Missouri, through Mrs. Clara Hoffman, pres ident of the State Womans Christian Fem perance union, gave its adhesion to St. John Stephen P. Ransom, of New Jersey, eulogized General Clinton B. Fiske, who forbade the use of his name, and announced that the New Jersey delegates had reconsidered their first choice and would solidly support Gov ernor St. John Prof. Hopkins, New York, John F. Finch, Nebraska, and Gideon T. Stewart, Ohio, seconded the nomination of St. John and J. Newton Pierce, of Pennsyl- vania, nominated Judge James Black. At this point there was rush for St. John, and all of the other candidates withdrew in his favor. The motion was about to be carried for suspension of the rules in order to nominate St. John by exclamation, but the motion was temporarily withdrawn and at 20 the convention took a recess until o'clock.
 When the convention reassembled at o'clock the resolution to nominate Cover nor St. John, of Kansas, for President by ac- clamation was passed. The committee on resolutions then reported the platform as fol- lows:
 Section one acknowledges the sovereignty of Almighty God.
 Section two says 'Ethat the importation, supply and sale of alcoholic beverages created and maintained by the laws of the national and State governments during the entire history of such laws is everywhere shown to be the promoting cause of intemperance with resulting crime and making large demands upon pub lie and private charity, imposing large and unjust taxation and public burdens for penal and sheltering institutions, upon thrift, in dustry, manufactures and commerce, soratien ef the Sabbath, G peace, oorruptng @ our politics, legislation and administration of the laws, shortening lives, impairing health and diminishing productive industry, causing education to be neglected and despised, nulG fy the teachings of the Bible, the church and the school. The standards and guides of our fathers and their children in the funding and growth under God of our widely extended country, and which, imperilling the perpe tuity of of our civil and religious liberty, are balefu1 fruits, by which we know that these laws alike contrary to Gods laws, and contravene our happiness, and we call upon our fellow citizens to aid in the repeal of these laws and the legal of this baneful liquor traffic.
 Section three concludes that ''the Republi- can party is insensible to, or impotent for the redress of these wrongs and should no longer be entrusted with the powers and re- responsibilities of government. That although this party in its national convention was silent on the liquor question, not so it's can didates, Messrs. Blaine and Logan. Within the year past Mr. Blaine has publicly recom- mended that the revenue derived from the liquor traffic should be distributed among the States, and Senator Logan has by bill proposed to devote these revenues to the support of schools. Thus both virtually rec the perpetuation of the traffic, and that the State and it's citizens shall become partners in the liquor crime"
 Section four asserts that ''the Democratic party has in national utterances of party pol icy arrayed itself on the side of the drink ma kers."
 Section five declares ''that there can be no greater peril to the nation than the existing competition of the Republican andDemocratlc parties for the liquor vote"
 Section six faYors civil service reform, IS against raising taxes on liquors, for protec- tion, against wasting lands on corporations, for the governments issuing its own money, for pensions, against excluding any foreign CTS, declares all reforms second to the tenn perance reform, wants Congress to enforce prohibition in the territories and District of Columbia. and ends: "That hereafter no State shall be admitted into the Union until it's constitution shall expressly prohibit po- lyeamy and the manufacture and sale ot in toxicating beverages
 Section seven earnestly calls upon laborlng men of all classes to bethink themselves of the evils of intemperanee, not only as per sonal matter. but as tax upon industry.
 Section eight compliments the Woman's Christian Temperance union and woman gen. orally on her temperance work, glory1ng espe- cially in Iowa and Kansas triumphs.
 Section nine says woman ought to vote, but leaves the party in each State free to take its own position on this matter.
 Section ten again acknowledges God and appeals to the voters to vote TOT temper ance.
 The third plank of the platform was made the cause of an animated debate. One of the delegates whose name could not be ascer- tained in the confusion moved that all refer ences to Blaine and Logan be stricken out. This was vigorously antagonized by MT. Rus sell, of Michigan, and several others and fin ally the section in it's entirety was adopted with prolonged applause and cries of "Give it to them hot!" Next some commotion was created by Professor Hopkins, of Kentucky, who wanted the convention to strike out the Greenback section. He declared that repre- senting as he did the Good Templars of his State he would be recreant to his trust if he failed to utter his protest against plank which was foreign to prohibition and with which hundreds of Good Templars could not agree Dr. Minor, of Boston, replied that the section in question was the very meat of the platform and asked his hearers if they had forgotten the rascally circumstances under which the Pacific bank of