The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-29
Over Six Hundred Delea ates
Participant in Its
Proceedings.
A Platform as Long as Mr..
Blaine's Letter of Accep-
lance is Adopted.
Speeches and Addresses Fa-
voring Civil Rights and
Woman Suffrage.
kilograms Sent to the Indiana
Prohibition Conven-
ton, Etc.

ClOQ, ECC.
Convention Hall, Pittsburg, July "a
The Prohibition convention met this morn.
ing at o'clock. The delegates filled the
space assigned 10 them and the galleries
were crowded with spectators A short
time was occupied in singing hymns.
Prayer was offered By Rev. w. Lee, of New
York. After supplying the omissions in
the nomination of the finance and execu.
tive committees, Freeman, of New York,
stated that a prohibition convention was
being held to-day in Indianapolis and be
proposed to send il the
FOLLOWING TELEGRAM.
The National Prohibition convention in
assembly at Pittsburg representing thirty.
one states and territories, with sos dele
gates, says to indianapolis, "Stand
firm, trust Gods cause and orga 1ize an in
dependent party for prohibition" II was
suggested as there would be two conven-
tions held to-day in indianapolis, prohibi-
ton and temperance, the same telegram be
sent to both. II was SO ordered.
Mosher, of Maryland, said (sarcastically)
The thanks OF the convention were due 10
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manifested by it in the convention as
shown by its sending two high
officers, the commissioner of pensions
and commission OF Indian affairs
to indianapolis to ADVISE the delegates.
These gentlemen, it appeared, by the
morning papers had gone back to Wash
ington and reported that the convention
could not be bribed at any price that they
could not even
BE HIRED TO GO HOME.
| Applause and lsughter.l Bruce, OF Mary.
land, offered resolution on the same sub
ject.
| This and other resolutions as TO woman
suffrage, temperance missionaries at the
south, etc., were referred to the committee
on resolutions.
kilograms from various temperance and
prohibition societies throughout the coun.
try were read and applauded.
The convention at l0:25 proceeded to
CALL THE STATES FOR NOMINATIONS.
When California was called, Mr.. Bah
Coz came to The stand to propose the
name of
R.H MCDONALD.
| He spoke Of him as a man who had borne
the banner of prohibition in the wine
cursed state of California, but against
whom scandalous assaults had been made.
DR.. Mcdonald had been charged with
having manufactured an sold alcohol in a
medicine called Vinegar Bitters." He
asserted that there was not single bottle
OF that medicine sent out that did not bear
around it temperance tract attacking the
liquor traffic with force and energy. He
stood here to-day to refute
THE INFAMOUS SANDER
that there was a drop of alcohol in those
bitters. He was surprised to ind these
ISLANDERS circulating in Pittsburg, but it
appeared TO him that the most Infamous
lie of the whisky traffic was first picked
up and circulated by temperance men. DR..
Mcdonald was a Kentuckian by birth,
sixty-four years of age, in the full vigor of
matured manhood and intelligence, a man
of large experience, inancier, business
man and a man OF executive ability and
sagacity. He was cautious and conserva-
tive in his methods, firm and self reliant.
DR.. Mcdonald had always been
CHEERFUL AND GENEROUS GIvER.
While he did not seek the nomination. il
he were nominated his purse, his enthu-
siasm and his courage would set at defiance
all efforts to disorganize or render ineffec-
tive their canvass. He was a man who
had the means and who was willing to con-
tribute of those means.
When the state of Illinois was called
George {. Christian, of that state took the
platform to nominate
EX GOV. ST JOHN.
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present to the convention was above every
other name In Its power 10 gather aud con-
centrate the forces of the prohibition
movement 1t was a name known in
every household in the land. He was
man whose record specially committed
him to the consideration of the convention.
He was a gentleman who had seen war,
who had lived in the bloody plains of the
far west, who was the father of actual
practical
CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION.
He was a man whose whole soul and en-
ergies were entirely devoted to the cause,
although Mr.. ST. John had bad barrel, yet
the bung had always been out helping
somebody. He might not be able now to
contribute very largely 10 material way
but he could give to the cause the infu-
ence of moral force and moral heroism
which no other man now named or to be
named could ever hope to give it, not only
that but he was brother-in-law of the
pI asident of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. [Cheers.] In behalf of
the delegation he had the honor 10 present
for the Office of President that
DISTINGUISHED PATRIOT,
that magnificent leader, til at whole-souled
leader who had devoted his life to constitu-
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