The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-08
PROHIBITION.
Or. Leonard Unanimously Nominated ..

DIR. Leonard Unanimously Nominated -
the Candidate for the Governor of Ohio.
| SPRISGFIELD, o., July 3-The Prohibition
convention assembled at 1890 O'Clock, and
the human hive settled down to business at
the call of Chairman Leonard Rev. Kyle,
of the Springfield United Presbyterian,
opened the proceedings with prayer Secre-
tary Mrs NJ A Woodbridge read the min
utes- The committee ON organization.
George R Bethel chairman, reported B. s.
Higley. of Mahoning, for permanent chair
man, Mary A. Woodbridge, secretary, and
z C. Payne and Erastus B. Lewis, assist
ants.
The chairman in his speech alleged that it
would have been a disaster 10 the Prohibi-
ton party had the vote for the prohibitory
amendment been fairly counted Il is a
casus belli. and his statement that not q
prohibitionist in the state ever was in favor
OF the Scott law. The speaker was inter
rupted by a brass band ON the outside. DR..
Leonard: .It is the saloon-k eepers' picnic
going out of town They didn't have pic
uic ON the nth of Junein The widest en-
thusiasm which followed the remark evincei
the temper Of a crowd making ready for a
longer and stronger fight than has ever
been made by them in Ohio.
The committee on CREDENTIALS, z. c. PAYNE,
chairman reported the delegates by lumber,
without contests. There were representa-
tives from twenty oEe districts, numbering
in all 100 delegates and 20I alternateS> The
announcement was received with applause.
The women of the Western Reserve club,
Of Cleveland. sent greetings. There is every
Indication, and it is a general expectation,
that all the temperance women Of the state
viii be marshalled in line.
la sr4o MIA hair,
ready, the order Of business was suspended,
and DR.. Dustin, of Loveland, moved the
nomination Of DIR. Leonard by reclamation.
The motion was seconded by DR.. H. A
Thompson, president Of Oberlin college, of
WeSterville, in an eloquent and laudatory
speech
Talk about the enthusiasm of the Republi-
can convention, il was nowhere. This con-
vention arose with waving of handkerchiefs,
and the men and women present nearly lift
ed the roof with cheer upon cheer. The en-
thusiasIn was renewed when 5 J. Beau
champ. of Butler. who was on the ticket
with Neal Dow for vics president, and John
r. st. John made ringing speeches. The vote
was taken standing, by the men first and
next by the women.
The excitement was immense. DIR. I.coss-
ard, when brought forward, accepted the
IpDlilaIiDn.
Dr.. Leonard was born near Alliance, o.,
and viii be forty nine years old next month.
He was educated principally at district and
high schools but attended Mt. Union col
lege. In 1859 he entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal church, was married il
the following year, and has been the father
of seven children, four daughters AMI three
sons, of whom five of them are now living,
one of the daughters being the wife of james
B. Wells, assistant secretary of the Young
Mems Christian association, of Cincinnati
Asa member of the Pittsburg conference, NJ.
E. church, he supplied the best pulpits in
that religious vineyard. Thence he was
transferred 10 Kansas, where he labored five
years, at the end of which time he was trans
TERED back to Pittsburg, and occupied the
pulpit of what is known as the 'Brimston,
Corner"
Thirteen years ago he was transferred to
the Cincinnati conference, and for eighteen
months occupied the pulpit of st. Johns
church, corner of Park and Longworth
streets, Cincinnati The church at Walnut
Hill Is iourished under his administrations
three years, and Grace church at Dayton,
O., for two years thereafter His next four
years of life were spent as presiding elder of
the Eastern Cincinnati district, and he has
for two years been pastor of the Central NJ
z. church, Springfield, o. DR.. Leonard is a
man of much force, whose interest in the
cause of temperance has been intense
throughout his useful life, and be exhibits
much power in public speakino