The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-04
TIE CANDIDATES.
Sketches Of the Men for Whom tho Pro-
hib'uonists will Vote

investigation, which resulted in the trial
and expulsion of Leynot, of Luzerne,
and Emil j. PetroT, of Philadelphia
In 1876 he was unanimously nominated
by Union county for the State Senate.
but was defeated at the polls. In 1879
= he was again elected to the House as an
anti-Cameron man. Mr.. Wolfe was
also prominent in his opposition to the
Pittsburg riot bill and In 1872 he man
aged the campaign for Stewart, the In
dependent candidate for Governor. In
1881 he announced himself as an inde-
pendent candidate for State Treasurer
and polled 9,4s4 votes.
\. \. BARKER.
a. A. Barker, the candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor, was born in Lowell.
Me-, March so, lSl6,an moved to Cam
bria county in 1855 and engaged in the
numbering business at Ebensburg, where
he resides at present. He was a dele
gate 20 the Republican National Con-
vention in 1862 which nominated Lin
coin. He was a member of the Thirty
ninth Congress, being elected in 1864
and serving on the committee on claims.
Since that time he has been identified
with the Prohibition movement, having
been its candidate for Auditor General
in 1877 and chairman Of the State COM
miitee during the last campaign.
CHARLES L. HAwLEY.
Charles L, HaWley, the candidate for
Auditor General, is native of Mon
trose, Susquehanna county, where he
was born in 1855. His parents moved
to Scranton when he was only fouryears
old, where he has since resided. lie is
a lawyer by profession, in active prac-
tice Of ten years standing, and has been
associated with the office of City Con
troller in Scranton during two admins
trations.
JOHN n. EMERY.
John n. Emery, who was nominated
for Secretary of Internal Affairs, was
born in New Castle, where he now re-
sides, August 81, 1885. He is a dentist
by profession. lie served in the army
during the war, at first in the One Hur-
dred and Twenty first PENNSYLVANIA
Regiment and afterwards in the One
llundredth Regiment. He was Re
publican member of the lower house of
the state Legislature during the sca-
sions Of 1881 and 1888, and was among
the lifty-siX members and Senators who
bolted the nomination of Harry Oliver
for United States Senator in the session
of 1881. Hc,was an ardent advocate of
constitutional prohibition while in the
house.
JOHN NJ. PALMER.
John Moore Palmer, the colored can
didate Of the Prohibition party for Con-
| sressman-at-Large, and the first colored
man eyer placed upon State ticket in
Pennsylvania, is a native of Lewistown,
Pa, and is little more than 81 years
of age. He is a preacher of the Pitts
burg Annual Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church. He has
been in charge of colored churches in
Bellefonte, Meadville, Erie and Will
Transport and is now stationed at Eliza
beth, Pa, His father was slave, and
the candidate learned TO read and write
and began his education for the minis
try while working in u barber shop.
THE PLATFORM
/. That the whole drink system of
importation, manufacture. sale and sup
ply of Intoxicating liquors is State and
National crime, and as fundamen-
tai object of our organization we de-
mand State and National prohibition of
the same.
,. That the administration of govern, :,
ment and the execution of the laws is
through officers chosen by party, and
/ party must he held responsible for un-
Iaithfulness in the discharge of its duties |
therefore we arraign the Republican |
and Democratic parties as having been /
untrue to the people on the liquor ques-
tion, false to the proclaimed principle of /.
equal justice to all and special fayors
to none" and of protection to the weak |
and dependent, callous to the wrongs |
which the liquor trade inhicts upon !
wives and children, upon industry, trade .
and domestic happiness, thrift and ,
property, and conspirators against the
people by the repeal of the local option
acts, against their will and protest, and
by three successive Legislatures elected
10y them, rejecting the petitions of
thousands of the best citizens Of the
Commonwealth asking for the submis-
sion to popular vote Of an amendment
OF the Constitution forbidding the drink
Tade-these repeated acts of these par
ties in the past is a sign-board for the
future and Justify asking the voters of
The State TO abandon these parties and
unite with The Prohibition party in sup
port of measures for the protection Of
home and native land.
8. That moral efforts to reclaim the
drhker and to educate on the nature
aud effects Of inIoNicauts must not be
relaxed, and We approve Of all organza-
lions having these objects specially in
view, notably the Women's Christian
Temperance Unions by their devoted
practical and perseyering labors COM Ia
mand our admiration, emulation and :
NppfecialiNc recognition. The ProhiJi-
tion party pledges lis cooperation and {
Influence in the prosecution of what ]
ever measures aud to whatever degree T,
our moihers,wiycs and sisters may deem ,
ucodiul for The protection of home from /
the drnS curse, Including civil equality !
under The law, aad their counsel and i
laborin our party work of down aith n