Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-05
THE THIRD PARTY In LINE
The Wisconsin State PrOhibitiOniSts
Assemble in Convention at the
State Capitol.
They Present a Ticket Which They
Claim Cannot Have Any Su-
peri0r.

MADISON Wis, July 2S.-The state pro-
hibition convention was held in this city
to-day, there being All delegates in at
tendance.
A permanent organization was affected
by the committee reporting in favor of re-
tanning the temporary organization as
the permanent, which was agreed to.
THE PLATFORM.
DR.. Henry Coleman, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, took the secre-
tarys desk and read the following.
The prohibition party of the state of
Wisconsin, in convention assembled,
makes the following declarations of its
principles:
1. We reverently acknowledge Almighty
God, and desire to work with His grace
and counsel to establish and maintain a
sound civil government.
2. We believe the traffic in intoxicating
beverages is the great and constant
source OF crime and immortality, of de-
struction of body and of imbecility of
mind, of poverty and pauperism; the arch
enemy Of labor, and the great fountain of
social and political corruption.
3. We insist on state and national pro-
hibition, and the enforcement thereof
through party whose officers are thor
oughly in sympathy with the same, as the
only and the Immediate remedy for this
great and most urgent evil.
4. To the end that all sections of our
state may be found working in harmony,
let it be understood that with US days of
compromise have passed; that we will
neither seek nor accept utilization with
parties that may promise temporary ad-
vantages; that our own appreciation of
our work is such that we can only move
forward in straight lines until it is &C
com plished.
5. We regard all forms of license high
and low, as a fresh acceptance of an in
sufferable traffic and its re-adoption into
our social life and civil polity; and we
hold that all political parties which favor
license fand all men who vote for such
parties, or in other ways aid in the con-
tinuance of the liquor traffic, do make
themselves accessory to the evils which
flow from this traffic and equally guilty
in the effect with the man who carries it
on.
6. We heartily sympathize with every
just effort on the part of receivers of
wages to improve their condition and to
make themselves more equal partakers in
the general prosperity; but we declare
that total abstinence for the individual
and the prohibition of the liquor traffic
by the state lie at the threshold of labor
reform.
7. In securing political, and economic
and social ends, we rely only upon sound
reason and the public assent; on free dis
cussion and conscientious use of our
rights as citizens.
s. We favor thorough liberty and COM
plete education; more careful and just
imnOSitiOn of taxes. nn,>r4~--S "oU0u1u1-
8 az aInst the Increasing power and ex-
actions of Individuals; vigilant super
vision of the uses to which the franchises
entrusted to corporations are put; and
careful maintenance on the part of the
government of complete control of eco
nomic conditions, in currency, in the
ownership of land, and in all other par
ticulars on which the general diffusion of
prosperity may directly or Indirectly de-
pend In all public measures we insist
on the common welfare as the only
criterion of sound legislation and wise
social policy.
8. We wish to express our great salts
faction in the work Of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union in its bearings on
temperance, on purity in society, and on
THE TICKET.
The following ticket was then placed
in nomination:
For Governor-John M. Olin, of Dane.
For Lieutenant overnor-Charles
Alexander, of Eau Claire.
For Secretary of State-C. NJ. Black
man, of Whitewater.
For State Treasurer. G. Merryman,
Of Marinette.
For Attorney General-E. W. Chain of
WaIkesha.
For State superintendent il. j. Blais-
dell, of Rock.
For Railroad Commissioner-Ole A.
Ritan, of Barron.
For Insurance Commissioner-B. F.
Parker, of Juneau.