Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-08-06
THE THIRD PARTYIN LINE
The Wisconsin State Prohibitionists
Assemble in Convention at the
State Capitol.
They Present Ticket Which They
Claim Cannot Have Any Su-
perior.


permanent organization was affected
by the committee reporting in favor of
retaining the temporary organization as
the permanent, which was agreed to.
THE PLATFORM.
DR.. Henry Coleman, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, took the secre-
tary's desk and read the following:
The prohibition party of the state of
Wisconsin, in convention assembled,
makes the following declarations of its
principles:
l. We reverenuy 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 destruction
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.
). We insist on state and national pro-
hibition, and the enforcement thereof,
through party whose officers are thor
oughly in sym pathy 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 1t 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 ac-
complished.
< We rnCrarH oil forms Of ljrarSa h5rrh
and low, as fresh acceptance of an insult
cradle traffic, and its re-adoption into our
social life and civil polity; and we hold
that all political parties which favor Ii
cense, and all men who vote for such par
ties, or in other words aid in the contin-
uance of liquor traffic, do make themselves
accessory to the evils which now flow
from this traffic and equally guilty in eff
feet with the man who carries it on.
8. 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 prohibition of the liquor traffic by
the state lie at the threshold of labor re-
form.
z. In securing political, and econom-
&c and social ends meet, we rely only upon
sound reason and the public assent; on
free discussion and conscientious use of
our rights as citizens.
8. We favor thorough, liberal and COM
plete public education; a more careful
and just imposition of taxes constant
watchfulness against the increasing DOW
er and exactions of Individuals; vigilant
supervision 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 economic conditions, in curren-
cy, III the ownership Of land, and in all
other particulars which the general
diffusion of prosperity may directly or
indirectly depend. In all public measures
we insist on the common welfare as the
| only criterion of sound legislation and
wise social policy.
3. We wish to express our great salts
faction in the work of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union in its bearings on
temperance, on purity in society, and on
the preservation of Christian institutions
THE TICKET.
The following ticket was then placed
in nomination.
For Governor-John NJ. OIin. of Dane.
For Lieutenant Governor-Charles
Alexander, of Eau Claire.
For Secretary of Static. NJ. Black
man, of Whitewater.
For State Treasurer-A. c. Merryman,
! of Marinette.
For Attorney General-E. w. Chain,
of Waukesha.
For State uperintendent-J. j. Blais-
dell, of Rock.
For Railroad Commissioned A.
Ritan, of Barron.
For Insurance Commissioner F.
Parker, of Juneau.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
was appointed as follows.
L. c. Richmond chairman, Madison.
f. NJ. Porter, secretary, Madison.
S. d. Hastings, treasurer, Madison.
l dist.-E. G.. Durant, Racine; G. NJ.
Blackman, Whitewater.
2-T. E. Turner, Waukesha; o. H.
CrowI, Dodge Center.
81. R. Bewick, Brodhead; H. A. w.
McNair, Lancaster.
Al. E. Clayton and E. W. Drake, Mil
waukee.
SC. W. Loomis and l.. l.. Clloyd' of
Brown county.
CIV. W. Race, Omro; B. E. Van Line,
Oshkosh.
&c. W. Morgan, yiroqua; Gaylord
Freeman, Richland Center.
S-Frank L. Vazie, Louisville; Geo. I.
Contains, Barron.
9-W. B. Stanton, Marinette; S. H.
Colby, Stevens Point.
Brief addresses were made by Miss
Frances Willard, Mr.. Richmond and others
when the convention adjourned.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY AT IA OLSON
City of Tents Occupied by People From
Throughout the Northwest who are Enjoying
Rich Treats.
WEDNESDAY
The Monona Lake assembly opened at
Lakeside, Madison, this afternoon, being
the seventh annual session of that body.
Many improvements have been made in
the grounds and the number of tents
spread, exceed that of any previous year.
Electric lights are in use, and all arrange
ments are so complete that everything
glides along like clock work. Three hun
bred association tents are up, besides one
hundred private tents, with the chances
that another hundred will have to be
erected.
The programme opened this p. m. with
a lecture by DIR. Chas. f. Deems, of New
York. The Schubert quartette of Chicago,
who are to be here for some days, gave
the opening concert. They have sung in
many cities of this state, and have achiev
ed an enviable reputation.
THURSDAY.
The crowds continue to arrive at the
assembly, and acquisitions are expected
to pour in daily.
Nearly 400 tents are occupied to-day.
At 8 O'Clock 300 or 400 children, and as
many others crowded in and around the
rustic temple to hear Mrs. r. G.. Alden,
whose literary nom de plume is Pansy.
At IL o'clock Miss Frances E. Willard. the
great temperance lecturer addressed
about 500 persons at the tabernacle on
"The W. C. I. Union and its mission"
After the lecture the audience was invited
to ask any pertinent questions that might
suggest themselves, and the next hour
was consumed in questions and answers.
After dinner the tabernacle was filed
with upwards of 1900 people, when after