The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-08-11
LEWIS COTNTY'S PRO-
HlBITION CONVEN.
TON.
Hon. T. Il. CarskadOn Stirs the
People.

Hon. T. Il. CarskadOn Stirs the
People.
PrOhibitfOnists of Lewis Mean
Business.
County Organized and Ticket Nom
mated.
On Thursday, August 9Th, at 10,
a. M, large number OF Lewis
county's lovers of Home and
Country, met in Convention, in
the M. E. Church, South, in Wes-
ton, in pursuance of the Cali
largely signed, and heretofore pub
lished in THE FREEMAN.
The Convention was organized
by the election of Rev. G, W.
Weekly, Chairman, with Mr.. J. G.
Jackson, and Rev. J. A. Barnes, as
Secretaries, and the following
Vice Presidsnts-Captain W. D.
Hall, Rev. John S. Fisher, Rev. S.
D. Davis, DR.. S. D. Bond, DR.. J. d.
Potts, D. R. Swisher, M. L. Bond.
Committee on, Resolutions, was ap-
pointed, as follows:
E. R. Dyer, T. H, Barnes, Meade
Swisher, V. l.. McCusky, J. G..
Jackson, E. O. Taylor, D. B. Cook.
Adjourned to 2, p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 2, p. M, Convention was
called to order by the Chairman,
Rev. G., w. Weekly, and opened
with an earnest prayer, by Rev. S.
D. Davis.
REPORT ON RESOLUTIONS.
The Committee on Resolutions,
reported as follows:
WHEREAS, The Prohibitionists of Lewis
county, in Convention assembled, ac-
knowledge Almighty God as the rightfnl
sovereign of all men, from whom the first
powers Of the government are derived and
to whose laws human enactments should
conform as an absolute condition of peace,
prosperity, and happiness; and,
WHEREAS, All great questions OF govern
mental policy must be solved by the agency
OF ia political party and,
WHEREAS, The liquor traffic is the gigan-
tic crime Of crimes, the source of poverty
crime and insanity, the arch enemy of Ia
bor, the foe OF Industry, the destroyer OF the
great fountain OF political corruption, the
parent of communism, anarchy, riot, vice
and social political and industrial disorder
and,
WHEREAS, This traffic is generally sane
toned and upheld by the existing political
parties which have made the laws, and it's
suppression has become the supreme polit-
ical as well as moral issue of the day; and,
WHEREAS, Since neither of the old politi-
cal parties can or will declare plainly and
emphatically for the national suppression
of this evil, on account of the large number
of liquor men affiliating with these parties,
and since the Prohibition party is the only
political organization in existence, which
demands and pledges itself to work and Ia
Dor until such suppression is secured, and
since neither q law nor provision OF the
constitution can be enforced save by q par
ty pledged to the enactment and enforce
ment of prohibition laws and provisions;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we affirm our allegiance to
the State and National Prohibition party,
and favor, demand and pledge our most
earnest efforts to secure both State and Ma
tional Prohibition of the importation and
transportation, manufacture and sale of al
coholic beverages, and the enforcement
thereof by appropriate legislation by Off
Gals thoroughly in sympathy with this
Resolved That it is good law, reason and
logic, that those who aid, abet, procure, hire,
counsel or in any other way assist in the
commission of crime, though not present at
the commission thereof, are equally guilty /;
and, therefore, we affirm that all who IL
cense or in any way favor she continuance
OF this traffic, and all Legislatures which
license, and all political parties which favor
license, and all men who vote for parties
that license, or for parties that will not de-
clare for prohibition, do make themselves
accessory to the liquor crime, and guilty
with the man who carries on the liquor
traffic.
Resolved, That vote for so -oallea tenn.
perance can didates in either of the old par
ties is vote for the success of the principles
of the party represented by these candI-
dates, and as these principles are opposed to
prohibition, therefore vote for such candi-
dates is a practical vote AGAIN. prohibition
A candidate cannot be better than his party.
Resolved, That we most emphatically con-
denim the nOn-enforcement of existing laws
by the officers of Lewis county elected,
sworn and paid to enforce the laws as they
are, and pledge ourselves to support all
honest efforts to suppress lawlessness and
crime.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse The
Freeman and Voice as the State and Nation
al organs of the Prohibition party, and
recommend that they be supported literally
by the Prohibition voters of the country.
A motion to consider TIE report
seriatjn was made by Mr.. F. M.
Chalfant, but having no second,