Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-08-05

patches had been read the work of collect
ing campaign funds was undertaken. This
part OF the program was interrupted 10y
the receipt OF telegram from John b.
Flnch, chairman of the National commit
teee. Prof. Dickie said he would read il
Tor SlOO He received nearly $1,000 before
he read 1t. 1t ran as follows:
HARTFORD, CONN.,, July %.
The old parties disintegrating in every
state: Let the Michigan phalanx force the
hghting. No compromise, trade, deal OF
JOHN B. FINCH.
Mr.. Bostwick of Union City, offered q
resolution terming the local option scheme
of the Republicans delusion and snare.
| This was referred to the committee on
credentials. Pending the return of the
! committee on resolutions nominations for
governor were declared in order and the
| call by districts began, speeches being
J limited to three minutes.
A. o. CroZier of Ann Arbor, said the
| ticket to be named should command the
respect OF the whole state. On behalf of
the Second District he desired to nomin-
| ate the man who made the noble fight in
| the legislature for the Maine liquor law in
F, 1873, the man who was beaten by his party,
the man who has now cowe out and stands
with the only moral party-that magnifi-
cent gentleman and strong representative
of our farming interests, Hon. Chas. Mosh-
| er of Mosherville.
This nomination was rather feebly APP
plauded by the second district delega-
ViUn.
A. A. Knappen OF Hastings, said he was
happy to express his confidence of Charles
Mosher, but the third district had n can
| didate to present of whom all Michigan
was proud, a man whose fame extended
| far beyond the state. His popularity had
| to-day been many times evidenced. His
name-Samuel Dickie of Albion.
The convention broke out into express
sions of wild demonstrations, answering
the name with cheers and tiger.
Delegate Jennings of st. Joseph, said the
delegates and people of the fourth district
wanted Dickie.
Caleb Pitkin said Wayne would cast her
| 100 votes for Dickie.
Myron H. Walker of Grand Rapids
''Mary Il. Lathrop says the Prohibition
wave is mile off and mile high-can
you swimP We want man on the crest
of that wave. Dickie is the man."
Rev. j. w Gordon said the seventh dis
trict desired to present that grand, capa-
BILE man, who never had been and never
would be defeated, the man whose name
was a household word everywhere, the
able logician and honored father Of the
Prohibition party-Rev. John Russell.
This was received with signs of great APP
proval and for moment it seemed that
Russell might prove formidable rival to
Dickie for the nomination.
Pending the arrival of the committee on
resolutions Chairman Dickie addressed
the convention. He referred in facetious
manner to the charges made against the
Prohibition party in connection with the
st. John campaign and then turned his
attention to local option. mo consistent
Prohibitionist in all this broad land, +" he
said, sis to be hoodwinked by PROPOSE
tion for local option in Michigan. [Great
applause. The foundation of the local
option idea is laid in deep reverence for
ha NH IL traf nriuan hanE from no
outer intrenchments of tax and license
the friends of whisky had arrayed them
selves behind the inner bulwark of local
option. Local option is not temperance
measure, but the last desperate defense of
the Rum power. 1t is founded on wrong
principle. IL is rotten at the base. If it is
right, then vice, drunkenness and crime
| are the normal conditions of the American
people. Here and there are certain loca-
tions which, IL they can rise above this
| level of degradation, are permitted to do
so. Local option also gives community
a right to maintain within its limits an
institution that the sentiment of the state
says is wrong and destructive of good
morals What is the present battle ground
between Democrats and Republicans Can
any one tell The Prohibition party
stands alone as party that hes no motive
for concealing its purposes. This falls
election will astonish the people. St.John
says the Prohibition party has gone into
the creamery DuSlDeSS-l. z. 10 LukluR Une
cream of both the old parties. / would
| add that when we skim what is left be-
comes thinner and bluer." Applause.
The committee on resolutions entered
the hall at this juncture and further nomt
nations were postponed.
THE PLATFORM.
Merritt Moore of Ionia, read the resolu-
| tions as follows:
l. The Prohibition party of the state of
MiohiOan in convent iOu assembled dacl N ras
itself to be in name and purpose in entire
harmony with the National Prohibition
party and we pledge the friends of that
organization in every section of the Union
earnestly until the legal prohibition of the
traffic in alcoholic beverages shall be-
come the settled policy of the nation.
With firm faith in the justice Of our
cause and asking the blessing Of an over
ruling Providence we again present to the
people of Michigan complete ticket for
state officers and ask for it the support of
all our fellow-citizens, irrespective Of their
past political party affiliations.
& We declare the liquor traffic to be
pre- eminently the crime, the cause and the
shame of our state and of the nation at
large.
s. For this dire evil we propose complete
prohibition, constitutional and statutory,
without comprimise, eqivuocation or
evasion; accompanied by political party
legitimately placed in power and dehnlte-
ly committed not merely to enact but also
to enforce the laws.
4. We emphatIcaily condemn all partial
measures on this subject as proposed by
other political parties, knowing than such
propositions are only extorted from by
the alarming increase of the Prohibition
party vote. Moreover, they are for the
most part tried and exploied experiments,
having proved unsatisfactory to the adj
vanced reformatory thought of the times
therefore, to bring forward local option,
taxation, or even again promise to favor
submitting a constitutional amendment
argues base duplicity on one hand, or a
shameful distrust of the intelligence and
virtue of the people on the other.
g. We seek effective prohibition through
Prohibition party, not from caprice nor
| from a vanity of distinction in the arena
| OF party politics, but from profound con-
| viction that our method is the only one in
harmony with the principles Of social
| philosophy governing the political institu-
tions and usages of the country.
| 6. We do not seek to disguise the fact, as
| party, that on some other political
| questions there are shades of differences
| of opinion among us, but we may, perhaps,
| be excused for finding a measure OF com
| fort in the knowledge of the fact that the
same questions produce very substantial
and distracting discussions in the other
tributing largely to their defeat at the
| polls.
z. We believe that the highest consider
atoms of philanthropy and of true states
manship demand that equality Of rights,
equality Of opportunity and equality oil
| privilege shall be secured to all the citizens
of the Republic irrespective Of sex, race OF
color.
8. We most gratefully acknowledge the
| wonderful work wrought in the inter