Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-14
THE PROHIBITION PLANKS,
The Cold Water Mems Platform in Lancas-
ter Considered Strong One,
EVILS THEY AIM TO DESTROY.
The Ponca Mill Company Incorpur-
ated-ltems From the State Hours
Where Van Wyck Will Speak
General Lincoln News.


plcte county ticket mas CauScu BOOu
deal of political talk and qucstionings
the last few days, Lincoln is headquar-
ters in the state for the third party fol.
lowers, and 1t IS prosumable that the
leaders have, by their action in an early
convention, q ticket of their own and
set OF resolutions, started to blaze the
way through the forest of opposition and
show to cold water clans in other coun-
ties line of action to follow. If this be
one of the purposes, it will be conceded
that it is good political move and sets
the wheel n motion. The timber that
the Lancaster prohib,tionists have placed
in their ticket seems to be very generally
conceded to be excellent, and street talk
of an anxious kind when the old die
tators get together. The platform is one
that is largely demarkation from any
heretofore put forth by the prohibition
brethren, in that it strikes at other pubic
questions, and the plank in the
platform that strikes ut the trans.
portation question and that speaks
out on the question of watered
stock, fictitious railway Indebtedness and
demands reforms in this line, is 4 strong
upon. Equally strong is the seventh
plank of the platform upon tie labor
question, and the eleventh resolution
condemning the worthless fraud known as
a railway commission is one that will re.
rcive endorsement from threc-fourths of
the people regardless of politics. The
platform, rs whole, representing as 1T
does the prohibitionists i'll their strong
hold. is of more than local Importance.
The nlutforn roads = follows.
/. The prohibition party of Lancaster
county, Neb., in convention assembled ac-
knowledge Almighty God as the righttul
sovereign of all men, whose laws are supreme,
frohl whom the just powers OF government
are derived.
.. We reverence the Christian Sabbath as an
indispensable safeguard of our cherished in
stitutions, and demand the strict enforce
ment of the laws against its violation.
5. The alcoholic liquor traffic is the direct
source of three-fourths of the crime commit.
ted in our land, and it is the producer of
poverty, the arch enemy of labor, the zoe of
Industry, the destroyer of private and public
virtue, the parent of sedition, anarchy and
vice, and the fountain OF political corlup-
ton.
4. The constitutional and statutory prohi-
bition, in the state and nation, of the manu-
facture, importation and sale of alcoholic
liquors, is the most vital political issue before
the American people.
5. License of the traffic, high or low, is pub
lie bribery, and political crime of une-
Qualled enormity, and all political parties
who favor licensing this appalling evil, and
all individuals who vote in support of such
parties, become accOmpliceS to all the muir
qers and myriad crimes growing out OF the
traffic.
6. We demand that the rates for the trans
portaton of freights upon the various rail
roads in this state be SO adjusted that remun-
Grafton far the services performed by them
shall be just and equitable, but that they shall
not be permitted to establish rates to raise a
revenue for the purpose OF paying dividends
On illegal and excessive issues of stock or in
terest on fictitious Indebtedness, and we
pledge ourselves to support such legisa-
ton ms may be necessary to prohibit such
practices; and we are further opposed to
lnonopolies of every form and character man
aged by the few to the dctriment of the
z. That while we condemn roting and the
wantOn destruction of property, we sympa-
thise with every proper effort of the wage,
workers to improve their moral and financial
the source Of all wealth.; we !heraff...cc favor
such legislation q. viii provide for the settle
...ulJ OF all differences between capital and
l,bor by board of arbitration elected by q
direct vote of the people.
s. We are opposed to the present contrac,
system or convict labor, which brings the
products of the penltentiary In direct compe,
tition with the honest labor of the state,
confined within the prison walls. We favor
branding all articles manufactured in penal
institutions as priSOn-made goods.
Q. We are in favor OF the abolition OF the
appointment system and the restoration OF
the elective power to the people, thus remov
ing most corruptiVe element of patronage
from the executive and legislative depart
mGntS OF our government.
10. We are IN. favor of township organiza
tion, and would cite the experience OF Wash.
ington county, tNeb) where, after trial OF
7H three years, 1t has resulted in reducing tho
general tax levy from twenty-eighr mills to
eleven and thTee-iourth mills.
II. We condemn the republican and demo
cratic parties for foisting upon the people OF
Nebraska worthless and expensive rail
road commission, in utter disregard and
DraZen contempt for the wishes of the people
rs expressed by their ballots at the general
l2. We favor aboiishing the fee system OF
cOmpensating public officers, and demand
the enforcement of the law which makes il
felony to loan public moneys for private
IL. We arraign the political managers OF
the republican and democratic parties oi
Lancaster county with courting the favor OF
the criminal classes bartering away the pub
lie morals and the purity of the ballot boti
in county and municipal affairs, for party
success.
a,s Il MSSsps MSSG y saYars YSr Of to sAtsDdng s MSsa s
Nebraska.
THE PoNcA MILL COMPANY,
of Ponca, Dixon county, Neb., has fileC
the following brief printed articles o
incorporation Win the secretary OF state
"rhe undersigned persons hereby form
themselves into an incorporation with
capital stock of $4,000, divided into lO
shares of $500 each, to be known as TIN
Ponca Mill company, and located a
Ponca, Dixon county, Nebraska" Tn
sgners to the articles are Jacob Slough
John Slough, S Il. Bittenbender and $
p. Mlkesell.
STATE HOUSE TOPICS.
The railway commissioners are con
fronted with lit,le work to do, and mex
week they will visit Waterloo, Norfolk
and Newport, where they have notiile
the people to appear and state before a
audience OF railway magnatcs their griey
ances, and the railroads have been in
vited TO be present with the commission
School bonds for district No. 04, Hol
county for $ae9, and bonds for d:striC
No. 81, Franklin county, for s2s6, hay
been registered at the state house, Thes
bonds are to run ten years at PER cen
interest.
SENATOR VAN wYcK's APPOINTMENTS.
The reports that come from the opei
ing meetings in which Senator Van Wye
meets with and talks TO the people, al
such that show the people appreciat
them aud as the reports reach this cit
the State journal sweats and fumes an