Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-14
PROHIBITION CONVENTION.
1t dominates a Full State and Con
praee;opol Ticket.

gressional Ticket.
The State Prohibition Convention recon
vened in the Senate Chamber of the Stat
Capitol at a. NJ yesterday.
After the reading of the minutes of thu
first days proceedings, by request Mrs
Juliet futile, a delegate from Fresno
county, a lady of excellent voice, san:
Launch the Ship of Prohibition thu
chorus of which is:
Cut the letters, clear the way,
AIS in good condition;
Launch, in these prophetic days
The ship OF Prohibition.
The Chair announced that the next thing
in order would be nomination of ticket
Dr. McLane placed in nomination, in the
most eulogistic manner, for Governor Of
the State. Joel Russell of Alameda county
Mr.. Russell was nominated by reclamation
He was called out and made stirring
speech, in which he declared vigorous
war upon rum, Republicanism and De
mocracy. The first evil ruled the two lat
ter. The speech was enthusiastically APP
plauded.
Colonel Babcock placed in nomination
for Lieutenant Governor Hon. A. ID. Boren,
of San Bernardino, and his nomination
was made by reclamation.
For Supreme Judges-Wm. c. Murphy OF
Yuba, ana Robert Thompson of San Fran
cisco, were nominated.
The other nominations were as follows
Secretary of State-George E. Kellogg, OF
Santa Barbara.
State Conuoller-J A Fairbanks, of Ala
media.
State Treasurer-H. S. Graves, of Suffer.
Attorney General-Colonel George Bah
cock, of Butte.
Surveyor eneral-Dr George B. Toll
man, of San Francisco.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Prof d. A. Mobley, of San joaquin.
Clerk of the Supreme Court-Juhus Ly-
ons, of Los Angeles.
. State Board of Equalization-J. S. Rey-
nolds, Of San Francisco, a. j. Gregg, of
Alameda; Charles E. Green, Yolo; L. B.
Hogue, Santa Barbara.
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Rev. w. c. Damon, Napa; Rev. +. O. Tade,
San Mateo; DR.. S. NJ. McClain, Stanislaus.
Congressional nominations-Fir Dis
trict-R. L. Simmons, Lake; Second Dis
trict-W. O. Clark, Amador; Third Dis
trict-W. w. Smith, San Francisco Fourth
District-Chas. Henderson, San Francisco;
Fifth Dstrict-Frank Allenbaugh, Santa
Clara; Sixth District-Will A. Harris. San
Bernardino.
The following resolution, introduced by
Colonel Babcock, was adopted without a
dissenting vote:
WHEREAS This Convention has excluded
from its platform a declaration in favor of Wo-
man suffrage, and it appearing that such ex-
clusion may lead to misapprehension in regard
to the opinions OF the members of the Conven-
ton, therefore be il
Resoired, That we most emphatically declare
il TO be our opinion that the immediate and I'M
conditional acknowledgements of woman would
surely tend 10 the highest interest of the whole
people and forever pat an end to the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors, and that for these reasons
AS lndlVlduais-we VIII, at all times, use
every lawful and proper means to secure an
amendment TO the Constitution of the State con.
ferring upon women the right to vote.
The officers Of the State Central Commit
tee were announced as follows J. A. Fair
banks, President; Joel Russell, Vice-Presi-
dent; Rev. George Morris, Secretary; DR..
r. II. Mcdonald, Treasurer.
The Executive Committee consists of the
above officers and DIR. NJ f. Clayton. L. b.
Fowler and c. Henderson.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The refusal of the Convention to adopt a
plank i'll their platform indorsing woman
suffrage, was not very graciously received
by the female members of the Convention.
Mrs. Emily Pitt-Steyens felt very much
wounded, and openly declared that - wom-
an had been stabbed III the house of her
friends" She did not like to see the lords
of creation sitting down upon the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union, an or
ganization upon whose efforts the success
of prohibition largely depended. She said
that a Prohibitionist who said he was in
favor of woman suffrage, and then dare
not give expression to his sentiments in
their platform. was a dishonor to the Pro-
hlbitlon party; he did not deserve to be
called Prohibitionist
Other lady members, while not so
Outspoken as the we'll known lecturess. had
considerable to say during the recess hour.
and the attention of every male member
was called to the following, the words of
Miss f. +. Willard, as printed in the Cali
tornid Voice:
Prohibition is the highest essence of the mod
ern spirit; it seeks Il body that can authorita-
lively carry out its VIII. This it has found in a
political movement which dedicates men TO the
proposition The saloon must GO Out of this
party, under changed name and widened plat
form, VIII come, as the final evolution of the
century, womans ballot as a temperance meas
ure, the necessary sequence Of the party's logic
and the military eXigency OF its policy The
well-ordered home is the only true miniature of
well-ordered State The temperance reform
cannot reach its largest and most benefcent de-
velopment while half the wisdom, more than
half the purity, and nearly all the genteness of
human nature are uneXpreSsed in the decisions
OF the ballot-box, the Courtroom and the
hall of legislation. A party to unity the
North and South against that LIQUOR power
which is the sworn domestic foe of both is com
ing fast to blot Mason and DiXon's line out of
the heart as well as off the map, and give us not
only really reunited States, but two heads
in council " as well as 1.-TWO beside the hearth"
and as the sequel of all this, an outlawed LIQUOR
traiilc and protected home. Bartholdis statue
OF Liberty has a won ans form, and depicts his
mothers face 1t wiz be lifted to its pedestal
before the close of our first temperance century.
and Will symbolic liberty according to law
:. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With brawny limbs astride from land TO land
Here at our sea-washed. sunset gates shall stand
mighty woman, with a torch whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning and her name
Mother of EXiles"
To what shall she welcome the exiIes from
less happy countries, with her calm, tender,
motherly face looking out toward the unpitving
sea in the countries to Gomez To n reDnblie
based on the idea of protected home: to a svs-
tenn OF education that eXtinCuished Plutonian
that II might light Promethean fires; to a gospel
country where Christ reigGs, not in FORM but in
fact, and where the liquor traffic shall no more
hurt or destroy in redeemed America-the Holy
Mountain Of the Lord.
A PROHIBITION PARTY INDISPENSABLE.
A large number of the delegates, espe-
cially those who had been chosen for the
different offices, made speeches congratu-
latipg the party on the harmony that had
prevailed during the session of the largest
Convention of the kind ever held west of
the Rocky Mountains. One of them said.
and he seemed TO express the sentiments of
all, for " Amen went up all over the Con-
vention:
And even now flood of light is opened on
this great moral question. Some of the people
are heard 10 say; What are you going to do
about il % What We are going to do about IT
will soon be apparent. Never in the history of
the country has there been so much agitation
on this question, but up TO the present time il
has been confined to a comparatively few con
men and women, whose convictions
and arguments find an echo in the enthusiasm
and appreciation of the most practical method
of dealing with this awful crime, and this
method now demands the Immediate and utter
of rum-selling by prohibition. 1t
is now very generally conceded that nothing
bet prohibition can destroy this monster evil.
and there should be no halfway measures, no
no royalty on crime, no conces-
Sions, but by the quickest, surest, best
and only practical way, the final and
only solution of the whole difficulty
through prohibition and prohibition party to
enforce it. The efiectual way of rebuking the
saloon interest is by standing up to be count
ed The only effectual way of getting counted
is by third party The most eflectual way of
making public sentiment and getting men to be
counted is by party organization. One cam
paign on the distinct issue of prohibition, con-
Quoted like the Fremont campaign oil 80, on the
distinct issue of anti-Slavery, would evoke more
ornA aof mn 10 tan