The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-06
WISCONSIN PRohIBITloNlsTs.
Meeting of the Temperance Men in State
Convention at Madison

Meeting of the Temperance Men in State
Convention at Madison.
At the State Prohibition convention held
recently in Madison there were 467 dele
gates present, every county in the State
being represented. The convention was
called to order by T. C. Richmond, of Mad
ison, chairman of the State Central Com
nittee. The following ticket was nomi-
mated:
For Governor-J NJ. DIN, of Madison.
Meutenart-Goyern Charles Alexander,
of Eau Ciaire.
Secretary of state-C NJ. Blackman, of
Treasurer-A c. Merryman, Of Marinette.
Attorney General-E. w. Chain, of Wau-
kesha-
Insurance Commissioner-B. f. Parker. of
Mauston.
Superintendent of Schools. ]. Blaisden,
OF BeOit
Railroad Commissioner-ole A. Ritan, of
Cumberland.
The platform adopted acknowledges Al
! mighty God, and wishes to work with HIS
grace and counsel 1t continues:
We believe the traffic in intoxicating bev-
erages is the great and constant source of
crime and immortality, of destruction of body
and of imbecility of mind of poverty and
pauperlsm, the arch-enemy of labor, and the
great fountain of social and political corrup-
/ tiOI. e IISlSbr on state ana National DfO1l-
blnon, and the enforcement thereof through
party whose officers are thoroughly in SYM
pathy with the same, as the only and imme-
date remedy for this great evil; to the
end that all sections of our State may be
round working in harmony Let it be under
stood that with us the days of compromise
have passed; that we viii neither ask nor ac-
cept animation with parties that may promise
temporary advantages; that our own appre-
ciat on of our work is such that we can only
move forward in straight lines until il is ac-
compliShed. We regard all form of lcense,
high and low, as a fresh acceptance of an in
sunerable traffic, and its readoption into our
social life and civil policy. and we hold that
III political parties which favor license, and
all mt n who vote for such parties, or in other
ways ana in the continuance of liquor traffic.
do make themselves accessory to the evils
which How from this traffic, and are equally
guilty, III effect, with the man who carries it
on.
We heartily sympathze with every just
effort on the part of receivers of wages to
improve their condition, and to make them
selves more equal partakers in the general
property, but we declare that total abstinence
for the individual and prohibition of the
liquor traffic by the State lie at the threshold
of labor reform. In securing political
economic and social ends we rely upon
sound reason and public assent, on free
discussion and conscientious use of
our rights as citizens We favor
thorough, liberal and complete public edu-
cation, aud more careful and just imposi-
ton of taxes; constant watchfulneSs against
vic uais; yigilant supervision of the uses to
which the franchises granted to corporations
are put and careful maintenance on the part
OF the Government of economic conditions in
currency, in ownership of lard, and in all
other particulars on which general diffusion
of property may directly or indirectly de-
pend
In all public measures we insist on the COM
mon welfare as the only criterion of sound
legislation ana wise social policy. We wish to
express our great satisfaction in the work of
the Womans Christian Temperance Union in
its bearings on temperance, on purity in So
ciety and on preservation of Christian ipsti-
buttons.
Chairman Richmond followed the reso-
buttons with vigorous speech on the prin-
ciples promulgated in them. He made a
plea for harmony in the convention and
unity in the Prohibition ranks. The dele
gates were advised to allow no one man
or faction or party to persuade them from
the even tenor of their way or intense
straightforward opposition to every thing
in the political field that is not pledged
heartily and earnestly to Prohibition.
j. M. DIN, the nominee for Governor,
was born in Ohio on the 10th of July 1851,
graduated from Williams College in 1878,
and soon after removed to Wisconsin and
became an instructor in rhetoric and elo-
cution in the State University. In 1879 he
graduated from the University law school,
and since that time has gained State rep
utation in his profession, his special forte
being criminal law In 1884 he was Pro-
hibition candidate for Congress, receiving
1885 votes against 16 943 for Burr W. Jones,
Democrat, and II, 433 for Robert M. La
toilette, Republican.