St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-08
Minnesota Prohibitionists meet in Market
Hall and Nominate State lsp
Officers. tam
J. E. Childs Of Waseca is Put Into the
Race for the Gubernatorial
Chair.
Rev. j. c, Pinkhain of Minneapolis
Nominated for Lieutenant
Governor.
Rev. DIR. Leonard of Ohio Delivers an
Eloquent and Impressive Two
Hour Lecture.
The ProhIbTtiOnists.

Oils. chairman OF the SUaGe celllFdi cOlillil6-
tee. About 100 people were present, i'll
clnding a small sprinkling OF ladies' Dr.
Chauncey Holbert of Red Wing offered
prayer. Noah Lathrop of Rice county was
chosen chairman pro tenn. and addressed
few words to the convention on taking the
chair. Maj. Herain W. Allen OF Henne-
pin was made temporary secretary. The
following committees were appointed:
On Credenuials-Rev. George f. Wells, Hen
pepin; W. Dennis, Steele; B. Tabor, Fillmore;
X Durham. Rice; S. E. Eddy, Goodhue.
On Permanent Observation-Disclosures. S. B.
Williams. George F. Getty, James P. Pink
ham, Hennepin; f. w. Cole, OlmSted; Is. t.
Eephart Ramsey.
on observation-disclosures P. Pinkham, Hen.
nepin: George j. Day, Mobiles; Pat Childs,
Waseca; w. w. Satterlee, Hennepin; J. f.
James, Hennepin.
There was some discussion over the ap-
pontment of a committee on nominations,
but it was decided that this was properly
the work Of the convention after permanent
organization and the convention adjourned
for one hour to take dinner by invitation
with the Woman's Christian Temperate
union in the rear of the hail. having also
received ali invitation to deposit % cents or
more each with the doorlieeper for the good
OF the cause.
During the recess the delegates. ten in
number. from the counties composing the
Seventh judicial district, met and organized
BIZ choosing Nathaniel Pullman of Grant
county chairman and d. Burbank Of Otter
Tail secretary. The meeting then con-
CURED with reSoluti0pS previously adopted
Dy the bar of the district and also the bar
c. Otter Tail county. requesting Judge l..
/. Baxter of Fergus Falls to become a can
didate for reelection. pledging him the
support of the Prohibition party, and ask
ing him to be the party's candidate. A
judicial district committee was also ap-
pointed.
AFTER A HEARTY LAUGH.
The convention was called to order ain
at o'clock with considerably larger at
tendance and a resolution of thanks to the
ladies Of the w. C. L. U. for the sump-
tu0us repast furnished the delegates was
adopted with a good deal of enthusiasm.
The committee on credentials not being
ready to report. Chairman Lathrop made a
short speech on the work OF the cOnven-
ton. which. he said. was for the benefit of
humanity and such as every good citizen
could engage in with his whole heart.
Since the set back of twenty years, which
the party had got TWO years ago, he had
had been praying for another one Of the
same kind. He would not mind if the
party received a set back of forty years in
the same direction. Perhaps then
some Minnesota men might have an
opportunity to get TO the White house.
lie spoke of the Jersey doctrine that man
who abets the selling of liquor was equally
guilty with the bartender. He thought
that all advocates of license, high or low,
were partakers in the profits of the trade
AMI participants in the moral otfense.
hIr. Wells stated that the committee or
credentials were ready to report and read
the list from the platform, embracing dele
cations from thirty-nine counties, as fol
lows:
hice, Chippewa, Renville, Steele. Otter
Tai, Mcleod, Carver, Murray, Fillmore
Clay, Yellow Medicine. LIE Sueur, Olmsted
Goodhue, Blue Earth. Winona. Anoka, Grant
Ramsey, Dodge, Washington, Mobiles, Meeker
Dakota, Redwood, Cottonwood, Rock, Pope
Wabasha, Stevens, Douglas. Mower, Wright
Waseca, Wadena, Kandiydhi Hennepin
Stearns and Kanabec.
Forty counties were unrepresented. The
convention was entitled to 491 delegate.
ard only 221 were present. but the delega-
t!onS from each county were authorized tt
cas- the full vote to which their counties
We're entitled.
ne committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported the following gentlemen fol
officers:
President, J. E. Childs, Waseca; vice-presl
dents, c. A Bierce, Winona; George J. Day,
Notles; Rev. C. Hobart, Goodhue; secretary
Hiram Wallen, Hennepin.
The report was adopted and Mr.. Childs
called for, but as he was still busy in the
committee Mr.. Bierce, the first vice-pre
dent. took the chair, and Rev. G. Hobart
by request, filled i'll the time with tenn
perance speech. While he was talking Mr.
ChildS was escorted to the platform amid
loud applause and took the chair, will
few remarks on the genera
question of prohibition. A motion fo
the appointment of a committee OF
nominations was made but an amendment
that the convention immediately proceed to
an informal ballot for nominee for gov
ernor was carried. A ballot was about tt
be taken when the following report of thu
committee on resolutions was submitted by
Mr.. Pinkham, chairman of the committee
and unanimously adopted:
PRoHIBIToRY RESOLUTIONS.
We. the ProhibitioniStS of the state of Min
nesota, do hereby declare that in all our worl
we do reVerently recognize the supreme au
thority of Almighty God.
Whereas, The prohibition of the traffic
alcoholic liquors as a beverage has NATURAL!
become the greatest issue III American DO;
itics. on the success OF which all other politi
cal reforms depend, and
Whereas, The citizens cannot rise above thu
political party whose men and PRINCIPLES ht
Sustans with his ballot; and
whereas, The Republican and Democratic
parties are thoroughly committed to the reg
ulation policy as opposed TO protection, anG
do thereby fix the standard OF all adherents
on this question, therefore
Resolved, Thatevery consideration of duty
and expectancy Which does and ought to con
troll the action of American freeman REQUIRE.
OF the loyal citizen of this state the maintain.
ance of the district political party, embracing
all the necessary means for nominating can
dates for office and sustaining them by public
suffrage.
We believe with the Declaration of indie
pendence that the Creator has given to al
men equal and inalienable rights and has or
dained civil government for their protection
Whereas, The liquor traffic is Justly charged
with organized and rebelhous opposition Il
existing statutes, with the mercileSs oppres
sion OF thousands OF innocent womer
and children. with nefarious attempt:
TO debauch the morals of our youth
with the parentage of most Of tht
crime and lawlesSnesS. misery and want pre-
vailing among MS; with conspiracy to corrupt
politics and legislation, and with the contri
button Of sympathy and aid to rioters, COM
muniStS and anarchists, thus jeopardiZng
the permanency of our republican form O.
iiiSii SAiSto SoiCtH III us excel
lencies upon the moral and intellectual char
acter of the individual voter
Therefore, we call upon all good citizens t.
renounce the allegiance 10 the party allies Of
that traffic and unite with Us for the extirpa
ton of this odious cause of crime, disorder
social disintegration and abeunding misery.
To aid, abet, or in any other way assist thu
drink traffic, either by granting license. sign
ing saloon bonds, leasing property for salool
purposes, or voting for men for office VIII,
favor license, is to become accessory to tn,
CONTINGENCY of the liquor business.
2. Prohibition, to be completely effectual
must be national in scope a'ad must be backe,
by party Internationally committed to it
enforcement
3. In a government of the people the RICH
of suffrage should not depend upon sex, blu
should be granted alike to ali who are other
wise qualified for il.
L. We heartily indorse the Women's Chris
tan Temnerance unions of the Stata and rs