The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-01
WISCONSIN PRoHlBITIoNlsTs.
They Nominate a State Ticket and Name
National De:esates.


National Delegates.
MADISON. Wis, May 25.-The Prohibi-
ton State convention assembled in this city
yesterday and put the following State
ticket in the field:
For Governor, e. C. Durant. of Racine; Leu
tenant Governor, 1. H. Dahl, of Stoughton Scc-
rotary of State, Nelson La Due Collins, of
Lafayette; Treasurer, D. Cline Prescott OF
Marinette; Attorney General, General Charles
E. Pike, of Oshkosh; Superintendent of Public
Instruction, ]. H Gould, of Lake Geneva; Rail-
road Commissioner, E. w. Drake, of Milwau-
kee; Insurance Commissioner. S. M. Bixby, Of
New # edmond.
The following Presidential electors were
chosen by Congressional districts: First
district, L. L. Lansing, of Rock; Second, J.
Patchen, of Fond du Lac; Third, Nelson
Ladue, of Lafayette; Fourth, DR.. G. D.
Ball, of Milwaukee; Fifth, William Larson,
of Brown; Sixth Rev. t. w. Cole, of
Outagamie; Seventh, W. G. Boorman, of
Juneau; Eighth, D. p Simons, of Eau
Claire; Ninth, James S. Wilson, of Forest.
The State Central Committee was re-
organized, but T. G. Richmond, of Dane,
was continued as chairman. The following
was the majority report on the platform,
which was adopted:
Reverently recognizing Divine Providence
and guidance in human affairs, we invoke the
aid of Almighty God in securing righteous civil
government. I'VE believe the traffic in intoxi-
eating beverages is a great and constant source
OF crime, immortality, ofdestruction of the body
and imbecility OF the mind, of poverty and pau
perism, the arch enemy of labor and great
fountain OF social and political corrup
ton. We insist on State and Nation
al prohibition and enforcement thereof
through party whose officers are thoroughly in
sympathy with the same as the only and imme-
date remedy for this great and most urgent
evil. We regard all forms of license, high or
low, as fresh acceptance of an insufferable traf-
hc, and its re-adoption into our social life and
civil policy; and we hold that all political
parties which favor license and all men who
vote for such parties. or in other ways aid in
the continuance of the liquor traffic, do make
themselves accessory to the evils which flow
from this traffic and equally responible in ef-
feet with the man who carries it on.
We heartily sympathize with every just effort
on the part of receivers of wages to improve
their condition and to make themselves more
equal partakers in the general prosperity; but
we declare that total abstinence for individuals
and prohibition of the liquor traffic by the
State to be the threshold of labor reform.
In securing political and economic and social
ends we rely upon only sound reason and public
assent on free discussion and the cons cientious
use of our rights as citizens.
We favor thorough, liberal and complete
public education; more careful and just inn
position of taxes, and viglant supervision of
the uses to which franchises intrusted to cor
porations are put. In all public measures we
insist on the common welfare as the only cri-
terion for sound legislation and wise social
policy.
We are opposed to issuing free passes by
any and all railroads for use in this State, ex-
cept to their employees, and we are in favor of
the passage of a law making it a crime for any
State officer or member of Legislature or any
judge of any court in this State to accept for
use such pass.
We favor the enactment of law which will
render liable for damages any railroad cor
poration whose employees may suffer injury re-
sulting from negligence of coemploye.
The minority committee reported the fol-
lowing additional plank:
political party can not avoid question in
serious dispute in a canvass and then faithfully
deal with the same question when in office;
therefore we believe in the employment OF all
legitimate means to secure the enfranehise.
ment of woman and thus place her legally
where the declaration of our fathers left her
logically, and to which the spirit of the age
welcomes her by all its best intimations.
The convention then engaged in an ex-
cited discussion. John NJ Olin, T. G. Rich
mond, A. L. Chain and other party leaders
bitterly combatted any effort toward the
Endorsement of woman suffrage, not on the
ground that such suffrage was wrong in
principle, but that it would ALLEVIATE from
the Prohibition party many foreigners,
particularly Norwegians. Many preachers
argued in favor of the minority report, and
all sorts of compromises were attempted,
but the opposition was too strong and the
suffrage plank was rejected by vote of
1853 to ia. The fighting factions immedi-
ately sang in chorus harmonizing song.
The convention chose as electors large
B. F. Parker, of Juneau County, and Chris
tian Carlson, of Eau Claire County. T. c..
Richmond, S. D. Hastings, E. c.. Durant
and Mrs Amy Kellogg Morse were elected
delegates at-large to Indianapolis. Alter
mates: Mrs. John Jones, E. e. Comstock,
S. B. Brewster and Rev. 4. L. Piepher.
The list of district delegates to the
National convention is as follows: First
district-A. J. Dexter, of Walworth; J. F.
Cleghorn, of Rock. Second district-E
W. Chain, of Waukesha; Mrs. Mary E.
Warren, of Dodge Third district-J M
Olln, OF Dane; d. r. Carl, OF Oreen. fOurJn
district--E. W. Drake and w. R. Nethercut
both of Milwaukee. Fifth district-W. G.
Boorman, of Juneau; Warren Howard, of
Green. Sixth district-Dr. E. W. Clark,
of Winnebago; DR.. E. Fred Russell, of
Columbia. Seventh district. f. Cole, of
La Crosse; b. F. Parker, of Juneau.
Eighth district-M. D. Bartlett, of Eau
Claire; F. T. Vasey, of Dunn. Ninth dis
trict-D. C. Prescott, of Marinette; A. c.
Merryman, Marinette.