The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-16
PROHIBITION IS THEIR CRY
The Third Party Enters Upon the State
Campaign by Adopting Platform.
They Hold an Enthusiastic and Harmonious
Convention, aud Nominate Full Ticket.
Headed BY ]. s. Hughes for Governor.


the divisions which the prolonged session OF
their committee on resolutions threatened re-
Rarding woman's suffrage and other matters
upon which they are not firmly unlte1 as
against the liquor traffic, had harmonious
time. They are not so ready IN getting to bust
ness as the old parties. but when they are once
engaged in it the order moves along smoothly,
except in the occasional interruptions OF those
who would rather talk than act But there was
little talking after the convention completed its
nreliminarv proceedings as the speeches had
been made the day before in the several meet
ines that were termed love feasts However,
there was continuation Of this character Of
the gathering. yesterday morning. before the
actual business began. Several spoke of their
conviction in the riehtfuness of prohibition,
causing an enthusiasm that would be worthy of
the Republicans and Democrats when immense
" pleased over what their orators say. Another
element relied on to increase the spiritedness
of the occasion was music. A quartet
not being enough TO satisfy this demand the
newly organized corps of the Prohibition Army
of the Blue and Gray aployed the Westfeld
band and with it tie head of the procession
marched from it's hall to the opera-house, where
some 700 or 500 persons were gathered. The
delegates had been waiting for the soldiers and
It was few minutes after 10 o'clock before they
and their band marched into the auditorium.
AS they passed down the aisleS to their respect
i've delegations rousing cheer greeted them.
The ProhibtIonists counting the soldier
vote as theoretically as the Democrats are doing
and never miss an opportunity to revive en-
thusiasm BIZ bringing the veteran to the front
AS if it were not enough to give him applause on
his entrance, later on in the proceedings the
Rev. w. H. Hickman. of Charlottesville.
quested all soldiers IN the audience who
delegates committed to Prohibition princi-
pies to stand up. Quite number responded.
and then came cries from all parts Of the house
for count This was done and the chairman
announced that 100 had answered, and
on the strength of that the convention
again made considerable noise with its hurrahs.
An earnest delegate, imbued with the spirit of
this success, called for all delegates who were
teachers. ministers or SUNDAY school workers to
respond in like manner. The request was an
swered by four-ffths of the convention, and the
cheers attending it were followed by hearty
laughter, when somebody asked the saloon
keepers in the convention to show themselves.
A response that would disgust if not excite
the ire of the average delegate in Democratic
convention, the amen 1t came fire.
quently from the cray-haired fathers and
mothers in Israel when some telling phrase In
support of their sentiments on the liquor ques-
ton occurred in prayer or speech. large pro-
portion of the delegates had gone beyond the
best side of fifty years, and it they, with
the ministers. who gave the proceedings their
religious coloring, but the younger men and
women seemed TO enter as heartily into the
Ward, Of Muncie, offered prayer. after which
John B. Ratlif, of Marion, read
lengthy speech on the work,
conditions and prospects of the party since
1884. In contrasting the Prohibition with the
other two parties he said the Democracy does
not demand license in a restrictive measure,
iAfk 81 hofuy
side and high license and local option the
other. History showed that all great reforms
arose within old orgsnizatonS-not outside of
them. They are radical and contemplate the
overthrow of now existing institutions Rad
icaism is the salt of the earth, but conservatism
is stubborn and not progressive. Local option.
he said, provides for prohibition whore it is least
needed aud leaves the saloons to places that
need protection.
each district of the State was in the convention
with full representation. The Rev. w. II.
Hickman. of Charlottesville, as president, with
the following vice presidents and secretaries
formed the permanent organization:
vicepresidents-First District, German Hazelton;
Second, Rev: y. F. Gill; Third, A. J Kesler; Fourth.
Seventh, J. w Robinson; Eight Major Moss, Ninth,
John =. BAKER; Tenth ". +. Mckenzie; M, p leventh
b. +. Stevens.
secretary--L D. Ratlif, of the tPhalanx.
Assistant Seeretaries-John A. Phelps II. c.
Barnes, of the Logansport Times; W. s. Terrier,
Clark County Record; j. W. Clarke. Button Bugle
Nestfeld Index; y w Rose, Indianapolis Arguments
Rev. Mr.. Streetor. Prohibition Advocate.
Mr.. Hickman, on taking the chair, eaid, in
his speech of thanks, that he was sometimes
asked why ministers mixed IN politics. His ex
PLANTATION, apology. could be found in the his
tory of the country, which proved that all great
social agitations were based on New Testament
doctrine, 1t was this that sustained the anti
slavery agitation when the church was finally
forced to lead 1t. If the church does not step
iuto the leadership of the prohioi cause the
unbelieving world will. The cheering effect of
this speech supplemented by telegram
from j. b. Cranfell, of Waco. Tex, reading:
sIDxey sends greetings TO the Indiana Prohibit
tionsts. Put Texas down for 10000 votes for
Fisken
II has been the custom in conventions of this
party 20 admit four ladies as representatives of
the w. G. T. u. An effort made in the
State central committee to change the policy
and restrict the delegates TO those selected by
congressional districts. but only a decision TO
submit the matter TO the convention without
recommendation could be reached. Abel Doan,
of Hamilton county, so reported on behalf of
the committee motion to admit the ladies
prevailed unanimously, without the least desire
80 question it, and thereupou. the organization
named announced as ITS representatives Mrs.
Caroline Edgerton, Henry county; Miss Sadie
B. Wheeler, Parker; Mrs Mollis G.. Hay and
Mrs. L. G Reed. Indianapolis.
The committee having their selection in charge
reported Electors and delegates at-large we'll
as provisional delegates to the national conven-
ton, as follows
Electors-Dr. Felix T. McWhirter, Putnam, and j.
b. Braziiton, Jennings county
Delegates-Rev. w. IL. Hickman, Montgomery;
Owen Henley, Parke; R. T. Brown, Marion, aud j. w.
Crom well, Allen county.
Provisional Delegates, for each i 600 votes
First district, James Z. Pruitt Gibson; Fourth NJ p
Haywood, Dearborn Fifth. w. Ii. Jones Monroe;
Seventh. Zerelda Wallace. Marion; Ninth Dr. Baker
Hamilton; Tenth T. @. Barnes Cass; Eleventh j. C
Ellsworth Adams; Twelfth j. L. Leininger Whitley:
Thirteenth. Whitley Early, St Joseph
The following platform then submitted by
j. b. Ratlif, chairman of the COMMITTEES on
resolutions. aud the convention adopted it
without discussion:
We owe allegiance. first to God, the author of
all law, and next country.
We present to fellow-citizens the one over
shadowing crime-the liquor traffic We are unalter-
ably opposed tho enactment of laws that propose
10 license, tax otherwise to regulate the drink
traffic because they provide for its continuance.
temperance measure high license is delusion and
fraud and advocated by the liquor dealers and
the old parties calculated 30 perpetuate liquor
Nv offerin1 hrtha To the tax-naver and Ia