St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-31
The Police Commissioners
Censure Their Favorite,
Capt. Harvey.
Opening Of the Argument in
the Shotwell & Cleri-
hew Case.
For Mayor-W. j. Dean.
G0lln troll lnr-h Il Granan

!er, L. l. van forSen, Pro1. w. M. PETERSON,
Mrs. S. B. Williams.
First Ward
Second Ward
Third Ward-E. W. Young, A. K Graves,
Fourth Ward-George Harrison, Hiram M.
Fifth Ward-George Couch, c. j. Robin
son, j. C. Stout.
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward-A. W. Perry. Il. O. Roberts,
John Keately.
Eighth Ward-A. A. Kelly, A. P. Peterson,
j. w. Lansing.
Ninth wards. S. Graffam, Andrew Enger-
bretson.
Tenth Ward
Eleventh Ward-G. D. Haggard, Prof. H.
Askeland, George E. Beardslee
Twelfth Ward
Thirteenth Ward
80 God, bless us while we are gath
cred here tor the good of the country"
Thus prayed Rev. Bottom at the OPEN
Ing of the Prohibition city convention
at Plummer hall last evening. Brother
Samuel Potts had called the body to
order, and when duly in order the COM
mOdious hall was filled with an audi
ence of ladies' and gentlemen, such as
are seldom seen at political conven-
tlons. How they enthused and per-
spired over the proceedings and famed
constantly. 1t was cOnSumingly hot
and the favOrite beverage of the gentle
fanatics was in constant demand, but
otherwise it was convention of model
harmony.
Hiram w. Allan was nominated for
chairman and promptly declined. ELECT
somebody who knows something" he
said, and they Immediately elected him
by acclamation. j. W. Lansing was
made secretary with the same celerity,
and q ltffIa ri To- nfor
ling, indulged in with mild depreciation,
committees OH credentials and perma-
nent organization were appointed. w.
=. j. Deming, j. Mcintyre, and w. H.
Skemp composed the former, and John
S. Hughes, S. B. Williams, and M.
Evans the latter. The committee re-
tired, and the convention was enter
tanned by a talk from E. A. Bottom.
He said:
II believe in the Bible. | believe
every word of it. l believe there is
time for everything. A time to work.
time to weep and time to laugh and
the harvest is ready, and it is ready
now. There are thousands of good
sheaves in Minneapolis ready for the
prohibition reaper. The time to pray is
when we see good protesting Christians
standing stubbornly in the way of this
great reform. The time to laugh is
when the victory is won, and we will
laugh in the fall, when the ideS of
November come, and how we will laugh
then"
Editor Knapp would not respond to
the call for him, and the time was
passed in taking up a collection, varied
by some splendid vocal music by the
students quartette. The report of the
commit jttan on aradaDtiol n lie fba,, raoI
and showed 167 delegates present, rep
resenting all of the thirteen wards, ex-
cepting the First. The temporary organ
lZatlon was made permanent and Rev.
j. M. Ball was introduced to fire the
heart with stirring resolutions. Il ap-
prove them," he said, land would be
proud to say | had composed Them"
They are as follows:
Preamble: The Prohibition party of the
city of Minneapolis in convention assembled
acknowledging Almighty God as the source
of all power in government and praying
that they may be endowed with divine wis
dom IN all their political actions do hereby
declare:
First-That all good citizens have reason to
be alarmed at the increasing corruption in
city politics, and the consequent reckless
and illegal dissipation of the public revenue
Second-That public Office has to large
extent ceased to be place of trust and
elected TO do our bidding have become cor
rupted with power and now degrade their
office to the most selfish ends, maintaining
an attitude of insolence and defiance to the
sovereign people.
Third-That we recognize deplore and
condemn the liquor traffic as the chief source
of municipal corruption and mismanage-
ment, and that until it is wholly swept away
it is vain to hope for any permanent and
substantial reform.
Fourth-That under the high license law
the evils of the traffic, drunkenness, disor-
der, crime political corruption and munich
pal recklessness. have kept on increasing; so
that what we first condemned as wrong in
morals we must now also condemn as folly
in practice.
Fifth-That good government should look
not only to the material prosperity, but also
to the moral welfare of the community.
making it easy for the citizen to do right
and as difficult as possible to do wrong"
Sixth-That we declare ourselves to be in
full sympathy with the objects sought to be
attained by the ''cititZens government" but
we also declare as our profoundest conyic-
tons, based on long and bitter experience,
that these same objects, together with more
precious and sweeping reforms, can be more
quickly attained and more permanently Sc
cured by union of all good citizens with a
party committed to the total prohibition of
the liquor traffic.
Seventh-That we present to the citizens
of Minneapolis candidates for office who.
actuated by the most unselfsh and patriotic
motives are not only qualified as business
men to administer public affairs with pru
dence and economy, but who. also by their
answering devotion 10 the principles of the
Prohibition party, with pure hearts and un-
clouded brain, are prepared to work out by
constitutional methods this greatest of re-
forms, which strikes at the root of the evil
which not only debauches politics, but also
the family on which the foundations of good
government are laid.
Therefore, we urge upon all good citizens
who have at heart the welfare of the city. the
abatement of municipal eXtravaganceS, the
virtue and peace of our homes, to unite with
us at the polls to accomplish these desired
ends.
These were heard with applause and
adopted with enthusiasm.
Thus far the convention had followed
the beaten path, but now comes a de-
parture. DIR. Denton said he wanted to
avoid public quarrel over nominations,
and he therefore moved the appoint-
ment of a committee of one from each
ward, and one lady to represent the fair
sex, to make allnominations except that
of mayor. This prevailed, and the COM
mittee went out, leaving the conven-
tion to be entertained by Rev. j. P.
Pinkham, the nominee for congress. He
is good speaker. and made rafting
talk. One point made was round
denial of the report that this con
vention had been called this early to
head off a citizens movement. For
half an hour he talked, and a more forci-
ble, convincing prohibition argument is
seldom heard He would have been
smelling solid chunks of common sense
yet, had not the committee returned. S.
B. Williams then got the floor and said
he was going to nominate candidate
for mayor. as the first thing in order.
He made quite speech, as a preface,
giving Hugh Harrison great send-off,
and then nominated w. j. Dean, amid
great enthusiasm. That was enough for
the convention and Dean was immedi-
ately nominated by acclamation. He
Was nallad out at once to aclS SnnwIedna