Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-02
THE PROHIBITIONISTS,
They Will Not Endorse the Repub.
llCan Ticket.

desirous OF proclaiming that fact to the
public. The are not to be hoodwinked
by the action of the alleged Citizens Re-
form movement, but propose to act in
dependently of it as individual citizens.
A number of them were present at the
fiasco at the Pavilion Friday night, and
they made no secret of their astonish-
ment and disgust at the outcome OF their
| efforts to secure non-partisan action.
Yesterday during the day as they met
one another on the streets they talked
the matter over, and agreed almost
unanimously that they had been tricked.
1t was hastily decided that g meeting
should be called and ticket put in the
field if the latter undertaking could be
successfully put through in the limited
time which remained.
| At half-past Z, in obedience to verbal
call passed from one to another, a num-
Der of members of the party came to-
gether in Judge O'Melveny's court
room. A. o. Daman call the meeting to
order and James H. Blanchard acted as
Secretary. The Chairman began by
stating the object CT the meeting, which
was to endorse or take other action upon
the work of the Citizens Reform move
ment. 1.-THE Prohibition party" said
he, "has thus far taken no definite posi-
tion in the matter. We met short time
ago and agreed to let things remain as
they were until this Reform movement
had finished its work then we were to
act."
! S. M. Adams wanted to know whether
these candidates whom the Citizens
Committee had put up had taken the
pledge. He heard it said on the street
that the Republican candidates were
Dragging that they had not taken it at
all. For his part, it was hard to see
how he could vote for either candidate.
Mr.. Blanchard said that he was at the
meeting at Opera House Hall when this
movement first began, and he did not
know how the authority came to be
given to this committee to act as it had
done.
Mr.. Jesse Yarnell wanted to know
what they were to do as Prohibitionists
in this contest. He believed that they
were now forced into false position by
the action of the Reform Committee. 1t
was the old story that the Republicans
think that there is no good to be had
outside of their party, but Prohibition
lists could not be expected to look at it
quite that way. For his part, he saw
no reason why he should accept this
ticket, and he did not believe that the
other members of the party would accept
it. That their position might not be mis-
understood, he thought that some sort Of
public statement should be made.
The Chairman said that he had talked
with two members OF the committee who
admitted that they had merely talked
with the various nominees and gotten
from them an expression of opinion.
The candidate for City Attorney had de-
clared point blank-so it was said-that
he had not even made pretense of tax
ing the pledge. AS near as he could see
the Prohibitionists were asked to vote
for men they knew nothing about on q
platform they did not believe in. Some
were in favor of putting up ticket, some
said they would stay away from the polls
and others proposed to vote for the differ
ent men purely on the question of their
availability.
| Mr.. Adams wanted to know why a
full ticket should not be put in the field
by the ProhibitioDists. To be sure, there
was not much time, but it was better to
put themselves on record and cast light
vote than to give up the fight altogether
| The Citizens Reform movement was
merely scheme to slide them into the
Republican party.
Mr.. Noble said that he would not vote
for any such thing as the Citizens
ticket, but he thought it both inexpedient
and unfair to those members of the party
who had taken hand in the nomination
to put up another ticket now.
Mr.. Gibson said that when he learned
that everything was to be put off until
the last three days, he thought at the
time that it was trick and now he saw
that the trick had been success. "We
are caught this time" said he, "but we
| will not be again."
The following resolutions were then
offered by Mr.. A. D. Wood, and after
some discussion were passed unani-
mously, the only question being as to
whether they were expressed in suffi-
GENTLY vigorous language to leave no
doubt as to their intent:
Resolved, That the Prohibition party cannot
endorse or take part in any movement which
at a: all liberates or consents to licensing the
not accountable for any act of the Citizens Re.
form Committee as regards its platform or its
endorsement of old party candidates who have
been nominated on license platform.
Resotued, That in future our party shall take
its place among the political parties, and on ali
occasions place regular ticket in the field in
full accord with its convictions and principles.
After the vote had been taken on the
resolution, Mr.. G. P. Dorland entered
the room. He had been member OF
the Executive Committee which had
made the nomination for the citizens
Reformers. He was subjected to few
very awkward questions with regard to
the views of the candidates he had
helped to put up. He answered by saw.
ing that he was satisfied with the ticket.
and that he had acted not as Prohibi.
ZIONIST but as citizen.
Gin that case," said Mr.. Yarnell. "it
leaves the whole question one of mere
expediency. Now in my ward-the
third-the Democrats have nominated
DIR. Bryant for the Council, who 1 know
to be first class man. 1 shall vote for
him, and on similar principle l will
make up the rest of my ticket.''
The meeting adjourned to come to.
gether after the election at the call OF
the President and Secretary. After ad- |
journment, a number of those present
gathered together about Mr.. Doriand to |
continue the cross questioning.
"Do you know" said one, 'that the
Republicans are all Growing over the way
that the Citizen Reform movement has
been captured and led into the camp?"
9! can't help that" he said. "We did
thah