Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-31
Down With the Bowl.
The War-Cry That Summons
the Prohibition Hosts.
NATIONAL CONVENTION AT WORK

| NigOr-St. John Handles "a Gayei with a
| Personal Interest-A Kansas city Man
for Vice observation-disclosures Suffrage To
he Rushed Through.
| INDIANAPOLIS, May 31.-Tomlinson's hall
where the national Prohibition convention
met yesterday at l0;25 "A. m, was alive with
delegates and spectators long before the
| hour of meeting, and beautiful with decora'
| tons, mostly Of the national colors. Appro-
| pirate notices in large letters were stretched
| all around the room, among which, standing
| out palmer than all, was the legend ain God
We Trust" while the claim that if half a
million votes were cast for Prohibition in
November there would be but two parties in
1892 and the issue would be the annihilation
of tangIefoot was "loudly" asserted by an.
other long streamer.
As the prominent men in the cause came
in they were recognized and greeted with
mbounded enthusiasm, as was the case with
the women well known in the cause. Among
those so hOnored were st. John, Neal Dow,
Sam Small Mother Stewart the sexagena-
rian of Ohio) and Frances Willard.
At lO:2I the chairman of the national
committee, Mr.. Dickic, called the convention
to order, and invited prominent workers to
tho platform. The formal organizing of the
convention was then proceeded with, after
the singing of america" by the assemblage,
aud prayer BIZ Sam Small, of Georgia Mr.
Dickio then placed before the convention
the name of Rev. II. C., Delano, Of Connect
cut, for temporary chairman, who was
unanimously elected.
Chairman Dicke then called attention to
the fact that all the former Prohibition can
didates for the presidency for eight years
past were alive, while of the Republican and
IN
suggested that the doxology be sung, which
wa, done with great JUNCTION, and Col Eli Rit-
ten, of this city, then made the address Of the
welcome.
He said that in lSSO there went out "A cry
from the national capital against Sunday
school and goody-gOody statesmen. The eff
feet of that cry was to stifle the moral senti-
ment in both the political parties. They left
the saloon in politics and took the temper
ance question ont. There would have been
no temperance in politics to-day had it not
been for this fact, and it would not be long
before the old parties would be called upon
to defend license on principle, and immor-
atty ON moral principles, just as Daniel
Webster was driven to defend the fugitive
slave law; and when he and his party
reached that point there was the graveyard.
Applause and laughter.J Continuing, he
their backs upon the mutterings and warn
ings, and to-day the only political party
that stands by orfr country, our history, by
the God of our fathers, is the Prohibit on
party. loud applause.l Craftsmanship has
gone TO seed when one of the parties keeps an
anti-sumptuary law i'll its platform, and
when the oldest leader of the other takes as
platform-tobacco, necessity. LRenewed
cheering We are told that the issues Of this
campaign are the issues of other campaigns.
Let me tell you, men and women of the
north and the south, the war is over"
At this point the speaker was compelled to
pause for several moments the audience
rising to its feet and cheering vehemently,
while a attempt was made in the galleries
to star the refrain of the "Star Spangled
Banner" When quiet had been restored the
speaker continued
"When the soldiers of the north stacked
their muskets and unsung their knapsacks,
all brave men quit fighting. Let us have
peace. You addressing the southern dele
gatesl may have been right then ferries Of MOI
and wrong now, or wrong then and
right now. CHEERS We are not
fighting questions of twenty five years ago
but of to-day, and both north and south are
united in war upon liquor am glad to
see that the Catholic church is represented
here We are not here to discuss rum,
Romanism, and rebellion. [CheerS,l Cath
oics are welcome. We Hoosiers, welcome
you Yanks. we welcome you Johnncs, Thrice
welcome the united north and south under
the Prohibition banner to this capital city"
Brief response to the address of welcome
was made by Temporary Chairman Delano,
who characterized the Republican party as a
generation of vipers that the ProhIbitionists
60, 70,
come.
The temporary organization was completed
by the selection of j. b. Cranfill, of Texas,
as secretary, with Mrs. Matte Brown, of
Ohio, and George Wells, of Minnesota, as as
sistants.
Needham, Of Kansas, created diversion
by presenting to the chairman gavel made
out of the telegraph pole which was EN-
ployed to support the eligy of Ex-Governor
st. John that was burned in Topeka after
the general election of 1854. This necessi-
tated a call for the ex-presidential candidate,
and he responded with speech in which he
said that while they were there with charity
toward all and malice toward none, yet no
party could live, and none deserved to live,
that would burn n man in etiigy for opin-
ions sake.
A large humber of dispatches from differ
States and a cablegram from Axel Gustafson,
of London, all bearing greetings, were read,
When the roll of states was called for the
selection of committees Sam Small raised
the question of the right of the "provis.
ional" delegates to representation. Several
other delegates took up the discussion, and
the convention was on the brink of heated
debate when the chairman called upon a
of sweet sixteeas" from the wllds
of Nebraska to sing a Prohibition hymn By
the time they had gotten away with a dozen
stanzas the convention had forgotten the
question before it, and the delegates went to
Inner. |
Another prayer, offered by Rev. DR.. Lock-
wood, of Cincinnati, opened The afternoon |
session. Then the delegates sang, Rock of
" and Professor Bailey, of New York, |
a comical ditty addressed to Repub-
leans and Democrats, with the refrain,
Didn't you do it, you know you did"
Delegate Turner, of Pennsylvania, sug-
sested that a resolution of defiance should |
be sent to the brewers convention now in
session in st Paul but the delegates shouted |
NO and he subsidized. Additional dispatches
Of congratuation from the Disciples of
Christ, of Illinois. and the Good Templars
If Nebraska were submitted, and memorials
from the Womens Christian Temperance
lnion one urging that the convention re-
Affirm the women's suffrage plank in the
platform of 1854 and the other asking of the
to place itself upon record as in
favor of shortening the hours of labor, and
he enactment of a national law forbidding
Sunday work by government employees or on
so far AS the Interstate COM
nerce law would permit which were referred
% the committee on resolutions.
From the committee ON credentials came
4 report showing that 1,029 delegates, and
he same number of alternates, were in at
enhance. 1t set forth that all the states and
in the union had sent delegates ex-
cn1nt nIIisiarn.h n i.-isair,r,i Snth Enr-.nlirn