Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-24
THE STATE.
THE PROHIBITlONlSTS.
John Russell, Prof. Dckie, Mrs.
Lathrop and Alfred Wise Dele
gates-at-Large.
Synopsis orProceedlnGs.

RaleS-dl-LaTBcs
Synopsis ofProceedlngs.
The prohibition state convention was
held in Grand Rapids on the 10th inst.
Hon. A. b. Cheney of Sparta, was made
temporary chairman and was afterward
continued as permanent chairman. After
the appointment of tho usual committees,
the election Of delegates at-large was in
order, and resulted in the choice of John
Russell, Prof Samuel Dickie, Mrs. Mary
r. Lathrop and Alfred Wise.
The following district delegates and alter
mates were announced:
First-.A ID. Power, Worthwhile; ID. A.
Wate-mGI Detroit. Alternates, AleXan-
der McVittie and Gidian Vivian.
Second-Charles Moshier, Hillsdale; n.
p Waring, Ridgeway. Alternates, ID. L.
Conrad, Washtenaw; G.. G. Draper, Hills
dale.
Third. p. Sagendorph, Charlotte; NJ.
J. Farming, jackson. Alternates, II. IL.
Stilwell, Spring Arbor; Traverse Phillips,
Hastings.
Fourth-M. w. Haynes, Kalamazoo; +.
p. Cooper, St. Joseph. Alternates, A. &.
Northrop, Cass; ID. G. Strickland, st.
Joseph.
Fifth-A. b. Cheney, Sparta; w. G. Ed
sell, Otsego. Alternates, T. A. Richards,
Ionia Mrs A. :. Benjamin, Iopia.
Sixth-S. X. Laing, Flint; Albert Dodge,
Fowlerville. Alternates, l.. II. Ives, Ing
ham; NJ. =. Brown.
Seventh-Orison Engells, .Almont; Louis
Granger, Armada. Alternates, j. II. Ste
vens, Romeo G, II. Thurston, Macomb.
Eighth-Dr. A. Il. Ball, Shiawassee; II.
II. Greene, East Saginaw. Alternates, DIR.
| II. l.. Bower Greenville; +. a. Spence,
Saginaw.
Ninth-E. S. Palmenter, Oceana; o. M.
| Bronson EVart Alternates, Thomas Jor-
dan, Muskegon; Mrs Woodward, Oteana
Tenth-R Il. Atkins, Petoskey; .; T, o.
Parker, Vassar. Alternates Harvey
Baker, Bay; T. w. Howard, Emmett,
Eleveath-W. Heath, Traverse; ID. b,
Johnson, Menominee. Alternates, Rev. >
! Sheele, Leleenau: w. $. Moffatt, Benzie.
The following are the provisional dele
gatcs-at large:
A. O. Crozer Grand Rapids; R.A. Bailey
| Hastings w. \. Taylor, Ingham; George
II. Malone, Big Rapids; +. 5. Shaw, Wash
tenaw; Henry Il. Allen, Schoolcraft; Robt
King, alternate Rev. w II. Putfer, Crane
| Rapids: Mrs. A. NJ. Hood Big Rapids: Mrs
Samuel Dicke, Albion; Mrs. Charles II
Johnson, Flint; L. Il. Bright Monroe; a
A. Abbott, Saginaw; Mrs. Robert hlnl
and Miss Eliza Bourne, Dowagiac.
The state central committee was theI
! named and Alfred Dodge of Fowlervill'
was chosen chairman of the committee bl
reclamation and w. w. Wise of Lansing
| secretary.
The committee on resolutions declares
unabat.ng loyalty and devotion TO the SCUM,
and sacred principles of prohibition, bot
constitutional and statutory, in the stat
and nation, against every form OF merel.
regulative or permssive regulation on tn
subject. They condemned as derogatory {
the honor of the state the temporizing, IN
congruous anu partly unconstitutional legls
ton on the liquor question enacted by IN
legislature OF Michiganat its recent session
nothing but the fact that the rum power ha
its hands on each of the two grea
political parties can account for tn
abiect political trucking, the stupidit
| and moral blindness which MARIE
their work, causing them TO frltter away
splendid opportunity for thoroughly ou
having the abominable dram-shop systei
in this noble commonwealth. The const
tutional amendment was manifestly los
chiefly through the perhdy of those VIII
under the guise of friendship for temper
ance pursued the measure TO its death 10
fear Of disrupting the republican party.
They are unalterably opposed TO local OF
ton Us the settled policy OF the state, b'
cause wrong in principle, illogical in Law
ineffective in method and failure where
er applied.
The resolutions declare a belief in impa
tial suffrage as the one principle in harm
ny with our frOe institutions.
Preference was expressed Tor Gen. On
ton b. Fisk of New Jersey as the standal
; bearer Of the party in the ensuing preside
tial contest.
The convention then adjourned. A ma
: meeting was held in the evening, large
attended, and addressed by Prof. Dick
Mrs. LathrOp, Rev. j. Russell and others.