Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-02
PROHIBITION.
The County Convention Names Its Del
egates to the State Convention.

AA0 GOunty convention NaIheS D6l-
egates to the State Convention.
AT the Prohibition County Convention,
held last Saturday at Fireman's Hall, in
this CRY, DR.. NJ. F. Clayton was elected
Chairman, and Chaupcey H. Dunn, Sec
rotary.
The following persons were elected
County Central Committee: ]. Hillhouse.
C. H. Dunn, E. NJ. Leitch, F. H. L. Weber.
G. w. Heath, n. D. Hack, P. H. Latour-
cite, Mrs. r. G. Hart and Mrs. Stoddard.
The following persons were elected as
delegates and alternats to the State Prohi.
bition Convention, which meets in San
Francisco Wednesday, April 4. 1888:
Delegates-Dr. NJ F. CLAYTON. C. Fl.
Dunn, Rev. T. ]. Bauder, Geo. B. Katzen-
stein, E. M. Leitch, Rev. r. L. Mediation,
G. d. Booke, Mrs. r. G. Hart, Mrs. M. A.
Alsip, Mrs. w. d. Stalker.
Alternates-A. M. Aubertus, JOS Cos
hing. Q. A. Maydwell. f. H. L. Weber,
John Hiilhouse, j. R. Mcconnell P. Nc
Cabe, Miss Minnie K. Bauder, Mrs. C. II.
Dunn, Mrs. E. NJ. Leitch.
The Comr on Resolutions, COM
posed n. Dunn, Rev. T. j. Bauder
and Rev. r. L. Mediation, reported the
following resolutions, which were adopted
Resolred, That we, the Prohibition party of
sacramento county, in Convention assembled
DO reaftrm our allegiance TO the national plat
,ornl Oh the Prohl6iton party adopted at its last
Natlonai convention and to the platform of the
prohibition party of the State of California
adopted at its last State Convention.
Resotued, That it is the =" duty of the Govern
ment to make it easy for its citizens to do right
and hard for them to do wrong.'' hut that our
Government, through legaliztng the LIQUOR
tralhc; has adopted the opposite policy, viz
OF making 1t hard for citizens to do right and
easy Tor them to do wrong; for ii permits saloons
TO be opened on every hand to sell that which
debauches and demoralizes its citizens. "steals
away their brains and deadens their con-
science and self-respect. and which, according
70 statistics is the cause of three fourths of all
the crimes committed
Resotted, That the question whether the
nquor trafhc shall be fostered and protected,
or outiawed and suppressed in our nation is
ana Tor many years has been, national issue in
the politics of this country. made so by the adj
nerents and supporters of that traffic, who year
after year have had powerful Hobbies at Con-
gress and at our various State legislative assem-
blages to influence legislation in favor of the
traihc, and have also sent influential representa-
yves I'VE, 10 the various National State County and
CITY conventions OF the two great political par
tles OF this country. until those parties have
We'd with each other to be first to do the bidding
OF the traihc and have sold themselves entirely
70 IL, as witness the Infamous Raster resolu-
ton of the Republican national platform of
49,, and the so-called sumptuary resolutions
OF the DEMOCRATIC national platforms.
l.eSostea Ihat we are uncompromisingly in
favor OF the total prohibition and suppression
Of the liquor traffic. That we demand that our
Government prohibit the importation manu-
factuIe and sale of alcoholic beverages, except
Tor medicinal and scientific purposes That
since the liquor traffic has chosen to intrench
itself in the politics of this country we will
meet and fight it upon its own ground and with
the weapons of its own choosing and for that
purpose and with that object we have separated
ourselves from the political parties it controls
ana nave formed new political party and we
can can upon all temperance Democrats and Repub-
means to come out of their old parties, where
they are neutralizing each others efforts, and
JON the Prohibition party, where they can
unItedly fight this common enemy
ResOtUed, That the hue and cry raised bv the
politicians OF the old parties ana by the adher-
ents OF the liquor traffic, and caught up and re-
peated by few good but misguided temper
ance people Just after the Presidential election
OF 1884, that the Temperance cause has been
set Dack twenty years. was and is untrue; and
IN support of this we appeal to the history
OF legislation, which shows that more temper
dnce laws have been passed and more bills in
the interests of temperance have been intro
dueed and discussed in our various law making
bodies since then, than at any previous period
IN IN lne history OF the temperance reform during
the same length OF time as witness the scientific
temperance education laws passed by Congress
and about twenty of the States, including Cali
iornla Also the laws passed by over half a
dozen OF the States to submit prohibitory CON-
stltutlonal amendment to a vote of the people
Also the many local option laws passed in va
rlous States and the many temperance measures
now pending IN Congress- We declare that this
great amount of temperance legislation is but
an additional proof of the fact that politicians
care not for petitions or prayers, but that they
have wholesome respect and regard for votes.
and the question What votes will it gain or
lose to the party?' is their only criterion of
action.
By request Rev. Charles Lodner. of Cam
ada, addressed the convention and told of
the progress the cause was making there
and how the temperance workers had
found 1t necessary to organize new party
with prohibition as its rallying cry, which
they did about year ago. He said. from
the present indications, they would have
prohibition in Canada within the next five
years.