Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-30
TIE COLI WATER RARrY.
Its Coming Convention to Be o

Large One.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.-Inere will be
a greater number of delegates in the
National Prohibition convention which
opens on Wednesday than have partici
pated in any similar gathering since the
third party was brought into exist
ence. Less than fifty accredited dele
gates We're in Columbus in 1872,
when the first presidential ticket
OF the Prohibitionists was placed in the
field. At Cleveland in 1876, there were
less than a hundred, and in the same city,
eight years ago., eleven states were rep
resented by 139 men and women. But in
The fouryears the growth OF the move
ment was phenomenal and nearly 500 Gre
dentials were handed in at the Pittsburg
convention of 1884. Even this showing,
however, will be eclipsed during the next
few days when fully 1900 delegates
representing all but two or three of the
states, and with between two and three
thousand friends n adherents of the
cause behind them, will take the city by
storm. The enthusiasm which is mani
tested over the coming convention has
surprised even the Oldest and most san
gulne of the Prohibition workers. The
New York delegation which will be in
late occupies an entire train, specially
chartered for the trip. Another train
load comes from Pennsylvania
ana New Jersey, and a third
from Maine and other New England
states. Every congressional district in
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the
northwestern states will have its dele
gates. Several car loads come from the
Pacific coast and for the first time in the
history OF the party there will be q
strong contingent from the south. So
large, in fact, will be tho gathering that
it is considered doubtful if the spa
ciou5 hall which lad been en-
gagged for the proceedings will
be found inadequate to meet the demands
of the occasion. From 400, 900 to half a
million votes is about the figure, that in
the opinion of old veteran campaicners
like Samuel Dickie of Michigan, chair
man of the national committee, the Pro-
hibition ticket will poll in November.
Six thousand voters deposited their bal
lots for the cold water candidates in 1872,
and 300 in the centennial year.
The ticket Of 1880, headed by
Neal Dow, received 10000 votes
in fifteen states, but in 1884 fifteen times
that number were cast in thirty-four
SStsSSo 80 ~ oOhl1 dno DiulGlS. Dur-
ing the last two years, however, there
have been elections in thirty of these
states in which state Prohibition tickets
have been voted upon and the aggregate
of the votes is $4,000. 1t is upon these
figures that the prophets of the
parity predict their opinion of
what will be. shown next Novem-
Der. There has been great activity
all along the Prohibition line for the past
year, and especially in the south, where
Sam Small, who is upon the pay roll of
the national committee, has been work
ing with might and main to bring the
LEGAL option element into accord with the
national movement. AS to the political
parties from which the increased strength
is to be drawn, Chairman Dickie
says: eve will make the 1arg-
est gains in the north from
the Republicans and in the
south from the Democrats. The temper
ance sentiment in the state south Of the
old Mason and Dixon line is growing and
deepening. This is especially true in
Georgia. In the north our principal sup
port will be drawn from the Republican
ranks, a great many temperance men of
that party being dissatisfied with it's equi-
vocal position on the Temperance ques-
ton. In Michigan especially, the Re-
publicans will lose heavily from the fact
that tAey voted against q constitutional
amendment and passed a local option law
which has just been declared u~nconstitu-
tional.n
Said another leader in the movements:
with Clinton B. Fiske as our nominee
we will gain the votes of thousands of
people who otherwise world NOT be at
tracted to our ticket. His candidacy will
appeal to the soldier element as well as
to the colored people of 1.-THE south who,
nov that Lincoln has gone, reverence
| him more than other living representa-
tive of war times. He will command the
active support of the universal peace
union and the friends of the Indians and
many other movements which have found
IN him a warm and earnest champion.
de Will be, In short, q magnetic candi-
date who will poll not only tie full vote
OF the party, but an outside vote, the size
of which it is not possible to determine,
The Prohibitionists viii nave plenty of
money with which to run the campaign
From 'S2 until '85 the total expenditures
of the national committee were In the
neighborhood of IS, 900, out of which the
expenses OF che campaign. of 1884 were
paid. A few months ago, however, st is
sued an appeal for q specialfun of $780,
VoV, 70 De USED solely In the coming con-
test. The response has been very lib
eral, and it is expected that by the
end of June the full mount
will have been subscribed. The conyep-
ton is likely to be harmonious, except
on the wonan suffrage question. A
resolution fayoring the acknowledgements
| Of wornen will be submitted under in
| stEactiens By tine New York delegation.
and it will be vigorously opposed by the
southern element. A compromise 81
being urged by those who want 10 avoid