Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-05-31
Prohihition Static Convention.

in nomination the following state ticket:
For Governor,E G. Durant, of Racine
County; Lieut.. Governor,T. H. Dahle,o
Dane Secretary of State, Nelson LaDue,
of Lafayette; Treasurer, d. c. Prescott,
of Marinette; Attorney General, G. E.
Pike, of Winnebago; State Superintend-
ent,J Ii Gould, of Walworth; Railway
Commissioner, Z. w. Drake, of Mil
waukee; Insurance Commissioner, s. nj.
Bixby, of ST. Croix.
A full set of presidential electors and
delegates to the national convention
were chosen.
The delegates from the Sd district
were JIM. Olin, Dane; J.F Garlic, Gre en-
Alternates, Henry Stair, LaFayette;Joh
Martin, Lafayette; Provisional, Nelson
LaDue, LaFayette; H. P. Blake, Iowa;
L. j. Arthur, Grant; Mrs. Helen L. DIN,
Dane. Alternates, j. II. Pemberthy,
Iowa; Lincoln Abrams, Grant; w. A.
Tracy and A. B. Campbell, Dane.
The electors at large are B. F. Parker
of Mauston, and Christine Carlson.
The elector from the Sd district is
Henry Stair. of Green.
There were about 500 delegates in at
tendance, and significant fact in con
nection with the gathering was that all
but sixty of the number were formerly
members of the Republican party.
The minority of the Committee on
Resolutions reported in favor of insert
ing female-suffrage plank, and the
two reports provoked discussion which
at times bordered on the acrimonious
and was at all times exciting. Discus
ion of the Objectionable plank occupied
nearly two hours, but it was finally re
jected, the chief argument against it
being that it would drive foreigners out
of the third party and prevent others
from entering the cold-water fold. The
speeches of the day contained several
bitter denunciations of the free railway
pass system.
Over $4,000 was raised far cam
paign fund.
L. G. Richmond was reelected chair
man of the state central committee.
The members of the committee from
this district are Warren Howard. of
Green and Lincoln Abrams of Grant.
The committee on resolutions, of
which j. NJ. DIN was chairman pre-
sented the following platform which
was adopted:
|. Reverently recognizing the Divine
providence and guidance in human
affairs, we invoke the aid of Almighty
God in securing righteous civil govern
ment
2. We believe the traffic of intoxica-
ting beverages is a great and constant
source of crime, immortality, of destruc-
ton of body and Of imbecility of mind,
Of poverty and pauperism, the arch
enemy of labor and the great fountain
of social and political corruption.
3. We insist on state and national
prohibition and the enforcement thereof
through a party whose officers are
thoroughly in sympathy with the same
as the only and immediate remedy for
this great and most urgent evil
4. We regard all forms of license,
high or low, as fresh acceptance of an
insuferable traffic, and its readoption
into our social life and civil policy; and
we hold, that all political parties which |
favor license, and all men who vote for
such parties, or in other ways aid in the
continuance of the liquor traffic, do
make themselves accessory to the evils
which flow from this traffic and equally
in effect with the man who |
carries it on.
. We heartily sympathize with every
just effort on the part of receivers of |
wages to improve their condition and |
to make themselves more equal par
takers in the general prosperity but we
declare that total abstainance for the
individual and prohibition of the liquor
traffic by the state lie at she threshold |
of the labor reform.
6. In securing political and economic |
and social ends, we rely upon sound
reason and public assent, on free dis
cussion and Il conscientious use of our
rights as citizens.
Z. We favor thorough, liberal and
public education; more care
ful and just imposition Of taxes; and
yigilant supervision of the uses to which
The franchises entrusted to corporations
IRE put. In all public measures we insist
On the common welfare as the only
criterion Of sound legislation and wise
social policy.
We are opposed to the issuing of free
passes by any and all railroads for use
n this state, except to their employees
md we are in favor Of the passage Of a
.aw making it crime for any state
officer or member Of the legislature, or
my judge of any court in this state, to
accept for use such pass.
2. We favor the enactment OF a law
which viii render liable for damage any
abroad corporation whose employees
nay suffer injuries resulting from
negligence of a eo-employe.
10. We recognize the work of the
members of the w. C. T. L. and in the
FORK of all other temperance women
5 an effective and powerful ally in
reform, and bid them God
peed in their efforts for the suppression
t the liquor traffic.