The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-07-27
THE PROHIBITION CONVENTION
A State Ticket Nominated and the
Usual Platform Adopted.

ST. PAUL, July 26.-At q. N. the CON
vention was again called to order. The
resolutions recommended by the commit
tee were taken up and discussed one by
one and finally adopted. They endorse
the platform adopted at Indianapolis
and support the nomination Of Fisk
and Brooks; declare that the license law
of Minnesota grants all the revenue de-
rived from the saloons In the villages
and cities to their own use, while the
taxation resulting is borne very largely
by the farmer element that such law Is
unjust; that high license has not appre-
eiably decreased the evils of iutsmper-
ance In our state, and has proven itself
as great failure In practice as IL has
always been recognized In principle;
they especially confirm the action Of the
national convention on the Sabbath ques-
ton as tudictous and wise; depouncs the
intention Of the national Republican
party to remove from tobacco and intox-
icating beverages the internal revenue
taxes without abolishipg the saloons;
recognizes the Democratic party as the
self-cbnfessed advocate and defender Of
the liquor traff1c; declare it to be the Inn
mediate duty OF congress to inhibit the
importation Of Intoxicating beverages
into any state where the saloon traf1ic II
made q statutory crime; believe that this
party can and Win remove sectional diff
ferenoes, promote national unity and In
sure the best welfare of our entire land.
and compliment the Woman's Christian
Temperance union, the Good Templars,
the Sons of Temperance, and the Scandi-
navian and Father Mathew Total Absti-
nence societies which have contributed 30
much toward making the present fnea-
sure of success possible.
Nominations were made rs follows:
For GovernoY-Hugh Harrison.
For Secretary OF State-Peter Thomp-
son
For Trsasursr--John Il. Allen.
Convention adjourned till . p. M
AFTERNOON sfssIoN.
At p. 10, the convention again as
semblsd. The committee on finance re-
ported that g, 900 Of the %, 900 promised
last fall for this falls campaign had been
collected and expended. Il moreover
recommended that instead of raising the
remaining ~, 600 there should be 90, 600
raised, making the entire campaign fund
$1,000.
Mr.. Lawrence took the stand and pro-
ceeded to raise the money. In O very
short time $4,000 were pledged and e
was decided to raise the remainder later.
The ticket was than completed, a. fol-
lows:
Treasurer-John II. Allen.
Attorney Generate. Z. Shannon.
Chief Justics-To be filled.
For Presidential Electors-At large,
Father Mahoney, j. W. Earle; First dis
trict, g. w. Ballard; Second district, A.
G. Force; Third district, J. N. Wishart;
Fourth district, A. J. Dean; Fifth dis
trict, j. u. Barnes.
The state central committee, a. re-
ported by the committee on nominations
In as follows:
At Large-Jamss p. Pinkham, chair
man; George T. Wells, secretary; W. J.
Dean, j. T. James, 8. j. Turnblad; First
district, G. N. Mclaughlin, A B.
Quinby; Second district, T. p. circuit, W.
T. Myer; Third district, William John
son, NJ. w. Skinner; Fourth district, p.
p. Peterson, Father Mahoney; Fifth dis
triet, A. A. Stone, A. B. Elbertoft.
Convention adjourned.