Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-29
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congressional district in Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, aud the northwestern states will
have its delegate Several carloads come
from the Pacific coast, and for the fiji st time
in the history of the party there will be a
strong contingent from the south SO large,
in fact, will he the gathering that it is con-
sidered doubtful If the spacious hall which
has been engaged for the proceedings will be
found adequate TO meet the demands of the
occasion.
From 400, 900 to 500, 900 votes is about the
figure that, in the opinion of old veteran
campaigners like Samuel Dickie, of Mich
gan, chairman of the retiring national COM
mittee, the Prohibition ticket will poll in
November Fifty-six hundred voters de-
posted their ballots for the cold water candi-
date in ~, and 300 in the centennial year.
The ticket of 1880, headed by Neal Dow re-
ceived 10, 900 votes in fifteen states, but in
1894 fifteen times that number were cast In
thirty four states for st. John and Daniels
During 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 these votes
is 2S7, 600 1t is upon these figures that the
prophets of the party predicate their opinion
of what will be shown next November. There
has been great activity all along the Prohibi-
ton 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
working with might and main to bring the
local option element into accord with the ma
tional movement.
As to the political parties from which the
increased strength is to be drawn, Chairman
Diclie said: 1--WE will make the largest
gains in the north from the Republicans, and
L., th, NAT
perance sentiment in the states south of the
old Mnsons and Dixon's liue is growing and
deepening, This is especially true In Georgia.
In the north our principal support will be
drawn from the Republican ranks, a great
many temperance men of that party being
dissatisfied with its equivocal position on the
temperance question"
Said another leader in the movement:
"With Clinton b. Fisk as our nominee we
shall gain the votes of thousands of people
who otherwise would not be attracted to our
ticket His candidacy will appeal to the sol
der element as well as to the colored people
of the south, who, now that Lincoln is gone,
reverence him more than any other living
representative of war times. He will com
mand the actixe support of the Universal
Peace union, of the friends of the Indians,
and of many other movements which have
found in him a warm and earnest champion.
He will be, in short, magnetic candidate,
who will poll not onlp the full vote of the
party but an outside vote, the size of which
it is not possible to determine"
The ProhibitiOnists will have plenty of
funds with which to run the campaign.
From 1882 until 1885 the total expenditures
of the national committee were IN the neigh
borhood of S6, 600, out of which the expenses
of the campaign of 1884 were paid. A few
months ago, however, it issued an appeal for a
special fund of $500, 600, to be used solely for
the coming contest. The response has been
very liberal, and it is expected that by the
end of June the full amount will have been
subscribed.
The convention is likely to be harmonious
except upon the woman suffrage question. A
resolution favoring the enfranchisement of
women will be submitted under instructions
by the New York delegates, and it will be
vigorously opposed by the southern element.
A compromise is being urged by those who
want to avoid trouble, but the suffragists say
that they will he content with nothing less
than an out-and- out plank. A demand will
probably be made for a revision and reduc-
ton of the tariff, and several of the resolu-
tions will follow after the lines of the plat
form adopted by the Union Labor convention
at Cincinnati.
Several of the delegates united yesterday in
a request to the proprietor of the Grand no.
tel, where the headquarters of the national
committee are located, that the bar Of the
house be closed until the convention was over.
The reply was refusal, courteous, but en-
phatic, and as nearly every room i'll the house
has been engaged by the eastern delegates,
while the capacity of all the other hotels is over
taxed, the sensitive ones had no alternative
but to submit.
No other name beside that of Gen Fisk is
mentioned for the presidential nomination,
while, as his running mate, Green Clay Smith
and George W. Balm, of Kentucky; Joshua
lowering. the Baltimore coffee millionaire;
John A Brooks, of Kansas City, and John
Tanner, of Wisconsin, all have their sup
porters. Ex-Governor st. John will be the
permanent chairman.