Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-26
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIE spArcH.,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE IsPArcH.l
HARRISBURG, September 25.-The State
Convention of the Union Prohibitory
League of Pennsylvania promises to be re-
plete with interesting features. It is esti-
mated tonight, by the leaders in the move
ment represented by the league. that 800
delegates from about 46 counties in the State
will be in the convention.
The league is the inspiration of few
prominent Prohibitionists who met shortly
before the election to decide the fate of the
amendment providing for the abolition of
the manufacture and sale of liquor. Out
of this con ference sprang an organization
which, it is claimed, is rapidly growing in
influence and in numbers. Nine counties
have been thoroughly organized to advance
the principles of the league, and after the
convention tomorrow many others are ex-
pected to follow their example.
WHAT ITS AIMS ARE.
The league is literally distributing a
paper in which statistics are printed to show
that prohibition is steadily progressing.
The party leaders are shown to have genius
for blundering when they measure the
strength of prohibition by the vote of the
prohibition or third party, which, it is
maintained, is only one-6fteenth of the real
prohibition strength. The league, the
paper says, comes upon the field and lifts
up a standard for all who put citizenship
above party and conscience above caucus.
1t does not propose to put candidates in
the field, but advocates the support of men
on other tickets favorable to the enforcement
of prohibitory measures aud of existing
laws the early enactment of more stringent
and prohibitory statutes with adequate pen
alties, and the final adoption or constitu.
tional prohibition for the State and nation.
THE PROPOSED PLATFORM.
The claim is made in the address indorsed
by the league that the organization will
either rescue old political parties from the
dominion of the saloon or do what it can in
behalf of new party which will proclaim
and achieve freedom from this great wrong.
Legal sanctions will not be accepted in any
form for any consideration as substitute
for prohibition. The State Provisional
Committee of the league met this afternoon
at the Lochiel Hotel and appointed Com
mittee on the Order of Business of the con-
vention of which Horace Gelger, of Phila-
delphia, is Chairman.
Tonight the State Council met with
closed doors and discussed the platform pro-
posed to be submitted for the consideration
of the convention tomorrow. The province
of the council is to define. maintain and de-
clare the principles of the league, and to
recommend, in the interim of State conven-
tions, needful legislation
AGAINST THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
The men vino participated in the meeting
of the council were generally careful not to
diyulge the proceedings except the adoption
of q resolution con6ning its business to the
objects indicated. A proposition is being
discussed among members OF the State Coun-
Gil in favor of indorsing the nomination of
Mr.. Johnston, of Pittsburg, named by the
third party Prohibitionists for State Treas
urer, and its favorable consideration BY the
is among the probabilities. 1t is
thought, however, that this proposition will
provoke lively if not an acrimonious dis
cussion. The convention will hold morning
and afternoon sessions, and tomorrow even
ing mass meeting in the hall of the House
Of Representatives will be addressed by
Albert Griffin, Chairman of the Anti-Saloon
Republican National Committee; ex-Repre-
sentative Christy, OF Pittsburg, and Others