The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-08-03
STATE PROHIBITION CONVENTION
The Platform-Nominati of Can
didate for Comptroller.

The State Prohibition convention met at
Glyndon Park camp-meeting on Thursday, one
hundred and eighty -four delegates being pres
ent. DIR. D. L. Stone, of Frederick county,
was nominated for Comptroller, and State
Central Committee was appointed, Mr.. John
S. Biddison being the member for Baltimre
county. The following platform was unani-
mously adopted:
We, the representatives of the Prohibition
party of Maryland, in convention assembled,
recognizing our dependence on Almighty God
for all needful help, and believing that our
cause has the divine approval do declare our
principles as follows:
1. That the platform of our party, adopted
by the national convention held at Indianap-
oils, expresses the views of the Prohibitionists
of Maryland.
2. That we are unalterably opposed to every
form of license or compromise, and that we be-
lieve prohibition to be the only remedy for the
liquor traffic.
3. That the success of prohibition depends
on separate party organization and action as
the results of recent contests in several states
for constitutional prohibition have proven the
subserviency of the old parties to the liquor
power, and that union with either of the old
parties would be to abandon our principles and
betray our trust.
f. That we do not discriminate between the
has promised to support the grand issue of our
party, which is the total prohibition of the
liquor traffic.
5. That men who sell their votes, or men
who directly or indirectly buy votes, should be
DISTINGUISHED, and forever be prevented from
exercising the right of suffrage.
6. That the modern combinations of capital
lists, called trusts" we believe to be unfrend-
ly to the interests of the people, and should be
prevented by stringent laws
hot hold fhac o1n larrr ln,1ci-
BILE for the alarming increase of the dissertation
of the Sabbath. We will, both by precept and
example, use our best endeavors to preserve the
sanctity of the day.
8. We protest against the present laws of the
United States which permit the expectation of
rum and other liquors to Africa and other
heather countries, and demand national prohi-
bition as the only means of preventing this
gigantic evil.
On motion of Rev. J. B. Quigg, of Cecil coun-
ty, the following amendment was added to the
eighth section 1--WE deprecate the provision of
the Interstate Commerce law which opens every
prohibition state to the importation of intoxi-
eating liquors. and protest against this feature
of said law"
The ninth section complimented the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union, and the
tenth deprecated moderate drinking, and the
use of liquors at home and in social circles by
men of high position in church and society,
who are looked upon as good citizens, and pro-
Tess 10 De III favor OF temperance anu moralGy
The eleventh sympathized with efforts of the
wage-earner, and declared that total abstinence
in the individual and state prohibition lie at the
threshold of labor reform.
II. That theresponsibility of the continuance
of the liquor traffic rests on the good men who
still remain in the old parties, and by their
votes and influence encourage the traffickers in
alcoholic poison believing that the temper
ance voters of Maryland are in the majority,
and that their union in one party would sound
the death-knell of the liquor traffic; and where
as such union is impossible in either of the
old parties, therefore we cordially invite all such
voters to unite with us in the only party that
has declared as its ultimatum the complete and
utter destruction of the traffic.