Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-30
ON A HIGH PLATFORM
Prohibitionists of Allegheny County
Resolve on Principles,
RECOGNIZING DIVINITY In POLITICS
High License Said to be Bolstered by the
Idea of Bribery.
DELEGATES TO A STATE CONVENTION

The Allegheny county Prohibition party s
70 delegates convened at Grant street and
First avenue yesterday to nominate State
delegates to the Harrisburg convention of
August %. 7. NJ. Hershberger, Temporary
Chairman, yielded the char to w. NJ.
Price, ESQ.,, permanently, and Mrs. A. NJ.
Bryce was Temporary Secretary. Creden-
tials of 46 regular delegates and II alter
mates were received, and j. D. Simmons, of
Braddock, and DR.. Biggs, of McKeesport,
became permanent secretaries.
In the afternoon the new Executive Com
mittee was announced as follows:
]. J. Foster X. T. Mead, D. F. McGiI, J. W.
vickman, Leo Reed, Peter Casey, ]. B. Nc
Mahon, I. R. Hershberger, w. T. Dunn. Mrs.
A. F. Bryce L. s. Jack, William M. Price. ].
M. Nevin. d. H Marten, ]. c. Lewis, George
Irwin and ]. R. Johnston.
THE STATE DELEGATES.
The following were chosen delegates to
the State Conventions:
First district T. H. Rabe. j. w. Vickerman,
Mrs. Snead. ]. ]. Porter and Henry Wilson.
Second district, ]. A. Mcconnell, Rev. ]. NJ.
Fulton, Rev. d. f. McGill, d. Swoger, John F.
~, u.
Minnie Craft and Mrs Jane Wilson. Third
district, Rev. ]. T. McCrory. c. R. Mair, W. B.
Brickel, P. Casey. ]. d. Grubbs. Fourth dis
trict Jonah Boughton, George Sands and
James Fellows Fifth district, T. P. Hersh.
berger, w. R. Zeigler, w. 7. Dunn, A. F.
Bryce, G. II. CARRIER, George Finley, Thomas
A. Davis, G. B. Johnston, ]. w. Houston, L. s.
Jack, G. H Connick, Robert GLASS; Mrs. R. H.
Jones, Mrs. A. Matchett, ]. G. Beam and Alex.
Allen. Sixth district, May Newton, w. M.
Price, James Dickson, Mrs. j. K. Vankirk. ].
NJ. Nevin, Rev. T. B. Atchison, T. B. Turney,
James Martin. Seventh district David Reel,
d. R. Martin, George Irwin, ]. c. Lewis, Will
lam Fisher and Mrs. D. H. Martin. Eighth
district, H. l. Castle, w. w. Grier, ]. R.
Johnston, William Yost and Rev. M. NJ. Swee-
ney.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
the following, which were adopted, after
which there was nothing but adjournment:
EXALTED LEADERSHIP.
Resolved, That the Prohibitionists of Ale
gheny county, in convention assembled. recog-
nize the Lord Jesus Christ as the rightful
Sovereign of our State and Nation, in con-
formity with whose most holy character and
will all our laws ought to be made; that we are
in favor of a more conscientious and scriptural
observance of the Sabbath, as absolutely essen
rial to the welfare of society and the preserva-
tion of the State.
Resolved, That we are unalterably opposed
to any possible plan of licensing the liquor
traffic, as being vicious in principle and power
less as a remedy. 1t makes the State an
abettor and accomplice of all the crimes of the
liquor traffic, and a partner in its guilt The
high license system debauches public con-
science, bribes the taxpayers and furnishes the
worst opposition to the cause of prohibition,
thus prolonging the saloon evil.
Resolved. That we reaffirm our belief in pro-
hibition the only remedy for the evils con-
nected with the liquor traffic. and that the
shameful opposition of the old party politicians
and papers in the recent nonpartisan conflicts
has again most emphatically shown that to ac-
compIIsh great political revolution. such as
the abolition of the liquor traffic, non-partisan
movements are uncertain and deceptive and a
political machinery is absolutely necessary.
Resolved, That immigration should be restrict
ed and that immigrants should be required to
reside 21 years in this county before being
granted -tnerfght Of suffrage; that the right of
Suffrage should be restricted to persons able to
read. without regard to sex.
Resolved, That in the conflict between labor
and capital. the most potent ally of oppression
is the saloon, and that its abolition is the first
step to the solution of the problem.