Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-14

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Of 1t and read the following:
For governors: E. G. Heath of Rock
wall.
For lieutenant-governor: J. E. Boyn-
ton of Waco.
For treasurer: w.D. Jackson of
Waco.
For commissioner of the land office: s.
Mullins of Corsicana.
For attorneY-general: J. B. COT OII
| Austin.
For superintendent of public instruc-
| ton: Professor A. Clark of Hood county
The committee on platform having
their report ready, it was read by ]. B.
Cranfill, and after the usual preamble,
was as follows:
PLATFORM.
l. We favor the suppression of the
liquor traffic by legislation state, and IA
tional, and regard the Prohibition party,
state and national, as absolutely neoss-
sapy for that purpose.
2.'ThaJ any form of license taxation
or regulation of the liquor traffic is con-
trary to good govern ment; that any
party which supports regulation, license
or taxation enters into an alliance with
such traffic and becomes the active foe
of the states welfare and that we ar
raign the Republican and Democratic
parties for their persistent attitude in
favor of the license IuiQuity whereby
they oppose the demand of the people
for prohibition, and through open COM
plicity with the liquor crime defeat the
enforcement of law.
8. That our immigration laws should
be so enforced as to prevent the intro
n int Nf oil &c
inmates of other dependent institutions.
and others physically incapscitated tor
self-support.
4. That no person should be allowed to
vote who has not been a resident of the
United States for ten years, or who is
unable to read and write the English
language.
5. We arraign the liquor traffic as
menace to civil liberty, in that IL is the
vehicle by which the Democratic and Re-
publican parties shamelesslY corrupt the
ballot-box, and We further favor such
lamentations in the election laws as shall
render bribe-giving and bribe- taking i'm
possible.
6. Recognizing that the liquor traffic,
in itself q soulless monopoly, is the
greatest foe to the laboring classes as an
ever present menace to their homes, we
earnestly and cordially invite all labor
ing men TO join US in the attempt to
throttle their most malignant enemy.
Z. We recognize in the Woman g
Christian Temperance Union powerful
ally in the battle for temperance and pro-
hipition. We bid them god-speed in
their noble and self-sacrifoing labors.
s. That ell charges for service by rail-
road corporations and of other common
carriers be regulated by law for the pro-
lection of the people, and that an eff
Client system of arbitration be enacted for
the settlement of all differences between
and employees.
8. That all state conviots should bs
confined in the walls of the penitentiary
and the lease system be abolished.
10. That all monopolIes and trusts are
destructive of free institutions and should
be abolished.
IL. Recognizing and declaring that
prohibition of the liquor traf1o has be-
come the dominant issue In national poll
tics, we invite to full party fellowship
all those who on this, our dominant issue,
are with US agreed.
II. Effective systems Of public free
schools by the states, in which the nature
and effect of alcoholic liquors upon the
human system should be taught.
13. The latest United States supreme
court decision on the liquor question. to-
wit: The 'original package" cases
from Iowa clearly develops the necessity
for Federal law to protect the states in
the necessary power to preserve their
citizens from the ravages of rum, and
necessitates that the Prohibition party
devote especial attention to the, election
Of members of the United States congress
and senate.
This was signed by the entire commit
tee, but minority report on the wo-
man g suffrage plank was submitted, as
follows:
The undersigned members of your COM
nittee on platform agree to the majority
report and move to add to that platform
The following amendments
That the right Of suffrage rests on no
mere circumstance of race, color, sex or
and that where, from suy
,ause, it has been withheld from any cit
zens who are of mature age and men,
ally and morally qualified for the exer-
Use of an intelligent ballot, it should be
by the people through the legis-
atures of the several states on such ed
1cational basis as they may deem wise.
An attempt was made to table the mi
lority report and adopt the report of the
majority and the platform with IL as
Whole. This was defeated, however,
Ind then followed heated discussion of
he womens' suffrage plank, which was {
ngaged in by Cranhll, Templeton and
'thers in opposition to the minority re-
,ort, while 1t was supported by w. D.
Knowles of Dallas, J G Allison OF Dali
as, B. W. Williams of Parker, Mrs. E..
|. Fry Of San Antonio and Mrs. Acheson
f benson. The ladies made the
Iest speeches on the subject
nd Mrs. Fry literally did
yranfll up, who, after the debate was
yer, again moved to lay the minority
eport on the table, and it prevailed by
vote of twenty-nine ayes TO twenty
our nays. This shut out the woman
uffrage plank and q number of the
aides left the hall
The majority report with the platform,
5 set out above, was then adopted by
sctions.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT TICKETS.
Dohoney Of Lamar then offered the
GLOWING as au amendment or addition
, the report of the committee which
as adopted:
Resolved, that the convention nOmi-