, 1890-09-11
1T PROVED A FAILURE.
The Results of Prohibition
in Kansas.
PROSPERITY MUCH RETARDED
Democrats and Republicans Unite
in Favor of Resubmission-
State Conventions.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 0.--The demo-
cratic and resubmissionist state conven-
ton met to-day. The resubmissionists
compose a faction of the republican
party, which opposes prohibition and
iayors high license, and Is trying to OBJ
tain through tho legislature resub-
mission Of the prohibitory amendment
to a vote of the people. To attain these
ends, they formed separate party, and
fused with the democrats. Both con-
ventions met at the same hour in differ.
ent halls. The democratic oonventlo
elected John 3. Sheridan, of Paola, tenn
porery chairman, and recess was
taken.
During the recess subcommittee
conferred with one from the secession lists
on resolutions and reported a platform
to the iull committee.
On assembling the democratic conven.
tion made the temporary organization
permanent and adopted a platform. 1t
declares opposition to paternalism In
government state and national; de-
pores the tendency manifested by
preacher politicians, who pose as leaders
of the republican party In this state to
make religious belief the test of eligibil-
ity for political preierment; declares
the federal election bill to be the legiti-
mate offspring oi the party which filched
The presidency; favors q tariff based
upon public necessities, the free coinage
of silver, and liberal pension
law; expresses sympathy with labor in
its struggle with the insatiate money
power, whether In factory or farm; op-
poses sumptuary legislation; demands
the early resubnission of the prohibit
tory amendment, believing that prohi-
the state incalculable evils, and declares
cmphatically in favor of high license
and local option.
Another plank asks the people of Kan
sas to repudiate Senator ingalls,, 1.-THE
man who denounced reform i'm poll tics as
u dream, delared that the decalogue bad
no place i'll politics, and expressed the
belief that the use OF money and the en-
ploymont of hired Hessians in cam
paigns was justitiable."
The republican resubmission conven-
ton elected l.. A. Barta, of Great Bend,
temporary chairman, and the organza-
tion was soon after made permanent.
About 300 delegates were present. The
form pledging loyalty to the principles
of the national republican party, favor.
ing reciprocity, demanding the Tree coin.
age of silver and such notifications of
the tariff as will give equal protection to
agriculture and manufactures, an equit-
able bankrupt law and liberal pension
laws.
on the question Of prohibition the
platform says: I'VE arraign the
| m Ia
as disloyal TO the prin-
ciples and unfaithful TO the inter
ests of the republican party. We charge
that they have put the party In Kansas
out of harmony with the national re-
publican party. and thereby absolved us
from all allegiance. and we no longer ac-
knowledge their leadership. Lured by
the seductive wiles ofimprnctical vision
aries, they have committed the party
to extravaganza and foilies which, unless
promptly checked, will bankrupt and
dcpopulate ths state. These things
impel US, as the only method which
promises success, to sink party prefer
ences in state politics for the time and
unite with snch of our fellow citizens of
the state as share our convictions, with
out regard TO party, for the purpose Of
correcting the follies into which we have
been betrayed, and thus preserve the
good name and insure the future pros
perity of the state.
1--WE are opposed to prohibition. A
ten years trial has demonstrated its
total inetficiency as temperance meas
ure. 1t is a revival of an absolute form
of paternal government, and entirely
opposed to the genius and spirit of the
age. 1t is at enmity with the funda-
mental principles of our civilization and
destroys that inallenuble right of a citi-
zen To determine for himself what
method will preserve his own hap
piness without interference with the
rights OF others, which principle is
the basis of our liberties and the hope
of our institutions. Ii is un-American,
unrepublican and undemocratic, and
not in harmony with the purposes and
spirit of our institutions and laws. The
existence OF the prohibitory law is per-
petual menace to the national interests
of the state. 1t burdens us with taxation,
and deprives us of all control of the
liquor traffic and the revenue thcrefrom,
drives away population, prevents immi-
grafton, makes the building of large
cities within the state impossible en-.
courages perjury, makes more hypo-
critics than all other agencies combined,
does not lessen crime or pauperism
does not empty the jails, penitentiaries,
lunatic asylums or aimshouses, and, be.
lieving that any public measure in tho
hands of an enlightened people is abso-
lutely safe, we demand that the question
of the repeal of the prohibitory amend.
ment to the constitution to be sub
mitted to the people at as early date