Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-09
8IDWELL AND CBANfULl
The Men Chosen to Lead the
Prohibition Hosts.
Ballot Decided tho Presidential
Nomination-Hot Debate ON tho
Adoption of the Platform--A
Radicai Tariff Plank.

Although the strife between aspirants
for the presidential nomination was
nothing like so bitter as in the conven-
tions at Minneapolis and Chi
cago, the contest did not en-
tirely lack the spice Of batJle.
Ex-Governor St John, Of Kansas,
placed General John Bidwell. Of Cali
fornia, in nomination. John Hipp, in
behalf of Colorado. seconded the non-
i~nation.
John Lloyd Thomas, for the NewYork
delegation, placed w. Jennings Dem
crest, of New York, in nomination. G.
n. Grandson, Of North Carolina, Sec
onded the nomination.
L. b. Logan, of Ohio, put the namo
OF Gideon Z. Stewart before the con-
vention.
Bidwell was elected on the first bal
lot, receiving 800 votes; Demorcst, 1870;
Stewart, 179.
Bidwcll's nomination was made
unanimous
Sam Small, Georgia; William Satter-
lee, Minnesota; JOSHUA lowering,
Maryland; j. b. Cranfull, Texas, and
Thomas II. Carscaddon. West Virginia,
were presented as candidates for vice.
president Small withdrew before a
vote was taken.
The result of the first ballot for
vice presidential candidate was no
choice.
The total first vote for ~vice-presi.
dent: lowering, 80; Cranfull, 1886;
Satterlee, 20; Carscaddon, 81 Enough
changes were made before the figures
ar a.a1 =, -, Tu- f1l n
Texas, 4l6 votes, nine more than
enough to win.
Whatever interest the nomination
contest may have lacked was more
than made up for in the discussion
over the adoption of the platform. The
tariff and silver planks caused the
trouble and the debate was very
heated The minority report favored
free silver and declared for the recog-
milton of the protective principle Both
propositions were defeated after IA bit
ter fight So severe was the disap-
pointment of the minority that there
were rumors of Withdrawing from the
convention. The defeated faction was
finally Modified by the adoption of a
resolution declaring prohibition TO be
the dominant issue and making that
question the only test Of party fealty.
The convention adjourned ate. a. III.
The Platform.
Thc prohibition party in national con-
v%ention assembled, acknowledging AL
mighty God "a the source of all true gov
eminent and his law as the standard to
which all human enactments must con-
form TO secure the blessings of peace and
prosperity, presents the following declar-
ntions OF principles:
The liquor traffic Is n foe to civilization,
an arch enemy of popular government and
q public nuisance. 1t is the citadel of the
forces that corrupt politics, promote pow
erty and crime, degrade the nations home
life, thwart the will of the people and de-
liver tho country into the hands of
rapacious class interests. All laws that
under the guise of regulation legalize and
protect this traffic, or make the govern
ment share in its ill-gotten gains. are
vicious in principle and powerless as q
remedy.
We declare for the entire suppression of
the manufacture, sale, Importation, expor-
tation and transportation of alcoholic
liquors as n beverage by federal and state
legislation, and tn full powers of the gov
ernment should be exerted to secure this
sOS"N~-A rs.s- assss sN-.ls y - r-OVg ur1v
the dominant nature of this issue in Amer
lean politics is undeserving of the support
of the people.
No citizen should be denied the right TO
vote on account of sex, and equal labor
should receive equal wages without re-
gard to sex.
The money of the country should be is
sued by the general government only in
sufficient quantities to meet the demands
of business and give full opportunity for
the employment of labor; to this end an
increase in the volume of money is de-
mauded, and no individual or corporation
should be allowed to make any profit
through its issue. 1t should be made legal
tender for the payment of all debts, public
and private. Its volume should be fixed
at n definite sum per capita and made To
increase with our increase in population.
We favor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold.
Tariff should be levied only as a defense
against foreign governments which levy
tariff upon or bar our products from their
markets, revenue being incidental The
residue OF means necessary to an econom-
zeal administration of the government
should be raised by levying the burden on
what people possess instead of what they
consume.
We stand unequivocally TO the Ameri.
can public school and opposed to
n mGnevs "pP fop sse.ariao of SCHOOLS GSl,e
We declare thai only by the united sup
port of such common schools, taught in
the English language, can we hope to be-
come and remain q homogeneous and har-
monious people.
Railroad, telegraph and other public
corporations should be controlled by the
government in the. interest of the people,
and no higher charges allowed than nee
essary to give "A fair interest to the capital
actually invested.
Foreign immigration has become q bur-
den upon industry, and Is one of the fac.
tors in depressing wages aud causing
| AiGanntapt. fharafara mnniuratinn In w
should be revised and strictly enforced.
The time of resi- cncc for naturaiiz ition
should be extended and no naturalized
person should be allowed to vote until
one year after he becomes a citizen.
Nonresident should not be allowed to
acquire land la this country, and we favor
the limitation OF the individual and cor
porate ownership of land. All unearned
grants of lands to railroad companies or
other corporations should be reclaimed.
Years Of inaction and trcachery on the
part of the republican and democratic
parties have resulted In tho present reign
of mob law and we demand that every
citizen be protected in the right of trial by
constitutional tribunals.
ALI men should be protected by law In
their right to one days rest In seven.
Arbitration Is the wisest, most econom-
ical and humane mode of settling national
differences.
We pledge that the prohibition party, If
elected to power, will ever grant just pen
sions to disabled veterans Of the union
army and navy, their widows and orphans.
Speculations in margins concerning
grain and products aud the formation If
pools for the arbitrary advancement of
prices should be suppressed.
We arraign the republican and demo-
cratic parties rs false to the standards
reared by their founders; rs faithless to
!, the principles of their illustrious leaders
Of the past, to whom they do homage with
lips; as recreant to the 'higher lew,n
which is as infexible in political affairs
rs In personal life, and as no longer
smbodying the aspirations Of the
American people or inviting the
confidence OF enlightened pro.
gressivc patr otism. Their pro-
test against the admission of moral
issues" into politics il q confession of
their own moral degeneracy. The decla-
ration Of m eminent authority that munic-
ipal misrule Is the 'one conspicuous full
are Of American politics" follows rs a
~natural consequences OF such ~degcncracy.
and 1t Is true alike of cities under repub-
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