The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-07-09

8IDwELL AND CRANFULL
The Men Chosen to Lead the
Prohibition Hosts.
One Ballot Decided the Presldential
Nomination--Hot Debate on the
Adoption OF the Piatform--A
Radical Tariff Plank.
For President GEN. JOHN B1DwELL
For Vice-President.....J. B. CRANFULL
CINCINNATI, July The Cincinnati
convention has passed into history.
Although the strife between aspirants
for the presidential nomination was
nothing like so bitter ns in the conven-
tions at Minneapolis and Chi
cago, the contest did not en-
tirely lack the spice of bat,le.
Ex-Governor ST. John, of Kansas,
placed General John Bidwell, of Cali
fornia, In nomination. John Hipp, in
behalf Of Colorado. seconded the nom
tnation.
John Lloyd Thomas, for the New York
delegation, placed W. Jennings Dem
crest. of New York. in nomination. c.
N. Grandson, of North Carolina, sec
onded the nomination.
l. b. Logan, of Ohio. pnt the namo
OF Gideon p. Stewart before the con-
vention.
Bidwell was elected on the first bal.
lot, receiving 500 votes; Dcmorcst, 139;
Stewart, l70.
Bidwell's nomination was made
unanimous
Sam Small, Georgia; William Satter-
lee, Minnesota; Joshua Levering,
Maryland; j. Is. Cranfull. Texas, and
Thomas II. Carscaddon. West Virginia,
were presented as candidates for vice
president Small withdrew before q
vote was taken.
Tho result of the first ballot for
presidential candidate was no
choice.
The total first vote for vice-presi-
dent: lowering, 80; Crnnfull. 3s6;
Sattcrlee, 26; Cnrscaddon. 81. Enough
changes were made before the figures
were announced to give Cranfull, of
Texas, 4l6 votes. nine more than
enough to win.
Whatever interest tho nomination
contest may have lacked was more
than made up for in tho discussion
over tho adoption of the platform. The
tariff and silver plunlls caused tho
trouble and the debate was very
heated The minority report favored
free silver md declared for the rccog-
milton of the protective principle. Both
propositions were defeated after 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 n
resolution declaring prohibition to be
the dominant issue aud making that
question the only test of party fealty.
The convention adjourned at2. u. IN.
The Platform.
The prohibition party in national con-
vention assembled, acknowledging AL
mighty God as the source of all true gov
eminent and his law us the standard to
which all human enactments must con-
form to secure the blessings of peace and
prosperity, presents the following declar.
atoms of principles:
The liquor traffic is foe to civilization,
IN arch enemy of popular government and
public nuisance. 1t is the citadel of tho
forces that corrupt politics, promote pov-
erty and crime. degrade the nations home
life, thwa-t the will of The people and de-
liver the 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 Us o
remedy.
We declare for the entire suppression of
the manufacture, sale, Importation cxpor-
| tation and transportation of alcoholic
liquors rs n beverage by federal and state
legislation, and the full powers of the gov
ernment should be cxerted to secure this
result. Any party that fails to recognize
the dominant nature of this Issue in Amer
ican politics is undeserving of the support
of the people.
No citizen should be denied the right 10
vote on account of sex, and equal labor
! should receive equal wages without re-
gard to sex.
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-
manded, md 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, pubiic
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 ard unlimited coinage
of silver and gold
Tariff should be levied only ms n defense
against foreign governments which levy
| tariff upon or bar our products from their
markets, revenue being incidental The
| residue of means necessary to mn econom.
icnl administration of the government
should be raised by levying the burden on
what people possess instead of what they
| consu ne
We stand unequivocally TO- the Ameri
can public school and opposed tc
any appropriation of public
moneys for sectarnn schools.
We declare that only by the united sup
port of such common schools. taught il,
| come and remain n 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 charge, allowed than nee
| essury to give n fair interest to the capital
| actually invested.
| Foreign immigration has become bur.
| den upon industry, and is one of the fac
tors i'll depressing wages aud causing
discontcnt; therefore immigration laws
should be revised and strictly enforced
The time of resi- encc for naturalizn tion
should be extended and no naturnlzed
person should be allowed to vote until
one year after he becomes n citizen.
| Non-residents should not be allowed tc
acquire land in this country, and we favo,
the limitation of the individual and cor
porate ownership of land All unearned
| grnnt. of lands to railrond companies O,
other corporations should be reclaimed
| Years of inaction md trenchery on the
part of the republican and democratic
parties have resulted iu the present reigl
of mob law and we demand that ever,
citizen be protected in the right of trial by
| constitutional tribunals
All men should be protected by law il
their right to one days rest in seven
Arbitration is the wisest, most econom
| icnl and humane mode of settling natioun
differences,
We pledge that the prohibition party, i.
elected to power, will ever grant just pen.
sions to disabled veterans of the unior
army and navy, their widows and orphans
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