Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-07
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
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Eominated by the Prohibitionists---Sy
opsis of the Platform.

Eominated by the Prohibitionists--Syn-
opsis of the Platform.
CINCINNATI, July 2.-Shortly after
midnight Thursday night General John
Bidwell was declared the nominee of the
National Prohibition party for president
of the United States, amid cheering that
lasted fully five minutes. The vote stood
Bidwell, 582; Demorest, 142; Stewart,
1884; Bascom (not nominated), 8. Neces-
sary to choice, 457. The corrected
vote stood: Bidwell, 500; Demorest, 1S9;
Stewart, 179.
At o'clock DR.. J. B. Cranfill, of Texas,
was declared the nominee for vice presi-
dent, amid much cheering. The names
presented were: Samuel Small, of
Georgia; William W. Satterlee, of Min
nesota; Joshua lowering, of Maryland;
j. B. Cranfll, of Texas, and Thomas R..
Carskadon, of West Virginia. Small
withdrew before vote was taken. The
vote stood: lowering, 351; Cranfill, 41G;
Satterly, 26; Carskadon, 10.
The Platform.
Considerable squabbling resulted when
the platform came up for adoption. The
fight was ON the free coinage and tariff
planks. The platform as finally adopted
was briefly as follows:
After depicting the evils of the drink
traffic to the nation and the home, the
resolutions condemn all efforts at regu-
lation by license as vicious in principle
and powerless as remedy
Entire suppression Of the manufacture
and sale of liquor is insisted upon.
Other provisions of the platform are:
No denial of the right of suffrage on
account of sex; the granting to laboring
men of one day of rest in seven; arbitra-
ton in international difficulties; tariff
only as defense against foreign goods;
government control of railroad and tele-
graph systems; immigration laws should
be revised and enforced; the time of res
idence for naturalization purposes should
be extended; nonresident aliens should
not be allowed to acquire land in the
county, and the limitation of individual
and corporate ownership of land is
favored; mob law is condemned.
The liberal pensioning of disabled
soldiers and their widows and orphans
is favored. Speculation in margins, ant
the cornering of money and products
and the formation of pool trusts shoult
be suppressed.
The money of the country should bt
issued by the general government only
| and in sufficient quantity to meet the
demands of business and give full op
portunity for the employment of labor
To this end an increase in the
volume of money is demanded. No in
| dividual or corporation should be al
olwed to make any profit through it,
issue. 1t should be made a legal tender
for the payment of all debts, public ant
private. Its volume should be fixed a
definite sum per capita and made tt
increase with our increase in popula
ton. We favor the unlimited coinag'
of silver and gold.
The appropriation Of public money
for sectarian schools is opposed. TIL,
protest of the old parties against the ad
mission of ''moral issues" into politics i
a confession of their own moral degen
eracy; the old parties protest when ou
Of power against infraction of civil ser
vice laws, and each, when in power
violates those laws in letter and in spirit
Each processes fealty to the interests 0
the toiling masses, but both covertl.
truckle to the money power. The Dem
ocratic Mills bill and the Republican
Mckinley bill are no longer treated b,
them as an issue between great and d
vergent principles of government, bu
as a mere catering to different sections
| We protest against interfering wit
the right of suffrage in any way or al
tempting to Improperly influence it.