The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-12

S9niDated hy the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
opsis Of the Platform.


opsis Of the Platform.
CfSsaSNATI. July 2-Shortly after
midnight Thursday night General John
Bidwel 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
Bldwell. 5S2; Demorcst, 142; Stewart.
1e4; Bascom (not nominated). g. Neces-
Eary to choice, 457. The corrected
vote stood: Bidvell, $50; Deinorest, 169:
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 We're: Samuel Small. Of
Georgia. William w. Satterlee. of Min
nesota; Joshua lowering, of Maryland;
J. Is. Cranfll, Of Texas, and Thomas R.
Carskadon- OF West Nirginia. Small
withdrew before a vote was taken. The
vote stood: Levering. 35l; Cranfill, 4l6;
Satterly, 20; Carskadon. 10.
The Platform.
Considerable squabbling resulted when
the platform came mp for adoption. The
night was on the free coinage and tariff
planks. The platform as finally adopted
was briefly as follows:
Alter depicting the evils of the drink
traffic TO the nation and the home, the
resolutions condemn all efforts at regu-
latlon by license as ''vicious IN principle
and powerless as a 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 re'v5ed and enforced; the time of res
ldence for naturalization purposes should
be extended: nonresident aliens should
not be allowed to acquire land in the
county, and the limitation of individual
ana corporate ownership of land is
favored; mob law Is condemned
The liberal pensioning of disabled
soldiers and their widows and orphs IS
Is favored. Speculation in margins. and
the corner1ng of money and produces
and the formation of pool trusts should
be suppressed.
The money of the country should be
issued by the general government only,
and IN sufficient quantity to meet TIE
demands of business and give full OPP
portunity for the employment of labor.
volume of money is demanded. No in
dlvidual or corporation should be al
olwed to make any profit through its
issue. 1t should be made a legal tender
for the payment of all debts, public and
private. Its volume should be fixed at
definite sum per capita and made to
increase with our increase IN popula-
ton. We favor the unlimited coinage
of silver and gold.
The appropriation of public moneys
for sectarian schools is opposed The
protest of the old parties against the adj
mission of moral issues Ito politics is
a confession of their own moral e.;aEen-
eracy; the old parties protest when our
CT power against infr..ction of civil SER
vice laws, and each, when in power,
violates those laws in letter and in spirit.
Each processes fealty to the interests of
the toiling masses, but both covertly
truckle to slie money power. The DEM
ocratic Mills bill and the Republican
Mckinley bill are no longer treated by
them as an issue between great and di-
vergent principles of government, b-1t
as mere ca se1ing to different sections.
We protest against interfering with
the right of suffrage in any way or at
tempting to improperly influence it.