The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-06-30
PROHIBITION CONVENTION
ELI HITTER RPEKMANENT CHAIR.
MAN OF THE ASSEMBLAGE.
Ihe Majority Report AdOpted-Full
Ticket to be Put in the Field
Sam Small There.

| Sam Small There.
Special Cor. State Chronicle
CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 29.-Thc pro
hlbition convention was called to order
this morning at 1880 by chairman
Dlckie of the national committee. John
II. st. John, of Kansas, was selected as
temporary chairman. The ex-governor
spoke as follows: members of the con
vention, return nay sincere thanks and
shall ever be grateful for the distin-
guished honor of being chosen to preside
as temporary chairman of this magnifi
cent political convention. The greatest
and grandest, in sobriety and brain
power that ever convened on American
SOIL (applause.) 1t represents a party
that darcs to do right because it is right
condemn the wrong because it it wrong.
| Platform.
| We claim that any system which imposes
a high tariff on the food, fuel and cloth
ing of the poor, and lets the diamonds of
the rich come in free, is legalizcd rob
berry under the guise of "protection''
and ought to be forever abolished; that
all money should be issued by the gen
| eral government and every dollar
whether gold, silver or paper should
stand upon an equality for all purposes.
| and that the coinage of both metals
should be free; that railway and tele-
graph lines should be under the control
OF the government, to be operated at
cost IN the interest of all the people:
applause that President, Vice President
and United States Senators should be
elected by direct vote of the people
and that the term for President be ex-
tended to six years with no successive
term for any man. That all monopolies
which suppress the people ought to be
suppressed; that the legalized lquor
trafilc tor beverage purposes ought to be
made crime against humanity and
driven from the face Of the earth. The
prohibition party is the only party that
dares to fight this mightiest curse of the
world, Here we are and we have come
to stay. From this hour on let no fusion.
no deals, no compromise be our motto
cloud applause; let our platform be
SO broad, clear and comprehensive that
all who love God or home or country can
join the procession which is now fighting
the greatest monopoly that ever existed,
a monopoly that destroys $50 lives and
costs 81, 500, 000-the product of demo
cratic and republican rule-a damning
blot upon creation and sin against God =
Repeated applause punctuated the ad-
dress, especially the references to the
platform and the question of non fusion.
The Jules of the last convention, with an
amendment allowing the chairman of
delegation to cast the full vote of the
delegation, though some of the members
may be absent, reported without dissent.
lhe members of the national committee
from North Carolina are: J. A. Stick
leather and t. p. Johnson. After re-
cess the convention reassembed, the
committee on permanent organization
reported the name of Col. Eli Ritter, of
Indianapolis, for permanent chairman and
Rev. Sam Small for secretary. The COM
mlttee Also reported a recommendation
that the votes cast should only represent
the delegates In actual attendance and
that the votes of delegates who had come
to Cincinnati should not be announced
by the chairman of State delegations.
This was move of the Demorest faction.
which has its chief strength in the
Southern States. Sam Small made one
OF his characteristic speeches in behalf of
minority report. A majority report
was adopted, however
At o'clock the convention took re
cess for an hour. The delegates were
slow in getting together for the night
session and it was not until half past
eight o'clock that chairman St. John re-
sumed the gavel. Then the inevitable
quartette had an inning of half hour and
the clerk was pointing to nine when
Hon. Eli F. Ritter, of indianapolis. was
presented as permanent presiding officer.
he made lengthy address in which he
said that the republican candidate for
President of the United States halls from
Indiana. He has been renominated. a
fight had been raised on him and it was
given out that it would be one of the
hottest fights he had ever been in. He
wanted to give notice then and there
that the prohibition party was sin it"
too. At 1915 an adjournment was
taken until 8 80 to morrow morning.
Meeting of New York