The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-07-06
OHIO STATE NEWS.
OHIO PRoHlBITIoNlsTs.

They Adopt Many Planked Platform and
Nominate Full State Ticket.
CLEVELAND, O., June 29.-The Ohio
prohibition state convention has con.
cluded its labors and passed into his
tory. The greater portion of the day
was spent over the platform, and it was
after o'clock Wednesday afternoon
when the work of selecting candidates
for the November election was COM
menced. The committee on permanent
organization recommended w. Sharp,
of Richland county, for permanent
chairman; r. Rathbutt, of Clarke, sec
retary, and Mrs Henrietta G. Moore, of
Cuyahoga, and Chas. E. Hold, of Clark,
assistants
The first contest came on the report
of the committee on rules The COM
mittee recommended that all the dis
tricts be allowed to cast as many votes
as they were entitled to, whether the
complete delegations were present or
not. Mr.. Talcott, of Cuyahoga, moved
to oamend by prohibiting any votes being
cast unless delegates were in the con-
vention. This contest resolved itself
into fight between the northern and
which depends the choice of the candi-
date for governor. The northern coun-
ties were more fully represented. and
the amendment was a move to cut off
the slim delegations from the river and
southern counties, and after an hours
debate the amendment was adopted by
. vote Of 1877 to 14O.
The platform, as prepared by the
committee on resolutions, showed that
the Ohio prohibitionists are determined,
apparently, to continue doing business
at the old stand. The platform recog-
nizes God as the source of all just gov
ernment, rejects all liquor legis-
lation save that which is pro-
hibitory, is for female suffrage,
would have the government is
sue all money as full legal tender,
would prohibit alien ownership of land
and limit the area owned by any indi-
vidual or corporation, is for "defen-
sive" tariff and income taxes. is for
government control of railroads, ETC.;
is for Sunday as a day of rest. liberal
pensions, stricter immigration laws,
opposition to sectarianism in public
schools, the salary instead of the fee
system, election of all civil officers di
rectly by the people, and oppose in
crease Of local indebtedness by legisla-
lures
The committee desired that the plat
form be regarded more as set of reso-
lutions than as a platform. After some
talk it was decided to consider the res
olutions one by one and this brought
out lengthy and numerous discussions
as to their wording.
There were many verbal scraps A
long discussion was entered into over
a motion to amend the preamble SO as
to- decisively announce the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic as the DOM
inent issue of the party. 1t was de-
cided that the change was unnecessary
and the preamble was allowed to re-
main practically as originally prepared.
The resolutions and preamble were
then adopted after postal saving bank
plank had been added. A resolution
'condemning the anarchists of Chicago
for allowing the Worlds fair to open
on Sunday, in violation of their con-
tract" was laid on the table.
The ticket nominated is as follows:
Governor, Gideon p. Macklin, Mont
gomery county; lietenant-governor,
Seth Fl. Ellis, Delaware; treasurer,
Abram Ludlow: attorney-general, S. E.
Young, Portage; supreme judge, J. A.
Gallagher, Belmont; dairy and food
commissioner, Seth II. Todd, Huron;
board of public works: Enos H.
Broauis, Stark. There was big fight
for governor.