The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-30
coNNECrIoUr CONVENTION.

v The state convention of the Prohibi- ton partytof Connecticut. to nominate candidates for governor, or,lieutenant-goy- ernor. secretary of state. treasurer and comptroller. will be held in Warner Hall, opposite Yale college. on Chapel street, in the city of New Haven. on Wednesday. August 22d, 1894. begin ming at l0;30 a. m. ....
 Tuesday evening. August Fist. there will be a preliminary mass meeting in the same hall. with addresses by speak CTS of state and national repute. and with the singing of rousing campaign songs by the Beveridges. The Bever- idges will also sing at the convention the following day.
 ' It will be a delegate convention, each town in Connecticut being entitled to two delegates, and one additional dele gate for every ten voters or major frac- ton thereof cast in the town for Edwin P. Augur for governor in 1892. The towns are hereby requested to hold their delegate caucuses as soon as possible, and before August 10th. and to report the full list of delegates and alternates. as soon as named. to Prohi- bition headquarters, 302 Asylum street, Hartford.
 Announcement of special travelling rates, etc., will be made later. We call upon the Prohibitionists of Connecticut to make this convention the greatest event in the history and Never was prohibition sentiment,-the conviction that the alcoholc drink traf- fic must be suppressed for public safe ty and the general welfare-more wide- spread than at the present time. New CT was the necessity for the overthrow of the license system and the establish ment of the Prohibition policy in gov ernment more apparent or real. It Is time to crystalline this widespread sem timent into effective action for the pos session of government.
 Recent disturbances have more than ever emphasized the fact that the drink curse entangles and hampers ev- cry other issue, to degree that rem ders impossible the fair settlement of any of the great questions of govern ment pressing for solution.
 The rum power Is king, leader and chief ally of the corrupt and corrupt ing monopolies that control congress and debauch congressman.
 It is notoriously the melting cause of the unbalanced leadership, and of the fearful riots, which have plunged la bor and capital into deadly conflict and thus prevented fair conference and ar bitration, infiicting heavy costs upon productive industry and threatened the very stability of government
 Concerning the recent riots in Chi cago the Lever newspaper of that city says: "The spirit of alcohol was omnipresent and the police were al- most powerless to prevent trouble" A citizen of New Haven in our own state who was an eyewitness of the stock yards lawlessness says: 'The district is one of ignorance, vice and rumshops. For blocks we could not find police man sober enough to give us intelli- gent directions, and the conductors on several of the street cars were too drunk. to do business It is rum plague spot, the breeding place of dis order. lawlessness. and riot. More than four hundred | saloons surround the stockyards and were running wide open during the riots. In Hammond. Indiana, the mayor closed the saloons as "war measure" for public safety. In California drunken regulars of the United States army fired upon the peo- pie without warrant. Superintendent Byrnes, of the New York police, apro pos of the recent revelations before the Lexow investigation committee has declared that "If we hunt vice and crime back to their lairs we shall be pretty sure to find them in the gin mill"
 These typical facts, like which thou sands could be readily cited from eve ry part of the land, show why the Su- preme court has found it necessary to rise above the cold formalities Of the law to utter the warning that "the statistics of every state show a greater amount of crime and misery attributa- ble to the use of ardent spirits obtaina- ble. at these retail liquor saloons than from any other source" The traffic in alcoholic drinks is always and every where the nursery of disorder, crime and anarchy, by its very nature tend ing to breed an increasing host of ire sponsible citizens.
 Surely then it is true, not by any body,s assertion but by the plain facts of the situation, that the first duty of citizens, for the preservation of law, order and government, is to unite to overthrow from its present intrench- ment in the fiscal systems of state and nation, and to suppress by all the pow CTS of government, that destructive traffic which James G. Blaine called "the most damnable business in any land, civilized or heathen," and which Senator Morrill, fitly characterized as "the gigantic crime of crimes" We submit that no interest of government or of society is safe, and that no endur- ing political progress is possible, until the liquor question is settled, and set tied right. ,.SE ,,
 We therefore earnestly invite all vo- ters who realize these facts to join with the Prohibition party in selecting wise and patriotic delegates to the state convention hereby called, to the end that platform may be adopted and candidates named, to represent the best interests of the state on all ques- tions pressing for solution, with the dominant thought that the liquor ques- ,&ion is the first concern, and that all questions must be dealt with from the standpoint of the general welfare and in loyalty to the fundamental Ameri- can. principles of liberty and equality.
 Allen B. Lincoln, Samuel R Eorhoa