The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-23
MAINE PROHIBITION.
Only Needs the Womens Votes to
Make 1t a Success.
SO SAYS MRS. HELEN L. BULLOCK
OFTHE W. C. T. U.

I'll. E,ect,ou of Oficers-Mrs. Stevens
A~,,r Vice President-Reports of the
National Organizers.
Baltimore, October %. Miss France S
Willard is again elected National presi-
dent of, the W. G. 7. U. Other officers
were eleoted as follows: Vice president
at large. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens; CORES
ponding secretary, Mrs. Katherine L.
Stevenson of Massachusetts, recording
secretary, Mrs Clara 9. Hoffman of
Kansas City, MO-; assistant recording
secretary, Mrs. Frances l. Beauchamp of
Kentucky.
The reports of the national organizers
were read.
Mrs. Helen L. Bullock, of Elmira, N.
Y, reported her work as an organizer in
several of the Ssates. She has organized
20 new Unions, including two Lady Som
erset Unions in colleges, one Of which
made tobacco q condition in it's pledge. :
In Maine the women are not only work.
ing all along our different lines but help
ing in the enforcement Of their law which
needs only woman's ballot to ensure its
SUCCESS. - .,-,..
to raise the age of consent, to secure
police matrops, and for the Scientific
Temperance Instruction law.
In fact organization had been me
watchword of the year in every State.
Mrs Bullock said she had given the
pledge and badge to 941 8ctiye and AL
honorary members,
Miss Clara Parrish. one of the organ
izers, in her report, said that during the
year she had travelled 5000 miles, Wis
iting most Of the Northern States. She
had been called into organized rather
fifteen new societies, one, somerset
Y" in the Cherokee Girls Seminary at
Tahlequah, Indian Territory.
The report of the founder of the Nation
al W. G. 7. u, Mrs. Mcclellan Brown,
of Cincinnati, was presented. Thirty
one years ago she made her first public
temperance speech in the court house Of
Westmoreland county, Pa "There was
at that date,'' said Mrs. Brown, mo
other woman on the temperance plat
form"
She was in demand for lectures and for
criticism especially among the ladies.
The press was universally kind, proba-
bly, because she belonged to the frater-
nifty. Ten years later in Ohio women
came around her OH the platform ny
scores. Hundreds OF women were thrilled
with the intense impulses which had i'm
PEELED and sustained her alone for dec
ade.
She went to Chautauqua the summer
Of 1874 carrying with her the germs Of
this National organization in bit of
paper containing the skeleton Of its pres
emit form.
"A temperance meeting was secured by
the kindly aid of Mrs. Bishop Simpson
and Mr.. Lewis Miller. DR.. Vincent
(now Bishop was somewhat distrustful
Of the proprieties in crusader. Moving
a committee on organization, she nomi-
mated Mrs J. Fowler willing as chair
man. Miss Willard Joined there.
At Cleveland Mrs. Brown was bette
noir to the holy women on account OF her
a tive relation to the Prohibition Party
which she had helped to organize. Now
prohibition is one of the declared aims of
the Convention. At Cleveland she asked
the presiding Off Ger to call for DR.. Wal
den, (now Bishop to pronounce the
benediction. "No mans voice" was the
answer, "shall be heard here" Now
the convention recognizes and introduces
the pastors as coadjutors.
Mrs. E. Norine Law of Michigan, re-
ported "the grentest harvest OF all the
year we been at work" She organized
seven unions, secured thousand men,
bers, held two hundred and fifty meet
ings, one hundred and sixty-seven. of
which were for temperance. Hundreds of
men signed the pledge.
Miss Ida Clothier of Colorado stated
she made addresses in five states and re
DO rted pleasing resultes.
Mrs, Ella A. Dayton-Blair Of New
York, reported She have gave one hundred
and sixty eight illustrated lectures, or
ganized twenty-eight loyal temperance
legions, three W. O. y. US and three
senior grades during the year. =
The most intense interest Of any session
of the convention so far developed this
afternoon when the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions was under discus
sion for nearly. three hours Nearly every
delegate offered some amendment or a
suggestion, or gave views as to at least
ore Of the planks of the platform. Only
about half the report was acted upon.
The prohibition and suffrage planks
brought out most of the discussion. AS
finally approved, the prohibition plank
endorses the prohibition party, as the
only party with courage to speak out
boldly in favor of woman suffrage and
total humiliation of the liquor traffic.
The Republican and Democratic parties
are scored for unfaithfulness, and num-
erous incidents of broken faith and repu :
diation of promises were cited.
The franchise plank Estates the belief
the ballot in the hands of women will
hasten the overthrow Of the liquor traffic
and many other evils.
The closing of the gates of the Atlanta
Exposition on the Sabbath is approved.
Sorrow is expressed ovor the fact that
a temporary post office established IN Mu-
sic Hall, for the accommodation of dele
gates, was kept open few hours Sun
day. The convention pledged itself to
never again desecrate the Sabbath.
The trap shooters tournament now
being held in Baltimore, received the
attention of the convention in a reso-
luton oondemning the .oruelties of bird
shooting.