The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-12-21
They WILL NOT FUSE
Prohibs and Pops Will Go 1t Alono
Next Year.
Selection of Pittsburg Instead o
Denver Meant Victory for the
Straight, Onc-fssue Cold
Water Men.

Pittsburg, Dec. iT.-Thcre will be no
fusion next ear OF presidential issues
between the nrohibitionists n popu-
lists. This. at least. is the opinion of
representative members of the cold wa
ter army who were in attendance at he
recent conference in Chicago of the pro-
hibition national committee.
The selection of Pittsburg over Den
yer as the place of holding the presiden-
tan nominating convention, which was
accomplished in spite of the fact that for
a while the delegates from the Rockies
seemed to have everything their own
! way, was a victory for the narrow
guage element, which holds that the
party has to do with nothing but the
question of prohibition; as against the
radicals, or broad-guage element,
which is in favor of a wide open plat
form, Incorporating woman suffrage,
decentralization of railroads and tele-
graphs, and some members of which arc
extremists on the silver question.
1t is an open secret that had the Den
verites succeeded in capturing the cons
vention, a effort would have
been made to promote fusion with the
populists, and the members of hat par
ty in Wisconsin, Minnesota Kansas, and
| the states west of the Rocky mountains,
would have turned out in force, and
made the gathering the largest, at least
in point of spectators, of any preSid..n-
tial convention the party has yet held.
| Nothing of the kind, however is ex-
pected here e May. and the conyen-
ton will doubtless be in control of h
conservatives from Maryland, New
York, Massachusetts,. Maine, Rhode Is
land and this state. BY the same token,
the memorials now in the hands of the
executive committee, and which will
be presented to the convention, urging
in behalf of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union and other o%rganiZa-
tions that woman suffrage be given
| equal prominence with prohibition In
the campaign. and that the name of the
movement be changed to the home pro-
lection party, will be delicately but none
the less decisively buried in the commit
tee on resolutions.
With the success of the narroW-guage
faction, only one name, that of Hon.
Joshua l.. lowering of Maryland, is be-
ing actually canvassed for the presi-
Dental nomination. If the first place
the ticket goes to the east, or rather to
the south, for the Maryland contingent
CidSSGS llSetl III lIe ldller II
sphere, the vice presidency will go west,
and the qualifications of q number Of
possible nominees are being talked over.
John G. Wooley of Chicago, who a few
months ago was a prime favorite for the
presidential nomination, has hurt him.
self badly by his attack on President
| Clark of the Christian Endeavor. but
Notwithstanding, lie a a number Of
friends within the party who believe in
| speaking out in meeting against every
religious leader who will not declare
himself in ~ of prohibition. Sam.
uel D. Hastings of Wisconsin. who has
grown white in the cause, may be placed
in nomination, while James b. Hobbs OF
Chicago, Helen N. Cougar of Indiana
and John Hipp, a prominent Denver at
torney, who is a cyclone on the platform.
all have their supporters for the second
| place IN the ticket.
The convention will be held in the ex-
position building, and the local commit
tee will get to work on the preliminary
preparations soon after New Years..