The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-19
KENDALL.
By Bay State Prohibitionists as Csndl
date For Governor.
OLD PARTIES R0UNDLY SCORED
In Spirited Speech by John G.
Wooley of Chicago.

day the committee on credentials reported
that - cities and 10 towns were repre-.
sented by Ali delegates.
Tho committee on resolutions reported
platform which declared in favor Of no
compromise with either the manufactures
of or traffic in intoxfcants for beverage
uses; equal suffrage for both sexes gov
ernment control of all work Of public ne.
cessity; prohibition of trusts; the integ.
rity of the American school system; legal
tender dollar, and postal savings banks;
popular vote for president and congress.
men; import duties only as means of Sc
curing equitable relations with other ma
tions; public board Of arbitration for
adjustment OF labor difficulties, and aboli
tion of contract convict labor system
restricted immigration and extension OF
tho time of residence necessary foi
naturalization; preservation and defense
of the Sabbath, and faithful enforcement
of the civil service laws.
Resolutions were also adopted thanking
Mayor Jewett and Marshal Rand OF
Hayerhill for their fearless enforcement
of the no-lioense law in that city, and a re-
solution of sympathy and regret at the
death OF Rev. A. A. Miner.
The following ticket was then nomin.
ated:
For governor-Edward Kendall Of Cam.
bridge.
Lieutenant governor-Edward S. Rogers
of Lee.
Secretary Of stats-Willard o. Wiley OF
Beverly.
Treasurer and receiver general-Will.
inm burlington Of Williamsburg.
Attorney general-Frank n. Farbush Of
Natick
Auditor-Herman r. Regnell Of Attic
boro.
Ii was decided that the state central
committee should be composed of one
from each senatorial committee and IL
members at large.
The committee on finance reported that
pledges and subscriptions received
amounted to slo0025.
Silver jubilee Celebration
Seldom has Music hall held n larger
or more enthusiastic audience than last
night on the occasion of the celebration OF
the silver jubilee of the Prohibition party
In this state. Neal Dow, the venerable
father of the movement, was to have been
tendered a reception, but owing to some
miscalculation on the part of the COM
mittee they failed to meet him, and the
venerable gentleman returned to Portland,
Me-, without visiting the hall.
John Willis Baer, chairman of the meet.
ing, delivered vigorous speech, de-
nouncing the saloon and urging every one
to fight the liquor trade.
After brief address by Major Brewer
of the Salvation Army, in which he
claimed that most of the hard work the
members of the army had TO perform was
TO comfort and help those whose distress
was caused In the first place by rum. John
G.. Wooley of Chicago. was introduced
He was given an ovation lasting several
minutes.
wooley's Address.
In opening, the speaker gave as reasons
why he was Prohibitionist his belief
that the Democratic party was incapable
OF administering the government, and bred
to q statesinanship too provincial to deal
with this unbounded and unlocalizable
agency OF evil, and by the declarations OF
its national platform selfappointed de-
fender in ordinary of the national saloon.
II believe" he continued, 'the Republi-
can party to be the brainiest thing in
modern politics. best trained to govern.
and in its rank and file sentimentally an
enemy Of the saloon, but swamped past
remedy in bossism. Its bloody shirt
idiocy in Ohio, Its progressive degoneracy
in Pennsylvania, It's moral insolvency In
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Rhode Island its moral paresis in New
York, its inexpressible infancy in Iowa,
its concentric conspirDcies Of conscience
crucifying candidatuit throughout the
land mark the regal ruler OF the sixties
the fiabby and impudent decadent OF the
century's end. You have it at its best in
this state. The Republican party In
Massachusetts, In its relation to the ma.
tional concern. Is an island of hopeful i'll
health in an ocean OF pus.
II think the tariff, the currency reforms,
the occasional panics, trihes light as air
to the saloon in labor. com.
merce. politics and law. And ms to tho
Monroe doctrine upheld by a governments
which gets third Of its revenue by tha |
ruin of It's own citizens and the dcQrada- |
ton OF the public honor / am undecided |
whether to call IL a bowling farce or n |
paltry braq.
81 have TO he n party Prohibitionist, or
be false 20 any country. A man ought 10 be
true 20 his party. That is why we are here. |
and we have come to stay. To the charge of
being feeble folk and unprofllc we must
needs plead guilty, but there is good
blood in out veins
Twenty five years ago white plumed,
knightly man. coming back
covered with glory from the crusade. not
Tor the holy sepuicher of the Saviour of Z
men, but for the holy cabin Of the poorest
man, himself took up thc"'Ilag, and IL has
never touched the ground, and by the
grace OF God Ii never will
Break us, will you. ye dirty politicians
Well, break and he damned in tho hell Of
honest history The swapping roots will
estity the truth even In death, and church
md country I'm the generations that are
joining ON shall speak i'm honor Of the
whipe ~ Gods unorganized democracy
he Prohibition party"
Novel old FoIks PARTY