The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-28
PROHIBITIONISTS.
THOUSANDS FROM ALL PARTS ARE
AT PITTsRURG.
Bitter Fight May BE Looked for
When the Convention Meets Again
TOday-SiIver, Woman Suffrage
and Prohibition.

PITTSBURG, May 27.-Long before
the hour for calling the national Pro-
hibition convention to order the dele
gates had assembled at the Music hall
at the Exposition building and thous-
ands of ProhibjtSonists from all parts
of the country were present The gall
leries and floor were crowded. Never
before has the party had a question to
settle which caused so much conten-
ton as has been developed over 'tne
money plank platform. The gold stand
ard faction, as it is called, scored the
first victory last night in the ma tional
committee. when 1t elected A. A.
Stevens OF This state to act as tempo
rary chairman. AS prominent men of
the party came into the hall they were
given oValdioglS.
1t was long after 10 o'clock when
Samuel Dickie, chairman of the ma
tional central committee, called the
convention to order and called upon the
Rev. Louis Banks of Brooklyn to in
woke the blessing. The
CALL OF THE CONVENTION
was read. Then H. L. Castle made an
address welcoming the delegates to the
city. He said:
'Phttsburg asked the privilege of en-
tertaining the Republican convent ton,
but St. Louis opened a free bar, and
modern ReDublioan.sm could not re-
Sf5t the temptation of free drink. We
did not ask for the Democratic con-
venH.on; Pittsburg has a horror for
dead things. There is great fitness in
Democracy's going to tnat city OF the
plains, where there is such a splendid
cnance for burying ground, beyond the
possibility of contamination OF the air
r.t.f 1.a f1, 7 Goo I
heart of Pittsburg when 1 welcome you
to our city and bid you, by it's industry
and surroundings that have made this
city great, learn the road to great
ness" He concluded aus follows: And
may God Almighty bless your coming,
and may Almighty God, through you,
curse and blight and wither and de-
stroy the legalized liquor traffic, the
greatest foe to God and humanity
ever invented in hell or patented on
earth"
Chairman Dickie, in a brief reply,
thanked Mr.. Castle and the citizens of
Pittsburg for the cordial treatment the
representative of the Prohibition
party had received. He thanked God
that he had lived to see the party be-
come of such proportions that it was
now recognized throughout the nation.
Chairman Dickie introduced the gen.
rleman chosen as temporary chairman
by the national committee, A. A.
Stevens
Ckauncey L. Dunn of California
said he had minority report 20 offer
He would present the name of E. I.
Wheeler, and moved ats substitution.
He was ordered to sit down by
Dickie, but refused.
AN UPROhR FOLLOWED.
Stevens took .he chair. Dunn APP
pealed from the decision of the chair.
He was again told to sit down, and
there was another storm of dis
approval.
I'm asking Dickie to rule upon my
appeal" yelled Dunn. Il won't sub
NIT to this gag rule"
There We're cries from all parts of the
house for Dickie to make the ruling on
the appeal.
He came out at length amid Kisses
and ihowls and said there could be no
appeal taken in an unorganized body.
Finally, for harnnony's sake. Wheel
or withdrew his name, after police had
been called in to eject the unruly dele
gates.
Wheeler was loudly oheered and