The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-04
PROHIBITION SPLIT.


 president and Vice President-A
 Bolt.
 r,rrsrrnsu. Pa. May 29-The pro.
 ,;h;tion national convention yesterday
 nn,oinated the following ticket: For
 nrs.ident. Joshua P. Lowering, oi
 Torvland: for vice president, Hale
 Iohnson, of Illinois. The free silver
 Hank was rejected and the candidates
 ii,.sre placed upon the thinnest kind of
 narrow gauge platform, embodying
 merely the principle of prohibition,
 arB even emitting the woman suffrage
 nI,nI,, which has been feature of it's
 nIatforms for years past. Ex-Gov.
 Iobp r. St. John made gallant fight
 f,r the free coinage of silver, and
 Helen M. Cougar, of Indiana, and Mrs.
 | A. Pool, of New York, struggled in cain for woman suffrage, but the nar- row gauge people controlled the con- reption and took everything. When the nominations for president were reached, the name of Charles E. Bent. lev, of Nebraska, the broad gauge can ddate, was not presented, his boom having been burst by the overwhelm- ipr defeat of the silver forces at the afternoon session.
 The broad gauge element left the convention hall late last night and or canized trump convention in another hall Eleven state chairmen were among the bolters and 24 states were represented. Among the prominent bolters were Helen M. Cougar, of h. diana; ex-Gov. John P. St John; R. $. Thompson, of Ohio, editor of the New Era; John Lloyd Thomas, of New York, and L. B. Logan, of Ohio. Ex- Gov. John P. St. John was called on for q speech. In the course of his re- marks he said: Our object is to de- termine where we are at The crucial moment has come and we must decide whether we are to be ruled by the Standard Oil Co. and Wall street or not. Liquor is a great question; so is monetary oppression. l would rather go down with the minority than stand tv the party which will sacrifice the womanhood of the nation. We have the women and the workingmen of the west with us."
 IL was decided to organize a new party, which will be known as the na. tional party. Its motto will be "Home Protection" The state delegates were authorized to appoint two members from each state to form Q national cen tral committee.
 It was decided to appoint commit tee of five to visit the national demo- cratic republican and populist conven. tions and invite all dissatisfied persons to unite with the national party. The platform will be practically the broad guage platform reported at the prohi- bition convention, with less of the pro- hibition feature. It declares for the election of president and senators by popular vote It is generally conceded that the nominees of the new party will be the broad gauge candidates, Charles E, Bently, of Nebraska, for president, and J. H. Southgate, of North Carolina, for vice president.
 J. H. Levering, the regular prohibit tionist nominee for president, is a prominent coffee merchant of Balti- more, Md. He is 55 years of age, re- puted to be very wealthy and is presi- dent of the Y. M. c A. He was for. merly a democrat, but has been con- nected with the prohibition party since 1884. and has for some years past acted as vice chairman of the state execu. tive committee. He ran on the prohi. bition ticket last fall for governor, re- ceiving the highest vote ever cast in the state for the party. Mir. Lowering was pronounced in his views on the questions at issue, and previous to the stated positively that he would not accept the nomination upon free silver or broad guage platform.
 Hale Johnson, the nominee for vice president, is 49 years of age. He was born in Indiana and served through the war. He is past commander in the G. A. R. and a colonel in the Vet erau Legion. In 1884 he was a dele- gate to the national republican con- vention, but shortly afterward became prohibitionist and has been promi. nent in it's councils ever since.
 The National Junior Prohibition League of America held its first annual convention this morning. About 15O representatives were present. The fol- lowing officers were elected: President, D' |. Hopkins, New York city; vice president, A. M. Coffin, Hop- kins, Mo-; secretary, H. D. Driesbach, tindiay, O.; treasurer, Myrton T. smith, Hartford, Conn. The National | junior Prohibition League of America | nas membership of 2O,OOO young men ana women who are pursuing a sys- lematic course of study of the underly. ns elements of civil government