The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19
HE ACCEPTS.
Hale johnson, Prohibition Nominee for
Vice President. Notified.

Vice President. Notified.
Chicago, Aug. l4.-Hale johnson. of
Newton. H., was formally notified in
Thursday night of his nomination by
the prohibitionist convention at Pitts
burgh for the Office of vice president of
the United States. Mr.. johnson was
nominated for governor of Illinois by
the prohibitionists last April, but re-
signed when the higher nomination
came.
In accepting the nomination Mr.. John
son scathingly arraigned the old parties
on the charge Of responsibility for CON-
tinuance of the liquor traffic, its growth
and its power In politics, and for deceiving
the people by promising good times with
each new national administration and not
fulfilling such promise. He continued:
There always has been, and always will
be, one Question-one problem-upon which
all others depend for solution. Whenever
a nation Is able to solve and adjust this
question, then, and not till then, is II In
condition to settle the others which de-
pend upon II. We cannot secure any per-
manent results in political reform until
this question is settled. and settled right.
political corruption in our cities, but as
long as this greatest source of political cor
ruption is left untouched their efforts for
permanent relief will be in vain.
Many of our people believe that our
present financial depression, low prices
and hard times are the result of bad hnan-
cial legislation, and that an increase in the
amount of money by the free coinage of
silver would prove a remedy for these con-
ditions. ! concur with them in their opinion
that we must return to the full and free
use Of both of these metals in order to keep
Our circulating medium in a proper pro-
portion TO our population, but do not be-
lieve, in the present condition of affairs,
that the free coinage of silver would afford
US any substantial relief. The saloons of
this nation absorb yearly not less than
s, 200 0O0, 600, of which ii is safe to say that
one-half is spent by the wage-earners of
the country; men whose families are de-
prived of the necessaries of life to the full
extent Of their expenditure of money for
liquor. With more money in circulation,
although we might temporarily have better
times, the sum wasted in the saloons would
be increased, so that II would not per-
manently benefit US in any appreciable de-
gree. No kind Of financial legislati will
relieve US under such conditions as now
exist.
After 100 years Of temperance agitation
the almost unanimous verdict is that there
is only one righteous way to deal with ii,
and that is to prohibit it. Logically, the
votes Of all Christian men, for every
Christian organization In the nation is on
record in favor of prohibition. All patriotic
citizens, without regard to their religious
convictions, should support the prohibition
party, for the whole tendency of the liquor
traffic is to debauch men, stuff ballot boxes,
elect mean men to Office, and in every way
to tear down and destroy American insti-
buttons.
1T is doubtless true that the storm center
in politics this year will be between the
free coinage Of silver at ratio of sixteen
to one and the maintenance Of the existing
gold standard. Voters will be importurcd
to postpone the settlement Of this question
until the finance question is settled, as we
have been heretofore importuned to post
pone 1t until the tariff question was settled.
Prejudice and passion will be appealed TO,
but Notwithstanding all this IT is our duty
to present this great question to the voters
of our nation with all the zeal, energy and
means at our command, hoping that in
the sober quiet between now and Novem-
Der in the silence of deliberate Judgment
IT may receive that attention at the hands If
the voters of our country which its i'm
portance demands"