The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-21

A mass convention of the Prohibit
tionists of the county was held yester-
day afternoon in the court house at
which delegates to the state convention
in Altoona on June were chosen. The
convention was called to order by Cal
vim w. Parsons. of this city, county
chairman, and Pierce Butler, of Car
bondale was chosen chairman and Rev.
James Fielding, of La Plume, secre-
tary. Mr.. Butler in assuming the du-
ties of chairman said that they ought
not to be discouraged, that no man
who was right should be discouraged
and right he knew they were. He was
glad that they had the courage of their
convictions and not of their numbers
Among the prominent Prohibitionists
present from abroad were c. r. Jones,
of Philadelphia, chairman of the Pro-
hibition state committee Rev. Quincy
Lee Morrow, of Maryland the we'll
known lecturer, who opened the con-
vention with prayer, and Tallie Nor
gan, of New York city.
The first business transacted was
the selection of a committee on resolu-
tions consisting of Attorney w. w.
I.athrope and A. G.. Thomason, of this
city, and Rev. NJ. Young, of Clark's
Summit. The work of selecting state
delegates was then taken UP. S. n.
Calender, of Blakely; Pierce Butler,
of Carbondale; William Atherton, of
Clark's Summit, and A. G. Thomason,
of Scranton, are delegates by virtue
of their membership on the state CEN
trail committee.
THE STATE DELEGATES.
They were recommended for reap
pCintment and the following were chos-
en- delegates: Percy Briggs and T. c.
Robinson, Carbondale; g. w. Parsons,
w. w. Lathrope, c. Leroy Wheeler,
w. II. Richmond, John f. Broadbent,
Rev. j. M. Howell, Tallie Morgan,
Scranton Mark Walker Peckville; \.
b. Clay, Elmhurst; w. +. Clements,
Moscow; Ira Davis, Ransom.
The committee on resolutions pre-
sented the following report, Mr.. Lath
rope reading it:
AS the representatives of the Prohibi-
tionists of Lackawanna county we pledge
ourselves anew to ceaseless and relentless
warfare Upon the liquor traffic. As was
said by Mr. William Mckinley before he
entered upon his political career, it is the
most ruinous and degrading of all human
Old Man" of England, it is the cause of
more misery than war, pestilence and
famine combined.
This traffic is the merciless destroyer of
our homes. Happy homes form the chief
bulwark of our republic. Rob them of
their happiness and you sow the seeds
OF. discomfort, revolution and anarchy.
The abolition of the liquor traffic would
do more to relieve the poverty and dis
tress now prevalent throughout our land
than the best tariff or the wisest system OF
currency that can be devised. Our politi-
cal Solons are wilfully blind to this fact
and are wasting their time and the peo-
ple's money in legislating not to protect
honest industry-but to protect monopo-
lies and trusts
THEY EXTEND SYMPATHY.
We cordially sympathize with the multi
tudes of laboring men and business men
like Wanamaker and the members of the
Business Mems League who were deluded
into voting for Mr.. Mckinley by the prom
Use of good times. AS Mr.. Wanamaker
well says, they are a "much promised
people, who. betrayed and disheartened,
no longer have faith in their party" We
earnestly invite them and all patriots in
both parties to unite with us in a vigor-
Gus warfare against the greatest enemy
of human happiness, national purity and
prosperity that eXists-the legallzed liquor
traffic
We commend our brother. the Rev. DR..
Swallow, of Harrisburg, for his gallant
| fight against some of our state officials,
and his exposure Of their reckless extra
vagance. And We call the attention OF
| the public to the fact that the legislative
| committee appointed to investigate his
charges has discontinued the investiga-
ton. thus confessing that they are afraid
| to turn on the light.
We invite our erring brethren who wan
dered into the gold and silver camps last
| fall, to return into the fold, and we also
| invite all who love country more than
| party, who believe In happy homes, good
morals and pure politics to rally with us
| under the Prohibition flag.
Mr.. Parsons questioned the advisable
| ity of endorsing DR.. Swallow and of al
lowing Mr.. Wanamaker's name to re-
main in the resolutions, but they were
eventually adopted as read State
| Chairman Jones was called upon for
remarks and said he was engaged in
| organizing the forces throughout the
state in a thorough manner and he eX-
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