Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-02
MAY NAME SHELDON.
Probable Candidate of United
Christian Party for Nations
President.
EITHER he OR REV. F. G. SWALLOW.
New Organization Puts in The
Day Making UP Its
Platform.

Up to 4:30 this afternoon the uni
ted christian party. the new political
organization born at the first nation
al assembly of the christian political
union that met at Harper's theatre
yesterday, had not gotten down to the
nomination of candidates for the
presidency and vice presidency of the
United States. The convention, which
is in session today at the Watch Tow
er, is still working on platform.
The presidential nomination is said
to lie between Rev Charles NJ. She!-
don. of Topeka, Kas., who recently
undertook to conduct the Topeka Cap
ital for a week las Jesus would" and
Rev. F. c. Swallow. of Harris burg,
Pa. Rev. Swallow was the candidate
of the prohibition party for governor
in Pennsylvania at the last state cleo
ton. and polled $50, 900 votes.
The entire morning was devoted to
consideration of a platform. The
committee delegated with the duty of
compiling the plauks struck n snag,
and asked the convention to go into
committee of the whole upon the
question, which was done, and at
1890 the following had been adopted:
I'VE, the united christian party, in
national Invention at Rock Island,
May 1 and 2. 1900, acknowledge AL
mighty God as the source of all power
and authority, Jesus Christ the Sow
ereign of nations. and the bible
the standard by which to decide
moral issues in our political life. We
believe the time has arrived when the
eternal principles of justice, mercy
and love. as exemplified in the life
and teachings of Jesus Christ, should
be embodied in the constitution of
our nation. and applied in concrete
form to every function of our gov
eminent principles. We main
tain that this statement is in har-
mony with the fundamental princi-
pies of our national common law, our
christian usages and customs, the dec
larations of the supreme court of the
United States, that this is christian
country, and the accepted principles
in judicial decisions that no law shall
contravene the divine law. We dep
recate certain immoral laws which
have grown out of failure of our ma
ton to recognize these principles,
notably the permission. of the desecra-
ton of the christian Saba h, author
lied unscriptural marriage and di-
vorce, and license and the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors
as a beverage"
Name Adopted
The greater part of yesterday after
noon was occupied in the discussion
of the 'conv ention theme, whether to
apply the principles of Christ in con-
crete form to state and national gov
ernments. An affirmative decision
was reached, whereupOn the selection
of name for the new party which
proposes bidding favor from the vot-
ers at the polls next November for the
offices Of president and vice president
of the nation. Three names were
suggested: United christian party,
christian political union and christian
union party. The former won, re-
ceiving 20 votes, to four and one re-
spectively for the other names pro-
posed.
1t was found that the business of
the convention could not be disposed
of in single day, so adjournment
was taken till 10 o'clock this morning,
when the delegates assem- bled at
Black Hawk Watch Tower to COM
plete the business of the meeting.
Those Who Were There.
The delegates at the convention |
were: Rev. G. H. Thomas, A. d. Mar
tin and wife. DR.. J. E. Assay, Mrs. |
Jennie Curry, George Huntley. S. |
Tinsman. Rock Island; w. r. Ben
kert, K. .Benkert, Henry H. Brown. E. |
A. Smith, G. Stacy. Davenport; Mrs
Ada NJ. Caverly. August Larson. Rev.
c. d. Moore, Moline; Ralph Caverly.
South Moline; Mrs. NJ. H. NJ.
Blair. Washington. Iowa; Rev. Wal
lace R struble, Mrs. Cora Struble. j.
r. Mcbride. Chicago; j. NJ. Wylie. |
Evans. Col; j. F. r. Leonard. Aims
worth. Iowa; A J. Allen. Montpelier.
Iowa; Mrs. F. L Saagerdorph, Jack
son, Mich; A. T. Newberry. Mon
tana; Isaac Robinson, Sweetland, |
Iowa; Thomas j. Burch, Fulton, Ill.
Whiteside, Aurora; d. h. !
Martin. Pittsburg.
The patriotic literary and musical |
at the theatre last night /
was attended by the delegates and a
number of citizens. The program,
which was greatly enjoyed, consisted
Of singing by the audience; reading
from the scriptures. Mrs. F. l.. Sagen-
1orph; piano numbers by Misses
Mitchell and Buck and Miss Mabel |
Benkert; vocal solos. Mrs. W. B.
Barker and Prof. E. L. Philbrook; and /
&c dresses by Rev. w. K Struble. Rev.
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