Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-05
ONLY TWO PLANKs.
Prohibitionists to Make Campaign
for Temperance and Suffrage.
John g. woOlIey and H Il. HTetcaIf Named
for President and Vice Pres .dent-PIAr-
form DenOunces President McK1sn-
ley in Strong Language.


nomination for President John G..
WoolIey, of Illinois, and for vice pres
ident, Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode
Island. The nominations in each in
stance were made on the first ballot.
Only two candidates for the presiden-
tial nomination were bal1otted for,
Mr. Woolley and Rev. SiIas c. Swal-
low, of Pennsylvania; Hale johnson.
of Illinois, Withdrawing his name at
the last moment and throwing his
strength to Mr.. WOolley.
Immediately after the announce
ment of the result of the ballot for
the presidents nomination, Dr. Swal-
low was proposed as the vice presi-
Dental nominee. The convention
went wild over the suggestion, but
DR.. Swallow, after a hurried confer
ence with the Pennsylvania delega-
ton, refused to accept the nominal
ton.
National Chairman Stewart made
plea for funds from those present to
conduct the campaign, which it is in
tended viii be on a much more eX-
tensive scale than the party has ever
before attempted. Several thousand
dollars were subscribed by the dele
gates and visitors.
The platform adopted declares there
is no principle now advocated by any
other party which could be made
fact in government with such benefi-
cent moral and material results as the
principle of prohibition applied to the
beverage liquor traffic; condemns the
repeal of the prohibitory law in
int Of he
license system in Hawaii; calls at
tention to the increased expectation
of liquors TO Cuba and the Philip
pines, and appeals to the moral and
Christian citizenship of the country
to unite in the prohibition movement.
That portion of the platform relating
to the administration of President
Mckinley is in part as follows:
We charge upon President Mckinley,
who was elected to his high office by
appeals to Christian sentiment and pa
triotism almost unprecedented and by
combination of moral Influences never
before seen in this country, that by his
conspicuous example as a wine drinker at
public banQuets and as a wine-serving
host in the white house he has done
more to encourage the liquor business,
to demoralize the temperance habit of
young men and to bring Christian prac
tices and requirements into disrepute
than any other president this republic
has had. We further charge upon Pres
ident Mckinley responsibility for the ar
my canteen, with all its dire brood of
disease, immortality, sin and death in
this country, in Cuba. in Porto Rico and
the Philippines; and we insist that by
his attitude concerning the canteen and
his apparent contempt for the vast num-
Der of petitions and petitioners protesting
against it, he has outraged and insulted
the moral sentiment of this country in
such a manner and to such degree as
calls for the righteous uprising and his
indignant and effective rebuke.
We challenge denial of the fact that our
executive as cOmmander-in-chief of the
forces of the United States, at any time
prior to or since March 2 1899. could have
closed every army saloon, called can
teen, by executive order. as President
Hayes did before him, and should have
closed them for the same reasons which
actuated President Hayes we assert that
the act of congress passed March 2 1899,
forbidding the sale of liquors lin any
post, exchange or canteen. by any off
Ger or private soldier" or by ''any other
person, on any premises used for military
purposes by the United States was and
is as explicit an act of prohibition as
the English language can frame; we de-
clare our solemn belief that the attorney
general of the United States in his in
depreciation of that law and the secre-
tary of war in his acceptances of that
Interpretation and his refusal to enforce
the law were and are guilty of treason
able notification thereof, and that Pres
ident Mckinley, through his assent to
and Endorsement OF such Interpretation
and refusal on the part of the officials
as appointed by and responsible to him.
shares responsibility in their guilt; and
we record our conviction that a new and
serious peril confronts our country, in
the fact that its president at the behest
of the beer power dares and does abrogate
a law of congress, through subordinates,
whose acts become his, and thus vir-
tually confesses that laws are to be adj
ministered or to be nullified in the in
terest of law-defying business by an
administration under mortgage to such
business for support.
We deplore the fact that admins
tration of this republic, claiming the
right and power to carry our flag across
the seas, and to conquer and annex new
territory, should admit its lack of power
to prohibit the American saloon SUBJ
jugated soil or should openly confess it
self subject to liquor sovereignty under
that flag. We are Inundated, exasper-
ated and grieved by the evidence pain
fully abundant that this administration s
policy of expansion is bearing so rapidly
its fruits of drunkenness, insanity and
tropics and when the president of the
first Philippine commission says it was
unfortunate that we introduced and eS-
tablished the saloon there, to corrupt the
natives and to exhibit the vices of our
race. We charge the inhumanity and I'M
Christianity of this act upon the admins
tration of William Mckinley and upon
the party which elected and would per-
petuate the same.
After considerable discussion a ris-
ing vote was called for and the plat
form and additional resolutions favor
ing woman suffrage were adopted by
practically unanimous vote and amid
a tempest of cheers.
Damage by Wind and Han.
Mcmillan Wis June 2o-One of