The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
DELEGATES IN IN UPROAR
A Noisy Demonstration at the Pro
hibitiOnist Convention.
Men and Women Divided as TO which
Sex Has Done More for the Cause
President Mckinley Denounced In
the Platform for His Attitude on
the Army Canteen Question.

CHICAGO. June 27.-The National Pro-
hibition Convention had a lively session
in the First Regiment Armory Hall to-
night. The feature of the evening was
the alteration over who had done most
for prohibition, the men or the women
II came about in this way:
When the platform committee reported
a resolution declaring that the ballot
should not be denied to any citizen of the
United States on account of sex, and
when the question of Incorporating It in
the platform was being discussed Mrs.
Frances Beauchamp. President OF the
Kentucky Women's Christian Temperance
Union, was given the floor. Standing at
the speakers desk she made strong
equal suffrage plea. In the course of her
address she said:
Frances Willard made more votes for
prohibition than all the men in the
party"
Mrs. Beauchamp'S voice was drowned IN
shouts and hisses Men climbed on their
chairs and declared the speaker had in
suited the Convention. Chairman Dickie
attempted to restore order. A G. Wolfen-
barger a delegate from Nebraska, de-
manded that an apology be made. He
said the memory of Miss Willard had been
desecrated.
When the vote was taken it was found
the delegates were willing to adopt the
resolution separately, but they would not
put it in the platform.
The reading OF the platform oause1 the
greatest demonstration OF the day. 1t WIS
presented by Z. W. Chain. of Wisconsin,
Chairman of the Platform COMMITTEES, who
said it was the best platform ever pre-
sented to a political convention and an
nounced that it had been framed by the
unanimous vote OF the committee. Pro-.
Hopkins. Secretary Of the committee. read
the platform and he was frequently inter-
rupted by cries. When he reached the
clauses arraigning President Mckinley for
the canteen system and for the use of wine
in the White House delegates stcod on
their chairs and shouted: Hit him aga n,
Hit him again," Down himi' Give him
another"
The National Committee of the party
met at the Palmer House at the close OF
the afternoon session and unanimously re-
elected Oliver Stewart National Chairman.
Other officers elected are: Samuel Dickie,
Michigan, Vice Chairman; William I.
Wardwell, New York. Secretary. and H. B.
Hastings. Wisconsin, Treasurer. The Ex-
ecutive Committee was increased in num-
Der from four to five.
The committee resolved to conduct q
''schoolhouse campaign" holding the meet
ings in every available place in the ccun-
try and in general endeavor to arouse in
terest in the cause OF prohibition.
Three candidates for the nomination for
the Presidency divide interest. The Rev.
Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, known
as "the fighting parson,'' is said to have
a strong following. He controls in addi
ton to the Pennsylvania delegation the
New England following. If he obtains the
FIRST place 1t is likely the Vice Presidential
nomination will go to Felix T. McWhor-
ter. John G. Wooley, Of Illinois. has de-
veloped great strength, although he has
not campaigned SO vigorously as DR.. Swal-
low, who has distributed many buttons and
portrait fans.
Hale johnson, who had a promising
boom, was overshadowed by the Wooiey
enthusiasm. The Coast delegates are in
favor of Swallow and johnson. Wooley is
the favorite Of the South and the Missis-
sippi Valley and Delaware and New
Jersey will support him. New York will
divide its votes between the leading can
didates.
The Convention will reconvene at $50
will be transacted and an adjournment
will be taken until o'clock, when noni-
nations will be in order.
The platform adopted by the Convention
declared In part:
I'VE submit that the Democratic and
Republican parties are alike insincere in
their assumed policy to trusts and mon
opolies. They dare not and do not at
tack the most dangerous OF them all, the
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bauches the citizen and breeds the plr-
chasable voter, money win continue to
buy its way to power. Break down this
traffic, elevate manhood, and sober citi-
zenship will find way to control danger
Gus combinations OF capital.
I'VE face with SORROW shame. and fear
the awful fact that the liquor traffic has
q grip on our Government-municipal,
State and national-through the revenue
system and saloon sovereignty which no
other party dares to dispute. It is grip
which dominates the party now in power
from caucus to Congress, from policeman
to President, from the rum-shop to the
White House. II is grip which compels
the Chief Executive to consent that law
shall be nulIified in behalf OF the brewer.
that the canteen shall curse our army
and spread intemperance across the seas.
and that our flag shall wave as the symbol
OF partnership at home and abroad. be-
tween this Government and the men who
defy and defile it for their own profit and
gain.
I'VE charge upon President NICK niey
responsibility for the army canteen, with
all its dire brood of disease. immortality.
sin, and death in this country, in Cuba. IN
Porto Rico, and the Philippines. We insist
that by his attitude concerning the canteen
and his apparent contempt for the vast
number OF petitions and petitioners protest
ing against it he has outraged and insult
ed the moral sentiment OF the country in
such manner and to such a degree as TO
calf sc- i.s righteous uprising and its in
dignant and effective rebuke.
We are humiliated, exasperated, ard
grieved by the evidence painfully abundant
that the Administration policy of ex-
pansion is bearing so rapidly its fruits Of
drunkenness, insanity. and crime under
the hothouse sun of the tropics, when the
President OF the first Philippine Commits
sion says 1t was unfortunate that We in
troduced and established the saloon there