The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-06

| terday nominated a complete county
ticket. Some of the delegates favored
making no nominations for judge or
| sheriff, but the convention decided
| otherwise. II was a mass convention
and was attended by twenty-four per-
sons.
a. G.. Thomason, of this city, who
| has been county chairman for two
years, called the convention to order
and read the call therefor, and after
| a prayer by Rev. C. b. Henry, pastor
| of the Methodist Episcopal church of
| Taylor, Il. G.. Morgan, or West SCran-
| ton, was elected chairman and Charles
| II. Chandler, secretary. Mr.. Morgan,
| in taking the chair, spoke of the birth
| of the Prohibition movement and of
| the efforts made to get recognition
| from the old parties. Like the aboli-
tionists," he said. eve had to organize
a party of our own; a party that ought
to attract every honest. conscientious
citizen" He then proceeded to dis
Cuss the causes that keep men out of
the prohibition party and closed by
saying, IF God is for us let us go
/ forward and success is sure to come"
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were
| read by w. w. Lathrope and adopted
| by the convention:
a. the representatives, Of the Prohibitonists of
| IIckawanna county, in convention assembled, we
| reaiiirm oft-rcpeatcd declaration that the
suppression Of the liquor traffic is the most inn
portant question now before the American people,
whether considered from a political, moral or
| a financial point Of view.
| 1t is our solemn conviction that there is no
hope of reform, either moral or political, through
! the agency of the two great parties. Their
| CARNATIONS hopelessly corrupt Under their
| rule, Sabbath deseCration immortality, vice and
| crime have increased, and are now increasing at
| a fearful rate. And they offer no remedy. Such
| of their leaders as honest and truly patriotic
are either afraid to antagonize the liquor dealers
| and political bosses else they are constantly
| outwitted by them. These bosses and liquor deal
ers control nearly all large cities and many Of
| our state governments, and they are now supreme
| in the federal government,
President Mckinley, by what he has done and
| by what he has left undone, has given more aid
| TO the liquor business and more encouragement
to the drinking Of intoxcants than any other
man in our land. In support of this serious
| charge. we make these specifications
| /. Although a member OF the Methodist Episco.
| pal church, which enioins total abstinence upon
its members, he has disoheyed this injunction and
INDUCED in wine at public banquets, and thus
| by force OF his exalted position and his member.
| ship in a Christian church, he has encouraged
| young men all over the land TO initiate his per.
| nicous example.
| ,. lie is personally and politically intimate
| with prominent brewers and disillers like George
| b. Cox, of Dead Mans Alley, Cincinnati, and
| Grcenhut, Of Peoria. lie was guest recently in
| Mr.. Greenhut's house.
THE ARMY CANTEEN.
3. As commander-in.chie of our army, he has
permitted the army canteen to do its deadly
| work. Thousands OF our soldiers who, when they
| were enlisted, temperate men, have become
drunkards, and thousands more the way
to the drunkenness and ruin This he has per-
| mitted in opposition to the expressed judgment
| Of nearly all generals, including the com.
manding general. BY stroke OF his pen he can
| abolish the cantcen, and could have abolished it
| at any time during his term, without the aid OF
| congress.
L. Through two Of his cabinet officers he has
| nullifcd the anti-canteen law enacted by
| gress for the ayowed purpose Of prohibiting the
| sale Of liquors in the army. The opinion Of the
| attorney general with reference to this law is
perversion of plain English As a member of
| congress has said, at was wholly contrary to
| law and TO common sense" As an eminent iurst
| has said, "lt totally pcrvers the manifest nten-
| tion of the law" This is imperialism Of the
worst type.
| s. The president, whose will is law in all our
| new colonies, has permitted beer and whiskcy to
| follow the flag wherever soldiers have gone.
BY policy mis.called benevolent assimilation"
| our new subjects are invited to initiate our vices
| and to patronize American saloons and other dens
| of vice As consequence, these institutions
| have increased and multiplied in our new posses
| sions. The president, as commander.in.chief and
| as absolute ruler over these possessions, could
prohibit these evils at once.
| We affirm what is generally conceded. that
| Pennsylvania is the worst boss-ridden and the
| worst corporation.ridden state in the Union.
| QuaySm is still in the saddle, although Quay
| himself seems TO be on the wane 1t has recently
| been shown that the tremendous Republican ma.
joriteS in this state are largely il not entirely,
| fraudulent. We quote from the address of the
| Union Committee for the Promotion Of Ballot
Reform in Pennsylvania as follows: ''Illegal
| voting and false counting have been Tesorted to
| in some localities to such an extent that the
| official returns can no longer be relied on, and
| it may be said without eXaggcratiOn that it has
| become impossible to ascertain with any near APP
proaches to accuracy, the wishes of the voters.
1t is estimated that in Philadelphia alone the
| exclusion Of all fraud in the voting and counting
would make difference of fifty thousand votes
in the final returns"
IN THIS COUNTY.
In our own county Of Lackawanna, bribery and
fraud are rampant. With the great majority OF
! our politicians there is such thing as honor.
| Candidates ready to sell out their associates
| on the same ticket and to trade and dicker with
candidates on the opposing ticket. They make
promises of reward which they break without
| cOmpuncton. II is well known that in our pres.
ent county campaign, some Of the old party
a. 1 III