The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-28
PRESIDENT Is. CHARGED WITH
HAVING DECEIVED THOSE WHO
SUPPORTED HIS CANDIDACY
PLAIN WORDS ARE APPLIED
Remarkable Document Upon Which
the PrOhibitionists viii Go Be-
fore the Voters of the
Country.

| SuDorulnated TO this one question. Upon
this platform it is probable that either
Rev. 8. c. Walow, the fighting parson,"
Of Harrisburg, Pa, or George G. Woolley,
of Chicago, editor of the New Voice, the
Prohibition national organ, VIII be nomi-
mated for president.
The national convention Of the Prohibi-
ton party met here today, and in three
sessions, morning, afternoon and evening,
cleared up all busiess except the nomina-
tions. The platform, as read by Secretary
Hopkins, of the resolutions committee,
was as follows:
NATIONAL PROHIBITION PLATFORM
Preamble:
The National Prohibition party in con-
Yention represented at Chicago June q
and 28, 1900, acknowledge Almighty God
as the supreme source Of all just govern
ments, realizing that this republic was
founded upon Christian principles and
can endure only as 1t ernbodies justices
and righteousness and asserting that all
authority should seek the best good Of
al! the governed, to this and wisely pro-
hibiting what is wrong and permitting
only what is right hereby proclaims:
Definition Of party and arraignment of
parties:
l. We accept an assertion given by Ed
ward Burke that a body is party of
men Joined together for the purpose of
promoting by their joint endeavor the
national interest upon some particular
| principle upon which they are all agreed"
We declare that there is no principle
now advocated by any other party which
could be made fact in government with
such beneficient moral and material re-
suits as the principle of prohibition, ap-
piled to the Beveridge liquor traffic, that
the national interest could not be pro-
NOTED in no other way so surely and
widely as by its assertion through ma
iOnal policy and the cooperation therein
of every success, forbidding the manu-
facture, SALE expectation, Importation
and transportation of intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes; that we stand for
| this as the only principle proposed by
any party anywhere for the settlement
of a question greater and graVer than
any other before the American people,
involving more profoundly than any other
their moral future and financial welfare;
and that all the patriotic citizens of this
country agreed upon this principle how
ever much disagreement there may be
to minor considerations and issues should
stand together at the ballot box, from
this time forward until prohibition is the
established law of the United States with
a party in power to enforce it and to
insure its moral and material benefits.
We insist that such a party agreed
upon this principle policy, having sober
leadership, without any obligation for
demoralizing political combinations OF
men and money now allied Herewith and
SuppHant thereto, could successfully cope
with all other and lesser problems of
government, in legislative halls and in
the executive chair, and that it IS useless
for any party to make declarations
IN us pIatform as to any questions con-
cerning which there may be serious diff
ferences of opinion in its own member
ship and as to which because of such
differences, the party could legislate only
on basis of mutual concessions when
coming into power.
We submit that the Democratic and
republican parties are alike insincere in
their assumed policy to trusts and monop-
olies. They dare not and do not attack
the most dangerous of them all the
llquor power. So long as the saloon de-
bau 3hes the citizen and breeds the pur-
cnasabIe voter men will continue to buy
their way to power. Break down this traf-
nc. elevate manhood and a sober citizen
snip will find way to control danger
Gus combinations of capital
We purpose as a first step in the finan-
clai problems of the nation to save more
than billion of dollars every year now
annually expended to SUPPORT the liquor
traHc and to demoraliZe our people
When that is accomplished conditions
Will nave so improved that with a. clearer
atmosphere the country, can address itself
to the questions as to the kind and uuan-
tity of currency needed.
THE ISSUE PRESENTED.
O. We reaff1rm as true and indisputable
the declaration of William Window when
secretary of the treasury in the cabinet
OF President Arthur, that considered
socially, financially, politically or NOR
ally, the licensed liquor traffic is or ought
to be the overwhelming issue in Amer
lean politics. and that the destruction
of this iniquity stands next on the cal
endar of the worlds progress We hold
that the existence of our party presents
this issue squarely to the American peo-
pie and lays upon them the responsibility
or choice between liquor parties dom
mated by distillers and brewers with
their policy of saloon perpetuation breed
ing waste, Wickedness, woe, pauperism
taxauon, corruption and crime, and our
one party Of patriotic and moral princi-
pies with policy which defends 1t from
domination by corrupt bosses, and which
1nsures 1t forever against the biightinR
control of saloon politics.
We face with sorrow, shame and fear
the awful fact that this liquor traffic
mas grip on our government, municipal
state and national through the revenue
system and saloon sovereignty, which no
other party dares to dispute; a grip
which dominates the party now in power
from caucus to congress, from policeman
White house, a grip which compeIs the
chief executive TO consentzthat laws shall
be nullified in behalf of the brewer, that
the canteen shall curse our army and
spread intemperance across the seas and
that our flag shall waive as the symbol
of partisanship at home and abroad be-
tween this government and the men who
defy and define it for their own profit
and gain.
PRESIDENT ARRAIGNED.
8. We charge upon President Mckinley.
who was elected to his high office by ap-
peals to Christian sentiment and patriot
ism almost unprecedented, and by COM
bination Of moral influences never be-
fore seen in this country, that by his
conspicuous example asa wine drinker at
public banquets, and as wine-serving
host in the White house he has done
more to encourage the liquor business, to
demoraliZe the Temperance habits 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 President Nc
Kinley responsibility for the army can
teen, with all its dire brood of disease,
immortality, sin and death, in this eoun-
try. in Cuba. in Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines: and we insist chat by his atti-
tude concerning the canteen and his ap-
parent contempt for the vast number
OF petitions and petitioners protesting
against it. he has outraged and insulted
| the moral sentiment of this country in
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