Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-06-29
NATIONAL PROHIBuONSTS
n The Midst Of Convention Work
at Chicago.
SINGLE PLATFORM is ADOPTED
Il Declares for Prohibition, Together with
a Resolution Favoring Suffrage and
dorsing the Young Mems Prohibition
Observation-Disclosures AsplrantS

Chicago, June 29.-Mrs. Francis 3D..
Beauchamp of Kentucky started a. re-
volt in the national prohibition con-
vention which defeated her purpose to
have a suffrage plank included in. the
platform. In a speech advocating a
suffrage clause she charged that a pic
ture of Frances E.. Willard had been
purposely removed from the hall by
the enemies of woman's rights. This
charge was met by Kisses from all
sides and brought dozen delegates
to their feet protesting against the in
situation. When quiet was restored
the chairman explained that the pic
ture in question had not been re-
moved, but had fallen down, and asked
Mrs. Beauchamp to take back her
statement.
After considerable discussion the
| single platform Of prohibition was
| adopted, together with a resolution
favoTing suffrage and indorsing the
Young Mems Prohibition league.
Army Canteen Denounced.
The platform is a lengthy document
and arraigns both the democratic and
republican parties. Both are ac-
eused of being insincere on the trust
question and of advocating methods
in favor of the liquor traffic. The
clause in reference to the army can
teen reads as follows:
eve charge upon President McKin-
| ley, who was elected to his high Office
| by appeals to Christian sentiment and
| patriotism almost unprecedented and
by combination Of moral influences
| never before seen in this country, that,
| by his conspicuous example as 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 tenn
! perance habits of young men, and to
| bring Christian practices and require
ments into disrepute, than any other
| president this republic has had. We
| further charge upon President McKin-
! ley responsibility for the army can
teen, with all it's 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
number of petitions protesting against
1t, he has outraged and insulted the.
moral sentiment of this country in
such manner and to such degree as
calls for its righteous uprising and an
| n VT ov,I oTo oh,,1,
I'VE challenge the denial Of the TACT
that our executive as commander in
chief OF the military forces of the
United States, at any time prior to or
since March 2, 1899, could. have closed
every army saloon, called a canteen,
by executive order, as President Hayes
did before him, and sho,ild have closed
them for the same reasons which ac-
tuated President Hayes; we assert
that the act of congress, passed March
2, 1899, forbidding tina sale Of liquors
in any post, exchange or canteen' by
any officer 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 prohibttion as the English
language can frame. We declare our
solemn belief that the attorney gen
eral of the United States in his inter-
probation of that law, and the secre-
tary of war in his acceptance of that
interpretation and his refusal to en-
force the law, were and are guilty of
reasonable notification thereof, and
that President Mckinley, through his
assent to and Endorsement of such in
depreciation and refusal on the part
of the officials appointed by and re-
sponsible to him. shares responsibility
in the guilt"
Convention Officers Elected.
The committee on permanent organ
ization reported the following officers,
who were elected:
} Chairman-Samuel J, Dickey, Michi-
gan.
Secretary-Colonel R. S. Chever,
!! Tennessee.
Assistant secretaries-L w. Elliott,
California; Alonzo E. Wilson, Illinois
Mrs. Francis Beauchamp, Kentucky;
Herbert E. Griffith, Massachusetts, and
; J. A. Hartman, New York.
A new national committee was also
elected.
Opening Session.
Chicago, June 27.-When the ma
lional convention of the Prohibition
party was called to order at 10: 80 this
morning the First Regiment armory
; presented a scene of brilliant color
More than quarter OF the national
, delegates were women, the color OF
their gowns on the convention floor
coupled with the hundreds of flags car
ried by the delegates and which were
kept in almost continual motion
blending with the elaborate decorations
of the hall to furnish a gay picture.
Samuel J. Dickie of Michigan, one OF
, the distinguished leaders of prohibi.
ton for many years, was named by
National Chairman Stewart as tenn
porary chairman. Mr.. Stewart said in
his opening address:
1T affords me great pleasure, in call,
ing this convention to order, to con.