Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
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Sam Jones is supporting Woolley.

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Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldon, author Of 'In
His Steps," is supporting Woolley.
A Galesburg, ILL.,, Prohibitionist, recent
ly deceased, left $1,000 for the work.
A straw vote taken at the First United
Presbyterian Synod Of Pennsylvania gives
Bryan /, Mckinley %, Woolley So.
sixty-six Of the sixty-eight Free Baptist
ministers of the Central Illinois Associa
ton are Prohibition party voters.
Father George Zurcher, the famous Buff
falo, N. Y. priest, is the Prohibition
candidate for the state senate from his
district.
Dr. Parkhurst is. disguised with the
leading candidates Of the old parties, but
has not yet come where he belongs
politically.
There is strong probability of the
election of Robert H. Patton. Prohibition
candidate for states attorney of Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.
Joseph H. Ellis, president of the Min
neapolis aerie of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, an association Of saloon keepers,
is the Republican candidate for alderman
from the First ward.
A. E. Wilson, secretary of the Illinois
State Prohibition committee, has furn-
ished the secretary Of state with nearly a
mile of nomination papers. Very few
tombstones are mile long.
Isn't there a schoolhouse near your
town where our cause has not been pre-
scented this year? Can't you get fair
audience there and can't a few like you
furnish yote-making programme?
OF the twenty-six members of the Des
Moines Presbytery Of the United p-esby.
terrain Church, twenty -six express their
intention of voting for Woolley aud Met
calf. The other is on-committal but says
he is out of harmony with both old par
ties.
Andrew Holm and Peter Thauwald, sa-
loon keepers, are among the Republican
candidates for reelection to the Legisla
ture from st. Paul. The former was
unanimously renominated and the latter
is being supported by his party without
DIVISION, so the party papers say.
The shot that precipitated the trouble,
and led to the calling out OF the troops
at Shenandoah was fired from saloon.
The town council at once ordered all sa-
looms closed. Those leaders among the
striking miners who urged their fellows
to refrain frc:c drinking acted wisely.
George w. Norman. of Princeton, Ind,
who gained a national reputation when
coroner of his county by issuing YER
dict charging a saloon keeper with the
death of a man who was killed W a
train while he was under the influence of
liquor, has received the Prohibition NOM
ination for Congress.
Mrs. Clara c. Hoffman. national lee
turer of the w. C. T. U. and state presi-
dent Of Missouri. has been refused the
use of the First M. e. Church, Wichita
Kas., by the official board. lest she should
say something that would injure the Re-
publican party. Governor Stanley and
other Republican state officials are mem
bers of this church.
Despite the large number of states in
which all sorts of hindrances exist to get
ting the Prohibition ticket ON the official
ballot. state after state overcomes those
difficulties and wheels into line. If the
voters Of the land do not at this election
register their convictions and demands re-
garding the saloon. it will not be because
the Prohibition party has not given them
a chance.
The Michigan M. e. Conference declar-
ed that no member of that body would he
allowed to engage in politics and that
those who are now candidates must tloI
withdraw or leave the church. Rev. O.
H. Perry is a candidate for Congress on
the Prohibition ticket, and Rev. George
Killeen on the Democratic ticket. Tbe
latter has withdrawn from the ministry,
declaring, Il was man before I WAS a
minister and I am a man YETI