The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-28
SAID INIT HIM AGAIN. !"
WHEN PLANKS IN PROHIBITION
PLATFORM FELL ON M'kINLEY.
ARE SORE ON THE PRESIDENT.
DELEGATES CHEERED THE CON-
DEMNATION of THE CANTEEN.

DAhG at bhnquets ana serving
Wine in the white mousc-De-
cIares Liquor Trust the Most Dam
gerous of AII-Saving Money Spent
in Drink Should Be the First Step
in Solving the Financial Question.
Chicago, June 27.-The Prohibition party
will make its national campaign this year
upon platform of a single issue. the
liquor traffic, all other issues being sub
ordinated to this one question.
Upon this platform it Is probable that
either Rev. S. c. Swallow, the fighting
parson," of Harrisburg. Pa, or John c.
Woolley, of Chicago editor of the New
Voice" the Prohibition national organ,
will be nominated for President.
The national convention of the Prohibi-
ton party met here to-day, and in three
sessions, morning. afternoon and evening,
cleared up all business except the nomi-
nations for President and Vice President.
which will be made tomorrow morning.
The convention, in point of numbers and
in enthusiasm, is considered one of the
greatest ever held by the advocates of
cold water.
The National Convention OF the Prohi-
bition party met to-day in the First Reg
iment Armcry, Sixteenth street and Mich
were entitled to seats in the National
Convention, more than three-fourths were
in attendance when Chairman w. Oliver
Stewart of the National Executive Com
mittee called the convention to order
Nearly all of the Eastern and Central
Western States had full delegations Eres-
ent the absentees in most instances be-
ing from Southern and Pacific Coast
States.
1t was exactly 10:30 a. m. when Chair
man Stewart raped for order. At that
time nearly all the delegates were in
their seats. while the galleries surround
ing the big drill room of the First Reg
iment were filed with spectators. Just
previous to the fall Of the gavel the
delegates from the New England States
marched into the hall in a body, each
delegate carrying a canteen with the let
let's u. s." inverted and bearing the
legend "Anti-Canteen." They were liber-
ally applauded. After the convention had
come to order Chairman Stewart pro-
ceeded to deliver formal address.
Opened with Speeches.
Chairman Stewart then introduced DR..
John H. Hill of Chicago who delivered
a lengthy address Of welcome.
Chairman Stewart then announced tenn
porary officers as follows:
Chairman, Samuel Dickie of Michigan;
secretary, A. E. Wilson of Chicago; assis-
tant secretaries, Col. Jellis of Tennessee,
and E. B. Sutton of Idaho.
Chairman Dickie made a brief spe esch.
outlining the work to be done by the con-
vention.
Il believe the Prohibition party is on
the eve of important events" said Mr..
Dickie. I'VE represent a reform before
which all other national reforms pale In
to insignificance or disappear altogether.
The Democratic party stands for the con-
tinuance of the liquor traffic; the Repub-
lican party stands for its perpe,uation."
Mr. Dickie bitterly assailed the national
administration for its position on the can
teen law, and charged it with "debauch-
ing the peoples of its new possessions in
the Philippines" He also accused the
government with using its consular SER
vice for gathering information for the use
of distilers and brewers.
At the conclusion of Chairman Dickies
speech, the rules and order of business
were adopted. and committees were an
nounced. A recess was then taken until
2:30 o'clock.
The afternoon session was called to or
der at 2:40 p. m. The report of the Com
mittee on Credentials was presented by
Chairman Johann, who stated that the
committee had decided that only those del
egates present with certificates duly sigh
ed, were entitled 40 seats. There were 693
delegates actually seated, representing
thirty-seven states. The report was
adopted.
Homer Castle of Pittsburg, submitted
the report of the Committee on Permanent
Organizatio and Order of Business. The
report, which was adopted. recommend
ed Samuel Dickie of Michigan for perma-
nent chairman and Col. r. S. Cheves of
Tennessee for permanent secretary.
The list of national committeeman as
selected by the delegations of the various
states was then read and adopted.
Among the members are: Kentucky,
Frances z. Beauchamp, T. B. Demartee;
North Carolina. Thomas P. Johnston, Ed
win Shaver; Tennessee, James A. Tate,
Col. r. S. Cheves: Virginia, ]. w. Staun-
ton, w. T. Bundick.
The convention then took recess until
.. m.
Platform Is salty.
The evening session of the convention
was called to order at 75i p. m.. but the
committee on platform was stil debating
over unsettled points. and II was not un-
iii after o'clock that Chairman Chain
appeared with the platform. The plat
form as read by Secretary Hopkins Of
the resolutions Committee, declares that
the national interest could be promoted
i'm no other way so surely and widely as
by its assertion, through a national policy
and the cooperation therein of every
state. forbidding the manufacture, sale,
exportation, importation, and transporh,~
tion of intoxicating liquors for beverage
nurnoses: that the liquor power Is the
most dangerous trust of ALL that the first
stem in solving the financial problem
should be saving the billion dollars annu-
ally spent in drink.
1--WE charge upon President Mckinley,
who was elected to his high Office by APP
neals to Christian sentiment and patriot
ism almost unprecedented. and by COM
hlnation of moral influence never before
seen in this country. that by his conspic-
nous example as winedrinker at public
hanouets and as a wine-serving host in
the White House, he had done more to
encourage the liquor business, to demoral-
ize The temperance habits of young men
and 10 bring Christian practices and re-
ouirements into disrepute than any other
President this republic has had. We FUR
,her charge upon President Mckinley re-
sponsibIiity for the army canteen, with
all it's dire brood OF Disease. immortality,