The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-28
STILL COMING.
Additional Delegates tOthe Pro-
hibitiOn Convention
Reached Chicago Last Night
and Today.
GALLERIES THRONGED
With Spectators Anxious tO
Witness the Event
GALLERIES THRONGED
Of Naming a Cold Wster GRndi-
date For the Presidency.

Convention Hall, Chicago, June 28.-
The attendance at the Prohibition ma
tional convention today was much
larger than yesterday. The galleries of
the big First regiment armory were
thronged when Chairman Dickie rapp-
ed the convention to order at 10 a. m,
while the number of delegates had been
increased considerably by arrivals from
the more remote states.
After a brief prayer by Rev. c. H.
Mead of New Jersey, Chairman Jo-
ham, of the committee on credentials,
made a supplementary report, showing
additional arrivals of thirty-nine dele
gates. The total number of delegates
present was 7SO. representing forty
states.
On account of the total failure of
Chairman Dickie's voice, A G. Wolfen-
barger of Nebraska took the chair,
amidst considerable confusion. Chair
man WoIfenbarger recognized National
Chairman Oliver w. Stewart, who in a
speech of some length outlined the work
OF the national committee during the
last four years and the work as con-
templated for the coming campaign.
Mr.. Stewart concluded with plea for
funds from those present to conduct the
campaign which it is intended will be
on a much more extensive scale than
the party has ever before attempted.
Several thousand dollars were subscrib-
ed by the delegates and visitors.
Nominations for the presidency were
| then in order but were postponed for a
| short time and Col Brewer, of the Sal
! walton Army was introduced. He made
an eloquent plea for the cause of prohi-
| bitiOn and was enthusiastically cheered
| when he took his seat.
THE roll of states will now be called
| for nominations for president an
| nounced Chairman Wolfenbarger
| Arkansas yields to Illinois, cried the
lone woman delegate from that state.
Illinois has two candidates for the
| presidency" shouted a delegate. Amid
much applause National Chairman Oil
| yer w. Stewart was recognized to place
John G. Wooley in nomination.
STEWART NOMINATES WOOLEY.
Mr.. Stewart said in part:
THE Republican party has renomi-
mated the one man in the United States
who is to blame for the existence of the
army canteen, the man who has COM
mitted this country to the imperial ex-
pansion of the liquor traffic The Re
| pubncan party has nominated man
| who by his official conduct, has added
| thousands of votes to the Prohibition
party in the last year. In a short time
the Democratic party will meet in Kan
sas City and will name as its standard
bearer a man, who pretending to be
the sworn foe of trusts monepoIies and
unhOly combinations of wealth. has not
dared to say a word against the liquor
| traff1c that furnishes the corrupt and
| purchasable vote by which such COM
binatiOnS keep themselves intrenched in
power.
The issue will soon be made between
these two parties, and each of them
with hands red with the blood of the
victims of the saloon and canteen, viii
beseech the decent men in this country
for support. In this campaign we, the
{ PrOhibitioniStS, will hold trre to Oul
course and will poll the largest vote
in the party's history.
"One of the marvels OF politics is tht
) tenacious hold the Prohibition part!
, has upon life. We have seen minority
r | parties rise and fall. We have seen ou
: own vote increase and decrease. With
out having elected a governor or con
2 | gresham and with only one occasiOna
, representative in legislature will
seemingly no sign of victory in TIL
heavens the Prohibition party has con
| tinued to exist and meets here toda,
| with demonstration unequalled, witt
: spirit undaunted, with hope unchanget
] and in the knowledge that by our per
. severance and faithfulness we hav
made ours not only one Of the most re
narzable parties in the history of ou
country, but have made it pretty re
spectacle. The reason for this is no
= difficult to find. The party has ha.
o ever within it a vitalizing force
f mighty moral principle Believing tina
: it is possible. whenever this nation S
desires, to prohibit the liquor traffic, ou
20 fundamental proposition has been tina
k whether or not we can ever prohibit tn
" traffic in drink, at least We owe it
!? ourselves at once to go out of part
nership with that awful iriQuity. T
n this proposition have we clung thrOug
# discoura gements and misfortuneS tha
e would have overwhelmed a party wit
e a purpose less high and noble.
/. But that alone would not have bee
) sufficient to have kept US in the fiel
n as an organization. Our safety ha
1, depended upon the spirit in the part
J. that has ever turned away from tn
is rock of fusion upon which minorit
0. parties so frequently have bee
y wrecked.
Had we been willing in the past
l. trade cur votes for paltry offices ar
y put our principles up for sale for Il
m sake of increasing our chances of SUI
l. cess for our candidates. we would loI
ly ago have disappeared from the arena
< national politics
Our combined safety depends upc
a. our remaining true to our first his
ne principles and in our being bra
enough to standby those principles u
til we win humanity to them, even if '
of do not elect a candidate in the ne
y, century. 1t is for US at this hour
al bear in mind the high and solemn du
he toward the hundreds of thousands
he home, and to the cause for which '
he stand.
he I'VE want no tame campaign. If '
re are to poll the increased vote that t
ce party should have it must be known
he the remotest confines of this count
IT, that the Prohibition party is in [
field and that it has leader who
able to compel the old parties no 10
ger to ignore, but to respect the PI
n hibitionists.
". This is not a time for experimen
b. We must not strive for an inereas