The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-03-14
THE pRUniBlTIONISTS
Hold the First ConventiOn,f0r 1900
in Redwood County.

The l9OO political ball was set
rolling in Redwood county last
Wednesday afternoon. The ball
rollers were not very numerous,
but they were enthusiastic. Strange
as it may seem they were individ
uals composing party which has
lost it's county organization and all
right to being placed on the official
county ballot this fall except by pc
tition. They were the Prohibition
lists.
To use the vernacular there was
only one bar of hot stuff in the con-
vention, WHICH was held in the
grand jury room OF the court house.
That bar was the Rev. B. c. Stills of
Lamberton. He came to the sur
face towards the tail end of the
afternoon meeting, after the bust
ness of the convention had been
transacted, and after speeches we're
called for. He stated that in the
village and town of Lamberton
there would great many more pro-
hibition votes this fall than there
ever had been before-votes that
would be cast for the Prohibition
State ticket. He said that there
was depth of earnestness among
the Lambertonites. Il haven't
been all around, he said, ''but I
am after them and when I get after
them they either have to put up or
shut up AS the Rev. gentleman
made this remark there was a look
of surprise around the room, but
the remark was passed up for his
next statement.
Il find the same condition else
where. Men have told me that
they were sick and tired of being
bamboozled by the old parties and
were going to let loose and vote ac-
cording to their own conscience.
We want to fight this to a finish,
whether the enemy or we are in at
the death. Last night we had a
man in Lamberton say to US that he
would vote only the prohibition
ticket hereafter, and they are all
coming in the same way"
Mr.. Stills stated that he was out
in South Dakota recently and men
there told him that the ''blind pig
nuisance was even better than the
licensed saloon. The latter was
protected by the State while the
former was watched by the vigilant
citizens. He then expressed him
self in favor Of the one plank plat
form for the National party-the
one plank for Prohibition only,
leaving all other issues for the
elected representative of the party
to settle.
VIM. Tiffany WASH t entirely of
this mind He favored woman
suffrage, and remarked that he
"didn t know why a woman didn t
have as good a right to vote as a
man; she ought to have as good a
right to take drink Of whisky as a
man.
H. F. Clipfell stated that if we
could have total prohibition he
would be willing to leave all other
issues to the representatives in
Congress. A vote followed on the
question of one plank platform, or
more than one plank, and it was
declared unanimously carried for
the one plank scheme.
The convention-mass conven-
tion-was called to order by J. w.
Leedy of Minneapolis. member of
the Prohibition State Central COM
mittee. Mr.. Leedy is hot stuff on
the Prohibition question and fired
several good shots at the kopies
held by the liquor element. One or
two lyddite shells were exception
ally we'll fired, but the saloon men
didn't happen to be on the kopie
just at that time. When he finished
talking Elder Henry Goodacre of
the Christian church was elected
chairman and Jupiter Pluvius Jones
of this city was ordained as secre-
tary. There were Is delegates
present at that time.
The first business was 10 elect
delegates to the State Prohibition
convention to be held in Minneapo-
lis on March Goth and 2lst After
considerable of skirmishing the
Rev. G.. Stills of Lamberton. A. D.