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resolutions. presented the supplements
tary report.
The report adopted. a motion was
made to adjourn until 1880 p. M, and adj
1ournment was taken to the hour
| named.
The committee on resolutions was un.
able to agree, and fuel was added to the
names of discord by the submission of
a majority report when the league met
| in the afternoon.
The majority report favored the en-
dorsement of the candidacy of Hon. A.
| Y. Coates. the prohibition candidate for
governor and committed the league to
the support of all minor officers on the
prohibition ticket.
The minority report recommended
that no Endorsement Of candidates be
made, but that each member of the
league be left free to exercise his indi-
yidual preference in voting for candi-
\ dates
Rev I. q. Pierson addressed the con-
vention in support of the minority re-
port, while j. H. Flemmins George
| Gordon. Thomas Orwig, Leonard Brown
and Rev. Williams the latter of Bur
| lington. made impassionate appeals for
the majority report.
The report was as follows the brack-
eted portions being the portions to
which the minority objected, and for
the retention of which the third party
delegates contended:
The Iowa Anti Saloon League, in
state convention assembled hereby de-
clares its unalterable opposition to the
saloon in any form, whether it be a
mulct or a license saloon. We are OPP
posed to any candidate who, directly or
Indirectly favors the sale in this state
of intoxicating liquors as beverage
and we pledge ourselves in this cam
paign to oppose the election of any can
didate who is not in harmony with this
resolution.
I'VE believe it to be the duty of the
Christian and temperance voters of the
state to cast their votes for the candi-
dates favorable to the absolute prohibit
ton of the liquor traffic. We therefore
recommend that all voters In sympathy
with the home and against the saloon
shall vote for Hon. A. U. Coates for
governor and all (minor) officers Ito
vote for such candidates) without re-
1 gard to party, who are known as true
\ temperance men.
I'VE demand the rigid enforcement of
all existing laws for the suppression of
intemperance and the liquor traffic and
| call upon the officers whose duty it is to
enforce these laws to do SO, pledging
them our support and encouragement in
so doing; and
We further commend the work of the
! representatives of the league in this and
other directions during the last year.
Resolved, That we commend the
fearless, effective campaign against the
| saloon that is being waged by our Off
cial organ, the Dial of Progress. We
recognize the paper as one of the most
| potent influences in the cause of tenn
/ perance in the state"
A motion was made to substitute the
minority report for that of the majori-
ty, and at this parting of the ways was
1 waged one of the bitterest and most
i protracted political battles know to a
4 state convention. Chairman Fleming of
/ the prohibition third party central COM
4 mittee and Mr. Orwig moved up on the
firing line of the contest, while Score
tary Sawyer, H. H. Abrams, Rev. Fair
1 all, Rev. McCash and A. K. Campbell
presented a solid front to do battle for
| the minority report. The third party
1 people concentrated their fire on l. E.
| Pierson and many ugly. hints and re-
| ordinations We're banded about. 1t
was a play of sheet lightning passions
combined with fiery assault and logged
| defense.
Stung to resentment by repeated at
! tacks upon him, /. L. Pierson, being
/ finally recognized. leaped to the front
and whipped the majority with a
scourge of thorns He said it was true
! he had said he might vote for A. B.
\ Cummins, but he had never quite set
\ tied the matter until a few moments
+ before. when the intolerant biggotry of
I the opposition warned him 1t would be
La dangerous thing to confide power to
their hands. Now, he would give Mr..
/ Cummins his hearty support as an indi-
vidual, leaving others of the league to
exercise their personal preferences.
1T is no part of the work of this
body to endorse the candidacy of any
| man. he exclaimed. Il know not
| whence comes this secret influence to
commit the league TO any candidate or
party. but it was conceived in sin and
born in iniquity. To make such sacri-
| flee means that the league will become
a stencil in the nostrils of the people,
Mr.. Pierson was followed by Mr.. Cole
| of Mount Pleasant and Secretary Saw
| yer, both of whom opposed endorsement
and pleaded for the adoption of the mi
nority report. While Mr. Sawyer was
/ speaking he subjected to frequent inter-
ruption. He bore it all with fair grace
| until Francis Bacon, eX-candidate for
| governor on the prohibition ticket, and
who is charged with having fought the
league from start to finish and then
1 come in as a delegate to assist in carry
| ing thru resolution endorsing Mr.
| Coates, arose and demanded to be per-
mitted to ask question, AT this Saw
yer advanced down the isle shaking his
clenched fist, his face pallid with ex-
! element and anger, until he stood with
in two feet of Mr.. Bacon, when he
stopped and trembling with suppressed
anger, exclaimed:
II want to tell you, cir, that in my
! eyes you are contemplate hypccrite
No. don't want any question from
you"
4 Instantly the convention was in flu
rious Juror of excitement and confusion
A score of men white with rage and only
restrained from rushing upon Sawyer
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