Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-10-01
Vertebrate.
Little Delaware is at it.

Prohibition paper and leaf1et at once.
Geo. w. Carroll, the Prohibition nomi-
nee for Governor of Texas, is a leading
oil capitalist OF Beaumont.
More than 200 delegates attended the
convention Of the state Of Washington.
Four organizers are in the field.
Chicago is making a lively and syste-
matte campaign. Tent work is one Of it's
features as at a number of other points.
Every Kentucky district has Prohibi-
and even that vacancy may yet be filled.
N. T. Moen, Populist candidate for con-
gress in the Ninth district, is at the head
of the Good Templar order in this state.
Cheering news continues to come from
California. T. D. Kanouse is our nomi-
field.
New Jersey has held a convention in
each of it's ten congressional districts
and 81 counties. A full ticket was NOM
mated at each.
T. K. Thorvilson president of the Wis
consin Scandinavian Total Abstinence
Association, is stumping Wisconsin for
the state ticket.
woods "pome'' in this ISSUE is the equal
of the productions of Stanton, or Of any
of that class of poets.
Arizona has nominated for territorial
delegate to congress a well-known lawyer
and Methodist preacher, who is also
Grand Chief Templar.
It is said that 14,O0O,O 900 out of 10000,
900 homes in this country are yet without
a temperance paper in them. Lots of
work between us and victory.
binding we find that Vol. II, No. II; Vol.
V, No. and Vol. vi, No. 2 are missing.
Who can and will supply them?
Colorado has a full ticket in the field.
Nearly 400 ministers preached prohibition
sermons September % and will make
about 1000 speeches for the ticket.
One hundred candidates and other
speakers are on the stump in Illinois this
month. Several hundred thousand pages
of literature are being distributed.
thoroughly than ever before and great
effort is being made to put the Prohibition
vote far beyond any previous figures
- A large vote is being worked up for
Tennessee. Every civil district is being
put in touch with state headquarters.
We continue to take part of our rec
reation in declining offers of objection
able advertising and unobjectionable
cash. The last was that of a marriage
paper.
On a certain Sunday lately c. N. How
police headquarters to demand the clos
ing of the saloons on Sunday. The city
is in ferment.
Gubernatorial candidate Emerson is
leading pretty fight in Kansas. He has
been speaking every Week-night for
months and hopes to visit every county
in the great state.
running our F. J. Carlisle for governor
last year but now dominates A. III. Tas-
ker, another Minnesota boy, for auditor
But it's all in the family.
Texas is putting up great campaign.
Several thousand copies of the New
Voice hlinQ 10 IGN
and press bureau is sending matter
weekly to many country papers.
Nebraska has the strongest ticket
which it has named for years. Chair
man Beverage and wife, royal speak
ers and singers, will hold a meeting ev-
cry night until election. An excellent
vote is assured.
National Chairman Stewart reports
that in this campaign more Prohibition
candidates are actually ''out to win =
for votes-than ever before in the his
tory of the party. Get into the fight.
The Texas Republican state convention
adopted resolution condemnipg the
Democratic party Of that state for enact
ing a local option liquor law. It is OBJ
the, citizens etc. It sounds like the
resolutions Of saloonkeepers' conven-
ton.
Edward w. Mills, who organized We
mango county, Pa, for the great victories
it has achieved, is now State Organizer of
West Va He drafts into service num-
bers Of young men who can talk or sing
or do something else and who in many
cases would otherwise drift into the ole
parties.
The names of something like thirty five
candidates on the Minneapolis city an6
Hennepin county Prohibition ticket have
been filed. Aldermanic candidates have
been named in eleven Of the thirteen
wards. st. Paul has no city election thi.
fall, but nine names are on the county ant
legislative ticket.
The nomination of James Mansell, ex.
mayor Of Wtlliamsport Pa, as the Pro
hibition candidate for congress has beef
endorsed by the Democrats. Mr.. Mansel
was elected mayor over both Republican
and Democratic candidates and hi