Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-26
FIX TENETS
Iowa Prohibitionists Decry
State Mulct Law.
FOR POPULAR ELECTION
Charge Government With Partnership
in Manufacture and Sale of Intoxi.
eating Liquor-Also Declare in Fa-
vor of Changing of Tariff.

CdtlI9 GiquoT-AlSO DeCiare IN fd-
vor of Changing of Tariff.
Waterloo, Aug. 22.-Decrying the
mulct law and demanding that a pro-
hlbitory amendment be again submit
ted to the people of this state, charg-
ing the government with partnership
IN the liquor traffic from the fact that
it raises part of the revenue from the
manufacture and sale of liquor, the
delegates to the prohibition state con-
vention in this city late yesterday af
ternoon adopted platform including
these and other tenets. In their dec
laration of principles they favored the
election of the United States senators
by direct vote and the changing of the
tariff as necessity demanded.
Nominations for state offices were
made at yesterdays session of the con-
vention. Some of the congressional
candidates have already been placed
in the field and others will follow later.
The Platform.
The principles on which the prohi.
bition party of Iowa will make its
fight in the campaign this fall follows:
The prohibition party of Iowa, in
convention assembled August 20-21,
1902, reverentially acknowledge God
as the author of civil government and
Jesus Christ as the ruler of the ma
tons of the earth, and that His law is
the magma charter of human liberty,
to which all legislation should con-
form.
Section 1. We believe that the fed
eral government by raising large
part of its revenue by taxation. of the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors makes itself particeps criminis'
and we insist that our government
should go out of this unnecessary and
vicious partnership and cease this I'M
godly business. We believe that it is
the first duty of the state and nation
to forever prohibit the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, because the liquor traffic is
| the most fruitful source of ignorance,
poverty, political corruption and crime
| in existence. We demand its absolute
overthrow and we believe that the
work can be accomplished only by a
political party crystallized around the
doctrine and committed to its enforce
| HlGnJ DIS ISCeuL events IuiOuSH tllS
country have testified.
Sec. 2. We declare in favor of
equal suffrage regardless of sex, race
or color.
Prohibition Amendment Demanded.
Sec. 8. Since mulct means fine or
/ penalty paid in advance for the com
mission of crime, therefore, we af
firm our positive disapproval of the
Martin mulct law" and urge it's re
peal and the speedy resubmission OF
prohibitory amendment to the popu
lar vote of the people.
Sec. 4. Since the highest judicial
authorities in the land have declared
ours to be Christian nation, human
need as we'll as divine law, demands
one day of rest in seven for the toll
ers and freedom of conscience in wor
ship for all. Therefore, we demand
the observance of the Christian Sab
bath.
Sec. 5. We favor the election Of
United States senators by direct vote
Of the people.
| Sec. 6. That we hail with hope ant
delight the creation of the permanent
court of arbitration at The Hague, il
1900, by representatives of nearly al
the nations of the world, and the sub
seuuent approval thereof by twenty
one nations. including the United
States, by the appointment of mem
hers in said court, and the organize
ton thereof for business in April, 1901
. That it is the sense of this conven
: ton that all controversies should b.
settled by arbitration.
Sec. Z. That it is the sense of thi
convention to favor the change of tn
tariff law as necessity demands iron
time to time by a commission cor
trolled by no political party.
Prohibition Candidates.
The following nominations wer
made by the delegates to the stat
prohibition convention in Waterlo
!, yesterday:
l Secretary of state, w. w. Howard
Marshalltown; auditor of state, job
w. Leedy. Waverly; treasurer c
;. state, E. P. Fetter, Oakland; railroa
: commissioner, =. II. Albright, De
Moines county; attorney general.
B. Ferguson, Cedar county; judge {
a supreme court, J. A. Harvey, Dalla
Il county; clerk of supreme court, e. 4
= Graves, Mitchell county; reporter 81
preme court, w. P. Briggs, Hartley.
. Nominees for congress: First di
trict, w. G. Shepard, Fairfield; Secon
. district. Francis Bacon, Wilton Jun
ton; Third district, John A. Earl, w
terloo; Fourth district. D. McGrego
Mason City; Fifth district. Malcol
d Smith, Cedar Rapids; Seventh distric
J. D. Mcfarland. Des Moines; Tent
district, w. D. Elwell. of Bancroft.
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