The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-06-27
w. .C.T.U.COLUMN. T.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. n. L. HOBBS.
N r. Shiel Tells How the Prohibiiion
Party Came 10 be Organized In
Indiana.
TContinued from last week.

They nominated DR.. Ryland I.
Brown for governor. The Demo-
Gratis nominated Franklin Landers
for governor; be was accused OF
making a beer campaign, and the
State temperance paper opposed hls
election with all the vim 1t could
command. On the Republican side
Gen. Shackleford' friends worked
hard for his nomination for Cover
nor. but be was defeated and Albert
|G. Porter was nominated on The
.scood man" idea, and We went 10
work for him and helpei elect blm.
lDr. Brown resigned a. Prohibition
nominee for governor, and advised
all temperance people to vote Tor
Albert G. Porter. After the cleo
lion il was discovered that Gen.
IShackleford's temperance record
Ibid more than anything else to de-
lieat his nomination.
Sometime in December, OF looO,
the executive committees OF the two
State organizations met, and Judge
Harrington worded a petition to the
for agreement 10 submit
a prohibition amendment to the
voters OF the State. Each petition
had q blank affidavit attached 10 II
Ito be filled, verifying that the 9 A.
Iers we're all legal voters. These
lwere sent over the State; the time
was too short to make thorough
'Icanvass; the petitions were all re-
turned to me as secretary. The sig
natures Of 40, 900 voters were Sc
,lcured and presented to the legisla'
lture during its session
i ]. n. Huston, the representative
,lfrom Fayette county, fathered oul
.lbill in the lower house, and it car
|ried by a large majority, memcer'
|of both parties voting for ane
-Isgainst il. The next morning, IL
1.-The house, Mr.. Huston moved tha
1.-The reading Of the minutes OF th'
J previous session be dispensed with
and the motion carried. None o
|us temperance folks suspected am
ee|trick in this.
The bill also passed in the SEN
ate, members Of both parties voting
and against it. This left oul
'.lbill agreed to by both houses
and was thus referred to the rex
sllegislature for submission to TIT
voters.
In 1881 the State paper wa
moved TO indianapolis. The Stat
q Anti. Prohibition League had beer
I. lorasnized with Adolph Seiden
sticker as president, and Gabre
: lSchmuck, Peter Lieber, Phil. Rap
Ipaport and others opened Stat
Iheadouarters at Mozar: hall an
lhostilities began in earnest. Legis
Ilators who had voted for our Of
,dl were blacklisted; but We staid wit
~ them. ~,
e. when the campaign OF lSS
lopened the home and the saloo
i we're both on the warpath. We dl
not ask either party 10 endorse pre-
Inhibition. All we wanted was nor
partisan chance to vote on proh
Ibition amendment. The Antis a.
> clsred that they would POLITICAL
assassinate any candidate who II
.Iyored permitting American either
Is 70 vote on the question. A numo'
1es 1ss lof candidates, though opposed
prohibition. acknowledged that v
had the best end Of the argumeI
= and could find no loop-hole to ol
pose the great American priviiet
Of voting on any question we wan
ed to. !.
Col. Eli F. Ritter, ex 1t. Go
lCumback, w. II. Trammei, Cree
buchanan, I. N. Davis, DR.. Mite
: Iell Barusbas Hobbs, Col. DeHaI
.ulJohn Ratliff, Z. b. Reynolds, Jof
md w. Copner and others simply rel
Iahlilthe riot act to the Republican no
chine bosses, and brought such
pressure to bear that the platfor
declared to submission at q spec
lelection. !,
There was something OF a bait
royal in the Democratic camp. !
IIerrish, Preston Rider, Frank L.
eart, Colonel Dobbins, John IA
isaac Keen and other temperal
democrats wanted a platform {
claring for submission at spec
| ELECTION. The anti's wanted
| usual no sumptuary plank and
/ declaration against submitting
amendment. The old Democra
| bosses Of eighteen years ago "
i puzzled. They found the temp
ance element determined.