Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-08-27
Prohibit ion State Convention.

Prohibition State Convention.
The prohibition state convention
met at Waterloo last Thursday ant
nominated the following candidate
for state Offices:
Secretary of state-W. w. Howard
of Mashalltown.
Auditor of state-John w. Leedy ol
| Waverly.
Treasurer of state-F. P. Fetter of
Oakland.
Railroad Commissioner-E. H. AL
bright of Des Moines county.
Attorney General-J. B. FergesoI
of Cedar county.
Judge of Supreme Court. A. Har.
vey of Dallas county.
Clerk of supreme court-E. A. Ora.
YES of Mitchell county.
Reporter of supreme court-W. p
Briggs of Hartley.
Nominees for congress
First district-W. q. Shepard of
Fairfield.
Second district-Francis Bacon of
Wilton Junction.
Third district-John A. Earl of
Waterloo.
Fourth district ID. McGregor of
Mason City.
Fifth district-Malcom Smith of
Cedar Rapids.
Seventh district. d. G. McFar-
land of DesMoines.
Tenth district-W. d. Elwell of
Bancroft.
There was long wrangle in the
room of the committee ON resolutions,
that body taking more than twenty
four hours to prepare the platform
which was finally presented to the
convention and adopted after an
acrimonious and spirited debate of a
couple of hours duration. The initia-
tive and referendum plank was lost in
the committee.
THE PLATFORM.
The prohibition party of Iowa, in
1902, reverentially acknowledge God
as the author of civil government and
Jesus Christ as the ruler of the nations
of the earth, and that His law is the
magma charta of human liberty, to
which all legislation should conform.
Section l. We believe that the fed
eral government by raising large
part of it's revenue by taxation of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors makes itself particepts crimi-
nails, and we insist that our govern
ment should go out of this unneces-
sary and vicious partnership and cease
this ungodly 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 beverage, because the liqu-
or traffic is the most fruitful source of
ignorance, poverty, political corrup-
tion and crime in existence. We
demand its absolute overthrow and we
believe that the work can be acom-
plished only by party crystalized
around the doctrine and committed to
its enforcement as recent events
through the country have testified.
Sec. 2. We declare in favor of equal
suffrage regardless of sex. race or
color.
Sec. 3. Since mulct means fine or
penalty paid in advance for the
cmomission Of crime, therefore, we
reaffirm our positive disapproval of
the Martin mulct law" and urge
its repeal and the speedy resubmission
of a prohibitory amendment to the
popular vote of the people.
Sec. 4. Since the highest judicial
authorities insthe land have declared
ours to be SGhristian nation, human
need as wellias divine law, demands
one day of rest in seven for the toilers
and freedom of conscience in worship
for all. Therefore we demand the
observance of the Christian Sabbath.
Sec. 8. We favor the election of
United States Senators by direct vote
of the people.
Sec. 6. That we hail with hope and
delight in creation of the permanent
court of arbitration at The Hague, in
1900, by representatives of nearly all
the nations of the world, and the sub
sequent approval thereof by twenty
one nations, including the United
States, by the appointment of members
in said court, and the organization
thereof for business in April, 1901.
That it is the sense of this convention
that all controversies should be set
tied by arbitration.
Sec. Z. That it is the sense of this
convention to favor the change of the
tariff law as necessity demands from
time to time by commission controll.
ed by no political party.