, 1904-05-13
LAB0RS
OF PROHIBITION STATE coNvEN
TON COMPLETED At OPERA
HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
Presidential Electors, Delegates to Ma
tionai Convention, National Com
mitteemen and State Executive
Committee Appointed-No candi-
dates for state Offices.

Al the evening session of the Wyo-
oming state prohibition convention
last night, after a prayer by Rev. Pat
terson and a song by the ladies' quar-
tette, Hon. Oliver w. Stewart of Chi
caso. chairman of the national prohi-
bltion committee. was introduced and
made al address of about an hours
duration, declaring that Wyoming had
been selected as a fertile field by the
national committee n a genuine cam
paign would be carried on here. He ar
raigned the old parties for doing and
not doing a good many things. declar-
ing the salvation of the country lay
with the prohibitionists, and quoted
figures from the recent election in Chi
cago. when the prohibition party had
tickets in each of the thirty-nve wards
of the city for aldermen, polling 1000
votes, and in indianapolis. where the
prohibition candidate for mayor re
ceived more than 5000.
At the conclusion of his address
pledges were taken for a state cam
paign fund and a collection to defray
the expenses of the state convention.
The following platform was then reau
Dy the secretary, Mrs. E. c. Holiday,
and adopted by the vote of the conven-
ton:
we the prohibitionists of Wyoming,
in state convention assembled, i'll
the city of Laramie on May -, 1904,
affirming our trust in Almighty God
as the Ruler of nations, do hereby
adopt the following platform of prin-
ciples:
Il. The prohibition of the manufac-
ture, sale, importation, expectation and
transportation of the beverage liquor
traffic is the only solution of the saloon
problem. Such policy should be nation
al as well as state and local.
.. We declare our unalterable OPP
position to the license of the saloon as
sinful before God and disastrous to
the state; and We arraign the republi-
can and democratic parties as respon-
sible for such legislation.
49, We declare the saloon to be the
enemy Of the working man, the honest
producer, the home and the state, we
the prohibition party to its over-
throw when entrusted with power.
a. We congratulate the women OIL
that their voices are heard
at the ballot box, and we respectfully
that this gives them an op-
%portunity to strike an effective blow
at the saloon, the most deadly enemy
of the home.
80. We call attention to the fact that |
while there are other issues their i'm
portance Is not so great as that of the
We invite all who are in
with us on this dominant
to rally with us at the polls in
support Of these principles
The committee on nominations, con-
Of Clark Pelton. Mrs. d. M. Nc
liver and Mrs. Eliza Stuart Boyd, pre-
sented its report, recommending the
following nominations, the report be-
Ing adopted and the nominations made
by vote of the convention:
Presidential Electors-Ellen Bristol
Of Cheyenne, David Gordon of Wheat
land and Anna B. Holiday of Laramie.
Justice of the Supreme Court, Con
gresham and State Treasurer-No re-
concentrations.
Delegates to National E%ncampment
Il. L. Laughlin of Toltec, DR.. C. J.
Sawyer and Clark Pelton of Laramie
and Mrs. Minnie E. Kingsford of Chey-
enne.
Members of the National Commit
tee-L. L. Laughlin and DR.. C. ]. Saw |
yer.
State Executive Committee. ].
Sawyer, chairman: Clark Pelton, vice
F. A. Carpenter, secretary; |
D. M. McIver. treasurer.
The evening meeting of the onven
ton was held at the Opera House, with
very fair audience present. The con-
vention adjourned about $3.50. Mr..
Stewart, the national chairman, left
on the night train for Chicago. He
will return to Wyoming in a few weeks
and open state headquarters for the
conduct of the state campaign.