Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
Republicans and Democrats Are Gen.
sured in the Document Declare
Liquor Question Most Important
Question:

chairman Stewart for the presidential
nomination, and ex-National Chairman
Samuel Dickie, of Albion, Mich, was
selected to make the nominating speech
Under the arrangement if Mr.. Stewart
is nominated Vice Chairman A. G.
Wolfenbarger will conduct the national
campaign.
Mr.. Stewart addressed the convention
on behalf Of the national committee.
Platform Adopted.
The resolutions committee reported
the following platform to the conven-
tion, which was adopted.
"The prohibition party in national
convention assembled at Indianapolis
June 80, 1904, recognizing that the chief
end of all government is the establish
ment of those principles of righteous
ness and justice that have been revealed
to man as the will of the ever living
God and desiring His blessing upon
our national life, and believing in
the perpetuation of the high ideals
of government of the people, by
the people and for the people, estab-
lished by our fathers makes the follow
ing declaration of principles and pur-
poses:
''First-The widely prevailing system
of the licensed and legalized sale of
alcoholic beverages is so ruinous to in
dividual interests, so inimical to public
welfare, so destructive to national
wealth and so subversive to the rights
of great masses of our citizenship; that
the destruction of the traffic is and for
years has been the most important ques-
ton in American politics.
"Second-We denounce the lack of
craftsmanship exhibited by the lead
ers of the democratic and republican
parties in their refusal to recognize the
paramount Importance of this question
and the cowardice with which the lead
ers of these parties have courted the
favor of those whose selfish interests
are advanced by the continuation and
augmentation of the traffic, until to-day
the influence of the liquor traffic prac-
tically dominates national, state and To-
cal government throughout the nation.
The Liquor Traffic.
'"Third-We declare the truth, demon
strated by the experience of half CEN
fury, that all methods of dealing with
the liquor traffic which recognize it's
right to exist, in any form, under any
system of license or tax or regulation
have proved powerless to remove it's
evils and useless as checks upon its
growth, while the Insignificant public
revenues which have accrued therefrom
have scared the public conscience
against recognition of it's iniquity.
''Fourth-We call public attention to
the fact, proved by the experience of
more than SO years, that to secure the
enactment and enforcement of prohib-
1tory legislation in which alone lies
hope of the protection of the people
from the liquor traffic, it is necessary
that the legislative, executive and judi
cial branches of the government should
be in the hands of political party in
harmony with the prohibition principle
and pledged to it's embodiment in law
and to the execution of those laws.
"Fifth-We pledge the prohibition
party, wherever given power by the SUI
frage Of the people, to the enactment and
enforcement of laws prohibiting and
abolishing the manufacture, importa-
ton, transportation and sale of alcoholic
beverages.
''Sixth-We declare that there is not
only no other issue of equal Importance
before the American people to-day, but
that the so-called issues upon which the
democratic and republican parties seek
to divide the electorate of the country
are in large part subterfuges under the
cover of which they wrangle for the
spoils of Office.
Minor Planks.
notwithstanding that the intel
ligent voters of the country may proper
ly ask our attitude upon other ques-
lions of public concern, we declare our
selves in favor of:
''The impartial enforcement of all law.
''The safeguarding of the peoples
rights by a rigid application of the
principles of justice to all combina-
lions and organizations of capital and
labor.
"A more intimate relation between
the people and government by a wise
adaptation Of the principle Of the initia-
tive and referendum.
"The safeguarding to every citizen in
every place under the government of
the people of the United States of all
the rights guaranteed by the laws and
the constitution.
international arbitration; and de-
clare that our nation should contribute
In every manner, consistent with ma
tional dignity, to the permanent estab-
ltshment Of peace between all nations. rt
THE reform of our divorce laws, the
nnal extirpation Of polygamy and the
total overthrow of the present shameful
system OF illegal sanction of the social
evil. with its unspeakable traffic in girls,
by the municipal authorities Of almost
al our Cities" %1 5 .sz..
Minority Report Presented.
a minority report on platform was
presented. by Joseph P. Tracy, Of Illi-
y nois, chairman of the resolu tions come
mittee. Chairman Wolten barger called
! for the report of the solutions COM
mittee. Chairnan Tracy IS the com.