Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-08
PLENTY Of WORK FOR
REAL REFORM PARTY
Temporary Chairman Points Il
Out at the Prohibition
Convention.
pOLYGAMY AND DIVORCE
republicans and Democrats, He Says
Have Not Had the Courage to So.ys
These Any More Than this
Liquor Question.

lonal prohibition convention Was cSbien
10 order today in Tomlinson hail by
National Chairman Oliver w. Stewart.
Four thousand delegates, a~iuernates and
visitors were present. The hall was dec
orated with the national colors. Over
the platform hung pictures OF Abraham
Lincoln, Clinton H. Fiske, Frances WIZ
lard and Hale Johnson.
After the opening prayer by Rev. Geo.
II. Peeke OF ~Sandusky, o., the chair
nan introduced w. S. Doan. who well
.omed the delegates in behalf OF the
prohibitionists Of the state. When ne
mentioned General Miles there was g
burst OF applause and as he concluded
three cheers were givenfor Doan. Chair
man Stewart made a brief reply and
introduced Homer L.. Castle of Pitts
burg as temporary chairman.
Chairman Castles Speech.
Mr.. Castle said in part:
THAT canker worm of the west, poly
gamy, today holds at bay u United
states senate, and it's power is so great
that the greatest law making assem-
olage of this country dare not strike,
because polygamy has said there Is
| national election at hand This prob
EN- must be solved by a Drawer lot of
men than the republicans and demo-
cratic senators.
1.-THE homes of our land nave stood
.or years at the doors of congress-, ask
ing for such a uniform system of mar
.iage and divorce laws as VIII protect
he sacraments of marriage. 1t has
9een treated With no courtesy al al.
This problem of an indissoluble home
life is one of our legacies.
Intelligent national solution of the
mutual rights and wrongs of aggrega-
ions of capital, called trusts, on the
,ne hand, and of labor with its or
g~anization on the other, is a problem
never yet approached from the stand
point of the statesman, but always the
politician.
.'The exigencies of war opened the
ioors, and the ambitions Of short-sight-
I'd leaders for empire have placed In
,ur keeping provinces which in times
If war would cost many times their
yalue in money and men TO protect, and
when annexed can only belong to us in
title; for in hearts and sympathy they
are even more remote than in distance.
How h%onorably to let go is a most tre-
nendous problem, for this far 1t has
been profitless TO anyone except the
liquor interest and the bawdyhouse
keepers.
Above all these, because greater in
scope, broader than all those, because
argely the source OF the evils in them
III, is the problem of what to do with
he 5 1000 saloons of this land.
Respects to Old Parties.
Where is the political aggregation
hat can be trusted to cope with those
.vils? Shall it be hat crowd of in
sane, becoilared men who gathered last
week In Chicago to do the bidding of
he hero OF bloodless San Juan, and
)Iaced-a democratic secretary in charge
IF their national committee, and coaxed
some of even semi-national reputation
10 agree to run with this despoiler Of
svery trust except the whisky trust?
BY no manner or means. Men who as
yenators have not the courage TO SEND
pack to Utah It's much married Smoot
an never be trusted to cope with such
IN evil whose talons are sunk deep in
every municipality in this broad land.
"Shall we trust that crowd of "a
Gagged hyenas who will nven next
week in st. Louis, and whose chief oc-
supation seems to be to dig in some
~graveyards, uncoyering the bones OF
bygone n dead issues, and failing to
ind subsistence upon these, they turn
10 rend each other. apparently caring
nothing for the peace and dignity and
preservation Of the nation In their de-
sire to gnaw al each others throats I?
BY no n of
Nor sna we wait TO see what they
will do, for the democratic convention
can always be trusted to do the wrong
thing at the right time"
Castle concluded by saying there never
was a clearer call for a party that could
stand before the American people, sure
Of the need of the land, positive of its
position on puEiic questions, and fear
less in its espousal of the cause of
right.
After the announcement OF commit
tees was read, "a recess was taken until
2 p. M.
President Francis extended an inyi-
tation to the convention to attend the
st. Louis exposition.
The committe on permanent organi-
cation selected A. G. Wolfenberger OF
Lincoln, Neb.. as permanent chairman
and w. G. Colderwood Of Minneapolis,
as permanent secretary.
OLD Machine Men Down Folk.
Joplin, Mo, July before the
democratic state convention to elect
thirty-six delegates TO the national
convention met here today, Senator
VIM. j. Stone, Governor Dockery, Con-
gressmen Champ Clark and d. A. De
Almond were still in the lead for dele