The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-29
COLD WATER MEN
Prohibition National Convention
Assemblies at indianapolis.
Proceedings Opened With a Hot
Speech by Chairman Castle.
BOTH OLD PARTIES
BOTH OLD PARTIES
Held Up to ScOrn and DerisiOn
by the Speaker.
Calls Republicans ''Inane" and
Democrats "Uncaged Hyenas.


tenth annual Prohibition convention
opened today in TomIinson hall with
1000 delegates alternates and visitors
present The hall was decorated with
the national colors. Over the plat
form hung pictures of Abraham Lin
coin, Clinton B. Fiske and Frances
Willard. Around the hall were pic
lures of Hale Johnson, Samuel B.
Pearson, sheriff of Cumberland coun-
ty, Maine, who gained a high place in
the estimation of Prohibitionists by
his vigorous enforcement of the law.
Nebraska, Iowa and New Jersey dele
cations occupied the seats immedi-
ately in front of the platform.
The convention was called to order
by National Chairman Oliver w.
Stewart, of Chicago. In introducing
the Rev. George H. Peke. of San
dusky, O., to make the opening prayer
he said:
There is one convention where the
opening prayer is not a mock for
mality and it is now about to be
opened"
W. S. Doane, of Indianapolis. next
welcomed the delegates on behalf of
the Prohibitionists of Indiana. When
he mentioned the name of General
Miles there was a burst of applause.
National Chairman Stewart in
brief reply said the convention just
assembled was the onry one that had
a real issue to present to the Ameri-
can people. He then introduced
Homer L. Castle. of Pittsburg. tempo
rary chairman of the convention. Mr..
Castle said in part
Castles Address.
ssThaf ca0Ixar worm of v4raSt
polygamy, today holds at bay our
United States fate, and its power is
so great that the greatest law-making
assemblage of this country, com
posed of Republicans and Democrats,
dare not strike because polygamy has
said there is q national election at
hand.
This problem must be solved by a
braver lot of men than Republican or
Democratic senators. The homes of our
land have stood for years at the doors
of congress asking for such a uniform
system of marriage and divorce laws as
will protect the sacrament of marriage
1t mas been treated not simply with
scant courtesy but with no courtesy at
all. This problem of indissoluble home
life is one of our legacies.
An intelligent national solution of
the mutual rights and the rights of ag
gregations of capital called trusts on
the one hand and labor with its organi-
zation on the other is a problem never
y
a statesman but always as a politician.
THE exigencies of war opened the
door and the ambitions of short sighted
leaders for empire have placed in our
keeping provinces which in times of
war would cost many times their value
in money and men to protect, and when
annexed can belong to use only in name
and title, for in heart and sympathies
it is even more remote than in DISTANCE.
How to honorably let go. is a most tre-
mendous problem, for thus far it has
been proft1ess to any one except the
liquor interests and the bawdy house
Above all these, because the great
er in scope; broader than all these be
cause largely the source of the evils in
them all, is the problem of what to do
with the $50, 900 saloons Of this land.
Who Can Be Trusted?
Where is the political aggregation
that can be trusted to cope with these
evils? Shall it be that crowd of inane
becOllared men who gathered last week
in Chicago to do the bidding of the
hero of a bloodless San Juan and place
Democratic secretary in charge of
their national committee and coax some
one of even semi-natiOnal reputation to
agree to run second to this despOiler of
every trust except the whisky trust.
BY no manner of means. The men who
as senators have not the courage to
send back to little Utah it's much-mar-
ried Smoot, can never be trusted TO
deep in every municipal city in this
broad land.
aShan we trust that crowd of un-
Gagged hyenas who will convene next
week in St. Louis and whose chief Oc-
eupation seems to be to dig in some
graveyard uncOvering the bones of
some bygone dead issue, and failing to
find subsistence upon these, to turn to
rend each other. apparently caring
nothing for the peace and dignity and
preservation of the nation in their de-
sire to gnaw at each others throats.
BY no manner of means Nor shall
we wait to see what they will do, for
a Democratic convention can always
be trusted to do the wrong thing at
the right time
There is but one party left With
the absolute monarchy existing today
in the Republican party. expressed in
its imperialism, militarism and COM
mercialism, on the one hand, and
Democracy with its absolute anarchy.
want of consequence, consecutive
thought on any subject, upon the
other, there was never a clearer call
for a party which can stand before
the American people sure of the needs
of our great land, positive of its posi-
ton on public questions, and fearless
in its espousaI of the cause of right
citation of the Democratic party,
shouted: Nor Will we wait to see
what they will do" there was a tre-
mendOus burst of applause which
broke out several times.
The names of the new national
committee were read and adopted
and a recess was taken until O'Clock
this afternoon.
The committee on permanent or
ganization held a brief session and
selected A. n. Wolfenberger, of Lin
coin. Neb., for permanent chairman
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