The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-01
MAY NOT ACCEPT.
Silas C. Swallow, Nominated for
President by PrOhibitionists,
Fears He May Not Be Able to
Make the Race.
WIFE'S HEALTH is BAD
Nomination Came by Acclama-
tiOn When Miles Declined.
Geo. w. Carroll Of Texas Named
for Vice President.

Indianapolis, Ind, July 1.-The Prohi-
bition party in national convention
nominated Silas c. Sallow of Pennsyl
vania for president and George w. Car
roll of Texas for vice president. The
platform was adopted without argu-
ment after a long deadlock in the reso-
| lutions committee. 1t was described
| by I. H. Amos of Oregon, secretary of
the committee as the broadest platform
ever placed before the people by the
party.
In addition to the planks on the Ii
quor question it declares the party to.
| be in favor of international arbitra-
tion, a suffrage law, based on mental
for the country and dependencies, pop
ular election of senators, civil service
extension and the initiative and refer
endum. The trust question was recog
nized by a demand for a rigid applica-
tfon of the principles of justice to all
organization of capital and labor. A
reform of divorce Jaws is demanded
and poIygamy denounced.
General Miles put an end to the
movement to nominate him for presl-
dent by sending a telegram to John G.
Woolley which reached him shortly af
ter noon. asking that his name be not
presented. This was considered final
/ Swallow was unanimous, no other
over sl6, is raised by subscrip-
tion pledges from the floor of the con-
vention which with $11. 900 in the treas
ury will be the nucleus of the cam
| paign fund National Chairman Stew
art and National Secretary Tate were
| The Prohibition editors organized by
electing Edward Clark of Indianapolis.
president. The convention programme
addresses were made by National
Chairman Stewart, John G. Woolley
and others.
Several hundred delegates left for ST.
Louis to visit the exposition.
The platform adopted is as follows:
The Platform.
The Prohibition party in national
convention assembled, recognizing
that the chief end of government is
the establishment of those principles
of righteousness and justice that have
been revealed to man as the viii or
the everything God, and desiring his
blessings upon our national Ire, pc
lieving in the perpetuation OF the nigh
ideals of government OF the people
by the people and for the people
esta blished by our fathers, makes the
following declaration of principles
and purposes:
tenn of the licensed and legalized sale
of alcoholic beverages is SO ruinouS to
individual interests, so 1n1mlcal TO
public welfare, SO destructive to ma
tional wealth and so subversive of the
rights of great masses of our citizen
ship that the destruction of the traffic
is and for years has been the most
important question in American poll
tics.
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 leaders of these parties
have courted the favor of those whose
selfish interests are advanced by the
continuation and augmentation of the
traffic, until today the influence of the
liquor traffic practically dominates
national, state and local government
through out the nation
Third-We declare the truth; dem
onstrated by the experience of half
century, that all methods dealing with
the liquor traffic which recognize its
right to exist in any form under any
system of license or tax or regulation
have proved powerless to remove its
evils and useless as checks upon it's
revenues which have accrued there
from have scared the public con-
science against recognition of its
iniquity.
Fourth-We call public attention to
the fact, proved by the experience of
more than fifty years, that to secure
the enactment and enforcement of
prohibitory legislation, in which alone
lies hope of the protection of the peo-
pie from the liquor traffic. it is neces-
sary that the legislative, executive and
judicial branches of the government
should be in the hands of a political
party in harmony with the prohibit
ton principle and pledged to its en-
bodiment in law and to the execution
of those laws.
Fifth-We pledge the Prohibition
party, whenever given power by the
suffrage of the people, to the enact
hibiting and abolishing the manufac-
| ture, importation, transportation and
the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Sixth-We declare that there is not
only no other issue of equal import
ance before the American people to-
which the Democratic and Republican
parties seek to divide the electorate of
the country are in large part subter-
fuges under the cover of which they
range for the spoils of office.
Seventh-Recogniz the intelli-
gent voters of the country may prop
erly ask our attitude upon other ques-
tionS of public concern, we declare
ourselves 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-
tions and organizations of capital and
labor.
A more intimate relation between
the people and government by a wise
adoption of the principle of the initia-
tive and referendum.
The safeguarding to every citizen
in every place under the governm ent
all the rights guaranteed by the laws
and constitution.