Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-15
MILES PoRt PRESIDENT
PRoHIBITIoNIsfs Z WILL BOOM
THE aEHrRAl FOR NOMINEE.
Olney Men Seek Control in Bay State
Hearst Wins in Ohio
other Notes.
othaikotes.

A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind, last
night says:
Prohibition leaders in charge of arrange
ments for the prohibition national conven-
ton, to be held In Indianapolis June 30,
have agreed, it is stated. upon Gen. Nelson
A. Miles as the prohibition presidential
nominee.
A letter received by State Chairman
Charles E. Newlin today from Pennsylva-
mia conveys the Information, that Gen.
Miles will accept the nomination If ex-
tended.
1.-The boom will be launched Immediate
ly,'' declared Chairman Newlin tonight
miles is the enemy of the canteen the
friend of the southern democracy. an OPP
ponent of Roosevelt and he should re-
ceive 100000 votes"
David o. MeCalnont Of franklin, Pa.
chairman of the Venango county prohibit
ton committee, is in receipt of a letter
from Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in which the
general announces himself indirectly as a
candidate for the nomination for President.
At banquet held in Franklin on Tues
day evening of last week, attended by a
few of the men active in the prohibition
party in Franklin. Mr.. McCalmont pro-
posed Gen. Miles as a candidate, and read
an extract from the letter in which Gen.
Miles is quoted as saying:
ut remains for my friends to say
what services 1 shall render further to
my country"
Olney Men Trying to Beat Hearst.
A dispatch from Boston, Mass, last
night says:
An Olney movement has begun through
out the state of Massachusetts,, and the
various democratic clubs who have been
approached by the Hearst emissaries are
Fastening to organize their forces to COM
bat the pressure brought upon democratic
leaders to win them over for Hearst.
The OIney men will make a bitter fight
in their local fields to prevent Hearst Sc
curing state delegates and thrott1ing the
convention by the representative district
plan. Hearst work is going on through a
ward to ward canvass, and the Olneyites
have just awakened to the seriousness of
the situation.
Hearst Wins in Ohio
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, last
night says:
In most holly contested convention
tonight at Urbana. William r. Hearst Of
New York won the delegates to the demo-
cratic convention from the eighth district.
The fight was on from the start to the
finish. but the Hearst men, led by w. L.
Finley of Kenton, chairman of the demo-
cratic state committee and an ardent John
son man, won at every point. Finley was
named as one of the delegates and w. r.
Niven Of Bellefortaine, as the other. Fin
ley is out and out for Hearst. and Niven,
while not pledged himself, will vote
for the New York editor. w. W. Durbin,
the chairman. denounced Grover Cleveland
as an arch traitor and was Kissed by many
of the delegates. A resolution to send a
telegram of congra tuiations to w. ].
Bryan brought out "a storm Of protest, but
carried just the same. The Kansas City
platform was indorsed
Nominations.
Fred. Rhodes, editor of the Eldorado
MOI News, was nominated for Congress
by republicans of the sixth Missouri dis
trict. C. L. Houts of Warrensburg and J.
R. Hale of Rich Hill were selected as dele
gates to the national republican conven-
ton.
The Oklahoma. democratic. convention to
elect delegates to the national convention
has been called to meet at Anadarko, June
l. The congressional convention will meet
in Oklahoma City on July 26.
Republicans of the thirteenth Indiana
congressional district today renominated
Representative Brick by reclamation.
Congressman James A. Hemenway was
renominated today without opposition by
the republicans of the first Indiana district.
Strong resolutions instructing for Presi-
dent Roosevelt were adopted.