The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-07
PROHIBITIONISTS
SELECT LEADERS.
Convention dominates Rev. Silas c. Swallow,
of Pennsylvania, for President. and
George w. Carroll. of Texas.
for Vice President

Indianapolis, Ind, July 1.-The pro-
hibition party in national convention
on Thursday nominated Silas G.. Swal-
low, of Pennsylvania, for president,
and George w. Carroll, of Texas, for
vice president. The platform was
adopted without argument, after a
long deadlock in the resolutions COM
mittee.
Miles Declines.
Gen. Miles put an end to the move
ment to nominate him for president
by sending to John G. Woolley tele-
gram from New York, which reached
him shortly after noon, asking that
his name be not presented. This was
considered final, and the movement to
Mr.. Swallow was unanimous, no other
name being considered.
Convention Ends.
Over $4,000 was raised by subscrip-
ton pledges from the floor of the con-
vention, which, with $1,000 in the
treasury, will be the nucleus of the
campaign fund. National Chairman
Stewart and National Secretary Tate
were reelected. The prohibition edi-
tors organized for the campaign by
electing Edward Clark, of Indianapo-
lis, president. The convention pro-
gramme closed at night with a mass
meeting at which addresses were made
by National Chairman Stewart, John
G. Woolley and others. Several hun
dred of the delegates left for St. Louis
to visit the exposition.
Platform Adopted.
The resolutions committee reported
the following platform to the conven-
ton, 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 fol-
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 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 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 tc
the fact, proved by the experience OF
more than so years, that to secure the
enactment and enforcement of prohib-
itory 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 its embodiment in law
and to the execution of those laws.
"Fifth-We pledge the prohibition
party, wherever given power by the suf-
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.
notwithstanding that the intel
ligent voters Of the country may proper
ly ask our attitude upon other ques-
tions of public concern. We declare our
selves in favor of:
''The impartial enforcement Of all law.