The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-07-08
COLD WATER men
SELECT LEADERS
PRoHIBITIoNIsT MAKE UP MA
TIoNAL TICKET.
GEN. MILES DECLINES ToRUN

GEN. MILES DECLINES ToR RUN
;silas G. Swallow, Of Pennsylvania,
Nominated for President-George
NJ. Carroll, Of Texas, Named
for Second Place.
Indianapolis, Ind. July 1.-The pre-
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 q
long deadlock in the resolutions COM
mitsee. 1t was described by Ell.
Amos, of Oregon, secretary of the
committee, as the broadcast platform
ever placed before the people by the
party. In addition to the planks on
the liquor question, 1T declares the
party to be in favor of International
arbitration, a suffrage law based on
mental and moral qualifications, uni
form laws for the country and depen-
denotes, popular election for senator's.
civil service extension and the initia-
tive and referendum. The trust ques-
ton was recognized by a demand for a
rigid application of the principles of
Justice to all organizations of capital
and labor. A reform Of divorce laws
is demanded and polygamy denounced.
Niles Declines.
Gen. Miles put an end to the move
ment to nominate him for president
by sending to John g. Woolley a 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 I%ndianapo-
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
drpd nf the 6o1nootoct1n ft Fov O. r o,,s.
to visit the exposition.
Platform Adopted. +
The resolutions committee reported
the following platform to the conven-
stion, which was adopted.
The prohibition party in national
convention assembled at Indianapolis
June 80, 1904, recognizing that the chief
end ofsall government is the establish
ment of those principles of righteous
ness and Justice that have been revealed
to man as the will of the aver 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 Iegalized sale of
alcoholic beverages is so ruinous to in
;dividual interests, so inimica1 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 for
years has been1the most important ques-
stion in American politics.
ASecond-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
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.
t1Third-We declare the truth, demon
sstrated by the experience Of half a cen
-turys 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 t remove its
evils and useless as checks uponits
growth while the insignificant public
reyenuesawhich have accrued therefrom
have scared the public conscience
against a recognition Of Its iniquity.
"Fourth-We call public attention to
the fact, proved by the experience Of
more than SO years, that to secure the
enactment and enforcement OF prohib4
tory legislation III which alone lies
hope OF the protection Of the people
from the liquor traffic, tits necessary
that the legislative, executive and judi-
scial branches Of the government should
be in theshands Of a political party In
harmony with the n~fOhibition snrfncinie