The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-07-09
PROHIBITION
CONVENTION
ASC. SWALLOW NOMINATED
FOR PRESIDENT.
csorge w. Carroll, of Texas, Given
second Place on the Ticket.
Previous to Making Nominations
Miles Asked TO Have His Name
withdrawn---The Platform.

indianapolis, July 1.-The Prohibi-
,ion party in national convention yes
+ordav nominated Silas G. Swallow, of
pennsylvania, for president, and George
" Carroll, of Texas, for vice presi-
dent. The platform was adopted with
ant argument after long deadlock in
tbe resolutions committee. 1t was de-
scribed by A. II. 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 liq-
nor question it declares the party to
he in favor of international arbitra-
ton, a suffrage law based on mental
and moral qualifications, uniform
laws for the country and dependencies,
popular election of senators, civil SER
vice extension and the initiative and
referendum. The trust question was
recognized by demand for a rigid
application of the principles of justice
to all organizations of capital and la
nor. A reform of divorce laws was
demanded and poligamy denounced.
Gen. Miles Refuses.
Gen. Miles put an end to the move
ment TO nominate him for president by
sending a telegram to John g. Woolley,
which reached him shortly after noon,
asking that his name be not presented.
This was considered final, and the
movement to nominate Mr.. Swallow
was unanimous, no other name being
considered.
Over $4,000 was raised by sub
scription pledges from the floor of the
convention, which, with 81, 900 in
the treasury, will be the nucleus of
the campaign fund. National Chair
man Stewart and National Secretary
Tate were reelected. The prohibition
editors organized for the campaign by
electing Clark, of Indianapolis, presi-
dent. The convention program closed
with mass meeting, at which ad-
dresses were made by National Chair
man Stewart, John G. Woolley and
Others.
The Platform.
The resolutions committee presented
the following platform:
The Prohibition party in national
convention assembled, recognizing
that the chief end of all government
is the establishment of righteousness
and Justice, and believing in the per-
petuation of the high ideals OF govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people established by our faith
ers, makes the following declaration
of principles and purposes:
/. The widely prevailing system OF
the licensed and legalized sale of alco-
holic beverages is so ruinous to lndi-
vidual interests, so inimical to public
welfare, so destructive to national
wealth and so subversive of the rights
of great masses of our citizenship that
the destruction of the traffic is and for
Years has been the most important
question in American politics.
2. We denounce the lack OF states
manship exhibited by the leaders OF
the Democratic and Republican parties
in their refusal to recognize the para
mount importance of this question and
the cowardice with which the leaders
of these parties have courted the favor
of those whose selfish interests are ad-
vanced by the continuation and aug
mentation of the traffic, until today
the influence of the liquor traffic prac-
tically dominates national, state and
local government throughout the ma
ton.
3. We declare the truth, demon
strated by the experience OF half
century, that all methods of dealing
with the liquor traffic which recog-
nizes 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 insignln-
cant public revenues which have &C
crued therefrom have scared the pub
lie conswcience against a recognition
of its iniquity.
4. We call public attention to the
fact, proved by the experience OF more
than fifty years, that to secure the
enactment and enforcement OF prohlo-
itory legislation, in which alone lies
the 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 govern
ment should be in the hands OF po-
iiticl party in harmony with the pro-
principles and pledged to It's
in law and to the execu-
ton of those laws.
5. We pledge the Prohibition party
wherever given power by the suffrages
of the people to the enactment and en-,
forcement of laws prohibiting ano
a bolishinp tha manufacture. impOrta-