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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01

comfortable majority had he not, at
the last moment, wired Mr.. Woolley
fOrbidding the use Of his name
Nor is it clear that General Miles
would have refused our nomination,
had there been prospect that it
would be rendered him by practi-
cally unanimous vote. When the
press dispatches, though, brought him
word that there was serious opposi-
ton to his candidacy and that he
even might be defeated, it is not to
be wondered at that he put an end
to the matter by withdrawing from
the race for which his friends had
entered him.
But the battle is over. Everybody
fought for what he deemed to be for
the best and if there was any bitter
ness-and there vast was because
we couldn't see that the course adyo-
Gated by the other fellow was for the
best interest of the party of our love.
THAT battle is over and THE bat
tie has begun, the battle of the truest
and bravest band of men and women
that ever fought against the vilest
curse that ever smote humanity. Our
leader has the admiration and love of
all who know him, except the defend
ers OF the saloon and those who &C.
cupy an equivocal attitude toward it
and the warfare being waged against
it. Our platform is at once the ut
terance of wise statesmen and brave
reformers. The great struggle of 1904
will open at once and be prosecuted
with the vigor of those who fight for
their homes and their country.
And the Prohibition party will win
and win this year. The saloon may
not die in the approaching November
nor may all the reforms for which the
Prohibition party stands be effected
this year. But the Prohibition party
will win this year and every year.
1t always wins. Not ballot cast for
its candidates is thrown away.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
CHEER TO A HERO.

One OF the lesser reasons why we
are glad that the nomination went to
DR.. Swallow is that it will be a per-
sonal comfort to this great-hearted
hero. No man can suffer for our cause
as he has suffered, in his church rela-
lions as well as otherwise. without
crying out of soul at times like unto
that which escaped the lips of the suf-
fering Son of God on Calvary To
have not only the approval Of his con-
science but also to receive unani-
nous and enthusiastic vote of ap-
prevail from the men to whom his
soul clings, must bring great cheer to
our leaders heart Dr. S. G.. Swallow
is one of the men of whom the world
agreed with him. We sometimes
think he brings persecution upon his
head unnecessarily and unwisely, but
we honor and love him for his loyalty
to his convictions and because of the
enemies he has made.
It is believed by some who know
DR.. Swallow intimately that his nom=
nation by the Prohibition party for
president was one of the ambitions of
his life. Yet he labored to secure the
coveted honor for Gen. Miles because
he believed that the veteran soldier
would command larger number Of
votes than any of those whose names
had been canvassed as possible can
didates. Our leader also expressed
his disappointment, when the General
by his own act was taken out of the
race. No one who knows DR.. Swallow
will question his sincerity upon this
point.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
DORSETT, DUNN OR

If the Republican party of Minnesota
is not willing to line up for life and
death struggle with the saloon, it
would at least seem as though it would
want to choose for it's candidate for
Governor man who, if elected, could
not only perform the duties of the Of
flee in business-like manner, but who
is man of such character and habits
as would bring honor to the high office
and set safe and inspiring example
to the young men of this great COM
monwealth. We would suppose that
one such man could have been found
among the 100000 Republicans of the
state. 1t remains to be seen whether
the Democratic party will make bet
ter choice than it's chief rival At any
rate, the state need not be without
Governor worthy of it's intelligent and
moral people. Chas. w. Dorsett, the
Prohibition candidate, is one of Gods
noblemen.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
A SALOON BOSS.

It will not be amiss to call the atten-
ton of those who think that a winning
fight can be made against the saloon
through the old parties to the fact that
the chairman of the Ohio delegation to
the Republican National Convention
was Geo. B. Cox, the recent proprietor
of the sMurderer's Corner saloon in
"Deadman's Alley" Cincinnati. It
might be mentioned at the same time
that Cox is and has been for years the
Republican party boss of Ohio, and
that unless he consents to throw the
saloon vote of the state, and especially
that of Cincinnati, to the party of
great moral IDEAS" it has not a ghost
of show at the polls.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
IN FEAR OF PoLYcAMY.

For years Prohibitionists have given
warning that If Mormonism continued
to spread in the western states, the
time would soon come when the old
parties would not dare to take stand
against polygamy. That time was
foreshadowed when the u. S. Senate
postponed action in the Smoot affair
until after election And now the
Republican convention turns down the
appeal of the National w. G. T. u. for
an anti-polygamy plank in it's plat
form. The nation needs the Prohibi-
ton party in order to accomplish more
than one reform.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
THOSE METHODIST RESOLU-
TIONS

1t seems that the radical resolutions
on the liquor question, published in
our last issue and elsewhere as the
declaration of the General Conference
of the M. E. Church at it's recent ses-
sion at Los Angeles, did not come be-
fore that body. They were adopted
by the Temperance Committee, but in
the rush of the closing hours of the
conference, during which many other
reports failed to receive consideration,
these also we're crowded out. So we
are informed by member of the COM
mittee. The address Of the bishops on
the question, however, is outspoken
on the general issue, although nothing
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
GET BUSY.

The one thing above all others
which the Prohibitionists of Mime
sofa should do this year is to nominate
at least one strong candidate for the
lower house of the Legislature and put
up such fight for him as will at least
deserve to win. There is not day to
lose. Let no one wait for any one else.
Call convention of the Prohibition
lists of your legislative district Write
Secretary Calderwood for any help the
State Committee can render. Nomi-
nate the strongest man in your dis
trict, one who will give some time to
stamping the district or to personal
work among it's voters. If your nom
ination has been made, let the people
hear from you right away. Their con-
duct will be determined very largely
by what you do A fight-to-win will
bring to our support men who like to
see things go.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
Tit for Tat.

During the last SO years Is states
have tried state prohibition and all
but five of them have overwhelmingly
repudiated it.-Both Sides.
But in not one of the Is cases was
our kind of prohibition on trial; that
is, prohibitory law with teeth and
backbone; it's enforcement entrusted
to officials nominated and elected by
and looking for denomination and
reelection to-a political party open
ly, unequivocally and everlastingly
committed to the pulverization of the
saloon; a party which neither in city,
state or nation owes anything to the
saloon Or asks any favors at it's hands.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
THE MILES BOOM.

The three chief reasons advanced
by those who were opposed to the
nomination of Gen. Miles we're: Cd
He would not accept the nomination.
(2) He has no adequate appreciation
of the necessity of Prohibition par
ty and, for that reason, if he should
accept our nomination, he would not
make the kind of fight that would
add permanent strength to the party.
60 No help could be expected from
the South on account of his alleged
treatment of Jefferson Davis while
the latter was a prisoner in his charge
at Fortress Monroe. We believe that
the reason first named outweighed all
others combined in it's influence upon
the attitude of the members of the
National Convention. The conviction
grew during the Convention that Gen.
Miles would accept the honor if ten
dered him and the Miles boom grew
with that conviction until the publ
cation of the Generals letter of June
20 to Mr.. Woolley, in which he seem
ed to express his belief that it was
not his duty to lead us. Mr.. Woolley,
however, interpreted the paragraph in
question to be only suggestion of
broad platform and the General de-
veloped sufficient strength so that, on
the evening before the ballot, the anti
Miles men so felt the necessity Of
uniting on their strongest man that
Mr.. Stewart was decided upon and
consented to make the run. We be-
lieve, though, that Gen. Miles would
have received the nomination by a
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
"sAFEGUARDED." INDEED!

In his speech seconding the nominal
ton of President Roosevelt, Joseph B.
Cotton of Duluth declared that the Re
publican party had "safeguarded the
American home" Against what, pray?
Certainly not against the attacks Of
it's direst foe, the American saloon
With that party in almost uninter-
rupted power in state and nation for
generation, millions of children are
born to heritage of woe and tens of
thousands of homes are first cursed
and then broken up. And all this &C.
cording to law enacted by a party
which, in spite of it's bloody record,
appeals to the people for continued
power.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
"INFLUENcE" VERSUS BALLOT.

Here is the way the report of the
Permanent Committee on Temperance
of the General Assembly Of the Pres
byterian Church, which was adopted
by that body. closes: "Now let this
General Assembly once more utter it's
denunciation characterizing the liquor
traffic as the atrocious crime that it is
and say to the government, you ought
not to license it and if our God-given
influence can avail, you shall not con-
tinue to license it, =
This is excellent, but chief reason
why the saloon exists today is that for
many a year the great body Of the
church, of nearly all denominations,
has been engaged in desperate but
futile effort to throw it's influence"
against the saloon, while casting it's
ballots for the perpetuation Of the life
of political parties which perpetuate
the life of the saloon and wage their
campaigns largely with it's bloody con-
tributions. Let some one tip the wink
to our Presbyterian brethren that an
American ballot is as truly "God-
given" as the influence" of which
they speak, and seventeen million
times as powerful.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
EDITORIAL.

Now for the campaign! Let us not
look on and see what will happen, but
get to work and bring things to pass.
No one ever said more practical
thing bearing on our work than this
by Secretary Calderwood: "The way
to carry the nation for prohibition is
for you to carry your township"
The nomination of Swallow and Car
roll has given the punsters Of the ma
ton a new lease of life. 1t will atone
for this crime, however, by dealing the
liquor traffic some blows that will def
nitely hasten the day of it's death.
Many of the temperance people of
Ohio are still scoring Gov. Herrick
mercilessly for his defeat of the Bran
mock bill, but are as religiously giving
their political support to the party in
whose interest the defeat was accom-
plished.
James Fullerton, of Red Lodge, Mon
tana, urged the Platform committee Of
the Democratic national convention to
incorporate plank denouncing Pres
ident Roosevelt for permitting the sale
Of liquor in the Yellowstone National
Park, contrary to law. The Demo-
cratic party would have been more
likely to put itself on record in this
matter were it not that its fear Of the
saloon is greater than even it's hatred
of the President.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
BACKBONE,

like SO radical as the resolutions on
the subject of political affiliation. It
closes with these words: Meanwhile
our flag must ever float aloft, nailed
to the mast, emblazoned with our ir-
repealable watchWords written large
so that all men can read them from
afar, Total Abstinence and Universal
Constitutional Prohibition"
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
STATE CONVENTION AFTERMATH

The janitor had an easy job.
Steadfast, stick fast, stay fast.-C. N.
Howard.
When the man at the top takes a
stand the policemen understand, and
the saloonkeepers stand from under-C.
N. Howard.
At the meeting of the new State Com
mittee Chairman Higgins, Secretary
Calderwood, Treasurer Haggard and
Editor Wells were reelected
If any preacher in my church (the
Wesleyan M. Ed votes any other than
the Prohibition ticket, he is so ashamed
Of It that no one finds 1t Out.-Rev. "A. B.
Could
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
Pith of the Press.

California Voice: The time is here
when man must vote the Prohibition
ticket or line up with the devil so far
as politics is concerned.
The People: No such political conven-
ton has assembled nor will assemble this
year in our land or any land, so devoted
to the highest interests Of our people,
so eager, to pray and to work and to
sacrifice and to vote for the best men and
measures necessary to the permanence
and progress of Christian civilization
Iowa Prohibitionist: If the 'schurch
vote" would bolt just once, as the saloon
vote threatens all the time the old par
ties would turn to Prohibition parties in
fifteen minutes, since the little squad of
saloon bandits would make horrible
scare crow without the good clothes of
the. good people to help hide their rags
and nakedness.
Defender: Dr. Swallow has a record
other than that which is his as Pro-
hibitionist. He is about the only man in
Pennsylvania whom the Quayites were
unable to either buy or brighten. In.
fact citizen of Pennsylvania said to the
writer the other day, that DR.. Swallow
was probably the only man in the state
that. Quay ever really feared. OF rug
ged honesty, and invincible heroism DR..
Swallow is platform in himself, and
will worthily stand on the comprehen-
sive platform adopted by the convention.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
MONEY!.

We need it and need 1t badly.
Do you owe us any? Must we
write you about it or will you save
us that labor and expense7
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-07-01
SPREAD The truth
and GROW!

The campaign of 1904 Is now on.
1t will be what we make it. VIII
you not quickly either secure a
club of ten or more new, annual,
personal Chat is, not gift) SUBJ
scribers at ten cents each; or make
cash contribution or peIdge (pay-
able within one Year, to our Free
Circulation Fund?
If you will also get your fellow
Prohibitionists to make such con-
tributions or pledges, you can put
our cause before every fairmInded
family in your community.
A pledge entities the pIedgor to
say (as soon as made, whether paid
then or not) where the following
number of copies shall be sent for
year; copies for $500; IL for $500;
20 for $500; a5 for $500.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-14
DOUGAN LOST
In the Championship Shoot Yester-
day.

Indianapolis, Ind, April IA. = The
closing events were shot in the
eighth annual tournament of the In
diana Trapshooters league at the
grounds of the Indianapolis Gun club
Yesterday. The weather conditions
of the second day were more condu-
Give TO good scores than on the first
day, and some rd-breaking marks
were witnessed by large crowd.
The race for the championship of
the State league was won by Ed.
Foust, of Warren, Ind, with score
of 80 out of possible 100 targets.
At the close of Tuesday s shooting
Foust was tied for first place by
Dougan, of Richmond. but the latter
fell down badly yesterday, and the
Warren man won by a narrow mar
gin. He was presented with the dia-
mond medal, emblematic of the state
championship, at the Grand hotel last
night. and must defend it for one
wear to be entitled to the undisputed
ownership of the emblem.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-14
Taking Desperate Chances.

Tt is true that many contract colds
and recover from them without taking
any precaution or tro.:rept, ami a
knowledge of this fac. leafs others TO
take their chances lnstead Of giving
their colds the needed attention. 1t
should be borne in mimi that every
cold weakons the lungs, lowers the
vitality, makes the system less able
to Withstand each succeeding coli
and paves the way for more serious
diseases. Can you afford to take such
desperate chances when Chamber
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The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-14
CROP CONDITIONS
Reported by the Department of Ag-
riculture. rH.


The United States department of
agriculture issued the following crop
bulletin for the week ending April
Il, 1904:
Indiana-Cold with rain and snow j;
ground too wet to work; but little
seeding or blowing done; much wheat
on upland thin and unpromising and
will be abandoned, and large acre
age in bottoms in southwestern coun-
ties still under water; rye and clover
fairly promising; in few localities
peaches uninjured, but generally crop
badly winter killed; good prospects
for other fruit.
The least favorable reports re-
specting winter wheat are received
from the states of the Ohio valley,
the crop having sustained much dam
age from overflows in Indiana and II
linois and portions of Ohio, and also
in Michigan. A considerable acre
age in Indiana and Ohio will be
plowed up for other crops. An i'm
provement, however, IS noted in por-
lions of Ohio and Illinois, and the
general outlook in Missouri. Kansas
and Nebraska is encouraging, al
though rain is needed in the western
portion of the wheat region in Ne
braska. Over the southern portion of
the middle Atlantic states the crop
has experienced a general improve
ment. On the north Pacific coast the
crop is in fine condition, and a fair
crop is promised in California, ex-
cept in the recently flooded sections
and in portions of the southern coun-
ties.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-14
THOUGHT THE INTERURBAN
RESTAURANT LOOKED
GOOD TO THEM.
AND TRIED TO BREAK IN
Friday Night Club Meets With Helen
Garvin Miss Este Young
Surprised.

The Friday Night club will meet
with the Misses Helen and Mary
Garvin at Rose Hill Place tomorrow
evening. The program for the even
inc entertainment will be as follows:
s5Mark Twain, the Greatest of
American Humorists, Bent Wilson.
eugene Fields" Miss Opal Wal
lick.
sLincoln's Humors," Mrs. Lee
Ault.
Roy Cornell has severed his connec-
tons with the Wheeler clothing de-
partment, and will assist his father as
brick layer, near Lewisville.
The Union Social club held a very
delightful meeting with Mrs. Harry
Beard, Tuesday afternoon.
Everette Bates and Bailey Fraun-
berg visited friends In Hagerstown
Monday afternoon.
Professor J. T. Reese has been APP
pointed to take the school numera-
ton and IS now busily engaged IN that
work.
Mrs. DIR. Ehle, of Germantown, was
the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. 3.
McDaniels, Monday.
Miss Elizabeth Mitchell left today
for Kentucky, where she will attend
school during the summer term.
Bert Portas and family have moved
| from their residence on Carolina Hill
into the Thomas Hang4ey property.
Willard Drischel is the guest of
| friends in indianapolis this week.
Two men were discovered, Tues
dav morning about 3 o'clock, trying
| to- force an entrance through the back
| door into the interurban restaurant.
The authorities were notified and the
men, after being arrested, proved to
be tramps who were seeking shelter
and were given a very few minutes to
leave town.
The Methodists are well pleased
with the fact that Rev. w. D. Trout
has been again assigned to this city
by the conference at Muncie. He
has given the best of satisfaction here
and presented to conference one of
the best reports ever given from this
city.
Mr.. John H. Kepler, of German
town. made a business trip to Rich
mond yesterday.
Fl. B. Miller left yesterday morn
ing on a short business trip to Gin
cinnati.
The following young ladies': Alma
Hull, Alma Garvin. Edna Highley,
Edna Myers, Irene Elliott. Mabel
Oldham, Agnes Pusinelli. Katie Nc
Dougal. Bessie and Lillian Brooks
rave their friend and classmate. Esta
Young, a very agreeable surprise
Tuesday evening, it being her six
teenth birthday anniversary. She was
fpresented with a very beautiful
Ihandpainted shirtwaist set. Elegant re-
freshments, consisting of ice cream
land cake. were served. Music, games
and social conversation made the
levening pass quickly and pleasantly
away, and the guests departed at a
late houy. wishing Esta many happy
returns of the day.
Miss Rose Greisinger entertained a
number OF friends at her beautiful
home Tuesday evening. About fifty
guests were present. Dainty refresh
ments were served. Pit and finch
were the principal features of the
Evenings entertainment.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-14

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