The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1906-10-01
MiIe.POStS
The National Purity Convention meets
in Chicago, Oct ell.

NOrln Dakota Wnlte TlDDOnerS met III
Park River Sept. %. The year has wit
messed a II per cent increase in member
ship.
Hennepin county is not slow. She has
Legislative candidates in five out of her
seven districts and there is considerable
hope of winning in three of the five
During September. field men of the
state committee rendered 42$ days Of
We're held with an audience of 1851.
How is that?
Geo, Reid will tour Nicollet county
with his Prohibition ;Stereopticon and
a part of the time by j. w. Lansing, can
didate for the legislature.
O. j. Nelson has entered upon his du-
ties as Organizer of the 3rd congressional
district. His salary is paid by the stu
dents of st. Olaf and Gustavus- Adolphus
Colleges. Have you sized that up?
The novel Prohibition Chautauqua plan
developed in Illinois completed its first
season with 1850 rallies in nearly 100
counties in five summer months, with to-
tai attendance aggregating nearly 1,OOO,-
600 voters.
Geo. L. Briggs, Organizer of Freeborn
county, writes that the TallyHo Party
held one of the most successful series of
rallies ever known there. and increased
the vote for Dorsett and Noble (repre-
sentative) without doubt.
The Hennepin county nominees are:
B. H. Bowler, county attorney and F; j.
Empenger sheriff: Ramsey, county has
for county commissioners and Carl A.
Golfer for county treasurer.
d. Leigh Colvin, president of the In
tercOllegiate Prohibition Association, and
Miss Mamie White were married at In
dianapOlis on the 10th ult. The bride is
a graduate of Wheaton College and took
part in the oratorical contest at the In
dianapolis national convention in 1904.
She was last year Vice-president of the
national association. This useful couple
have our hearty CONGRATULATIONS as well
those M n number nprSOn1l
friends and friends of our cause.
Wyoming Prohibitionists have a ticket
in the field. Their platform declares for
mental control of railroads and all other
public utilities so as to insure justice to
ALL the ELECTION of presidents, vice-presi-
uar vote and the just and equitable dis
tribution Of the burdens of taxation so
that railroads and corporations, stocks
bonds, mortgages and all other evidences
of wealth shall be taxed as is the poor
mans home now.
UNDER GODS BLUE SKY.
This is emphatically an open-air cam
held by local committees, and candidates
are held in city and village parks and
Sm wb and ths geone
and We are finding them.
The Governors Tally Ho Party and the |
Pathfinders Quartette are holding at least |
three, open air meetings. at three differ
ent places daily. The third one is held at
or P. NJ. and does effective. service as
no fds be held to the IN ha if M ali gIossbia
Correspondence from the members of the |
TalIy-Ho Party urges this strongly.
They also earnestly ask the managers |
of the local open-air rallies to arrange to
seat as many of the people as possible.
Chairs or benches can be secured nearly
always and even where this is impractic-
able, comfortable seats can be rugged up
with planks and boxes. This will in
crease. the size of the audiences, when
better condition to listen patiently and
with profit.
THAT WONDERFUL LITERATURE.
That ton of new literature awaits your
order. 1t is in various shapes and sizes
and covers many phases of the issue.
Then there are the big posters. -Four
kinds have been issued so far. They
each, post paid You will miss it if you
don't cover some vacant places In your
village and surrounding country with
them.
Are you loaded up on stickers and tack
ers? They ought to be stuck and tackled
over the whole state. BY their use you
can simply compel the people to think.
Send what postage you care to and you
will receive big measure of a variety of
af NSr erbaps Pg y san DO
Beautiful October ought to blaze with
literature propagandism
REMEMBER THESE DATES.
dates for the Legislature may secure the
printing of their names on the official
ballot. The fee is the same as for filing
for the primary election: 1t should be
paid to the county auditor. The Code
fails to direct to whom it shall be paid in
cases where there is more than one
county in the legislative district. The old
law directed that in such cases the fee
should be divided equally between the
several county auditors of the district and
Attorney-General Young advises that that
method be pursued now.
Oct. 20. Second registration day in
cities of over $4,000 inhabitants.
Oct. 81. Last registration day in cities
of over 10000 population.
Voters in all cities of 10000 or more
inhabitants must register before election
day.
MINISTER'S GET SICK.
A weekly stipend comes mighty handy.