Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-01
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION AT
DIES MONIES DECIDES ON PLAN
OF ACTION TO BRING CUES
TON UP ANEW.
CANDIDATES MUST
GO ON R E C O R D
AsPIRANTs FOR ALL OFFICES
WILL BE ASKED TO PUBLICLY
EXPRESS THEIR SENTIMENTS
ON ?RoHlBIToRY MOVEMENT,

Des Moines. Jan. 80. - A constitu-
tlonal amendment federation of all
the temperance organizations Of the
state was effected by the state TEN.
perance convention yesterday even
ing before adjournment. The fedora.
tlon plan was adopted unanimously
and the 1000 persons present stood
UP to sing with will praise God
From Whom All Blessings Flow an
commentary upon the suspicious
inauguration of movement to re-
submit the prohibitory amendment in
Iowa
Although the day was spent in
earnest and forceful debate on the
question of whether the organization
entrusted with the campaign for re-
submission should be formed by fed
Grafton of the existing temperance
bodies churches and kindred associa-
lions or should be new, separate
and distinct organization the close of
the convention was harmonious in the
extreme, and the prohibition party
members who were defeated in the
EFFORT to form a separate association,
joined with the anti-saloon league
leaders who fathered the scheme and
We're aided by the Des Moines Minis
ter1al association in declaring the
movement well launched.
The campaign for resubmission will
be IN the hands of a board of direc-
tors, on which the churches, the tenn
perance organizations, the societies
associated with the churches and an
annual mass temperance convention
Will have representation. The feder-
alton is to be composed of the mem
bers OF these organizations and all
others who will cooperate in the
movement for resubmission
Isl Put Candidates on Record.
Resolutions were adopted by the
convention which will compel all can
didates for the Iowa legislature for
congress and for the United States
senate to go on record with respect to
prohibition. The candidates for mem
bership in the Iowa legislature will
be required to state whether they ia
vor resubmission of the prohibitory
amendment. The candidates for con-
gress and the United States senate
will be asked to state whether they
favor prohibition in the District of
Columbia, and the principles of the
bill which prohibits interstate ship
ment of liquors into states without
the consent of the states and prevents
the issuance OF internal revenue per-
mits in no-license territory.
In this connection, allusion was
made on the floor to the fact that one
candidate for congress, NJ e. Kendall,
of Monroe county, has stated that he
favors the legislation referred to. in
congress.
AS presented by General James B.
Weaver for the resolutions commit
tee, the original draft did not in
clude the allusion to the bill to pro-
hibit interstate shipments and reve-
nue. licenses, and only alluded to the
candidates for the United States SEN
ate in the term congress- On mo-
ton Of W. D. Elwell of Ames who
will be the prohibition candidate for
congress in the Seventh district, the
reference to the interstate shipment
bill was inserted and when the spe-
cific allusion to candidates for the
United States senate was suggested,
General Weaver said that it could not
be too strong and too specific to suit
him. He is a candidate for United
States senator before the democrats.
His colleagues on the committee were
Rev. F. W. Hodgdon of Plymouth
congregational church and Emerson
De Puy Of this city also.
Text of Resolutions.
The resolutions as adopted we're
as follows:
We, your committee on resolu-
: tions, beg leave to report as fol-
q lows
suss There is manifested throughout
Of the whole nation-our own state
i Included rapid growth Of pro-
hibftion sentiment, which includes
the total prohibition of the liquor
traffic and the enforcement at all
times of existing laws. The law
lessness or the nouor traffic is ap-
parent to all intelligent observers,
and 1t must be met by united pub
lie sentiment if our state is to full
fill the purposes of its organiza-
ton and our homes be made Sc
cure.
We firmly believe that there
- should be an Immediate unjficafiop