The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-19
.CHAFIN NOTIFIED
 IF NOMINATION Prohibition Candidate for PreSi- dent Makes Address RACE IS NOT FORL ORN HOPE In Notification Speech the "Dry" Can ddate Is Informed That Final ls-
 sue of Struggle Has Never
 Been In Doubt.
RACE IS NOT FORLORN HOPE

l Chlcago, August lS.-At Music Hall this evening in the presence of a large and enthusiastic audience, Eugene w. Chain of Chicago accepted the nomination for the presidency by the prohibition party. 1 The address formally notifying MT. Cha fin of his selection as the head of the prohibition ticket, was made by Prof. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg.
 Leading members of the party from l Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Me- braska and other states were seated on the platform, as were also the national executive committeeman, chairmen of the various state committees, the committee on notification and several prominent local prohibitionists. Charles R. Jones, chairman of the national committee. called the meeting to order and an- nounced the selection of Samuel Dickie. president of Albion college, Albion, Mich, as chairman of the gathering MT. Dickie delivered a brief address and then intro- duced MT. Scanlon. He was freely ap plauded as he began his notification speech, and throughout his remarks were Interrupted with evidence of the audi enee's approval.
 You are not asked" said MT. Scanlon, turning to MT. Chain, "to lead a forlorn hope The final issue of this struggle is not now nor never has been in doubt. The principles advocated by the prohibit tion party are as certain to prevail as time is to continue.' MT. Scanlon's ad- dress in part follows:
 Scanlon's Address.
 MT Chafin:-In common with millions of other people, for some time you have known that the national prohibition con- vention, recently assembled at Columbus, O., nominated you for the presidency of the United States. AS permanent chair man of that convention, 1t is now my duty as we'll as my privilege and pleas ure, to present to you the formal and official notice of that action.
 "It is an honor worthy of any man to be chosen as their standard bearer for such an exalted position, by a company of men and women as unselfish in motive, lofty in aim, patriotic in spirit, sound in principle, firm in conviction, strong in faith, persistent in effort, and logical in method as ever stood forth in Gods name to give battle to a mighty foe. Whether the forces arrayed against them have been ignorance and appetite and greed or selfshness, indifference and cowardice they have assailed them with the zeal of the crusader, the faith of the prophet and the courage of the martyr. Some have ceased from their labors but others rise up to call them blessed as they see the signs of advancing day and hear the shouts of coming victory.
 No Empty Honor.
 "It is no empty honor which has been conferred upon you. Only a virtuous and an intelligent people can long re- main free; only those who know and observe the distinction between liberty and license, between self-restraint and blind indulgence are either worthy or capable of self government. From the vantage ground of this nomination you will have the larger opportunity to propagate these principles and as you go to and fro over this broad land sow ing such seed you will inevitably feel yourself enveloped in an atmosphere of moral grandeur which reduces all ma terial magnifcence to toys and renders temporary victory contemptible in com parison with the satisfaction of duty well done.
 These, MT. Chain, are the people and the principles you are commis- stoned to represent. If you command the support you deserve, you will have the praise, the sympathy, the assist ance and the vote of as many as have votes, of the 160, 900 ministers in the United States of the 100000 Sabbath .f. O1 fA.A Al1,.a, +l,l~ -l..- members of the 100000 public school teachers, and of all others who love virtue and hate vice, and will be ths next President of the United States. If you do not get the support, you will deserve it, and that is better than to get the office and not deserve it. Here is your commission and here l is your platform. Go forth in the name and in the power of truth and humanity and may God speed the l right"
 Chain AppIauded.
 1 Prolonged applause greeted MT. Chaf- | fin as he accepted the nomination. It i was some minutes before he was able | to continue MT. Chaffin, in the be- | ginning, dwelt on party strife over false issues for the sake of obtaining | office. Continuing he said;
 l If one or more political parties are to be kept in power 25 or 50 years, 1 each succeeding administration carry ! ing out the policy of the past and re i fusing to enact into law the progress attained, then such party or parties 1 have violated the spirit of the consti- tuition and turned our democracy into despotism, making the political boss 1 dictator
 i, We are dangerously near that con- dltlon Of things in the pending pres- l dental campaign. The attempt made by the republican and democratic par ties to create a fictitious issue is tie l most farcical in our history in the face of the fact that during the last four years, the question of prohibition 1 Of the liquor traffic has attracted wider attention of the press and the people than all other public issues combined'' .
 This attack on the leading parties ] reused the audience to vigorous ap- plause, repeated at intervals as Mr. chaffin continued along this line.
 MT. Chafin's Address.
 MT. chaffin's address follows:
 'on the 4th of March, 1909, our national government will have completed it's 120th year of constitutional history. During
 that time 25 men have occupied the presl-
 dential office. All have been men of high
 dlstincton, and a few of them of emi-
 hent ability. For the first time since
 the death of Washington, December IA.
 ll99, we are without a living ex-President. When Lincoln took the oath of office five
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