The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-15
CHEERS FOR WAFER WAGON Prohiff lonists Show leir Pleasure. RECEPTION IN COLUMBUS National Convention Will Begin There Today. Big rlela for the Presld.ns,al Nomiaa-
 tios---Platform win Be Brief
 and woman's suffrage
 May Be Endorsed.
 

more visitors, are in the city tonight and the hotel lobbies have taken on real convention aspect.
 All day the prohibition hosts have marched the streets. every incoming train bringing them by scores and hum dreds. Escorting the delegations from the union station to the hotels to which they were assigned, a decorated water-wagon drawn by four white horses, emblemattc of the eight prohibi- tion States of the Union, and followed by a mule labeled Missouri Two Thirds Dry" made hit with the dele gates and visitors.
 All the larger delegations represent ing the State which cast the heaviest votes for the cause are on the ground, including Illinois Pennsylvania. In- diana. New York. Ohio. Iowa, Califor- mia Minnesota Michigan and Wiscon- sin.
 The convention will open tomorrow at 10 a. m In Memorial Hall Charles E Jones of Chicago chairman of the National Committee, will call the con- vention to order. and Robert H. Pat ton of Illinois as temporary chairman. will deliver the keynote speech. There will be three sessions tomofrow. and if the present plans carry, the platform will he adopted at, the third. leaving only the nomination Of q ticket for the session Thursday.
 With seventeen names in the list of candidates, the contest for the nomina- ton for President tonight takes on an interesting aspeca.
 PfesxinE a Nominee.
 Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg, and Joseph P. Trace of Detroit appeared tonight to have an advantage over the field. Other States will push favorite sons. among these leaders being Fred ". Wheeler of California, who also has following among New England deIe-s sateg Dasliei R. sheen Of Illinois and Alfred l.. Mannens of New York Clar- euee D Pitts, chairman of the New York delegation, which met today with it's fall strength of 10g delegates, and as many aiternates and endorsed Man nterre. said the delegation would make determined fight for their candidate.
 Joshua R. Levering of Baltimore. who was a candidate in 1896, did not take seriously the talk of renominating him, and the candidacy of J. B. Gran fiI of Texas, has not up to this time gathered large following. Members of the Indiana delegation. which met today and endorsed Judge Samuel A Artman of Indiana as their candidate for President. have not given up hopes of inducing him to consent to the use of his name. and kept the wires hot tonight with messages urging him to enter the race. Judge Artman is a Republican and is candidate for a second term as Circuit Judge.
 Judge Artman's decision from the bench declaring the licensing of the liquor trafic to be unconstitutional, has won for him the admiration of the pro- hibitionists.
 Numerous drafts of platforms have been prepared and will be presented to the Committee on Resolutions. The &AntimRnf fnn4erhf ie thA nj vx1IlI be reasonably brief.
 Besides declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic 1t will appeal to the temperance element of the old parties by attacking their attitude on the liquor question. It is said that woman suffrage will be endorsed. despite the action of the Ohio Prohibition Conven- tion today.
 At meeting of the Kentucky dele- gatton, request for an endorsement of the action of three of their number in sending an invitation to Alice Roose. Welt Longworth to attend the conven- tton as the guest of the Kentucky dele gation' was refused by decisive ma Jority. The members of the deiegatIon who sent the invitation are: 1T. W. Davis and H. 8. D. Wright of Louls- vile and T. P. Demarre of wilmore.
 Red Hot Talk by Prohis.
 Columbus, O.. July 14.-There was ginger in the State Prohibition Con- ventlon almost immediately upon it's opening today.
 After the report of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business had been received and the convention was wait ing on the report of the Committee on Resolutions, David Marshall. of Co., lumbus, formerly a newspaper man, but now in the real estate business, rose to question of personal privilege
 A.. lr 70 me about before the meeting was called to order. the chair refuses to recog- nize you and declares you out of or- der" said Chairman E. J. Pinney. of Cleveland.
 Personal privilege Is always In or. der" said Marshall.
 The chair ordered Mfr. Marshall to take his seat. but he refused.
 'I appeal from the decision of the chair,"' he declared.
 The chairman put the appeal, stat ing that Mir. Marshall wanted to an- swer some parts of Chairman Peeke,s keynote speech of yesterday. The chair was sustained.
 Mir. Marshall said privately he in- tended to object to that part of Mir, Peelxes speech in which he spoke of President Roosevelt as a drinlxer of drams and also to answer his attack on the church.
 For LACK or JudiclonSneSS Tn his speech as temporary chairman of the convention. Mir. Peeks lost the honor of presiding as, permanent chairman. and E. Jay Pinney of Cleveland was picked for that place. Mir. Peeke's savage attack on the churches and the Anti-Saloon League and against wo- mans suffrage, was the subject of bit- ter comment today. He shouted that "dceayed preachers were making their living but of the Anti-Saloon League" and charged the churches with insin- cerity because they do not support the prohIbitionists.
 Not only was Mir. Peeke refused the honor of presiding as permanent chair man, for what delegates thought his III advised remarks. but 1t is stated that they will refuse to name him as one of the members of the National Committee from Ohio.
 The platform of the State Conven- IA. N1 hl