The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-15
''DRY' PEOPLE POUR
 INTO COLUMBUS
Delegates Ride on Water
 Wagon from Station
PRESIDENCY NOT SETTLED
Charles Scanlon of Pittsbure Is Choice for Nomination, But Judge Art man of Indiana Has Strong
 Following for the Place.

Columbus, O.. July 14.-A majority of
 the, 150O delegates to the prohibition na-
 tional convention and many more visitors
 are in the city tonight and the hotel lob
 bies have taken on real convention as-
 pect. Ali day the prohibition hosts have marched the streets. every incoming train
 bringing them by scores and hundreds.
 Escorting the delegations from the union station to the hotels to which they were assigned a decorated water wagon, drawn by four white horses, emblematic of the
 eight prohibition states of the union, and
 followed by a mule labelled. Missouri two-thirds dry" makes a hit with the delegates and visitors. All the larger del- egations representing the states which
 cast the heaviest votes for the cause are on the ground, including Illinois, Pennsyl-
 vania, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Iowa,
 California. Minnesota, Michigan and Wis.,
 consin
 The convention will open tomorrow at
 10 a. m. in Memorial hall. Charles E.
 Jones of Chicago, chairman of the na- tional committee, will call the convention
 to order and Robert H. Patton of H. linois as temporary chairman, will de- liver the keynote speech. There will be three sessions tomorrow, and if the pres- ent plans carry, the platform will be : adopted at the third leaving only the nomination of ticket for the session 1 Thursday
 With r names in the list of candidates the contest of the nomination for Pres ident tonight takes on an interesting as- : pect.
 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 w. Wheeler of
 California, who also has a following
 among New England delegates; Daniel k.
 Sheen of Illinois and Alfred L. Mannierre
 of New York
 Clarence E. Pitts, chairman of the New York delegation, which met today with Its full strength of 10S delegates and as many
 olternates and lndorsed Manniere, said the delegation would make a determined fight for their candidate. Joshua R. Loy ering of Baltimore who a candidate
 in 1896, did not take seriously the talk
 of renominating him and the candidacy cf J. B. Cranfil of Texas has not up to this time, gathered a large following. Members of the Indiana delegation, which
 met today and indorsed Judge Samuel A. Artman of Indiana as their candidate for | President. have not given up hopes of in- ducing 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 q Z candidate for a second term as circuit i judge.
 i Judge Artmans decision from the bench, 1 declaring the licensing of the liquor traffic i to be unconstitutional, has won for him , the admiration of the prohi5tIonists i Numerous drafts of platforms have been prepared and will be presented to the com
 mittee on resolutions. The sentiment to- night is that the platform will be reason-
 ably brief
 Besides declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic 1t will appeal to the
 temperance element of the old parties by 1 attacking their attitude on the hquor ques- | tion. It is said that woman suffrage will
 be indorsed despite the action of the Ohio l prohibition convention today. 1 At a meeting of the Kentucky delegates,
 request for an indorsement of the &C., | ton of three of their number in sending an invitation to Alice Roosevelt Long i worth 10 attend the convention as the guest of the Kentucky delegation was re- ] fused by a decisive majority. The mem 1 ters of the delegation who sent the in- vitation are:
 H. W. Davis and H. S. D. Wright of i Louisville and T. P. DeMarre of Wilmore.