The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-07-17
FOLLOWERS OF
PROHIBITION
NATIONAL CONVENTION or THE
PARTY WILL CONVENE At
NOON TODAY.

COLUMBUS. o.. July IA ina
iority Of the 1.5OO delegates to the
Prohibition National Convention. and
many more visitors, are in the city
tonight, and the hotel Hobbies have
taken on a real convention aspect.
All 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, dec
Grated wagon drawn by white horses,
smblematic of the eight prohibition
States of the Union, and followed by
mule labeled Missouri, Two-Thirds
Dry made hit with the delegates
and visitors.
All thh larger delegations repre-
senting the States which cast the
heaviest votes for the cause are on
the ground, including Illinois, Penn
sylvania, Indiana, New York, Ohio,
Iowa, California, Minnesota Michigan
and Wisconsin.
The convention will open tomorrow
at 10 a. m. in Memorial Hall Charles
f. Jones, of Chicago, Chairman of
the National Committee, will call the
convention to order and Robert H.
Patton. of Illinois, as temporary
Chairman. will deliver the keynote
speech. There will be three sessions
tomorrow and if the present plans
carry, the platform will be adopted, at
the third, leaving only the nomination
of ticket for the session Thursday
With seventeen names in the list of
candidates, the contest for the nom.
ination for President tonight takes on
an interesting aspect. Charles Scan
Ion, of Pittsburg, and Joseph P. Ira
cey, 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 dele
gates; Daniel R. Sheen, of Illinois,
and Alfred L. Mannierre, of New
York. Clarence E. Pitts, Chairman of
the New York delegation, which met
Il. e, F,,1 CO 10
egates and as many alternates and
Mannierre, said the, delega-
ton would make a determined fight
for their candidate, Joshua r. Lev
ering, of Baltimore, who was a candi-
date in 1896, did not take seriously
the talk of renominating him, and the
candidacy of ]. B. Cranfil, of Texas,
has not up to this time, gathered
large following. Members of the In-
diana delegation, which met today
and Endorsed Judge Samuel A. Art
nan, of Indiana, as their candidate
or President, have not given up hopes
II inducing him to consent to the use
II his name and kept the wires hot
onight with messages, urging him t6
inter the race. Judge Artman is a
Republican and is candidate for
econd term as Circuit Judge. His
ecision from the bench declaring the
Of the liquor trade to be I'M
constitutional has won for him the ad.
niration of the prohibtionists.
Numerous drafts of platforms have
cen prepared, and will be presented
. the Committee on Resolutions. The
eminent tonight is that the platform
ill be reasonably brief.
Besides declaring for the suppress
ION of the liquor traffic. it will APP
cal to the temperance element of the
Id parties by attacking their attitude
4 the liquor question. It is stated
lat woman's suffrage will be Endorsed
espite the action of the Ohio Prohi-
tion Convention today.