The San Francisco call., 1908-05-27
DELEGATES RESENT
PROHIBITION SLATE
Fight Develops in State Conven-
ton and Los Angeles Man
Leads for Chairman

MODESTO, May 26.-The state pro-
hibition convention was called to order
this afternoon by c. ]. Hall of Los
Angeles, the chairman of the state CEN
trail committee, who made an eloquent
address in which he outlined the OBJ
jects of the convention.
Something of fight developed when
Hall started to name the various com
mitteemen without awaiting nomina-
tions from the convention.
The fight started when Chairman Hall
named a committee of seven as COM
mittee on resolutions. For few mini
the delegates wanted to talk all at once.
and some bitter speeches followed, in
which it was claimed that the state
machine" in the first place. had
gagged the convention by appointing a
temporary chairman, rot allowing the
convention to have word to say in the
matter.
COMPROMISE REACHED
1t was openly asserted that Hall was
enforcing the machines gag rule by
naming the committeeman. The scrap
lasted for an hour and finally ended in
a compromise by which the seven COM
InlIle6uen naIueQ ny 11dll were III
dorsed and the resolutions committee
Increased to 10 members. three OF them
selected by the convention
Itsseems certain that Fred F. Wheeler
of Los Angeles will be named as the
chairman of the new central committee
and that the national delegation from
this state will be instructed to work
for the nomination of Wheeler as the
prohibition candidate for the presidency
4 o. 1,s
HALL OUTLINES PURPOSE
In his opening address Chairman Hall
said in part:
you, my fellow citizens, are not
here for spoils, you are not here for
empty notoriety. The lust of office for
the sake OF emolument and the selfish
desire to be prominent did not enter
your minds, as you made your plans to
be present on this great occasion. You
are here because of an intense convic-
ton.
you are here. because your concep-
ton of your duty, as a citizen of this
country. leads you to declare that the
time has come for an emphatic protest
against the prostitution of every func-
ton of government to the wicked bene
fits of greed and graft, and because you
are convinced that this black, blister
ing power, the liquor traffic and it's
allied evils. can only be broken by the
success of a political party which is ab-
solutely and always opposed, both in
principle and in practice, to the causes
OF the things that make the power of
evil possible.
SCORES OLD PARTIES
s'"The national democratic party is the
oldest political party and the democrat
ic party, under the guise of personal
Nv mt II ,v,
ration of a man greater in his aspira-
tions than his party, has maintained
the abiding friendship of the liquor in
terests. and crawled and cringed in the
presence of the whisky king. The
anti-sumptuary platform of the demo-
cratic party is rife with destructive
forces and if fully admitted will destroy
the entire moral fabric of the nation.
The republican party for nearly q
half century has been in existence and
with the exception of few years the
republican party has. been in power,
and The republican party, under the
Enise of regulation, which it calls
license, has fostered and petted foe
to every inherent right of American
citizenship. License is the policy of
the republican party"
DELEGXTEs ENTERTAINED
About rs OF the $50 delegates
arrived here Sunday and Monday.
Many brought their wives and on Mon
day they were taken over the Modesto
and Turlock irrigation districts in auto
mobiles and carriages. Many of them
wondered at the enormous develop-
ment which has taken place under ir-
rigation in country which was but six
years ago series of vast grain fields
Monday evening the visitors were
entertained at public reception in the
opera house. where there were ad-
dresses by prominent prohibitionists,
and an Illustrated lecture on Stanislaus
Tonight all the delegates and the
local prohibition workers held a love
feast in the skating rink. where the
women of the w. c. T. T. had spread
an elaborate banquet. Addresses on
che liquor traffic, means for party sue
cess and on the coming fight consumed
sAe hours until well after midnight.