Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-08-19
CHAFIN ACCEPTS
NOMINATION
lakes Noted Speech Reviewing
Prohibitions Progress

[ chicago, Aug. 19.-At Music
hall last night, in the presence of
large and enthusiastic audience,
Eugene w. Chain OF Chicago, ac-
cepted the nomination for the presi-
dency by the prohibition party.
The address formally notified Mr..
Chain of his selection at the conven-
ton as the head Of the prohibition
ticket was made by Professor Charles
Scanlon of Pittsburg. on behalf Of the
committee on notification appointed
at the national convention. Leading
members of the party from Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska
and other states were present. Seat
ed on the platform where the ma
tional executive committee was, were
various state committees and the
committee on notification.
Charles r. HI. Jones, chairman Of
the national committee, called the
meeting to order and announced the
selection Of Samuel Dickie, presi-
dent of Albion college, Albion, Mich,
as the chairman of the gathering.
Mr.. Dickie delivered brief address
and then introduced Mr.. Scanlon.
You are not asked" said Mr..
Scanlon, turning to Mr.. Chain, who
occupied seat on the platform, ito
lead forlorn hope. The final issue
OF this struggle is not now nor ever
has been in doubt. The principles
advocated by the prohibition party
are as certain to prevail as time is
to continue"
Mr.. Scanlon concluded amid an
outbreak of cheers. When it had
subsidized he handed Mr.. Scanlon an
deliberately engrossed copy of the
prohibition platform adopted at
Columbus and signed by the chair
man of the committee on resolutions
and the chairman of the national
committee.
In accepting the nomination Mr..
Chain said:
ON the fourth of March, 1909, our
national government will have com
pleted its one hundred and twentieth
year of constitutional history. Dur
ing that time 25 men have occupied
the presidential office. All have been
men Of high distinction, and a few
of them of eminent ability For the
first time since the death of Wash
ington, December IA, 1879, we are
without living ex-president. When
Lincoln took the oath of Office five
former presidents were living-the
greatest number in our history. They
did nothing to help him in the great
struggle which resulted in the pas
sage of the thirteenth amendment to
the Constitution, which marked
higher standard of Christian civili-
cation. They were representatives
of two dominant political parties.
whig and democratic, which for
about SO years opposed the bringing
of any great new question into
the political arena.
"Weare now approaching the close
of another so years where two domi-
nant political parties. republican and
democratic, have allied themselves
with the most gigantic crime that
ever cursed the world, and by their
attitude make known to the Ameri-
can people that they do not propose
to permit them to have a chance,
even though the majority favor it,
to destroy the liquor traffic and add
another amendment to the eonstitu-
ton, which would mark the highest
achievement Of civilization in the
worlds history
'Twenty-seven presidential cam
paigns have been more or less hercely
fought to gain control OF the govern
ment. Most of them have been bat
ties over fictitious issues which had
little or nothing to do with the adj
ministrations which followed. In not
more than six instances would a line
of American history have been
changed IL the defeated candidate
had been elected instead of the sue
cessful one. This party strife over
false issues for the sake Of obtaining
once has made moral towards Of
many Of our public men, and trans
formed some of our chief executives
into mere pawns upon the party
ehess-board: for no man lives in his