Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-22

the most Indifferent and calloused Of our
citizens. This Brewery controlled law
making body throttled and stranglsd
about every reform measure, and the
People are helplessly forced to pay ali
the expense."-Ed Editorial article in the
Long Prairie Leader.
Sin 1907 the brewers went into the
political game on q large scale, and in
1908 they doomed up as q controlling
power. They aided in the nomination
Of ]. Jacobson. and then. dropped
him cold in the campaign They dictat-
ed the election Of majority OF the
state senate in 1906, and repeated the
performance In 1910. At each session
they have controlled the house. Eds
torial article in The Minneapolis Jour
nal. .szs @ 4. Sd
II there fs any spirit left in the peo-
pie Of Minnesota we expect to see q
large increase in the Prohibition vote
this fall. Many persons who see no OBJ
lection to decorous drinking or even
well ordered saloons are sensitive to the
cynfc debauchment Of an entire legisla-
ture, and the corruption Of it's whole
sessions work by the organized business
of liquor selling. Nobody knows how
much the power Of the liquor interests
contributed to the legislative acts Of Of
Tense and neglect that made the last
session stencil in the public nostrils''
in the Minneapolis Tribune
"The lesson taught in the utter fatu-
Ftty of expecting any reform movement
to triumph while the friends Of reform
continue to align themselves under the
old party banners--banners which are
now borne aloft with no other purpose
than to use the traditional loyalty Of
voters to their party as an instrument
to further the purpose OF knaves.""-
Editorial in The Pioneer Press.
NOW THEREFORE,, the Prohibitions
Party of Minnesota through its regular
ly constituted officers, hereby call upon
old patriots regardless of previous affli-
alton, to oppose and resent these iniqui-
tous and reasonable usurpations Of the
Peoples rights. and to assemble in
State Convention in the City of Mime
apolis on independence Day, July 4.h,
1912, there to declare themselves FREE
and INDEPENDENT Of all parties not
openly and aggressively opposed to the
liquor traffic, and for the support Of
this Declaration, with firm reliance upon
the protection of Divine Providence to
mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortune. and our sacred hon
or. . 80
The business to be transacted by the
said convention shall be. the nomination
of a state ticket, the election of state
central committee, the election of 60
alternates to the National Prohibition
Convention to be held in Atlantic City,
N. J., July 10th, 1912, the raising of
campaign funds, and the transaction of
any other appropriate business.
The basis of representation shall be
three delegates at large from each co,lr-
ty, and one additional delegate for each
fifteen (15) votes, or major fraction
thereof, cast for J. F. Heiberg for gov
ernor Of Minnesota in 1910.
,signed.) 49,. -. ==s
w. G. CALDERWOOD,
Chairman Prohibition State Committee
Attest: w. A. STROMME, re
Secretary. =
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