New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-12
WORK IS TAFT SLOGAN DRY CONVENTION IN ROW
FIGHT Over Committee Chairman
ship Ties Up Proceedings.
HOWL ON LIQUOR PLANK
Reference TO Traffic as a
Crime" Not Strong Enough
to Suit Delegates.
rRv Telegraph to The Tribune ,

Atlantic City y J., July 1l.--After iey
Of almost constant wr9rgling, interspersed
now and then with hymns and prayers,
the National Prohibition Convention to-
night overthrow the existing admi1iztra-
ton and elected Virgil G Hinshaw. Of
Portland. Ore, as national chairman Of
the party. ~-'-
The convention voted down q proposed
plank in the platform demanding that the
separation Of church and state be per
petual and that no public money should
be appropriated TO sectaran churches and
schools Adjournment was taken until TO-
morrow when candidates for President and
Vice President viii be nominated
Mr Hinshaw the new national chair
man Of the party, was o compromise selec-
ton as between Charles r.. Jones. Of M
nois, the present chairman and W G.
Calderwood. Of Minnesota. the leading IN
sureent candidate for the office The in
surgents early in the day won their fight
TO have the chairman elected BY the con
venton instead of appointed BY the ne
tional committee Mr. Hinshaw's election
came on the fifth ballot tonight, after
both Jones and Calderwood had with
drawn.
The majority report on platform met
with decided opposition. II decried the H.
duor traffic IS crime and not q business.
and added: TO destroy such traffic there
must be elected 70 power political party
which will administer the government from
that standpoint"
Other planks favored the election Of
United States Senator'S by direct vote Of
the people Presidential terms Of six years
and one term only; uniform marriage and
divorce laws; the determination Of polyg.
amy and the complete suppression OF The
traffic In girls: suffrage for women upon
the same terms as to men; court review a.
to postofice decisions: the absolute pro-
lection Of the rights ~ labor without i'm
pairment of the rights of capital.
There was a howl from several parts OF
the hall that the liquor plank was not
adequate and that there should be a clause
in II that calls for abolition OF manufacture.
importation expectation and transporta.
ton Of liquor. This part Of the platform
was corrected to suit these directors late
tonight.
1t was thought nominations would he
made to-day. but the wrangle lasted 30
long rva~ minor matters that this will be
deferred until the morning
At the afternoon session q suggestion
that Representsure Richmond Pearson
Hobson. Democrat. of Alabama, would &c
good Prohibition candidate for President
was read to the convention I'm dispatch
from Z. /. Eaton, wiring ftom wash
burn, III.
Greetings" read the message Vail
the Prohibition flag 10 the top of the mast
Fear not the snort Of the elephant, the
bray Of the donkey or the roar Of the bull
moose Chain Watkins, Hobson, Patton
or any other good man viii suit US Hob
sons name was cheered.
Enid. okla, July III have made
promises 10 the Progressive party making
acceptance impossible telegra phed Judge
Ben Lindsey, OF Denver from Enid to-day
to George l.. Thompson and others al the
Prohibition National Convention at A.
lantic City, n. j.. in reply to a telegram
which the Colorado man said he received
inquirlng whether he would accept the
Prohibition nomination for President
The telegram TO Judge Lindsey asked,
viii you accept the nomination for the
Presidency II offered and exclude any other
political party
Judge Lindsey has a number Of friends In
the national Prohibition convention. HIS
reply, declining, led 10 gossip among friends
here renewing reports that judge LINDSEY
possibly will be named for VicePrestent
by the Progressive Chicago convention IN
August, but he declined 10 make any state
ment concerning this