Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-13
PROHIBITION PARTY
ADOPTS A VERY
RADICAL PLATFORM
Most Progressive Platform Ever
Adopted by Party.
OFFICERS CHOSEN BY
DIRECT VOTE OF PEOPLE


OFFICERS CHOSEN BY
DIRECT VOTE OF PEOPLE
Platform Embodlcs Many Progressive
and Radical Manifestations How.
ard Raps Bosses Of the Old Parties
May Amend Rules Pertaining to
Election of officers.
Convention Hall, Atlantic City N.
j., July 1.-THE National Prohibition
platform liz one OF the most radical and
progressive that was ever presented
to the party. II declares for the direct
election OF United States Senators;
that the presidential term shall not be
longer than six years and the presi-
dent shall not be eligible TO re-elec-
ton. 1t favors uniform marriages and
the initiative and referendum without
the recall approved.
Concerning the tariff a revision ia
asked for by non-partisan commits.
sion. A complete separation OF the
church and school Is demanded, and
the platform urges the abolition OF
child labor. A graduated income and
Inheritance taxes are favored.
A fight was started by the insur-
gents headed by II. II. Patton. of Illi-
nois. against the rule of the stand-pat
forces. The convention will amend
the rule so as to elect the National
committee chairman by the committee
Mt large.
| A sensational attack on President
Taft, Colonel Roosevelt and the RE-
publican and Democratic parties In
general marked the beginning Of the
convention.
Clinton N. Howard, OF Rochester, NJ
| ", temporary chairman OF the CON
vention, made a speech which bristlcd
|, With denunciation Of the "bossridden
/ liquor-controiled old parties.9 He de-
clared nothing In the way Of real 70
form was To be gaiued from either a
them, or from third party dominated
/ by Colonel Roosevelt
mo other president since the foun.
dation OF this government" declared
| Mr.. Howard In the course OF hie
speech, has surrendered more alb
jectly TO the liquor interest OF this ma
| ton than has William Howard Taft.
| His record Is too recent. familiar and
odoriferous TO require review In this
intelligent presence"
Mr.. Howard said II would be Grim
inal waste OF time to argue that the
| liquor traffic could be stamped out
through the Republican party by its
silent platform, its present and I'm
worthy leadership. its long consistent
liquor record and Its present monopoly
nurtured candidates. And what better
results can be expected from the
Democratic party2 Not only as little
but less than nothing at all Exactly
the same influences that poisoned the
Republican party at Chicago were in
control at Baltimore
1T may be said in truth that the
splendid Woodrow Wilson was moi
4 Mr.. Mnrphys choice; but the cam
| paIgn banner, decorated with his pic.
ture, was flung TO the breeze In front
! OF Tammany Hall one-half hour after
his nomination on the order OF Charlie
Murphy by long distance telephone,
and the candidate has since sent his
regrets that prior engagement pre-
vented his presence at the Tammany
Fourth OF July"
Turning his guns upon Colonel
Roosevelt, Mr.. Howard asked: How
about the promised progressive Roose
welt party? We already have two
whisky parties and do not need an
other. From the standpoint OF the
/ Prohibitionlst, by his record, public
utterances and confessed personal
habits. he is the least desirable oil
them all. Posing as the Thou shalt
not steal candidate because his partt
sans were not preferred over President
Taft's In. the convention. he brazenly
boasts that he stole the Isthmus oil
Panama from Colombia and let con
gress debate 1t afterward.
Stealing Is stealing. Mr. Roose
! welt" he said when you taught thai
the end justified the means. you gave
every thief passport to heaven"
Mr.. Howard referred by name TO the
various bosses" at the two old party
conventions, concluding with this
sally. And to think OF Billy Finn. the
vice protector and promoter OF Pitts
burgh, and Timothy Woodruff. Of
Brooklyn, masquerading as Roosevelt
'progressives.' What hope is there foI
reform in America at such unclean
hands? Absolutely none"
In the music hall at the end OF
the Steel Pier. completely surrounded
by water, except for the footway OF
1 planks connecting the meeting with
the strand, the convention was opened
with nearly 1000 delegates. represent
ing every one of the forty-eight states
in the Union and the outlying Amert