The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-12
PROHIBITION lists
ADOPT RADICAL
PLATFORM
Direct Senatorial Elections,
Woman Suffrage and Recall
ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENT
Initiative and Referendum, Graduated
income and Inheritance Taxes and
Control of Corporations

Atlantic City, n. j., July 11.-After
day of almost constant wrangling,
interspersed now and then with
hymns and prayers, the national
prohibition convention tonight over
threw the existing administration and
elected Virgil G. Hinshaw of Portland
Ore, as national chairman of the
party.
The convention voted down a pro
posed plank in the platform demand
ing that the separation of church and
state be perpetual and that no public
money should be appropriated to sec
retarian churches and schools. Adj
journment was then taken until tomor
row when candidates for president
and vice-president will be nominated.
Dr. Silas Swallow of Pennsylvania,
sought TO have inserted in the plat.
form a declaration against the wear
ing of clerical garb in schools. Father
George Zurcher of Buffalo, Catholic
priest, and delegate, declared this
would be interpreted as an affront TO
Catholics. After much discussion a
vote was taken on the plank and it
was lost.
When adjournment was taken to-
night, Eugene Chain of Arizona, the
presidential candidate four years ago,
was being most generally discussed
as the probable candidate this year.
The platform as finally adopted fol
lows:
The prohibition party of the Uni
ted States of America in convention
at Atlantic City, n. j., July IL. 1912,
recognizing God as the source of all
governmental authority, makes the
following declaration of principles:
THE alcoholic drink traffic is
wrong, the most serious drain upon
the nations wealth and resources, de
detrimental to the general welfare, de
structive of the inalienable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi.
ness, and therefore, all laws taxing or
licensing a traffic that produces
crime. poverty and political corrup-
ton and spreads disease and death
should be repealed. To destroy such
a traffic there must be elected to pow.
er political party which will admin.
lister the government from the stand.
point that the alcoholic drink traffic is
a crime and not a business and we
| pledge that the manufacture, importa.
ton, expectation, transportation and
sale of alcoholic beverages shall be
prohibited:
I'VE favor the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people;
Presidential terms of six years
and one term only;
Uniform marriage and divorce
laws;
The determination of polygamy
and the complete suppression of the
traffic in girls;
Suffrage for women upon the
same terms as to men;
Court review as TO postoffice and
other departmental decisions and or.
ders; the establishment of postal say.
ings banks; the extension of the rural
delivery and the establishment Of an
efficient parcels post;
The protection of one day in sew.
en- as a day of rest;
The absolute protection of the
rights of labor without impairment of
the rights of capital
The settlement of all information.
al disputes by arbitration:
The initiative and referendum and
recall.
The tariff is a commercial cues
I ton and should be fixed on the basis
OF accurate knowledge secured by a
permanent Omni-partisan tariff com
mission with ample powers:
The abolition of child labor in the
mines, workshops and factories with
the rigid enforcement of laws now
! fiagrantly violated:
Equitable graduated income and in.
! heritance taxes;
conservation of our mineral and
I forest reserves, reclamation of arid
and waste lands. and we urge that ALI
mineral and timber lands and water
/ power now owned by the government
be held perpetually and leased for
I revenue purposes:
Clearly defined laws for the regu.
lation and control of corporations
ransacting' interstate business.
Greater efficiency and economy in
Z government service.
To these fundamental PRINCIPLES
the national prohibition party renews
I its long allegiance and on these is
sues invites the cooperation of all
citizens TO the end that the true oh
Jects OF popular government NAV he
attained. J. e. equal and exact justice
to all.