Evening star., 1916-07-19
Mr.. Poling's Keynote Speech.

The call of the hour is the chaIlenye
OF supreme opportunity, to an un-
pafalleied sacrifice These are the
words of triumph.-peace. prosperity
and prohibition. Elect .probibition
Write woman into the constitution
Turn out the exploiters of the neon,e
rake private profit from war. Stop the
slaughter of peace Save America and
serve the world
In these words Temporary Chairman
DANIEL "A. Polling concluded his KEYNOTE
ADDRESS at the outset of the convention
M Poling, declaring that the proht-
pition party was now the sole repre-
sentative of progressivism in national
politics, extended an official and hearty
invitation to the 100000 voters who
supported the progressive party ticket
In 1872. and suggested that whatever
the technical name of his own party
should be upon the official ballot this
year, 1t would be known henceforth as the
Liberal party of the United States
The Party's Dominant Purpose.
Mr.. Polling described the partys dom
inant purpose since its birth, septem-
Der, 1869.
In its first convention the prohibit ton
party declared what it has never since
failed to declare.-that only by cap
turing the government. the whole gov
ernment. can the power of the liuuor
institution be finally broken Not until
the three branches of our government,
Judicial, legislative, and executive, are
brought into harmony and are directed
by one governmental voice, will ma
tional prohibition become a fact
Fer have we not witnessed in a
thousand cities and in dozen states
the law and the courts defied; defied
by base public officials who granted
immunity to those who sold and to
those who bought, and by the political
parties of which these delinquent ex-
ecutives were but the hired minions,
the directed hands of the directing
bodies, political parties that in their
platforms openly announced and from
the stump braZenly declared that IL
elected to power they would nullify
the statutes and make anarchy respec-
Until citizens having common
stay together, and vote together. leav-
ing entirely those other citizens who
are of another mind as to the public
questions at issue. they are as helpless
Party Supremacy Necessary.
After paying a tribute to the found
erS and leaders OF the national prohl-
bition movement for the forty-seven
years of its history. Mr.. Polling point
ed out that during this period twenty
one other national political organiza-
tions. Indifferent or hostile to prohi-
bition, have come into existence and
died, and that the anti-liquor forces
of the land have already accepted
two thirds of the Darty's program,
namely % that prohibition is the
only solution of the liquor problem.
and (2) that national prohibition
must be the ultimate goal.
And even now he continued. the
multitude are turning to say with US,
there can be no national prohibition
without a prohibition party supreme
| at Washington"
THE whole strategy of the campaign
for US from now on must be built
about the proposition that until the
government is captured our principles
are helpless, for we can do nothing.
Our platform. our candidates, our
party administration, our party papers
| and party speakers, our entire pro-
gram. must be dedicated to the one
monumental effort to win the three
| departments of the government. to
| elect national prohibition"