Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-07-18
PRO MEETING MAY
ONSIDERCHANG
IN PARTY NAME
CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL COMMIT.
TEE MAKES HINT IN THAT D:REC'
TON IN PRE-CoNvEMTION PLACE
DECLARES NATIONWIDERS MUST
EITHER SUPPORT PARTY OR ELSE
FOR ENTIRELY NEW PARTY.
tlIy Associated press.)

81. PAUL, July Is. - Hints of n
change III the name of the Prohibition
party. which opens its national conyen
ton here tomorrow were contained in
The address by which Virgil q. Ilinshaw
chairman oI the Prohibition National
committee today called Ia order Il Get
together meeting. lie said in part:
Eighteen months ago a call was il.
sucd from Prohibition National Head
quarters which red, in part:
We Ehe undersigned, hereby issue
a call 10 bring all voters and citizens oi
America together into one national con.
terence, VINO believe III a political part,
committed by state and national plat
form declaration to the complete over
throw of the liquor traffic.
This call was signed by one hundred
lnclGuIng some OF the foremost citizens
.oi Inc land. Ii was signed by Ben T.
Lindsey, the amous juvenile Judge; by
ex-governor Eugene y. Foss. three times
governor of the Massachusetts Common
wealth; by Governor Arthur Caper OF
Kansas; Dy cX-Goycrnor Hodges. and
IN Governor IT. John of Kansas: by cx
Governor Bill Sulzer of New York; by
thomas Wilson, cX-Consul 10 Hawaii
and Brazil, by John II. Light. four
years Attorney General OF Connecticut:
10y Ira Landrith, president of the
Worlds y. Nj. q. A., Convention; by
VIVA. shaw, general secretary of the
World Christian Endeayor; by j. VI.
Bryan, congressman from Washington
and Charles III. Randall, congressman
from southern California.
The purpose of the call WAS To bring
into one political organization all voters
wio nciicNc in the ia. ional prohibition
81 the liquor traffic.
During the past four years there has
been carried On a supreme effort 10 oD-
tam the enlistment ui five million voters
who will agree 10 support such canii-
dates and political party a stand com
mIttcd by state and national platforms
10 The prohibition Of the liquor %traiiir.
Hundreds Of thousands OF voters have
been enlisted. Men high and low, from
every walk OF lite have come To our res
cue. Professor Irving Fisher Of Yale
organized she Committee of Sixty, whose
slogan II Whenever a political party
prefers the liquor traffic above the pub
Tie health, morals and efficiency, such
political party must be- abandoned. Be
longing To this committee are David
starr Jordan, Ex-Governor - Frank
~lIanly. Governor Arthur Cappcr. VIM.
Allpn White. Professors %Jacque Loeb
and the Rev. Charles II. sheldon. This
ommitscc represents 4 part Of the great
five million movement.
All three OF the other political par
ties in national convention assembled
turned down the Committee of Sixty;
turned down the Worlds General ton
ference Of the great Ne hodist church F;
turned down the millions of voters who
sought either in person or by rcpresen-
the. adoption Of a prohibition plank.
There il but one party today that
stands committed by b0h state and ma
tionai platform declaration to the pro-
hibtion of the liquor traffic. That party
is the Prohibition Party. Hence there
seem but two alternatives for the hun.
dreds Of thousands who have come to
us. either to support the Prohibition
Party or &c in the formation Of a
new party.
And it is for this conference 10 de.