The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-21
Chairman D. A. Polling Roasts
Repubs and Dems
PROHIBS AT The SESSION
He Stands For Peace, Monroe
Doctrine and Cold Water
Beverage
Associated Press Dispatch.l

national convention aSSelnDleu lills
morning in the Auditorium at st
Paul. Mimi, representing dele
gates and visitors from every state
in the union, was formally opened by
Virgil G. Hinshaw, national chairman
Mr.. Hinshaw, in his opening remarks
spoke in part as follows:
This convention completes the
rounding out of forty-six years of un-
interrupted history Greenbackers,
populists and bull moosers may perish
from the earth, but we live on for
ever, or until our purpose is achieved
Our party ship has served as refuge
to those who would vote with clean
hands. and as a life-bOat to those
who have been cast adrift by wrecked
liners.
This, the year 1916, marks the
hight tide of prohibition sentiment IN
America and the world. We are not
here to perpetuate and create anew
an avenue of expression for the null
titudes who have caught the vision
and desire to register their convictions
for an emancipated womanhood and
childhood. for the adjustment OF
crime by the elimination of crimes
producer, for the ultimate establish
ment of world court OF justice, anu
for honest government.
Names Are Known Everywhere.
1--WE are met here to put in nom
ination candidates for president and
vice president the mention OF whose
names will be felt and recognized In
every home in America
1--WE are here to inaugurate COM
paign that will reach every voter OF
every county and every state OF the
union. We are here to enlist service,
to call for sacrifice, and to perfect an
organization that will be as efficient
as our conscience is clear and as pro-
ductive of results as our mind is
purposeful.
1--WE have a clear field. We are
the one organization in this campaign
that stands for the woman, the child,
and for the conservation OF human
ity."
Mr.. Hinshaw then introduced the
temporary chairman of the conVen''
ton, Daniel A. Polling OF Boston VINO
spoke as follows:
s"Tho call of the hOur Is lHe CiidioissS
of a supreme opportunity, to an unparal :
leIed sacrifice These are the words Oh
triumph.-Peace, Prosperity. and PROM
hilton. Elect prohibition Write woman
pIoiters of the people. Take private prof.
it from the war. Stop the slaughter ol
peace Save America and serve lhe
world ,,;h;
tion party was now the sole representa-
tive Of progressivism in national pontlcs'
extended an official and hearty invita-
ton to the 100000 voters who SUPPORTS
and suggested that whatever the techo
nical name of his own party should pc
upon the official ballot this year, II would
be known henceforth as the Llperal Far
ty of the United States.
Expressing the evidently overwhelm-
ing sentiment of the convention, Chalr.
man Polling assailed the campaign OF
militaristic preparedness. arraigned the
republican and democratic parties anke
for what he alleged to be an eXtravagant
waste of national funds. eulogized Jane
Adams attacked at length the activities
of the Navy league, and after advocating
uneouivocaI LOYALTY to the Monroe Doc
trine the esta blishment of world court
of arbitration, international reciprocity
of trade, radical reform in the treatment
of immigrants, the development OF a
national program for the constructive
use of the United States Army in time
of peace. and the immediate enactment
by federal statute and amendment OF
womans suffrage and various social re-
forms, he concluded his plea with the
dictum that prohibition spells Pre-
paredness," and that the hour has come
to change the popular slogan among mons
temperance forces of National prohibit
ton in 1920 to the campaign battle cry
"a national prohibition president in 1916.
In summing up his outline of the par
tvs prospective campaign, which calls
for whirlwind campaign backed by a
;...llion dollar war fund, with two million
homes reached directly with Prohibition
argument before November 18th, Mr.. Pol
ing detailed as the nucleus for the par
tvs national declaration this year the
following, which he termed
"The High Covenant"
'"To the people of this nation we
pledge ourselves to begin Immediately
on election to power an authorized cam
paign to establish a world court; and we
further pledge that we will move at once
to secure reciprocal trade arrangements
with the countries from whom we pur-
chase and to whom we sell.
eve will. proclaim our constructive
program ito secure the practical broth
erhood of the nations And as we move
ing the unnumbered dead. the unnum-
bered living and the unnumbered unborn
cursed by alcohol. we will immediately
deprive the liquor traffic of the use OF
the mails, take from 1T the protection
of interstate commerce, place upon it a
prohibition tax, move to accomplish a
prohibition amendment to the constitu-
ton
1--WE pledge ourselves to fortify the
nation. to make her a citadel impreg-
nable, but to conserve her human and
natural resources with every dollar that
builds her army and her fleet. We cove
nant with the people to take private
profit out of war. and to punish the
traitors who placed rotten armor between
our countrys defenders and their foes
And we solemnly swear to make out
araf N oraftn fnr
harmonized to every ideal of the Dem
ocracy whose message must not fail. fo1
1T is the hope message of ~the world. And
we will not forget that prohibition spells
preparedness.
We go forth to champion unrestricted
political rights of womanhood and de-
handing an ample justice for little chill
dren. And in every effort made for social
justice we will remember that the SUI
preme tangible foe of motherhood her
most bitter enemy when she asks fol-
the ballot, an the Judas Iscariot of her
sons and daughters, is King Alcohol. "
ar. Polling first described the rarty's