Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-21
HANLYS: FRIENDS PROVOKE RUMpUS
 PRO. CONVENTION They Fail in Attempt to Nominate Before Plat
 form Adopted. WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
 ANTI-PREPAREDN Besides These and Nationwide Pro. hibitiOn PIanks, Instrument Also Declares Mexico Needs Not Con.
 queror, But Samaritan.

St. Paul, Minn., July 2O.-When the night session of the national Prohi- bltlon convention was called to order at 1O:39 o'clock, motion to adjour.l until a. m. tomorrow prevailed, and after few routine announcements had been made, adjournment was taken to that time.
 The first business of tomorrow's session will be consideration of the platform nominations for president and vice president will follow.
 Before adjournment of this after noon's session. supporters of the can didacy Of J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, for the presidential nomination, at tempted to suspend the rules and proceeded with nominations before the platform was adopted. This at tempt failed.
 Efforts to effect adoption of the resolution committees draft of a platform without first printing and distributing copies to delegates thls noon precipitated the first conten- tion among delegates at the Prohibit tion National convention. The ad- vocates of immediate consideration eiiu tluoPtiolI Ut tiiC Plotlpi III itStuCu from their positions and William Shaw of Boston, who headed the eff fort to expedite consideration of the platform withdrew his motion.
 Sulzer Not Candidate.
 Former Governor Sulzer of New York did not appear before the con ventioa as an aspirant for the prohl- bition nomination for president He arrived here today and consulted with friends.
 MT. Sulzer declared ne did not come to St, Paul to seek the nomination, but because group of his friends in the convention begged him to come and speak ''for the good of the cause"
 Theproposed platform led off with
 The proposed platform led off with prohibition and woman suffrage. These were followed by antipre, paredness and peace blanks. Recipro- cal trade treaties with foreign na- tions and a federal trade commis- sion of specialists were commended.
 Taking up the Mexican situation, the platform declared the "Democratic party had blundered and the Republi- can party eva6ed responsibility"
 Mexico needs not a conqueror. but a good samaritan, the platform de- clared
 Women May Cure Public Evils.
 That women, if they will may find the remedy for what is wrong in town, city or state government, and aid in applying that remedy was de- clared today by Mrs. o. w. Dean of Chicago, who spoke before the wo- mems conference at the national Pro- hibition convention here.
 Mrs. Dean is chairman of the Wo- mans National Prohibition Fedora tion executive committee, and in speaking to the theme "Woman in Politics." touched on the huge ex- pense which she said the liquor traf- fic caused Chicago, quoting Chicago judge as her authority. She referred to repeated arrests of victims Of the liquor habit and the burden which their arrest and detention put on a community.
 'Woman in politics can change all of this," said Ms. Dean. "Let us make laws that will make of our corrective institutions educational ones as well, and when an individual has to be corrected many time during the year, that he be obliged to remain in the institution long enough to learn a trade or a knowledge of some kiud of work that will enable him to earn an honest living when released from the institution"
 Mrs. Florence Sfown Hyde of Chi cago, who has had charge Of the work among women in behalf of the Prohibition party, outlined plans for the campaign to win the women's otes, in an address before the con- vention proper today. Mrs. Hyde said in part:
 q want to emphasize that we are facing a presidential election in which 100000 women have the privi- lege of voting; that these women and the women of the non-suffrase states are being organized continually as women in behalf of every kind of po- litical propaganda. That the wo-
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