The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-07-20
.ORYS FACE BITTER
FIGHT ON NAMING
THEIR CANDIDATE
Factions at Outs Over
Sulzer or Hanly, Also
Talk Chafi1.
POLLING MAKES
Keynote Speech, Urging Urg-
ing Party to DO Things
Others Have Declined.
POLLING MAKES

ST. Paul MINI. THE convention
of the national Prohibition party was
called to order at 1920 O'Clock this
morning at the auditorium, dele
gates from practically every state at
tending. The arrival of John p.
st. John, of Kansas, the party's cam
didate for president in 1884, evoked
the first outburst of applause in the
delegates.
The meetings OF rival bodies OF
OF j. Frank Hanley an1 VIM. Sulzer,
preceded the convention session and
under-surface talk of Il. w. Chain
as compromise candidate grew as
the bitterness of the Hanly.Sulzer
contest increased
The first big demonstration of the
convention came with Temporary
Chairman Poling's attack in his ad
dress on the military and prepared
ness programs of the Democratic and
Republican parties. The delegates
stood up throughout the auditorium
and cheered Justify.
Is Call of Hour.
1.-The call of the hour, is the chal-
lenge of a supreme. opportunity, 10
an unparalleled sacrifice. These arc
the words of triumph Peace, Pros
perity, and prohibition. Elect pro-
hibition. Write woman into the con-
stitution Turn out the eXploiters
,,;y-
from war, stop the slaughter of
peace, save America and serve the
world.
In these words Temporary Chair
man Daniel A. Polling concluded his
Keynote address at the outset of the
Prohibition national convention,
which convened at st. Paul this morn
ing.
Mr.. Polling, declaring that the Pro-
hibition party was now the sole rep
resentative of progressiveism in ma
tional politics. extended an official
and hearty invitation to the 4,000,-
900 voters who supported the Pro-
sressive party ticket in 1912, and
suggested that whatever the techni-
cal name of his own party should be
!
would be known henceforth as the
j! Liberal party of the United States.
! Expressing the evidently overwhel-
ming sentiment of the convention,
Chairman Polling assailed the cam
paign of militariAtic preparedness,
arraigned the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties alike for what he al
| legged to be an eXtravagant waste OF
national funds, eulogized Jane Add
ans, attacked at length the activities
of the Navy league and after advo-
eating unequivocal loyalty to the
Monroe doctrine, the establishment
/ of world court of arbitration, inter
national reciprocity of trade, radical
reform in the treatment of immi
grants, the development of nation
al program for the constructive ust
of the United States Army in time
of peace and the immediate enact
inent by federal statute and amend
ment of woman's suffrage and var
ious social reforms, he concluded hi
plea with the dictum that "Prohibi
tion spells Preparedness, and tina
the hour had come to change tn
popular slogan among temperate
forces of "National Prohibition il
1920" to the campaign battle or.
"A National Prohibition Presiden
in 1916"
In summing up his outline of th
party's prospective campaign, whic
> calls for a whirlwind campaign back
I, cd by million dollar war fund, witt
two million homes reached directl
with Prohibition argument befor
!, November 7th, Mr. Polling detaile
as the nucleus for the party's nation
I, al declaration this year the followin
: which he termed the high covenan
ITO the people of this nation W
pledge ourselves to begin immediate
= ly on election to power an authorize
:, campaign to establish a world court
and we further pledge that we wi
rove at once to secure reciproc;
= trade arrangements with the coul
:, tries from whom we purchase and
g whom we sell
1--WE will proclaim our constru
Q tive program to secure the practic
= brotherhoods of the nations. And /;
= we move to stop the slaughter of wa
:. remembering the unnumbered dea
:, the unnumbered living and the u
numbered unborn cursed by alcohc
we will Immediately deprive the
. uuor traffic of the use of the mail
take from it the protection of inte
state commerce, place upon it a pro
bitive tax move to accomplish a pr
hibition amendment to the cons
tuition "and thus we will stop Il
greater slaughter of peace"
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