The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-19
PEACE AND
NO BOOZE is
DRY SLOGAN
tCs.ti.,eA from rage One,

(CsntiaseA from rage One,
Prohibition national convention,
which convened at st. Paul. Min.
nssota, this morning.
Mr.. Polling, declaring that the Pro-
hibition party was now the sole rep
fssentatise of progressivism in ma
tional politics. extended an Official
and hearty invitation to the 100000
voters who supported the Progress
sive party ticket In 1912. and sug
gegted that whatever the technical
name Of his own party should be
upon the oficial ballot this year. It
would be known henceforth as the
liberal party of the United States.
Expressing the evidently over.
whelming sentiment Of the conven-
ton, Chairman Polling assailed the
campaign OF militaristic prepared
ness, arraigned the Republican and
Democratic parties alike for what
he alleged to be an extravagant
waste OF national funds, eulogized
lane Adams. attacked at length
the activities of the Navy league
anA after advocating unequivocal
1oyalty to the Monroe doctrine. the
establishment of q world court of
arbitration. international reciprocity
oe trade. radical reform in the treat
ment Of immigrants. the develop
ment Of q 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 woman's
suffrage and various social reforms,
he concluded his plea with the die.
turn that prohibition spells prepar
e1ness." and that the hour had come
% change the popular slogan among
temperance forces OF National pro-
htbition In 1920 to the campaign
hattie cry, "A national prohibition
presldent in 1916"
Hundreds OF the same kind OF
home town folks" who make up
the church boards, the Chautauqua
crowds and who are running the dis.
trict schools in thousands Of towns
and villages, swarmed into st. Paul
today for the opening session Of the
Prohibition national convention.
Motherly old women OF the type
that attend the home and foreigp
missionary society meetings back
home and that make jellies for the
pastors aid society picnics. we're
In the crowd. So were bearded.
grey.haired old men In their black
Sunday go-to-meeting" clothes,
some of them with collars and some
q them who never were one.
These delegates who catae to St
Paul imbued with the thougne-of
downing the Demon Rum are az dif-
fetent nom the crowds who attend
~ conventions OF other political
parties as the frock coated city mer.
chant Il from the snsrly-hsted,
peoned-storekeeper at Hicks Cor.
nsss. q any other cross roads. The
psuhibitionlsts seem more earnest
ami care less for show.
The women brought their tat.
tins. their knitting and their patch.
work.
Il vas q hot day and coatless
ons. Coliariess, suspender showing
!. sAirts--sonie Of them blue, some OF
them "boiled"--dotted the crowd In
The Auditorium.
TOR instance there was Col. ]. VI.
lngersoll. of Idaho. q grizzled, grey.
mustached fanchman. who sat on
me platform. His boiled shirt was
eoIlaxless; he wore no coat, but his
diamond stud Illuminated his shirt
- no necktie could. His gray socks
came down over the tops OF his
sQuarc-toed black shoes and he
twirled his mustache, appearing like
. gFu6, good scout. dressed up In
his Sunday clothes and dreading II.
Col. lngersoll. the only Progress
eve leader attending the convention,
wsa IN the limelight continually.
Nm. Kate M. Hamilton. OF Los
.Aneelee. Cal. who In ~ years, and
- ~ been . Prohibitionist for
n yoass, vas grandmother" "a
- e ne women delegates who
oo9ol ~. She cat near the
1Dgu. drssssl IN prim white,