The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-07-20
.SULzER ARRIVES TO
ATTEMPT TO STAVE
OFF HANLY NOMINATION
New York Mans Forces Attempting
to Incorporate Anti Catholic Plank
in Platform.
RELIGIOUS FIGHT GREATER
THAN PROHIBITION ISSUE
Home Folks Present at Convention {;
William Shaw, Christian En-
deavor Leader, Talks.
BY H. L. Rennick

Omitted Press Staff: Correspondent)'
St. Paul, Minn., July 2O.-Hun.
dreds of the same kind of "home
town folks who make up the church
boards, the chautauqua crowds and
run the district schools in thousands
of towns and villages, swarmed to
st. Paul today for the Prohibition ma
tional convention. &
Motherly old women of the type
that attend the homeEand foreign mis-.
sionary society meetings back home
and bake cake and make jellies for
the pastors aid society picnics were
in the crowd, so were bearded, gray
haired old men in their black "Sun-
day go to meeting' clothes. Some
of them with collars and some of them
who never wore one.
To Down Rum.
These delegates who came to St.
Paul imbued with the thought of
downing the Demon Rum are so diff
ferent from the crowds who attended
conventions of otherEpolitical parties
as the frock-coated city merchant is
from the gnarly-fsted aproned store
keeper at Hicks Corners, or any other
cross road. The Prohis seem more
earnest, and caring less for show.
The women brought their tatting,
their knitting and their patch work.
1t was hot day and coatless, col
larless, MISUNDERSTANDING shirts
some of them blue and some of them
"boiled"-dotted the crowd at the
auditorium. f
Wears Diamond Stud.
For instance, there was Col. James
M. Ingersoll of Poonte1lo, Idaho, a
grizzled, gray-mustached ranchman,
who sat on the platform. His boiled
shirt was collarless, he wore no coat,
but his diamond stud Illuminated his
shirt as no necktie could. His gray
socks came down over the tops of his
square-toed black shoes, and he
twirled his mustache, appearing like
a gruff good scout, dressed up in his
Sunday clothes and dreading it. Col.
Ingersoll, the only Progressive leader
attending the convention, was in the
limelight continually.
Prohibitionist 63 Years.
Mrs. Kate M. Hamilton of Los An
geles, Cal., who is "A years old and
has been a Prohibitionist for 63
years, was 'grandmother" to many
of the women delegates who greeted
her. She sat near the platform dress
ed in prim white, with bit of vanity
expressed in ear rings that bobbed
as she nodded her gray head.
This convention sings for amuse-
ment, where other parties shouted,
marched and yelled. The Prohis
joined in the chorus when "A M.
Thatcher, who positively has the
deepest voice in captivity, rumbled
hymns and songs of the drys to the
accompaniment of piano played by
the same type of a girl who played the
organ back at the Hicks Corners
church.
The delegates seemed religious and
comfortable. There was no dressing
for style lot of "amens," de-
voutly pronounced, when the minis
ters prayed or the hymns were sung.
Shaw Gives Address.
"When good men and great par
ties, for political expediency refuse
to commit themselves to great cause
vital to the happiness and success OF
the people, they should be set aside, .
declared William Shaw, prohibition
candidate for governor of Massa-
chusetts in 1915, in an address this
morning at the convention.
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