New Britain herald., 1920-07-21
CU1 N WEI ANIL
 HARDING MOIST
Thus Do PrOhibitiOniStS CharaG-
 terize Candidates

l had come together to select q burial
 lot for John Raricycorn.' The other
 political parties. he said. "out of re-
 spect to Johns relatives have voted
 that he shall lie in state for another
 four years 10 be viewed by the Amer
 ican people.
 The democratic platform is silent.
 tho republican platform is silent" tho prohibition national chairman 1 continued. Harding owns brewery
 stock, hc is not a prohibitionist at | heart. Cox is wet. The future is
 before us. the campaign is upon us. | We want to do the wisest thing, the best thing for the prohibition movement and for the country. IL was I our fervent wish that every political 1 party would this year fall in line
 with the Constitution of the United l States. with the congress of the
 United States. with the supreme
 court of the United States and recog-
 nize openly and avowedly the settle
 ment of this question. The other
 parties have failed. What shall we
 do?"
 Turning to measures other than
 prohibition which party had cham
 pioncd. Chairman IIinshaw said, As we assemble here for the thirteenth
 time in fifty-one years we do so with a realization that we have had part
 In more than one battle and for tho
 solution of more than one problem.
 While VIC have been q party with an eve single to the solution of one great
 problem we have at tho same time aimed at the solution and rec chcd the solution of many problems.
 For eNgmnlp stood for woman suffrage in 1872, which was forty years before the progressive party was born and forty years before any other party assumed the same position. We advocated civil servicc reform the same year and thus preceded the democrats by four years and the re- publicans by twelve years. wo cham- pioncd the direct election Of q. g. senators in 1872. The republican party never championed that issue and the democratic party not until 1900 or twenty-eight years thereafter,
 We favored two-cent letter post age in 1872 and thus beat every other political party 10 that proposition by the space of sixteen years. We stood for international arbitration in 1876; the republican party did not advocate it until IgO4, or twenty-eight years thereafter and the progressive party not until 1912. or thirty-six years thereafter. We opposed lotteries and gambling in 1876; no other political party ever opposed such in platform or in convention.
 I've went after the land grabbers and speculators in 1876 and thus beat the republican party to it by eight years and the progressive party by thirty-eight years. We have op- posed polygamy since 1876; the | democratic party never opposed that | institution in national platform or convention. We have opposed the | white slave traffic since 1876; no | other political party ever opposed | that institution in either national ! platform or convention. We have | advocated uniform marriage and di- | vorce laws since 1888; no other po- litical party has ever championed | that issue in national platform or 
 We have stood for income tax | since 1896: the republican party | never favored it and tho democratic | party not until 1908 or twelve years We opposed child labor in 1908 and thus beat the progress sives to 1t by a period of four years. We favored the conservation of na- tural resources in 1908 and thus N by four years.
 As a matter of fact, we have pre- reded every other political party Of democratic, progressive pr republican, in the championship ,f every vital issue during our fifty ,ne years of history. Haven't we been tome party? What would the Amer can people have done without us? Where would this country be today had it not been for the existence of an organization which was brave enough and pure enough and strong enough to give birth to ideals un- popular and seemingly weak in their but all-powerfui in their onward and conNuerinE march.
 "whatevcr else we may remember, let us remember this-that we have stood for national prohibition since 1869. No other political party has ever championed that issue in na- tional platform or convention.
 Not only have we been the first to champion practically all of the questions of the last half century as they are recognized today both in statute and constitution but we have been the first upon the party action in most campaigns for state prohibition. war prohibition or, national prohibition.
 For example. the prohibition party | called a convention of two thousand In November Of 1918 and launched Inc eager protests Of the conservative faVfk fcv