PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE University of Connecticut Libraries 3 1153 DIE GAYLORDRO TENTH ATI O N AL G MB U S J 1 A.TS:i> 9 O 8 'y-r/iOhx V, ., j ( ■'■■ <^o//y}>:k^: ORDER OF BUSINESS — AND BOOK OF REFERENCE OF THE National Prohibition Convention HELD AT MEMORIAL HALL COLUMBUS. OHIO JULY 15-16, 908 PRESS OF BURT PRINTING HOUSE, COLUMBUS GOOD PLACES TO EAT tm Delegates and Visitors to the National Prohibition Convention will find the three Busy Bee Restaurants ideal places to dine and lunch ^^ USY BEE COFFEE is famous all over the State ; the bill of fare 4Ja embraces everything good to eat; the service is first-class and the — -— -— prices very moderate. These restaurants are all conducted on the pay-as-you-order plan. If you have a little appetite, the price is small; if you have a large ap- petite, the price is larger. It is never excessive. ,' There is free phone service over both phones, the use of the city direcjtory, railroad and interurban time tables for the use of patrons, and hand baggage cared for free of charge. ^ THE CENTRAL STORE, located on High near Gay street, is the most popular restaurant in the city and is largely patronized by the best busi- ness element in Columbus. The men's dining room at this store is well worth a visit. THE NORTH STORE, on High near Chestnut street, is conveni- ently located to the Union Station. THE SOUTH STORE, on High street between State and Town streets, is but a short distance from the Southern Hotel. The same splendid bill-of-fare and popular prices prevail at all three establishments. THE BUSY BEE RESTAURANTS ^.H•.J.•H~^•^♦4~^♦•M*w••^•!-•w♦^♦^•^•^^•^-^♦^♦^•^-.^^•{-•^-^♦^-H•4~^•^ The Central Ohio Paper Co. 70 to 80 East Gay Street ^ COLUMBUS, OHIO J t Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers t PAPER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Makers of the Celebrated I SWAN LINEN ♦ ** -X- -Sf -5^ -K- * -Jf -X- * -^ -jf * ^ -Jf * * -Jf * ^ ^ -Jf ^ -X- ^ -X- * 4«- -K- * ^ -X- * 4f 7^ * -X- * -X- -Jt * -jf -^ I PROHIBITION MUSIC | * The largest quantity and best quality of Prohibition music is pub- * * lished by The Fillmore Music House, 528 Elm St., Cincinnati, O., and ^ % 41-43 Bible House, New York. % * Here is a list of some of their books : * * PROHIBITIOX SOXGS, by Chas. M. and J. H. Fillmore. 224 pages. * * Cloth 35 cents; nuislin 25 cents, postpaid. J * ALLIANCE EDITION, an abridged edition of "Prohibition Songs." 15 * * cents per copy. * * THE BATTLE-CRY, by Taylor and Herbert. The greatest Prohibition * ^ song book ever published. Price 35 cents. * * THE TEMPERANCE SONGSTER, by Miss Anna A. Gordon. Cloth 35 * * cents; muslin 30 cents. * * SHEET SONGS. J % BRING BACK MY FLAG. Solo and chorus, by Chas. M. Fillmore. The S * latest popular hit, (octavo) 10 cents. ^ * DOWN WITH THE LICENSED SALOON. Duet, full sheet size, price 50 * ^ cents, mailed for 25 cents. * * MOLLY AND THE BABY, solo and chorus, by Taylor and Herbert. Sheet * * music. 25 cents, mailed for 13 cents. * % I'D LIKE TO ASK. Solo. Taylor and Herbert. Sheet music. 25 cents, % * mailed for 13 cents. ^ * THE DRUNKARD'S VISION. Descriptive song, Towne. Sheet music. * jf: 50 cents, mailed for 25 cents. t * Address, FILLMORE MUSIC HOUSE, * * 528 Elm St., Cincinnati, O., or 40-43 Bible House, New York. * — 2 — * / X ^..J..{..}^.}.^4••^•^~^•^•^•M••^*^•^*•^•^•^•?**^^•^•i •^•^•^♦w••^♦^-{ »^•^♦^♦M•*i~^•M••M••M••^•^•^^• % I $ % % •{• * •J- I 4- The Columbus Carnage and Harness Co. ESTABLISHED IN 1889 19 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN MANUFACTURING VEHICLES HAVE BEEN SELLING DIRECT TO CONSUMER FOR TEN YEARS You are welcome at any time, to come and see how we make high-grade Columbus Buggies, Runabouts, Phaetons, Surreys and all kinds of Vehicles and Harness. The Columbus Carriage and Harness Co. Nos. 2016 to 2040 South High Street, COLUMBUS, OHIO. % % % ♦ % % f.J..}..i..J«{~M~^•M••M~M•-W~>♦^•^•^•>*M-^^•^'^♦•M-4••^ PROGRAM National Convention and Oratorical Contest OF THE Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 14, 1908 MEMORIAL HALL. 9 :00 A. M. Meeting of Executive Committee, Post Hall, No. 1. 9 :15 A. M.— Meeting of National Contest Orators, Post Hall, No. 1. 10:00A.M. — Convention: Opening Session. Registration of Delegates. Address by Pres. D. Leigh Colvin. Business. 1 :30 P. M. — Convention and Conference, Post Hall, No. 1. Business. "The Past Year and the Next."— Report of General Secre- tary, Harry S. Warner. 3:00 P. M.— Special Public Session, Post Hall, No. 1. "TEN MINUTE POINTERS." BY NATIONAL LEADERS. ''The Purpose of the College Movement."— Pres. D. Leigh Colvin, Chicago, 111. "The College Movement on the Pacific."— L. C. Brown, Coast Traveling Secretary. "College Men in the Illinois Legislative Field."— Joseph E. Harvey, Traveling Secretary. "College Men in the Minn. 'Out-to-Win' Battles."— John A. Shields, University of Minnesota. "The Student's Part in the Reform."— Ilarley H. Gill, Sioux City, Iowa. "Opportunities in 1908-9."— Virgil G. Hinshaw, Minneapolis, Minn. "The Call to Service."— Daniel A. Poling, Columbus, Ohio. Business Session. — Election of National Ofhcers. Adoption of Policies. 8:00 P.M.— Grand National Oratorical Contest, Main Auditorium, Memorial Hall. Western Orator— 190? ; Everet L. Jones, Oregon. 1908; Raphael H. Elakesley, California. Central Orator — 1907 : Chas. S. Price, Texas. 1908 ; Fred C. Mesch, Iowa. Eastern Orator — 1907 : Gustave Hoelscher, Indiana. 1908; Levi T. Pennington, Indiana. Prizes— First, $100.00 ; Second. $50.00 in Gold. (Admission, Main Floor, 50 cents; Balcony, 25 cents.) NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Chairman, Charles R. Jones, Evanston, 111. Vice Chairman, A. G. Wolfenbarger, Lincoln, Neb. Secretary, \V. G. Calderwood, Minneapolis, Minn. Treasurer, Felix T. McWhirter, Indianapolis, Ind. Samuel Dickey, Albion, Mich. A. A. Stevens, Tyrone, Pa. Finley C. Hendrickson, Cumberland, Md. LOCAL COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. Headquarters — 11 Board of Trade Building. Phone 2286 Citz. F. M. Mecartney, Chairman. H. Oscar Nippert, Secretary. John F. Gregg, Treasurer. Daniel A. Poling, Albert Speaks, W. W. Weatherman, E. N. Webb, N. J. Kidwell, H. L. Peeke, J. C. Daugherty, D. M. Graham. Truman R. Davidson. — 6 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE — 7 — ^^^^^^^^^^^^*^4«--5t-3t-X--5(--5e--X--X-*-5t-^-3«f*-X-^-3e-X-**-X--X--X-*-X-*** THE DUNN^TAFT CO, 84 to 90 North High St. At this stage of the season we offer REMARKABLE VALUES In all classes of DRY GOODS. Broken Lines and Seasonable Goods that are approaching the end of their season Reduced In Price In many instances as low as ONE-HALF OF ORIGINAL PRICES. Staple and seasonable goods always in good assortment at the lowest market prices. f4(..}e.^^.3t^^^.3^.X-*-5t*4t-X--3f-X--X--X--5t*4t-5t4f*-X--3t-X-^-X-**^-X-^**-X--3f* THE NORWICH CORNER FOURTH AND STATE STREETS. COLUMBUS OHIO Large Pleasant Rooms. Elegant Dining Room on Sixth Floor. Pure Jersey Milk and Cream from our own farm. Home Table a Specialty. K-- TAKE STATE AND OAK STREET CARS FROM UNION DEPOT NATIONAL COMMITTEEMEN. Arkansas — John M. Parker, Dardanelle — H. Brady, Beebe. California — T. K. Beard, Modesto — Fred F. Wheeler, Los Angeles. Colorado — J. N. Scouller, Denver — O. A. Reinhardt, Denver. Connecticut — Frederick G. Piatt, New Britain — E. L. G. Hohenthal, S. Manchester. Delaware — George \^^ Todd, Wilmington — -Ashton R. Tatum, Wil- mington. Florida — John P. Coffin, Eustis — Francis Trueblood, Bradentown. Georgia — R. S. Cheves,* Zenith — George Gordon, Atlanta. Idaho — Aaron ^L Bray, Boise — Herbert A. Lee, Weiser. Illinois — Oliver W. Stewart, Chicago — Frank S. Regan, Rockford. Indiana — Felix T. McWhirter, Indianapolis — Charles Eckhart, Auburn. Iowa — A. U. Coates, Perry — Malcolm Smith, Cedar Rapids. Kansas — Earle R. DeLay, Emporia — T. D. Talmadge, Hutchison. Kentucky — T. B. Demaree, Wilmore — Mrs. F. E. Beauchamp, Lexington. Louisiana — E. E. Israel, Baton Rou^e — Walter Miller, New Orleans. Maine — Volney B. Gushing, Bangor — Nathan F. Woodbury, Auburn. Maryland — Finley C. Hendrickson, Cumberland — John N. Parker, Balti- more. Massachusetts — John B. Le\\-is. Jr., Boston — Flerbert S. Morley, Bald- winville. Michigan- — Samuel Dickie, Albion — Fred W. Corbett, Adrian. Minnesota — Bernt B. Flaugan, Fergus Falls — Geo. W. Higgins, Minneapolis. Missouri — Charles E. Stokes, Kansas City — H. P. Faris, Clinton. Nebraka — ^L. O. Jones, Lincoln — A. G. Wolfenbarger, Lincoln. New Hampshire — A. FT. Morrill, Laconia^L. F. Richardson, Peterboro. New Jersey — Joel G. Van Cise, Summit — W. H. Nicholson, Haddonfield. New York— A'Vm. T. Ward well, New York— J. H. Durkee, Rochester. North Carolina — Edwin Shaver, Salisbury — J. N. Templeton, Gary. North Dakota — Theo. E. Ostlund, Hillsboro — M. H. Kiff, Tower City. Ohio — H. F. MacLane. Hiram — Robert Candy, Columbus. Oklahoma — Charles Brown, Carmen— Rev. J. M. Monroe, Oklahoma City. Oregon — F. McKercher, Portland — W. P. Elmore, Brownsville. Pennsylvania — A. A. Stevens, Tyrone — David B. McCalmont, Franklin. Rhode Island — C. H. Tilley, Providence — Bernon E. Helme, Kingston. South Dakota— C. V. Templeton, Woonsocket — F. J. Carlisle, Brookings. Tennessee — James A. Tate, Harriman — Maj. A. D. Reynolds, Bristol. Texas — J. B. Cranfill. Dallas — E. C. Heath, Rockwall. Vermont — Fred L. Page, Barre — S. M. Harris, Vergennes. Virginia — G. M. Smithdeal, Richmond — James W. Bodley, Staunton. ^Vashington — R. E. Dunlap, Seattle — Guy Posson, Seattle. West Virginia — Edward W. Mills, Fairmont — U. A. Clayton, Fairmont. Wisconsin — J. E. Clayton, Milwaukee — W. D. Cox, Milwaukee. Wyoming — Lemuel L. Laughlin, Laramie — Dr. C. J. Sawyer.* Arizona — Frank J. Sibley, Tucson — Prof. J. C. Wasson, Phoenix. * Deceased. * T COME IN TODAY I * + X 4. I I t Take LUNCHEON in the Fourth F loor Dming Room and $ compare its perfect service and the menu with the best you * * know of anywhere. Find all through the store Merchandise * * of that dependable and satisfactory caliber for which this |i 4* * * 4> DEPARTMENT STORE | * good store is famous. THE Z L. WHITE CO. I E 102-104 NORTH HIGH ST. t k 4* F , , . * r I* V *1' "•' V "I* '•' V 'I* *•' *1* *r *•* V *•* *•* *•* *•* *i' V *•* *•* *1* *•* *X* *J* e* *•* *«* *o* *•* V *«* *•* *•* *S* *!' V *•* *•* *5* *•* ^* V *•* V V *•* *•* *** *** "J v •* *I* *•' 'I* *X* 'I* *•• PROHIBITION TRUST fUND ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. OFFICERS OLIVER W. STEWART, CHARLES E. LATIMER, PRESIDENT, SECRETARY. Hyde Park, Chicago, III. 98 Park Place, Brooklyn. N. Y. WILLIAM T. WARDWELL, JOHN McKEE, VICE-PRESIDENT. TREASURER, 21 West 58th St., 113 Columbia Heights. New York City. Brooklyn, N. Y. ALFRED L. MANIERRE, COUNSEL, 31 Nassau Street, New York City. WHY NOT REMEMBER IT IN YOUR WILL? Legacies amounting to about $10,000 have been received. — 10 — NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONVENTION ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RULES OF ORDER. The following Order of Business and Rules of Order have been adopted by the National Committee for the government of the Conven- tion under its temporary organization; and the same is recommended for adoption as the Rules and Order of Business for the permanent organization. Wednesday, July 15th, Forenoon, 10:00 o'clock. l._The Convention will be in order. Prayer. 2.— Address of Welcome, Prof. Aaron S. Watkins, Ada, O., Hon. C. A. Bond, Mayor, Columbus, O. 3 — *Temporary Organization. 4._Roll Call of States for appointment of Convention Committees. 5.— Recess until 2:00 P. M. Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 o'clock. 6. Report of Committee on Credentials. 7. Report of Committee on Permanent Organization. 8._Report of Committee on Rules and Order of Business. 9._Roll Call of States for the announcement of the members of the National Committee and other nominations by State delegations. lO.—Recess until 8:00 P. M. Wednesday Evening, 8 :00 o'clock. 11. Report of Committee on Resolutions and Platform. 12.— Recess until 9:30 A. M., July 16. (Prominent members of the party will address the convention and a chorus of 150 voices, led by Rev. Chas. M. Fillmore of Indian- apolis, Ind., will sing during the evening.) Thursday Forenoon, July 16th, 9 :00 o'clock. 13. — Miscellaneous Business until 10:00 A. M. 14. — National Committee's hour. 15. — Nominating Speeches. 16.— Adjournment until 2.00 P. M. Thursday Afternoon, 2 :00 o'clock. 17. — Nomination of Presidential candidate. 18. — Nomination of Vice-Presidential candidate. 19. — Miscellaneous Business. 20. — Adjournment, sine die. Thursday Evening, 8:00 o'clock. 21. — Mass Meeting, as directed by the Convention. ♦ NOTE The rule of the National Committee and the precedent of the party is not to announce the temporary organization until it has been adopted by the Con- vention The National Committee wiU recommend the temporary organization for the acceptance of the Convention, but the same must be approved by the Convention before it is recognized. On account of this rule and precedent, we are unable to publish the names of the Temporary Chairman and Secretaries of the Convention. — 11 — *RULES OF ORDER 1. No delegate shall address the Convention, oti'er a resolution or make a motion until he has been recognized by the Chair, and his name and State announced by the Chairman. In case the Chairman is not able to call a delegate by name, the delegate, after being assigned the floor, shall announce his own name and State, but shall not continue his remarks until the announcement has been repeated to the convention by the Chairman. 2. The Chairman shall not assign the floor to any delegate who may be out of his place in the hall. 3. No delegate shall speak more than ten minutes upon any question before the Convention, nor more than once upon any question without unanimous consent, except as provided in rule I'o. 4. A vote by calling the roll of States shall be taken on any question when the demand is sustained by two hundred delegates, in which case the Chairman of each State shall announce the number in his delegation voting "yea" and the number voting "nay." 5. When any question is before the Convention it shall be in order to offer (1) an amendment, (2) an amendment to the amendment, (3) a substitute to the main question, and (4) an amendment to the substitute, but in taking the vote the order shall be as follows : First on the perfecting the main question, then on the amendment to the substitute, next on making the substitution, and finally on the main or substitute question. 6. The following shall not be debatable: (1) To adjourn. (2) To lay on the table. (3) To take from the table. (4) The previous question. (5) To reconsider when applied to an undebatable question. (6) To fix the time to which the convention will adjourn (when a privileged question.) (7) For the orders of the day. (8) An appeal, but the appellant may state the grounds of his appeal and the Chairman his reason for his decision. (9) To suspend the rules. 7. The following are privileged questions, taking precedence in the order named : (1) To fix the time to which the convention will adjourn. (2) To adjourn. (3) Questions of personal privilege. (4) The orders of the day. *NOTE — Both the Order of Business and the Rules of Order herein are suggestive only. The Convention itself may change both at its will. — 12 — S. The motion to lav on the table may be apj)lie(l tu an amendment or a sttbstitute without carrying- the main question witli it, and mav pre- vail upon a part of a report without affecting the remainder. 9. The previous question may be moved upon a part of what is pend- ing", as upon an amendment, a substitute, a motion to postpone or commit, without applying to the main question. 10. A committee or State delegation unable to agree upon any matter to be reported to the Convention, shall be entitled to present a minority report, which must be presented immediately after the presentation of the majority report. The minority shall not be required to serve notice of its intention upon the majority. 11. The Chairman of a committee shall have the right to close the tlebate upon the adoption of his committee's report, and this right shall be accorded him b}' the Chair even after a motion to lay on the table has been made or after the previous question has been ordered. 12. A motion to adjourn shall not be in order: (1) A\ hile a delegate has the floor. (2) A\'hile a A'ote is being taken. (3) W hile the previous question is pending. (4) Until the previous question, after being ordered, is exhausted. (5) A\ hen no business has inter\ened since a motion to adjourn v.as voted down. 13. Nominating speeches shall be limited to fifteen minutes each and seconding speeches shall not exceed five minutes. 14. The roll of States shall be called for the presentation of candidates, and any State delegation or portion thereof having a candidate to present from that State, shall, when the name of the State is called, be entitled to present the name of its candidate ; provided that any State delegation may select, to make the presentation speech, either one of its own members or a delegate from another State, in which latter case the spokesman of the delegation having the floor under the call, shall announce to the Convention the name of the State and the delegate selected to make the presentation speech : provided also that any State may yield its place on the Roll Call to another State, in which case the Chairman of the delegation having the floor under the call shall announce the name of the State to which his State yields. 15. Balloting- on nominations shall be by call of the roll of States, the Chairman of each delegation announcing the vote of his delegation. 16. State delegations shall cast the vote only for those actually present. IT. All resolutions, except amendments to a committee's report, must be submitted in writing and referred without debate. 18. These rules may be suspended for a specific purpose by a two-thirds vote of the Convention. 19. Roberts' Rules of Order shall govern upon points not covered by the foregoing. — 13 — OFFICIAL CALL Headquarters Piohibition National Committee, The Temple, Chicago, 111., February i, 1908. In issuing this call for the assembling of the National Prohibition Con- vention for 1908, we congratulate the people of the United States upon the auspicious outlook for the abolition of the drink traffic throughout the nation by prohibitory laws faithfully enforced. The year 1907 has witnessed the triumph of the people of the three sovereign states of Oklahoma, Georgia, and Alabama over the alcoholic liquor traffic for beverage purposes. The movement for Prohibition in State and Nation was never so positive and irresistible as it is today. The out- look for complete victory over this moral and political crime has never been so bright as the prospect which now confronts us on the eve of the great Presidential campaign. We invite the Prohibitionists of the several states and territories, with- out regard to past political affiliations, and all citizens who believe with us that the prohibition of the manufacture, importation, exportation, transpor- tation, and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes is a question of transcendent importance, and that it should be settled at the ballot box at the earliest date, to unite in the selection of delegates to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party, which is hereby called to meet in Memorial Hall, in the City of Columbus, State of Ohio, at 10 o'clock a. m., on the 15th day of July, 1908, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President, and for the transaction of any other business that may come before said Convention. We express the profound conviction that if every American voter who believes that the liquor traffic should be outlawed will contribute the force and power of his position and influence on the side of righteous government, this campaign will sound the death-knell of this destructive traffic. The basis of representation has been fixed by the National Committee as follows : First — Each state and territory is entitled to four delegates-at-large. Second — Each state is entitled to an additional delegate for every two hundred votes, or major fraction thereof, cast for Dr. Silas C. Swallow for President in 1904. » Third — The District of Columbia is entitled to two delegates. Fourth — Each state, territory, and the District of Columbia i« entitled to as many alternates as its number of delegates. The time and manner of electing these delegates and alternates will be determined by the Prohibitionists of the various states and territories, sub- ject only to this provision : That in every state where the party has an or- ganized State Committee the delegates must be chosen by such Congressional or State Conventions as the State Cenral Committee may call for that pur- pose, or by the State Committee in such manner as it may determine. Complete information concerning forms of credentials, routes of travel, lates of transportation, tickets of admission, preliminary meetings, etc., will be given through the columns of the press in ample time. CHARLES R. TONES, Chairman, W. G. CALDERWOOD, Secretary. — 14 — The apportionment of delegates as made by the Prohibition National Committee for each state, based upon the vote for Dr. Silas C. Swallow for President in 1904, is as follows: Alaska 4 Alabama 7 Arkansas 9 California 41 Colorado 21 Connecticut .... 12 Delaware 7 Florida 4 Georgia 7 Guam 4 Idaho 12 Illinois 178 Indiana 121 Iowa 62 Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts . . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska •Nevada New Hampshire. 41 New Jersey 38 37 New York 108 4 North Carolina.. . 6 12 North Dakota .. 10 19 Ohio 101 25 Oklahoma 8 71 Oregon 23 35 Pennsylvania ...173 4 Philippine Isl'ds. 4 40 Porto Rico 4 6 Rhode Island ... 8 36 South Carolina.. 4 4 South Dakota . . 19 8 Tennessee 13 Texas 25 Utah 4 Vermont 8 Virginia 11 W^ashington .... 20 West Virginia . . 27 Wisconsin 53 Wyoming 5 Arizona 4 New Mexico .... 4 Hawaii 4 Dis. of Columbia. 4 Total 1,519 PROHIBITION PARTY'S VOTE. 1904 1900 1896 1892 1 1888 ! 1884 1 1880 1 1876 1 1872 1 STATE olley C 1 ^ 1 c <-> ^ 1 x: -a U-. 1 p a S J (5 w ° 1 ^ CQ Alabama 612 2,762 2,147 239 583 613 Arizona 125 Arkansas 993 584 839 113 641 California 7,380 5,024 2,573 8,096 5,761 2,960 61 Colorado 3,438 3,790 1,717 1,652 2,191 761 Connecticut . . . . 1,506 1,617 1,808 4,026 4,234 2,305 409 378 205 Delaware 607 538 355 564 400 64 Florida 5 2,234 1,778 561 423 72 Georgia 685 1,396 5,613 988 1,808 168 Idaho 1,013 857 179 288 34,770 17,626 9 796 25,870 13 050 21 695 12,074 3,028 1 472 443 141 Indiana 23,817 13,718 3 056 9,881 3,550 6,779 5,225 38 Iowa 11,061 9.502 3,192 6 343 592 36 Kansas 7,245 3 605 1 921 4 553 4,'495 3,139 25 110 Kentucky 6.609 3,780 4,781 6,442 258 818 Louisiana 160 328 1.510 2,585 1 570 3,062 5,877 2 691 2,160 2,827 93 Maryland 3,044 4,582 5,918 4,767 10 Massachusetts . . 4,274 6,202 2,998 7,539 8,701 9,923 682 84 Michigan 13,302 11,859 5,025 20,857 20,942 17,403 942 767 l,27i Minnesota 6,199 8,167 4,343 14,017 15,311 4,684 286 144 Mississippi 485 910 218 Missouri 7,181 5,965 2,169 4,298 4,539 2,153 64 Montana 327 298 186 549 Nebraska 6,326 3,655 1,193 4,902 9,429 2,899 1,599 Nevada ' '749 V,276 "779 89 1,296 41 1,566 Y,576 ' 'iso '266 New Hampshire. . New Jersey 6,838 7,183 5,614 8,136 7,904 6,153 191 43 New Mexico . • . . . New York 20,787 22.043 16.052 38,193 30,231 24,999 1,517 2,329 201 North Carolina . . 361 1,006 675 2,636 2,789 454 North Dakota . . . 1,105 731" 358 899 Ohio 19 339 10 ''03 5 068 26.012 24,356 11,069 2,616 1,636 2,100 Oklahoma 1.544 Oregon 3 795 2 536 919 2 281 1 677 492 Pennsylvania . . . 33,717 27.908 19,274 25,123 20,947 15,283 1 1,939 1,319 1 1,630 1 Rhode Island. . . . 768 1,529 1,160 1,654 1,250 928 20 68 South Carolina. . . 43 South Dakota. . . . 2.965 1,542 685 Tennessee 1,889 3,900 3.098 4,856 5,969 1,131 Texas 4,244 2 644 1 786 2,165 4,749 3,534 Utah 205 "Vermont 792 368 733 1.424 1,460 1.752 "Virginia 1.382 2,150 2,350 2,798 1.682 138 Washington . . . . 3.229 2.363 968 2,553 "West Virginia . . . 4.604 1.585 1,203 2,145 1,084 739 "Wisconsin 9,770 10,124 7,509 13,132 14,277 7,656 69 153 Wyommg 207 136 530 Totals I 260,114 I 209,936 I 132,009 1269,191 I 249,907 I 150,626 I 10,356 1 9,737 | 5,607 | xTncluding territorial vote. •Returned as "scattering." but nearly all, if not all, were cast for Dow. — 15 Map Showing Street Railway Lines or The CoturiBus Railway* Light Co. AND Points of Interest HOTEL AND STREET CAR DIRECTORY 1 — Olentangy Park. High and Scliiller Street cars, North, marked "Olentangy Park." 2 — Ohio State Uuiversity. High Street or Neil Ave. cars. North. 8 — Ohio Medical University and Protestant Hospital. High Street cars. North. 10 — Northern Hotel. North Fourth, High Street or Neil Avenue cars. North. 13 — Ohio Penitentiary. West Spring Street, five minutes walk from High Street. 14 — Union Station, marked "Union Station. 15 — Davidson House, marked "Union Station. 16 — Chittenden Hotel, marked "Union Station" and Leonard Avenue cars. 18 — United States Barracks, nue cars, East. 23 — Franklin Park. Long Street or State and Oak Street cars. East. 29 — The figures mark the spot of Memorial Hall where the Convention will be held. Cars of all Cars of all lines lines Cars of all lines and Spring Street Leonard Av^ 30 — Board of Trade. East Broad Street, Opposite State House. All cars. 32-33-34 — Neil House and Capitol. High. Schiller. Main, Noil. State, Oak, Livingston or North Fourth Street cars, pass these. 3ri — Young Men's Christian Association Building. Third Street, Opposite State House. 3!) — The American and Emerson Hotels. High, Schiller, Main, Oak, Livingston or Long Street cars. South. 42 — Great Southern Hotel and Theatre. High. Schiller. Main, Livingston or Long street cars. South. 44 — Steel Plant — Steelton.. High Street cars. South. r.I — Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Station. Any Broad Street car. West. r7 — Hartman Hotel. Corner Fourtli and Main Streets. Take Main Street cars. East. r.J» — Indianola Park. Fourth Street and Summit Street cars. North. 01 — Carnegie Library. Oak Street cars. East. — 16 INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES. hoteIj headquartf:rs am> places for delegation caucuses. Alabama — Headquarters, Neil House; holds its delegation caucus in Room — . Neil House, at 2 P. M., July II. Arkansas — Headquarters, Northern Hotel ; holds its delegation caucus at Room — , Northern Hotel, at 2 P. M., July 14. California — Headquarters, Neil House; holds its delegation caucus in the main room of the Secretary of State's office in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Colorado — Holds its delegation caucus in the Statistician's Room, vSec- retary of State's office, Capitol, at 2 P. M., July 14. Connecticut — Headquarters, the Vendome Hotel ; delegation caucus in the Reception Room of the Governor's office. Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Delaware — Headquarters. Southern Hotel ; holds its delegation caucus in the Southern Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Florida — Headquarters, Hartman Hotel; holds delegation caucus in Room 110-111, Hartman Hotel, 2 P. M., July 14. Georgia — Headquarters, Virginia Hotel ; holds delegation caucus in the Virginia Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Idaho — Headquarters, Emerson Hotel ; holds delegation caucus in the Emerson Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Illinois — Headquarters, Southern Hotel ; holds delegation caucus in the Southern Hotel hall, 2 P. M., July 14. Indiana — Headquarters, Hartman Hotel ; holds delegation caucus in Hartman Hotel parlor at 7:30 A. M., July 15. Iowa — Headquarters, Davidson Hotel ; holds delegation caucus in the Land Room, Auditor's office in the Capitol, 8:00 A. M., July 15. Kansas — Headquarters, Bryden Hotel ; meets in the Excise Room of the Auditor's office in the Capitol, 8 A. M., July 15. Kentucky — Pleadquarters, V^irginia Hotel ; meets in the Mine Inspec- tor's office, Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Louisiana — Headquarters, Hartman Hotel; meets in Rooms 110-111, Hartman Hotel, 2 P. M., July 14. Maine — Headquarters, Lincoln Hotel ; meets in the Lincoln Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Maryland — Headquarters, Southern Hotel ; meets in the west hall of the Southern Hotel, 2 P. M., July 14. Massachusetts — Headquarters, Bryden Hotel ; holds its delegation meeting at 2 P. M., July 14, in the Dairy and Food Commissioner's office, in the new Annex of the Capitol. Michigan — Headquarters, Neil House; meets in the main room of the Governor's office, at 2 P. M., July 14. Minnesota — Headquarters, Jefferson Hotel; meets in the State Treas- urer's office in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. — 17 — Missouri — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in the Hearing Room of the Railroad Commissioner's office, in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Montana — Headquarters, Northern Hotel; meets in the Northern Ho- tel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Nebraska — Headquarters, Neil House; Meets in the Supreme Court Clerk's office, in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. New Hampshire — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in Room 41, Neil House, 2 P. M., July 14. New Jersey — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in the Adjutant-Gen- eral's office, in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. New York — Headquarters, Chittenden Hotel ; meets in the Chittenden Hotel hall,, 2 P. M., July 14. North Carolina — Headquarters, the Vendome Hotel ; meets in the Vcn- dome Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. North Dakota — Headquarters, Virginia Hotel ; meets in the Virginia Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Ohio — At Home; meets in the Board of Trade Auditorium immedi- ately after the adjournment of the State Convention. Oklahoma — Headquarters, Imperial Hotel; meets in the Imperial Ho- tel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Oregon — Headquarters, Davidson Plotel : meets in the Davidson Ho- tel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Pennsylvania — Headquarters, Southern Hotel ; meets in the Southern Hotel hall, 4 P. M., July 14. Rhode Island — Headquarters, Vendome Hotel ; meets in the Vendome Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. South Dakota — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in Room — , Neil House, 2 P. M., July 14. Tennessee — Headquarters, Chittenden Hotel ; meets in the Chittenden Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Texas — Headquarters, Virginia Hotel ; meets in the Board of Health office, in the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Utah — Headquarters, Southern Hotel; meets in the Southern Hotel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Vermont — Headquarters, Southern Hotel ; meets in Room — of the Hotel, 2 P. M., July 14. Virginia — Headquarters, Virginia Hotel; meets in Room — , V^irginia Hotel, 2 P. M., July 14. Washington — Meets in the Agricultural Department office in the Annex of the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. West Virginia — Pleadquarters, Bryden Hotel ; meets in the office of the Board of Public Works in the Capitol, 8 A. M., July 15. Wisconsin — Headquarters, Norwich Hotel; meets in the Insurance Department office in the Annex of the Capitol, 2 P. M., July 14. Wyoming — Headc]uarters, Jefferson Hotel; meets in the Jefferson Ho- tel parlor, 2 P. M., July 14. Arizona — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in Room — , Neil House, 2 P. M., July 14. District of Columbia — Headquarters, Neil House ; meets in Room — ^ Neil House, 2 P. M., July 14. — 18 — STATE CHAIRMEN. Alabama — J. B. Albritton, Slocomb. Arizona — J. Wix Thomas, Phoenix. Arkansas — G. H. Kimble, Mann Bldg., Little Rock. California — Ellsworth Leonardson, -Temple Block, Los Angeles. Colorado — O. A. Reinhardt, Mack Block, Denver. Connecticut — E. L. G. Hohenthal, South Manchester. Delaware — R. M. Cooper, Cheswold. Florida — John P. Cofifin, Eustis. Georgia — W. S. Witham, Atlanta. Idaho- — Aaron M. Bray, 1112 Eastman St., Boise. Illinois — Alonzo E. Wilson, 92 LaSalle St., Chicago. Indiana — F. W. Lough, Union Trust Co. Bldg., Indianapolis Iowa — J. B. Hammond, Iowa L. & T. Bldg., Des Moines. Kansas — E. C. Hadley, 714 Minn Ave., Kansas City. Kentucky — H. W. Davis, 367 E. Market St., Louisville, Ky. Louisiana — E. E. Israel, 1218 Main St., Baton Rouge. Maine — James Perrigo, Portland. Maryland — Geo. R. Gorsuch, 1715 Guilford Ave., Baltimore. • Massachusetts — Jonathan S. Lewis, Paddock Bldg., l^oston. Michigan — Wm. A. Taylor, Battle Creek. Minnesota — Geo. W. Higgins, Minneapolis. Missouri — Chas. E. Stokes, 1123 E. 12th St, Kansas City. Nebraska — J. S. Tussey, Dunbar. Nevada — E. W. Taylor, Reno. New Hampshire — A. H. Morrill, Laconia. New Jersey — George J. Haven, Collingswood. New York — Clarence ■£. Pitts, Oswego. North Carolina — Edwin Shaver, Salisbury. North Dakota — Theodore F. Ostlund, Hillsboro. Ohio — L. E. Hawk, Board of Trade Bldg., Columbus. Oklahoma — Charles Brown, Carmen. Oregon— J. P. Newell, 368 E. 33rd St., Portland. Pennsylvania — David B. McCalmont, Franklin. Rhode Island — Elisha T. Read, Woonsocket. South Carolina — Charles A. Smith, Timminsville. South Dakota — C. V. Templeton, Woonsocket. Tennessee — James A. Tate, Harriman. Texas — E. H. Conibear, Dallas. Vermont — S. M. Harris, Vergennes. Virginia — James W. Bodley, Staunton. Washington — Guy Posson, Walker Bldg., Seattle. West Virginia — Edward W. Mills, Fairmont. Wisconsin — W. D. Cox, Gary Bldg., Milwaukee. Wyoming — L. L. Laughlin, Laramie. — 19 — HISTORY. THE PROHIBITION PARTY IN NINE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. The Prohibition Party was born in the darkest hour of the Civil War, when on July 1st, 1862, the devil of compromise, through the bribe of In- ternal Revenue, tempted Congress to officially recognize, sanction and legally bulwark the liquor traffic in return for a fixed annual tribute from its blood money proceeds; it was christened at Chicago, September 1st, 1869, learned the discipline of defeat, misrepresentation and practical pol- itics in three preliminary national canvasses of 18T2. '76 and 1880; re- ceived its "call" to the ministry of political righteousness in the electoral Pentecost of the 1884, St. John campaign ; and through evil and good report has now for a quarter of a century preached the gospel of a clean civic conscience as the only way of national salvation from legalized wrong, organized vice and capitalized appetite. The keynote of the Convention at Chicago held in Farwell Hall, Sep- tember 1st, 1869, was "Come ye out from among them and be ye separate," as the first step towards an effective union of all patriotic voters for the overthrow of the liquor curse. Five hundred delegates, representing nine- teen states and the District of Columb'a, were present. This Convention was preceded by the formation of several state Prohibition Parties: Illinois and Michigan in 1867, and Ohio in 1869. John Russell was the Temporary Chairman and James Black Permanent Chairman of the 1869 Convention, which adopted the name of the National Prohibition Party, and appointed a National Committee, of which John Russell was Chairman and Gideon T. Stewart Secretary. The first Presidential Convention of the party was held February 22, 1872, in Columbus, Ohio, and nominated James Black and John Russell, respectively, for President and Vice President. James Black, the first Presidential candidate of the Prohibtion Party, was a scholar, a man of both great executive and constructive ability. As Chairman of the historic 1869 convention, Presidential candidate in 1872, and Chairman of the Prohibition National Committee from 1876 to 1880 ; as or^e of the founders of the National Temperance Society and Publication House; as (]rand Chief Templar of Pennsylvania Good Templars, and as one of the organizers of the famous Ocean Grove (N. J.) Camp-Meeting Association, he served his cause and his church to the limit of his strength and influence. His temperance library of over 1200 works was left to the National Temperance Society. He was born September 16, 1823, at Lewis- burg, Pa., and died at Lancaster, Pa., December 16, 1893. John Russell, the beloved "Father of the Prohibition Party," is of staunch Puritan descent, and has given the best years of his life to the Prohibition refrom. He was ordained a preacher in the Methodist Church — 20 — PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES — 21 — at the age of 21, served as presiding elder for eight years and was Chair- man of the Temperance Committee of the General Conferenec of 1880. His distinguished labors in the Good Templar Order, in which he has been Grand Chief Templar of his state and for two years was head of the world lodge, are only equalled by his indefatigable championship by voice and pen of the cause, in both private and official position in the Prohibition Party from its birth in 1867-8-9. It was his paper, "The Peninsular Herald," which first successfully advocated a separate political party for the Prohibition cause. John Russell was born in Livingston County, New York, September 20, 1822. The National Prohibition Party ticket in 1872 received 5,607 votes. The second National Convention was held in 1876 at Cleveland, Ohio, nominated Green Clay Smith of Kentucky, and Gideon T. Stewart of Ohio, for President and Vice President, changed the name of the party to the National Prohibition Reform Party, and in the ensuing election secured 9,731 votes. General Green Clay Smith, born of patriotic Revolutionary stock, was a hero of both the Mexican and Civil Wars, receiving his commission as Brigadier General for gallant service at Lebanon, Tenn. In 186-t he came within half a vote of being the associate of Abraham Lincoln on the Re- publican National ticket. In 1870 he entered the ministry, serving as pas- tor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Washington, D. C, until his death, June 29, 1895. He was born at Richmond, Ky., July 2, 1832. Gideon Tabor Stewart, the Prohibition Boanerges of the Pioneer de- cades of the cause has probably served more times as candidate on local, state and national tickets than any other of the distinguished leaders of the party. During a period of less than 20 years from 1876, he was nom- inated once for Vice-President, three times for Governor, eight times for supreme judge, several times for common pleas and circuit judge and representative in Congress. He was for four years Chairman of the National Committee. As editor of the Toledo Blade and other newspapers and as an able lawyer in both the state and United States Courts, he has made a notable reputation, while his Scotch-Irish ancestry has endowed his oratory with brilliant logic and power and won a host of friends to the cause he loves so well. He was born at Johnstown, N. Y., August 7, 1824. In 1880 the Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Ohio, called General Neal Dow of "Maine Law" fame to be its Presidential standard bearer and Henry Adams Thompson to be his associate on the ticket. The party received 10,366 votes in the 1880 election. General Neal Dow, the militant Quaker of the Prohibition reform and famous as "The Father of the Maine Law" was born in Portland, Maine. March 20, 1804. Independent and aggressive as a young man, he carried through and realized his dream of saloon abolition in his native state in the years from 1846 to 1851, and in that achievement struck the keynote and set the pace for. the whole Prohibition movement of the two genera- tions which have succeeded his first endeavors. In April, 1862, he was commissioned Brigadier General by President Lincoln for gallant service — 22 — VICE-PRESIDRNTIAL, CANDIDATES — 33 — in the war. Born four years before the organization of Dr. James Billy Clark's Temperance Society, he lived to see the cause he loved spreading its influence through the nation and crystalizing for its final triumph. In June, 1894, the completion of General Dow's 90th year was celebrated by memorial meetings all over the world. Henry Adams Thompson left the Republican praty and became a Pro- hibitionist in 1874 from which time he identified himself by voice and pen with the Prohibition party. He was Chairman of the National Prohibition Convention in 1876, President of the National Prohibition Alliance in 1877. and held many offices of responsibility in the work for more than a score of 3^ears. He was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1837. The first three Presidential canvasses of the Prohibition party were each unfortunately handicapped by exceptional political conditions. In 1872 Horace Greeley, known as a staunch Prohibitionist in principle, was the Democratic candidate, and thus prevented a vote of any proportions for Black and Russell. In 1876 the extraordinary rivalry between Tilden and Hayes almost completely absorbed the attention of the voters. In 1880 on the very eve of the election and too late for refutation, the tools of the liquor power sent broadcast over the nation, a false dispatch stating that General Dow had refused to stand as a candidate. There was no foundation for the statement, but it proved a fatal blow to the Prohibition hopes for a large national vote in that year. In 1881 the Home Protection Party was formed by a coterie of Prohi- bition leaders, including Frances Willard. Colonel Bain, and John B. Finch, which in 1882, in a joint convention at Chicago, was merged with the Pro- hibition Party under the name of the Prohibition Home Protection Party, with Gideon T. Stewart as its National Chairman. The wonderful campaign of 1884 led by St. John and Daniel, followed and the Prohibition party from November 4. 1884, entered upon an era of national influence and agitation, the striking details of which are well- known to all Prohibitinoists. John Pierce St. John, the most bitterly fought and most devotedly championed Presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, was twice elected Governor of Kansas (1878-1880) on the Republican ticket and was defeated for re-election to the same office in 1882, by a liquor alliance of anti-Prohibition Republicans, after his independent espousal of the reform. During the last quarter of a century Governor St. John has travelled nearly 250,000 miles and delivered nearly 5,000 public addresses. He served in the Civil War, being appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 1 t3rd Regiment Illinois Volunteers. He was born in Brookville, Indiana. February 25, 1833. William Daniel, the colleague of Governor St. John on the ticket of 1884, was a distinguished son of Maryland, where he scr\-ed three terms in the legislature, was a power both in church and politics, and in Glyndon Park Camp-Grounds founded in 1889 what was for many years one of the most influential centers of Prohibition agitation in the South. He was born on Deals Island, Md., January 24, 1826. — 24 — PROHIBITION NATIONAL CANDIDATES— 1888 TO 1904. General Clinton Bowen Fisk, brevetted major-general in 1865, for bril- liant service during the war, was known throughout the nation for his benevolences and activities in religious, educational and charitable interests, was the founder of Fisk university, Tennessee, for colored youth; left the Republican party in 1S84 and for six busy years up to the hour of his death, July 9, 1890, gave himself heart and soul to the advancement of the Pro- hibition cause and party. He was born at Griggsville, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1828. John Anderson Brooks was a Kentuckian. born in Mason County m 1836; a leading preacher in the Christian Church (Disciples) for forty years, a Democrat until ISSt, he became a Prohibitionist when the brewers of Missouri so dominated his former party in his native state, as to make it repudiate its pledge to submit the Prohibition issue to the people. General John B^dwell commanded the entire Fifth Brigade of the Cal- ifornia militia throughout the Civil War, was a member (as a Republican) of the thirty-ninth Congress; for years a wine-maker and the owner of extensive vineyards, he at length became convinced that he was in the drunkard-making business, dug up his grape-vines, "gave his best wines to San Francisco hospitals, made vinegar of his poorest and went out of the business forever." Flis charities, many of them continued by Mrs. Bidwell since his death, endeared him to all. General Bidwell was born in Chau- tauqua County, New York, August 5, 1819. Rev. James Britton Cranfill, D. D., editor, preacher and church leader, was born in Parker County, Texas, in 1859, and although still a Democrat openly espoused the Prohibition issue in assuming the editorial manage- ment of the "Weeklv Advance" at Gatesville, Texas, in 1882. When the Democratic Party repeatedly turned down the Prohibition refer- endum demanded by the people. Dr. Cranfill left it and in 1886 organized the Prohibition party of Texas, of which he has been one of the indefati- gable leaders for more than a score of years. Dr. Cranfill has filled some of the highest positions of trust and responsibility in the Baptist Church. Joshua Levering, originally an independent Democrat, became a Pro- hibitionist in the St. John campaign, and has been one of the staunchest leaders of the party for the past twenty-four years. A successful business man, his intense interest in religious and reform work reveal the splendid breadth and balance of his character. For nearly four decades he has been prominent in the councils of the Baptist church, both north and south. He is one of the most active members of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States and Canada. Hale Johnson was a veteran of the Civil War; a Republican until 1884, he espoused the cause of the Prohibition Party at Pittsburg in that year, and his self-sacrificing devotion to the Great Reform was unceasing tmtil his death. The whole party was shocked at the news of his assassination Nov. 4, 1902, by an insane farmer possessed with the notion of a fancied grievance over a recently tried lawsuit. J\Ir. Johnson's sturdy -fidelity to principle was immortalized in his famous declaration of political independence, the epitome of which was "The Saloon and the legalized Liquor Traffic mav live, BUT NOT BY MY VOTE." The life-message of John G. Woolley to the Church and to the world at large are today among the richest treasures of every Prohibition house- hold in the land. The benediction of incarnate faithfulness to truth and the noblest civic ideals, left by Henry B. Metcalf is still fresh in all hearts, while the heroic figure's of Dr. Swallow and the generous loyalty of George W. Carroll, both illumined in the great campaign of 1904 are yet vital features of current history. — 25 — I THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR* t OF THE CONVENTION. 4- i "^ ^ MANUFACTURED BY ^ I THE D. L. AULD CO. I J COLUMBUS, OHIO 4* Makers of Masonic and Kmblematic Jewelry -^ 4- t "f Special Souvenirs for Fobs and Hat Pins of Design Illustrated 1^ ^ for sale at Convention Hall. Price 75 cts, 1^ While attending the Convention, have your Headquarters at the HOTEL STAR Moderate Rates - European Plan J. T. GRATIGNY, General Manager 26 REV. SAMUEL SCOTT, First Prohibition Candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1869. PROHIBITION STATE TICKET, 1869. For Governor, SAMUEL SCOTT. For Lieutenant Governor, JOSHUA WADSWORTH. For Supreme Judge, GIDEON T. STEWART. For Treasurer of State, THOMAS EDMONDSON. For Attorney General, JAMES A. SUMNER. For Board of Public Works, LOVERN B. SILVER. — 27 — PIONEERS OF THE GREAT REFORM. The first Prohibition Party State Convention in Ohio was held in Crestline, April 24th, 1869. The names of the pioneers present at this con- vention, so far as recorded, are — Hugh L. Parish, Jay Qdell, L. B. Silver, J. E. Fiery, George P. Burrell, J. A. Spencer, J. E. Ingersoll, Grove N. Abbey, Dr. Harris, Dr. Booth, Dr. N. T. Tyrili, Sevnor Williams, J. C. Murdock, J. J. Barnes. Dr. C. H. Merrick, John Reid, and James Paul. This convention did not nominate a ticket but issued a call for another State Convention to be held at Mansfield, O., July 14th of the same year, which met according to the call and nominated a state ticket headed by J. E. Ingersoll of Cleveland. A few days afterward, Mr. Ingersoll declined and Rev. Samuel Scott was selected to fill the vacancy. The following letter was received from Rev. Samuel Scott, now in his eighty-ninth year, in answer to a letter desiring the facts of the convention. "Dayton, Ohio, July 4th, 1908. '"The Prohibition State Convention, held at Mansfield in 1869, nomi- nated a full State Prohibition ticket for the state election and also appointed delegates to the National Convention, called by the promoters of the move- ment in this and other states, to effect a national party organization, which convention met on the first day of September, 1869, at Farwell Hall in the City of Chicago, 111., where the National Prohibition Party was duly organized. "In a few weeks after this convention, the pioneers of the Prohibition party of Ohio cast their ballots at the state election for the first Prohibi- tion party ticket ever voted in any state election. This was the only one of the states represented in the national convention which voted the ticket of the new party that year. It was officially counted in the state canvass and the vote reported as 6T9 only, many of the ballots being entirely sup- pressed by the willing tools of the liquor traffic in charge of the polls. But if counted small in numbers, it was large in another sense, for it was as the charge of the Light Brigade of the Six Hundred at Balaklava ; and the names of those fallen heroes will live long in history and song. It is said that their survivors were found in their proper places on the battle- field after the perilous charge, ready for the next call to the conflict with the foe. So with our own heroic band, while the white monuments sadly cover so many of our tried and proven patriots who were in that glorious Ohio charge of 18G9, some of that band have survived these thirty-nine years of heroic endeavor, and are now ready and waiting for the next command to advance, fearless and firm, now as then, whether they charge against few or against manv." — 28 — THE "UPPER KOO>l." The Prohibiton Party of Ohio was born in the "Upper Room," of the building shown in the above cut, at CrestHne, Ohio, April 24. 1869. The entrance to the room is shown at the head of the stairway. The building is still standing, and is of historic interest to every Prohibitionist in the Nation. 29 PROHIBITION NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. Year. Convention, Where and When. Candidates. 1869 Chicago, September 1. ... Prohibition Party organized. 1872 Columbus, Feb. 22 President, James Black, Pennsylvania Vice President, John Russell, Michigan. 1876 Cleveland, May 17 President, Green Clay Smith, Kentucky. Vice President, Gideon T. Stewart, Ohio. 1880 Cleveland, June 17 President, Neal Dow, Maine. Vice President, H. A. Thompson, Ohio. 1884 Pittsburg, July 23 President, John P. St. John, Kansas Vice President, Wm. Daniel, Maryland. 1888 Indianapolis, May 30 President, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, New Jersey. Vice President^ Rev. Dr. John A. Brooks, Missouri. 1892 Cincinnati, June 29 President, Gen. John Bidwell, California. Vice President, James B. Cranfill, Texas. 1896 Pittsburg, May 27 President, Joshua Levering, Maryland. Vice President, Hale Johnson, Illinois. 1900 Chicago, June 27 President, John G. Woolley, Illinois. Vice President, Henry B. Metcalf, Rhode Island. 1904 Indianapolis, June 30 President, Silas C. Swallow, Pennsylvania Vice President, George W. Carroll, Texas. THE ELECTORAL VOTE. The electoral vote of the several states equals the number of senators and representatives in Congress to which the various states are entitled. A new^ apportionment each ten years, based vtpon the census, brings changes in the electoral vote. The following table shows the present electoral vote of the states, based upon the apportionment of representatives made by Congress under the census of 1900, and also that of the previous decade, under which the election of 1900 was held : STATE ELECTORAL VOTE 1908 1904 1900 STATE Alabama 11 Arkansas 9 California 10 Colorado 5 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 5 Georgia 13 Idaho 3 Illinois 27 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 9 Maine 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 16 Michigan 14 Minnesota 11 Mississippi 10 Missouri 18 Montana 3 11 11 9 8 10 9 ■5 4 7 6 3 3 5 4 13 13 3 3 27 24 15 15 13 13 10 10 13 13 9 8 6 6 8 8 16 15 14 14 11 9 10 9 18 17 3 3 Nebraska Nevada 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 12 New York 39 North Carolina 12 North Dakota 4 Ohio 23 Oklahoma 7 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 34 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 South Carolina 9 Tennessee 12 Texas 18 Utah 3 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Wasliin.gton 5 West Virginia 7 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 3 Total 483 Necessary for choice... 242 ELECTORAL VOTE 1908 1904 1900 8 8 8 3 3 4 4 12 10 39 36 12 11 4 3 23 23 4 4 34 32 4 4 4 4 9 9 12 12 IS 15 3 3 4 4 12 12 .5 4 7 6 13 12 3 3 47G 447 239 224 — 30 POLEMICS OF THE GREAT REFORM. PROHIBITION THE GREATEST ECONOMIC ISSUE. The liquor question is the only live financial problem before the people today. According to the American Grocer this country pays out annually one and one-quarter billion dollars for drink, and the indirect cost — poverty, crime, loss — is equal to three quarters of a billion dollars more. That is five times as much as it pays for education, thirteen times as much as it pays for its religion and churches, and one hundred and seven times as much as it pays for all home and foreign missions. It is about four times as big as the Steel Trust, eight times as big as the tariff, and compared with the free silver question in American politics today, it is "sixteen to one." That is the great and only financal question that is likely to absorb the thought of this country for years to come. This is a financial basis, big and broad enough to found a political party upon. PROHIBITION THE SUPREME MORAL ISSUE. The moral phase of the Prohibition question is vastly more important than its economic phase. The liquor traffic is the direct cause ot most of the drunkenness, vice, pauperism, crime, Sabbath desecration, gambling, prosti- tution, graft, civic corruption, municipal wickedness and official crime. It is responsible for 5,000 suicides, 10,000 murders, 60,000 young women be- ginnng a life of shame, half a million young men starting on a life of drunken- ness, and 100,000 drink-murdered men every year. That is the moral basis of this reform, and it is big enough to furnish a platform for a national political party. Thus both financially and morally the Prohibition party stands for the only great question and the only truly national question before the people today. If any more proof is needed to show that ours are the only truly national issues, let it be remembered that this party has stood for this doctrine for thirty-nine years against all opposition and has never faltered. During these thirty-nine years we have seen 'green-backism,' 'tariff,' 'free silver,' 'farmers' alliances,' 'expansion,' 'anti-trust,' 'railroad rate legislation,' and a dozen other questions stalk for an hour across the political stage and vanish, while our cause has not shifted one hair's breadth, nor varied its doctrines nor its appeals to the conscience and intelligence of American man- hood. THE PROHIBITION PARTY THE ONLY NATIONAL PARTY. The Prohibition party is today the only national party. The Republican party is the party of the solid North, the Democratic party is the party of the solid South. Both of these parties are truly sectional, founded upon and fostering a sectional feeling; neither of them is, or ever can be, truly national. They antagonize each other, not over present vital issues, but over sectional traditions and sanguinary memories that must forever keep them asunder — 31 — and belligerent. On the other hand, the Prohibition party comes fettered with no such traditions and embittered with no such memories. It is in no sense sectional, but in all respects national. It presents the same principles to both South and North, and appeals to the same motives and interests everywhere. It has presented nine presidential tickets to the American peo- ple, and of its candidates two of its nominees were southerners — Green Clay Smith (1876) was from Kentucky, and Joshua Levering (1896) was from Maryland; and it has nominated four candidates for vice-president from the South. William Daniel (1884) was from Maryland, John A. Brooks (1888) was from Missouri, J. B. Cranfill (1892) was from Texas, and George W. Carroll (1904) was from Texas. The Republican party never nominated a candidate for president from the South, and never but one candidate for vice-president — Andrew Johnson. (1864) whom it tried to impeach. The Democratic party has never nominated a Southern man for President since James K. Polk of Tennessee in 1844 — sixty-four years ago; and it has during the last nine elections presented the names of only one for vice-president — Brown of Missouri (1872). Thus, during the last nine presidential elections the Republicans have nominated no Southern man. the Democrats, though strong in the South, have nominated no Southern man for President, and only one for vice-president, while the Prohibitionists, having small partisan following in the South, have nominated six. This is our attitude as a truly national party and our evidence of good faith toward the South. THE PROHIBITION PARTY ALONE REPRESENTS TRULY NATIONAL ISSUES. The Prohibition party is the only one that represents truly national issues. The issues so far as there are any, which divide the Republican and Democratic parties, are issues that are chiefly local or sectional, or they are contentions over personal favors or official patronage. The truly great and national questions, interstate commerce, anti-trust legislation and the Panama Canal, are questions about which there is substantial agreement among all parties and all classes, and there is today no question before the American people upon which these two great parties have divided upon clean-cut issues. They_ could interchange their platforms and speeches half of the time and no one would ever discover the difference. Not so with the Prohibition party. It offers the American people ques- tions that can never be anything but national. WHAT THE PROHIBITION PARTY HAS DONE. In the very midst of the Civil War in 1862, the National Government gave official recognition to the liquor business and laid the cornerstone of the latter's future prosperity by the inauguration of the Internal Revenue sysem as specifically applied to the drink traffic. It was at this crisis that on September i, 1869, five hundred delegates representing twenty states and territories, gathered in Farwell Hall, Chicago,. — 32 — and or'T-anized the movement known from that day to this as the National Prohibition Party. Despite all political prophesies it has steadily advanced in influence, numbers and achievements, and is today in the most tlourishing- condition of its entire career. For twenty-five vears the leaders of the temperance reform, with very few exceptions, both men and women, have been open and pronounced Party Prohibitionists. During- all this time the party Prohibitionists have held more public rallies to further the cause than all other agencies combined. The Party Prohibitionists through their publications have furnished at least nine-tenths of all the fundamental data, statistics, argument and educa- tional information on the liquor problem, and at great expense have sent their investigators round the world to every leading country of the earth to get the actual facts at first hand for every worker in the reform. Party Prohibitionists, it is no exaggeration to say, contribute more than three-fourths of all funds annually raised for the furtherance of the battle against drink. Church committees and temperance societies, woman's unions and young- people's movements with all their inspiring work are the spontaneous re- inforcements and auxiliaries which the progress of the reform has brought into being, largely as the result of the organized faith and truth incarnated and disseminated by the Prohibition Party movement. Besides being the indefatigable investigator and persistent pioneer of tlie reform the Prohibtion party and the Prohibition press have patiently han.imered away at public sentiment until every one of the liquor tratfic's basic factors of fraud and sham have become common knowledge, with the business discredited socially and politically and ready for de-legalization and extermination. The Prohibitionist has shown that the ramifications of the liquor traffic v/hich by instinctive coalition with the gambler, the white-slave dealer, the blackmailer and the whiskey-oiled old i)arty n-iachine has begotten a gigantic Vice Trust with headquarters in every great city — that these ramifications extend into every stratum of society and have aft'ccted with the subtle virus of indifiference every vein and artery of the body politic: That were it to continue undisturbed, it would in time paralyze every social energy and stifle the conscience of the people: That its nationally developed system of official sanction and license for an annual cash bribe to the state itself has been the parent of a thousand forms of special privilege granted every powerful corporation the land over: That the underlying principle which assumes that a license can ever legitimize or endow with respectability a trafiic whose existence under all conditions breeds slums, crime, misery, disease and degeneration as surely as swamps breed malaria, is both vicious and fallacious: That the theory that an organized vice can be taxed or ■"regulated" to death is untenable : That the absurd political economy which proposes to advance education, protect the state and conserve the highest interests of society, by the im- position of a permissive tax upon a business that thrives at the expense of and in the exact ratio that it debauches man and extends the tyranny of lust and appetite, is the monumental fraud of modern statesmanship: That the Internal Revenue System of the Federal Government as applied to the liquor traffic is a relic of econom^lc barbarism and one of the supreme defensive bulwarks of that traffic, and that its abolition would stj^ike the death-blow to its pretensions and its grip upon our politics: And finally he has conclusively proved that state and even national Prohibition are both feasible and possible, and will inevitably come in the process of our political evolution, but that its permanence and success will evermore depend upon popular vigilance in the election of officials pledged to fearlessly execute the law, and who are backed by a political party whose leaders and rank and file are not controlled by, nor at the mercy of, the liquor "trade," but sincerely and heartily united on the Prohibition policy as a dominant issue until it shall be victoriously established. All signs point to a new era wherein the victories of which the allied liquor interests robbed the people in the eighties will at length be perman- ently achieved. THE PROHIBITION PARTY AND THE SOUTH. The Prohibition party needs the help of the South. The saloon or- ganized for business and went into American politics forty-three years ago, and it has been a dominating factor in our state and national politics to this hour. It is entrenched in every department of our government. It fetters Congress, gags the President, and bribes the nation's conscience with its $200,000,000 annual internal revenue, and its $100,000,000 license fees. The Prohibition party can never hope, to break these chains of political bondage alone, for the problem is national and we must have the co-operation of the Prohibitionists of the entire nation — South and North — to free the nation from this criminal complicity with the drink traffic. We appeal to the South because we want the help of the South as well as the Nort'h to set the nation free. \ THE SOUTH AND THE PROHIBITION PARTY. Finally, the South needs the help which the Prohibition party alone can give. Since the Civil War, the South has had no president or vice- president nor any considerable influence in the national government, and as things have been going on for the last thirty years, never will have. As long as the solid Democratic South confronts a solid Republican North, there will be no change in the national situation nor any hope of change. We Prohibitionists believe that it is neither fair nor just, thus to practically deprive the great South of its just share of national honors and patronage. We, therefore, propose frankly and freely the only remedy that can ever change this unhappy state of affairs. There are millions of Prohibitionists in the Republican party of the North, and millions of Prohibitionists hi the Democratic party of the South, people of similar race, religion, tastes — 34 -- and identical in their belief in the doctrines of Prohibiton. If these millions will now band themselves together under the Prohibition banner, they will quickly form the dominant political party of this country which will be truly national, unfettered by sectional traditions, unpoisoned by sectional hate. The time is ripe for such a movement. Brethern of the South, we give you our hearts and our hands for this work. Will you join with us? THE NECESSITY EOR A PROHIBITION PARTY. We are met with the hue and cry that this mighty Prohibition revo- lution is not the outgrowth of political prohibition, but that it is bei'ng achieved on non-partisan lines, and that therefore there is no necessity for party organization and action in behalf of this issue. The Prohibition party believes that if a man has a conviction that Prohibtion and not license is the right method for dealing with the saloon problem, that he should apply that conviction not only in voting for the adoption of a prohibition law, but also in voting for public officers who are in favor of that law, and who will want to enforce it. We cannot consent to a political course that favors prohibition laws, and then votes for candidates and parties who are opposed to them and declare for 'personal liberty.' Why should not we carry our anti-saloon convictions with us when we elect our army of public officers? Why decry the use of political organiza- tion to this end? We recognize its use on all other questions national in scope. We want men in office who are favorable to public measures of much less importance. Why not organize to elect Prohibitionists to enforce prohibition laws? Such a course will end the cry that Prohibition does not prohibit. THE ROLL OF OFFICES. LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL. WHICH "HAVE TO DO WITH" THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Let us call the roll in part of the army of office holders in this country whose public duties touch vitally the question of Prohibition. There is the whole judiciary system from the Justice of the peace to the United States Supreme court ; there is *.he executive departments of the States, from the town constable to the Cove.^nor ; we must include all our machinery for selecting jurors, gatherinjr e^'idence, and having it properly presented in court, and this involves states at.torneys, city counc"ls and attorney generals. It likewise includes the whoV ai'^my of executive officers in the Federal service. We will need U. S. Marshals, District attorneys, and attorney generals. We will need to control the intricate machinery of interstate commerce, of importation and transportaLion, and of manufacture of intox- icating liquors with all the army of office h'^Mers involved. We will need a secretary of war and secretary of the navy whose hearts are not set on the restoration of the canteen. We will need a Post Office department set as firmly against the use of the mails for this traffic as it is now set against the lottery and the consummation of frauds and swir. dlers. We will need — 35 — a Secretary of the State who will not disgrace this nation by lending the consular service to drummers for this traffic among the half civilized nations of the earth, and who will not permiit rum to follow and undo the work of our great army of missionaries in the remotest corners of the earth. We will need a Secretary of the Treasury who knows how to support this govern- ment without 'blood money.' Above all we will need in the White House a man who will ncAcr lift before the gaze of the admiring young manhood of this nation the wine v>-hen it glows in the cup. We will need there a man of will power equal to Lincoln, and one with a heart for humanity equal to a Frances Willard. It is of course conceded we will need men in legislative capacities, from the \illage board, the city council, count}' boards and legislatures up to and including both branches of Congress. Keep such a cpiestion as this — one needing such an army of office holders as this — out of pol tics? It is the ijaide.'-.t absurdity e\-er proposed in statesmanship. It simplx- cannot and might not to be done, and the sooner the American people recognize this fact, and get down to the practical work of organizing for ]:)oLitical \ictor} the better it will be for this cause. THE BREADTH OF THE PROHIBITION ISSUE. The Prohibition of the liquor traffic is the greatest issue our land has e\cr known. Roundly speaking, there are in the L'nited States Two llun- drefl and Fiftv Thousand saloons. When we add to these the breweries, distilleries, and wholesale liquor houses, we ha\-e greater vested interests than the Southern slave-holders held before the war. There are. perhaps, directlv and indirectly connected with the liquor traffic, more than two mil- lions of men, and the annual expenditure for intoxicating drinks by the people of the United States reaches more than one billion two millions of dollars. Great as it is, the financial equation of the problem is but a trifle when compared with the other questions involved. The sale of liquor causes seventy-five per cent, of all the crime known an our country ; it is the one constant and prolific source of pauperism, profligac_v and insanity ; it destroys the very bone and sinew of our laboring classes' j^is the source of the cor- ruption of elections; it seeks to control, and di^gj. control, legislatures, con- gressmen, judges. United States senators, anr\ i-^iny newspapers; its tentacles are fastened upon every factor in our public;, ar-i social life, and it has reached out far enough to gather into its slimy fr^^jfjc some who minister at the sacred desk. When we consider the questior, ij- its powerful and far reaching in- fluence, it is by far the greatest is:-ue >^ver known in any laiul. ^,^-''There are those who claim that the Prohibition party is a party of one iflea, and they allege that for that reason they cannot become Prohibitionists. If this were true and the Prohibition party had but one idea, it would cer-' tainly be one idea ahead, because the two old parties have no idea and no issue. They are abs-^luely at sea. and the noise they are making is on — 36 — accovint of the fact that they want to obscure the Prohibition issue and thus continue the deception of the American people and themsehes in office. Every man, woman and child in America is afifected by the liquor traffic. Every life is menaced by the saloon. Every artery of commerce feels the deadly effect of this blood poison of our national life. Such an issue as this must of necessity be, and by the very nature of the case is. the greatest issue known to American statemanship. HOW THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IS IN POLITICS. The liquor fight is in politics and has been there for half a century. The only way to get it out is to fight it to death in that citadel. The liquor traffic has no politics, and no patriotism but its own business. It has for years dictated with few exceptions, all nominations for pC)l- itical office at every local, state and national election. Its political strategy and power is its citadel of strength. To break it of its power we must compete with it in the election of puljlic officers. To do that all men who are opposed to it must ultimately stand together in one political organization, call it what you please. It will be a political party no matter what you call it. We believe the time has come for such a great moral rc\olution. The nation needs now as it has never needed a moral issue infused into its political life, llie times are ripe for such -a political realignment as will place all of the friends of the home, and of humanity from the north and south. -the east and west, side by side against the common foe of all. Such is the great mission of the Prohibition party. We have carried for forty years and never lowered the banner for local, state and national prohibition, and so help us God we will never haul down that banner until -the nation is redeemed and the old flag we love shall protect -every home in the land. TRY THE CE KURE EYE GLASS MOUNTING MANUFACTURED BY THE OHIO OPTICAL COMPANY COLUMBUS, OHIO See your Optician or Oculist 1 ^ 1 I I M I I I I I n I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I H I I I I I I I I I I I I M I I I I I I I I I I l _ ; IF YOU BUY IT FROM HUTCHINSON IT IS GUARANTEED. YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT AS REPRESENTED. 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'j'his pronouncement on the Prohibition issue has been the unvaried attitude of the National Democratic party for more than thirty years. 1 The Republican party in ffs Presidential Conventio n of 1872 pledged its national support to the brewers against Prohibition and Sabbath observance, in the famous i6thvpla nk of i tS-4>Iatft5rm known as the Raster resolution. This stand was openly endorsed by the liquor forces of the nation and every National Republican platform from 1872 to 1908 has impliedly re- affirmed this plank. In 1888 the Republican party specifically reiterated the substance of the Raster plank. '•The 1908 Republican -N^ajional Convention which nominated Mr. Taft for President at Chicago, June ii5tli last, refused to favor or champion any phase of the Prohibition issue, althoWh earnestly urged to do so by letters and telegrams from many prominentX temperance Republicans and others throughout the country, but on the contrary re-endorsed its previous anti- Prohibition attitude in these words : ''Upon this plaiiform.of principles and purposes, reaffirming our adherence to every Republican doctrine proclaimed since the birth of__thje^4ia-rly, we go before the country asking the support not only of those who have acted with us heretofore but of all our fellow citizens who, regardless of past political differences, unite in the desire to maintain the policies, perpetuate the blessings and make secure the achievements of a greater America." Whether or not this plank referred directly, among other pronounce- ments, to the Raster brewers' plank of 1872, is definitely shown in the fol- lowing correspondence since the Republican National Convention at Chicago, between Robert H. Patton and Attorney-General Wade H. Ellis, of Ohio, who, according to the press reports, was the special representative of Taft on the Resolutions Committee, and wrote the rough draft of the national platform, which received, prior to the Convention, the hearty O. K. of both the Secretary and President Roosevelt. The correspondence i's as follows : Copy of letter sent by Robert H. Patton, to Hon. Wade H. Ellis, June 22nd, 1908. Springfield, 111., June 22nd, 1908. Hon. Wade Ellis, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir : — I have noticed from the public press that you drafted the platform of the Republican convention, and I would like to know what interpretation is to — 39 — be put upon the expression ''reaffirming our adherence to every Republican doctr'ne proclaimed since the birth of the party." Did the authors of this platform understand that they were reaffirming the sixteenth plank of the platform of 1872? If you will kindly inform me upon this matter, I will appreciate the same. Yours respectfully, ROBERT H. PATTOX. Copy of reply received at Springfield. Illinois, June 24th, 1908. Wade H. Ellis, State of Ohio, Attorney General. Office of the Attorney General Columbus, Ohio, June 23rd, 1908. Mr. Robert H. Patton, Springfield, Illinois. Dear Sir : — I have your letter of June 22nd, and find noth'ng in the i6th plank of the platform of 1872 Avhich is inconsistent with good Republican doctrine. Yours verv trulv. WADE H. ELLIS. The Raster Resolution, known as the si.xteenth plank of the Republican National Convention Platform adopted at Philadelph'a, 1872, reads as folloAvs : "The Republican party propose to respect the rights reserved by the people to themselves as carefully as the powers delegated by them to the State and Federal government. It disapproves of the resort to unconstitu- tional laws for the purpose of removing evils by interfering with the rights not surrendered by the people to either the State or National government.'' Mr. Herman Raster of Ch'cago, was the member of the Platform Com- mittee from Illinois, and prepared and secured the adoption of this plank in the platform. In explanation of its meaning he wrote the following letter: "Chicago, 111., Julv 19, 1872. "J. M. Miller. "Dear Sir: — In reply to yours of July 8th, I have to say that I have written the sixteenth resolution of the Ph'ladelphia platform, and that it was adopted by the Platform committee with the full and explicit understand- ing that its purpose was the discountenancing of all so-called temperance (prohibitory) and Sunday laws. This purpose was meant to be expressed by reference to the rights of the people which had not been delegated to e'ther National or State governments ; it being assured that the right to drink what one pleases (being responsible for the acts committed under the in- fluence of strong drink), and the right to look upon the day on which Chris- tians have their prayer meetings as any other day, were among the rights not delegated by the people, but reserved to themselves. "Whether this explanation of the meaning of the resolution w'll satisfy you, I do not know. But as you want to serve the cause of truth so do I : and what I have said here in regard to the true meaning and intent of the sixteenth resolution of the Philadelphia platform is the truth. "Very respectfully yours, "HERMAN RASTER." On the same day in which th's Raster anti-Prohibition plank was adopted the United States Brewers' Association in national convention endorsed the Republican party, supported it at the polls and at its next convention June 4, 1873, at Cleveland. Ohio, gloried in its triumph, which President Clausen voiced in these words: ■ —40 — "The last Presidential election has shown us what unity among us can do. Let our votes and work in the future be heard from in every direction." The nearest that the Republican party ever came to adopting a Pro- hibition plank was in 1884, when Frances E. Willard, President of the Na- tional Woman's Christian Temperance Union made an eloquent plea before the Committee on Resolutions of the Republican convention. Miss Willard's appeal was turned down with jeer and insult, her written appeal literally trampled under foot, and the only response that the platform gave was a declaration that "the Republ'cans of the United States in national convention assembled, renew their allegiance to the principles upon which they have triumphed in six successive presidential elections." In 1888 similar presentations were made before the Republican National Convention by temperance Republicans but provoked even less attention. In the last moments of the convention of 1888, four days after the adoption of the platform, the following resolution was hurriedly presented by C. A. Boutelle and adopted without opposition : "The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity of the home. The Republican party cordially sympathizes with all wise and well-directed efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality." This was adopted June 25, 1888, and on July 10, 1888. Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular, the leading organ of the liquor trade in the United States, commenting on this resolution declared : "And pray, who withholds endorsement from such propositions as this. In behalf of the wine and spirit trade, we hereby accord this declaration our unreserved approval. The man who would do otherwise would be very apt to contend that two and two d:d not make four." "The Boutelle resolution," declared the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, one of the leading Republican papers of Ohio, July 17, 1888, "is a simple piece of sentimentalism, equally harmless and unnecessary. If it had meant any- thing it wouldn't have passed." This is the record of the National Republican party on the Prohibition issue from 1872 to 1908 inclusive. TAFT AND BRYAN ON PROHIBITION. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, Republican candidate for President, is opposed to Prohibition, delivered campaign addresses against the Oklahoma Prohibition Const'tution in 1907, is endorsed by Busch, Jones and other big brewers, and the liquor press of the nation are quoting with approval his criticism of Prohibition laws in "Four Aspects of Civic Duty." He championed the canteen, and in 1906 as Secretary of War, Mr. Taft wrote an offic'al appeal to Congress, favoring a Government appropriation of $30,000 to reimburse saloon-keepers of San Francisco, whose places of business daring the great fire had been destroyed by soldiers in an attempt to save other property. This astonishing request was not granted by Con- gress, and was indignantly denounced by the religious press, which pointed — 41 — out its unfa'rness and partiality when the similar losses sustained by scores of churches that demanded no compensation were considered. He has never spoken a friendly word, or done a friendly act ptiblic or otherwise, on behalf of the Prohibition cause. He received strong support for the Presidential nomination from George B. Cox, the notorious Republican saloon boss of Cincinnati, Ohio, from Hon. A. B. Cummins, the anti- Prohibition Governor who has held the support of the once-outlawed liquor power of Iowa ever since he stabbed her state Prohibition law to death in 1892 with the infamous mulct compromise, and from many other liquor politicians of the party. He secured practically the und'-vided support of the delegates from the Republican party of every Southern state, which now stands almost solidly opposed to Prohibition in that section. He is, by his own testimony a total abstainer, fully aware of the peril in drink, but silent and deliberately inactive in the hour when his support would tell most powerfully for the reform. BRYAN AN ANTI-PROHIBITIONIST. Hon. William J. Bryan is also a total abstainer, but is on record as having voted and openly stumped the state against Prohibition in Nebraska in 1889, where the liquor power of the nation concentrated 'As forces upon that state, padded the 1890 census-returns of Omaha, Lincoln, and other cities to enable them to cover up wholesale ballot-box stuffing, hired thugs to assault Prohibition speakers and intimidate voters, and bought up the leading newspapers to achieve the most corrupt victory ever won by the booze-trust. His latest att'tude is shown in the recent interview in the Associated Press, June 12. These facts are detailed as follows as given by State Chairman Alonzo E. Wilson of Illinois: "A conspiracy seems to exist between the two leading national parties to ignore the liquor question in their platforms." "The interview with William J. Bryan." said Air. Wilson, "given to the Associated Press and published in many papers throughout the country on June 12, declared: "I do not expect it (Prohibition) to be made an issue by either the Republican or the Democratic National Convention." "Mr. Bryan says he has received many letters on this subject and has answered them all the same way. This Bryan letter, one of which was received by a friend in Texas, confirms the recent interview and contains this remarkable sentence : 'I think that I am sufficiently informed to predict that the Pro- hibition question will not be discussed in the platforms of either of the leading national parties.' AO "T'V "It appears that there is an understanding between the two leading- national parties to ignore this qviestion which has forced itself to the front in American politics and that Mr. Bryan is aware of this fact." "Who was Mr. Bryan's informant?" asked Mr. Wilson. "Mr. Bryan says that he thinks he is sufficiently informed. It would be very interesting to the voters of America to know the source from which this information came. It will be observed that Mr. Bryan says it is sufficient. I call upon Mr. Bryan to explain to the country this amazing statement in both his interview and letter. If he declines to do so the people will watch with interest the action of the two great conventions which will settle the ques- tion as to whether or not there has been an agreement as Mr. Bryan intimates." Last April, Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. Bryan's home, went through a terrific battle for local Prohibition, w^hich was lost by only 178 votes. Mr. Bryan's personal support might easily have changed the result, but he was not heard from during the canvass. THE PROHIBITION PARTY IN NATIONAL POLITICS. The statesmanship, purpose and fearless unswerving attitude of the Pro- hibition party as regards the dominant issue of its continuous thirty-nine years' campaign to date, may be graphically summarized in the follov^ng typical declarations, representing every national platform of the party from 1869 to 1904 inclusive: ORGANIZED TO PERPETUATE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. "The Prohibition Reform party of the United States was organized in the name of the people to revive, enforce and perpetuate in the Government the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence." — Platform, 1876. TRUE TO ITS DOMINANT ISSUE FOR THIRTY-NINE YEARS. "That the traffic in intoxicating beverages is a dishonor to Christian civilization, inimical to the best interests of society, a political wrong of unequalled enormity, subversive of the ordinary objects of government, not capable of_being regulated or restrained by any system of license whatever, but 'imperatively d_emanding for its suppression effective legal Prohibition, both by State and National legislation. "That in view of this, and inasmuch as the existing political parties either oppose or ignore this great and paramount question, and absolutely refuse to do anything toward the suppression of the rum traffic, which is robbing the nation of its brightest intellects, destroying internal prosperity and rapidly undermining its very foundations, we are driven by an imperative sense of duty to sever our connection with these political parties and organize ourselves into a National Prohibition party, having for its primary object the entire suppression of the traffic in intoxicating drinks." — Platform, 1869. — 43 — THE Livingston Seed Co. FAMOUS FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS FOR THE UNIFORM RELIABILITY OF THEIR SEEDS. Superb 100-page Seed Catalogue FREE. SEND FOR IT. The new edition, out Jan. 1st, will be better than ever before. FALL BULB CATALOGUE, ready after Sept. 1st, mailed free upon request. Come in and see us when in Columbus. The Livingston Seed Co. 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"We declare that there are but two real parties, today, concerning the liciour traffic — perpetuationists and Prohibitionists ; and that patriotism, Christianity, and every interest of genuine and of pure democracy, besides the loyal demands of our common humanity, require the speedy union, in one solid phalanx at the ballot-box, of all Vvdio oppose the liquor traffic's per- petuation, and who covet endurance for this republic." — Platform, 1900. PERIL IN OLD PARTY COMPETITION FOR LIQUOR VOTE. "There can be no greater peril to the nation than the existing competi- tion of the Republican and Democratic parties for the liquor vote. Experience shows that any party not openly opposed to the traffic will engage in this competition, will court the favor of the criminal classes, will barter the public morals, the purity of the ballot and every trust and object of good govern- ment for party success. Patriots and good citizens should, therefore, im- mediately withdraw from all connection with these parties." — Platform 1872- 1884. WHEN PROHIBITION WILL PROHIBIT. "We call attention to the fact, proved by the experience of more than fifty years, that to secure the enactment and enforcement of prohibitory leg- islation, in which alone lies the hope of the protection of the people from the liquor traffic, it is necessary that the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government should be in the hands of a political party in har- mony with the Prohibition principle, and pledged to its embodiment in law, and to the execution of those laws." — Platform, 1904. THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF THE PROHIBITION CAUSE. "In the examination and discussion of the temperance question it has been proven, and is an accepted truth, that alcoholic drinks, whether fer- mented, brewed, or distilled, are poisonous to the healthy human body, the drinking of which is not only needless but hurtful, necessarily tending to form intemperate habits, increasing greatly the number, severity and fatal termination of diseases, weakening and deranging the intellect, polluting the affections, hardening the heart and corrupting the morals, depriving many of reason and still more of its healthful exercise, and annually bringing down large numbers to untimely graves, producing in the children of many who drink a predisposition to intemperance, -insanity and various bodily and mental diseases causing a diminution of strength, feebleness of vision, fickle- ness of purpose and premature old age, and -producing to all future genera- tions a deterioration of moral and physical character. The legalized im- portation, manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, minister to their uses and teach the erroneous and destructive sentiment that such use is right, thus teiiding to produce and perpetuate the above-mentioned evils. Alcoholic drinks are thus the implacable enemy of man as an individual." — Platform, 1880. — .45 — Columbus Souvenir Spoons and Cups We have an excellent assortment of Sterling Silver Spoons at $ 1 .00 $1.25 $1.50 $1.75 $2.00 $2.50 Memorial Hall, State Capitol or McKinley Monument engraved or stamped in bowL Japanese Souvenir Cups Show^ing 4 Columbus Public Buildings 75( THE MARRINGTON CO. JEWELERS 83 North High St., Columbus, Ohio GET THE HABIT GO TO BOND'S MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S CLOTHES. A most complete FURNISHING DEPARTMENT High and Gay. Baker s Cocoa I I * 1 Known by all Housekeepers for f 128 Years as the Synonym t for Purity and | Excellence I You don't have \ to acquire a j taste for it. 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Labor and all legitimate industries demand deliverance from the taxation and loss which this traffic imposes ; and no tariff or other legislation can so healthily stimulate production, or increase the demand for capital and labor, or insure so much of comfort and content to the laborer, mechanic and capitalist, as would the suppression of this traffic." — Platform, 1884. THE IMMEDIATE NECESSITY OF UNION FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION. "The manufacture, exportation, importation, and the sale of alcoholic beverages has produced such social, commercial, industrial, and political wrongs, and is now so threatening the perpetuity of all our social and political institutions, that the suppression of the same by a national party organized therefor, is the greatest object to be accomplished by the voters of our country, and is of such importance, that it, of right, ought to control the political actions of all our patriotic citizens until such suppression is accomplished. 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