Salt Lake Herald | 1908-02-09 | Page 3 | Prohibition Call Issued

Ll ISSUED National Convention Will Meet in Columbus 0 July 15 Over Delegates to Be lIe Chosen Columbus 0 O Feb 8 Fifteen hun bun hundred hUndred bundred dred and twelve delegates and an nd ag as many I alternates are re provided for in the official call for the national prohibition con convention convention which will meet in Columbus July 15 The call can was sent out today by I Charles A Jones Joncs chairman and W G Calderwood secretary of the Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition tion national committee It I Is expected that fully tully five thousand persons per ons will at attend attend attend tend The call opens with congratulations to the people over the progress of ot tem tern temperance temperance perance legislation and recites the ac no accession I cession of Oklahoma Georgia and Ala Alabama Alabama bama to the ranks of Prohibition states The convention Is called to nominate candidates for president and vice pres president ident and for the transaction of any other business that may come before beCore the convention Basis of representation Is fixed as follows Each state territory to have four delegates at large each state tate l entitled to an additional delegate for every votes or fraction traction thereof cast for Dr Silas C Swallow for president In 1904 1004 the District of ot Columbia to have two delegates each state and territory to have as many alternates as delegates I I