Show PROHIBS ARE GATHERING National Convention Will Meet in Chicago Wednesday Chicago Tune 21Thtere will bo polled not fewer than 300000 votes for the Prohibition national ticket this fall The vote four years ago nan approximately approxi-mately 1COOOO a Ions of nearly 15UOOO from the vote of 1892 This loss was due to thc mony issue raised In the last campaign and will be retained with perhaps an increase this year With the national Prohibition convention conven-tion one day distant Chairman Oliver W Stewart of tho national executive committee of Hie I Prohibition party mado tIme foregoing statement tonight According lo the sanV authority the Prohibitionists In convention this year leave the solving of i economic problems except hose I which In their opinion can be solved by the abolition of the liquor irafilc to the other political parties From the representatives of the thir tyfive State which have held conventions conven-tions the following platform was announced an-nounced today An unequlNocul demand for the legal abolition of the liquor traffic of the United States A demand for the suppression of thc army canteen A plunk dealing with time expansion policy of the Administration solely in I respect to the extension of the liquor I traffic to the colonial possessions A tariff plank declaring that it Is more Important that the American I worklngman should be protected from J thc evils of the saloon than from the competition of foreign labor and goods A declaration lo the effect that the o rovi Of viji without the sa loon through which they are able to to LUlL cue otc ol the people Referring the question of womans suffrage back lo time several Slates on the ground that question IH one for do termination by States Individually |