Show POLITICAL POINTS candidates I 1 dates of the BLAINE FOR PRESIDENT their state made ud gor mans scheme to steal the presidency Fresi dency march IS 18 for Pre eiden ziden henry heary W V blair of f new hampshire for vice tice president francis willard of illi ell nis ni this is the ticket that some same leading western prohibition uta have and aro are getting ready to advocate preparatory para tery tu the national convention of the national prohibition party which as se in the iha exposition building b at sc louis louia on june auth one week later than the gathering of the rank and fie cla of the democracy at chicago chicag 0 of 01 course the know that no woman ocian rf not et eyen the saintly head 0 of the Wo neris christian temperance Tempera DC union could preside over oer the lions of f the gray and venerable sena aena tona at washington ington but at the game time the they Y do not expect that thai we the junior candidate condi daty date on their twill ke be called ap toko preside pi eside and c consequently on ly they argue that any objection objects 0 ii on that score scare is already annii eed even the most sanguine prohibitionist does docs not fur for a mo mcf ment imagine that the party is ever agn going to be strong enough in ia this day or generation to hold the balance balanc e of powel powe ind and its ita presidential ticket li fis therefore nothing more than a protest of recard to shiell all thele thase opposed to the domination of the saloons may give their adhesion with their votes the rhe prohibition party does not appear to be particularly short of timber although gen Flike its lost last a and a d at strongest candidate has passed to the great beyond gen gea neal nal dow bow is ia about crossing the ime toward datade ex ei governor john P st at john is ia regarded as politically a back gumbei prohibitionist Prohibit ionest demon abt ot of now new york called by some the iman mm m m milli milliner would tike take the nomination it it wore offered him so would dr 11 mcdonald cDonald of san francisco who has made a cig uig fortune in the pre para tion diun and sale of a kind of bitters ibyl some of his envious rivals have charged to contain a certain proportion of ajeo lol iol and so would william of effew new york yom 0 e ef I 1 hi t virginal r ginal stockholders in the standard oil trust when it was first fira organized and who has been connected with it to the tha present sul is now its tra treasurer surer tie he has carried tho the prohibition banner dinv inv in various anous cappa campaigns igns in the state as tho the nominee for gayer governor nor comptroller and mayor of new york city and his friends win are now booming him in the east say eay th it na n e would make a fight for tote s that would be interesting if not sue jul but inthia in this nuck neck of woods however ho hj wever ever the feeling inclines toward the ticket first mentioned it iii hll held that ex senator B air by his hia advocacy ol of woman suffrage Suf fage free education a and his hii opposition to the chinese chinesa has secured to a large and widely scat following that might be ba brought almost entirely un der the prohibition flag were ie he to receive the nomination for president ali wllie e it is vaso held that th the e name ei of mimi francis willaid upon the ticket would bring to it scores of th thousand odmand of vote from religious and tempera temperance ace circles of people who admire her for ahat she has done i in a the cambs of humanity and abd because bec airie she never cast her vote fur for the candidates es ea cither of the old party tickets it may maybe be taken for granted unless something secures idile bean time that a strong and well wall organized ga n iced lobby will go down dawn to st louis in june next witti wita blair an aal I 1 willard on their banners despite the chilly reception which they chev encountered at the recent I 1 libor and industrial convention in st louis louia the prohibit prohibition ionesta ests have not yet vat given up jip hopes of being able to effect a coalition with the combar 1 I peoples and alliance 11 parties the national presidential convention of which will assemble I 1 at omaha on aha a week after the gathering of the temperance tempera I 1 ce there has been some talk of bringing about a conference between the two wings for the purpose of endeavoring to unite upon some ticket which would prove acceptable to both gatherings but it is ii hardly hardly probable that taa t this will be carrie carried through the decidedly adverse sen in regard to prohibition manifested at bt louis is pretty certain cartain to be manifested again at omaha and it can be taker taken for granted that none of those who compose the presidential timber of tho the prohibitionists P would be acceptable acceptable to 16 the peoples party pany and it dfcia is equally certain that atho tae letter etter has hag no man of prominence who would be acceptable to te the prohibition ista unless it were weaver of iowa or powderly of pennsylvania and while I 1 one of sheso is ia politically dead the 0 b r has given it out that his connection with the knights knight i of labor would makiel maki it impossible lor for him hiat to accept tho the nomination Apparent apparently lv therefore there i is no cdamon coaT iun ground upon which the and labor people can stand nor is there to lo justify thi hopes of the ornice that a coalition cabbe can be effected condi t aua s indicate with th certainty that each 1 party arty will go its own way and place its u yn ticket lieker in the field |