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Show ONE MORE CONVENTION. The Prohibition national convention is to meet in St. Paul on the 19th of the present monthy at which time and place the usual resolutions will be adopted and candidates for president and vice presideut nominated. The veteran prohibitionist, Governor John, P. St. John, of Kansas, will be present, as will all the other old "war horses" of the movement. Three other ex-governors arc being mentioned in connection connec-tion with the presidential nomination, and it is probable one of them will be chosen to lead the party. These men are J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, Eugene X. Eoss of Massachusetts and William ulzer of New York, and each is declared de-clared to have a largo following. The strongest man of the three is Manly, and he is generally regarded as the most promising candidate. Eoss has been in all parties at one time or another an-other anil has sought otiiee in season and out of season. Moreover, he is sompwhat of a crank. Sulzer's career is well known. lie was a Tammany congressman for several years and finally final-ly landed the governorship. He got into a row with the bosses and was im-pe:ndied im-pe:ndied by the legislature. Nevertheless Neverthe-less he cannot be considered as a mar-tvr, mar-tvr, for the evidence showed he had been engaged in some very questionable stock transactions. Of course he would not have been impeached had he stuck bv Tatnmriny. At the same time the bosses could not have forced him to w;ilk the plnnk without proving pome ot tio- 'Ikm-ps they brought against liiiu. We do not believe the Prohihi tionists will have the hardihood to nominate nom-inate Sulzer in faco of the record. The Socialists named their man some time ago. The Democrats have renominated renom-inated Wilson and the Republicans have chosen Charles E. Hughes as their standard bearer. When the Prohibitionists Prohibi-tionists put up their candidate the preliminaries pre-liminaries for the great quadrennial contest will have been arranged, unless the remnants of the Progressive party find a man who is willing to lead them to defeat. At the present writing this does not appear probable. So when the Prohibitionists take action the lines will be drawn and the four parties will prepare for the onset. On. November 7 the boat will sail up Salt river and the camel will be on board. |