Show founds OEO HALF A fl i CENTURY au abu flan no 4 national prohibition party organized in Chica goby I 1 I 1 delegates delegat os I 1 EARLY STANDARD BEARERS amendment Ame amendment Adment has never been favored by leaders because of odds of 10 to I 1 against its passage the national prohibition party Is just fifty years old its ceel falling failing on septena september er 1 1010 1919 it was born bora lu in farwell hall cli chicago leago tito the convention numbered about GOO COO persona 1 sona from 10 states the formation of mhd patty arty j w was as probably first discussed in public tit nt it pennsylvania state temperance contention atlon lit in 1807 temperance lenders leaders had failed to get much consideration from the republican ind and democratic parties and were nvere feeling tho the need of independent action tito good tem IP 1 k I 1 V I 1 I 1 L 11 g V 1 james black clars an order of total abstainers abstain ers organized lit in 1851 nt at utica N Y were also alao working to this und end the vall rail for the chicago convention originated may 29 26 1809 in the grand lodge of the good Temp lars at oswego N X Y which a committee to convene conven 1 e a national gathering to organize a political party favorable to prohibition legislation this commit ae consisted of john russell detroit midi mich daniel wilkins blooml bloomington agton ill J A spencer cleveland 0 john N steams new york and james block black lan lancaster aster pa at this convention the ille was was organized a platform arid and a national bom omi cittee was appointed with jo john in russell chairman tho the first national nominating convention assembled assemble din in columbus 0 on birt hilay 18 1872 T i I 1 it t named james black for president and john russell for vice president black was one at ol 01 the founders of the r national a temperance society an and putli publication li house nn an organizer orffie of the famous ocea grove N J camp meeting association find and a prominent good templar Tem piar upon hla his death in 1803 1893 lie ho left ills temperance library of 1200 volumes to the national temperance society russell the father of the prohibition party yaa a methodist minister atcon and tia a lending icil ding good templar nr ills nan newspaper the peninsular rcck herald was tile the to 6 advocate advocate the formation of a sepu separate tato political party for r notwithstanding the worthiness s of the cause and the candidates tho the public support nt at the election of 1872 was not enthusiastic the total or of tho votes received by black and russell was but in 1870 green cay smith of kentucky and gideon T stewart of ohio were tile the candidates they polled votes 1 in 1880 neat neal doia of maine with 11 II A thompson of ohio as a 3 running mate appealed to tc the country general dow was widely known as the author of the maine prohibition hibi hibit tion lon law but he be succeeded in getting only candidates and their vote the prohibition convention of 1800 split the party over woman suffrage and money the free silver minority formed a liberal party with bentley of nebraska and southgate South gato of illinois ns its its standard bearers they polled about votes the feature of the prohibition campaign of 1000 1900 was a tour of the abb country by tho the candidates and a corps of speakers akars by special train jn an 1012 he file prohibition convention I 1 the candidates of 1008 tit the candidates mince s ance 1884 and their voto vote tire arc ns as follows clinton 13 ali risk sk new jersy jersey annu J A brooks missouri otea votes 1802 john Bl aldwell dwell california and J 13 Cran cranwill lill texas votes 1890 joshua levering maryland and hale johnson illinois votes 1900 john 0 woolley illinois and IT 13 metcalf Alet calf rhode isi island and votes 1904 1901 S 0 C swallow pennsylvania and george georga B carroll texas votes 1003 1908 eugena W chafen illinois and aaron a walking wt ohio votes 1012 1912 eugene W chatin arizona and aaron S watkins ohia votes 1010 J frank flanley IIan lcy Ind tann awl dr irn ira landrith tennessee votes tho national prohibition party curiously enough has been rather opposed posed to prohibition by constitutional amendment lit in the last year book 1010 1910 wo we read although tho ahe prohibition party moy may bo be to bo a committed by platform declaration to the alio adoption of 0 it national prohibition amendment when placed lit in power tile tho program of the iho party lias has never contemplated agitation for a nonpartisan amendment TO ho bo enforced by administrations not favorable to prohibition illAtIon tito general opinion seems seeing to favor admitting tile the desirability of tile tho amendment na as tile end to ile bu accomplished at tho the sanio same time emphasizing its impracticability cabi lity na as a method and denying its iti necessity its aa a n condition precedent to securing national prohibition tion tito odds odda are so BO overwhelmingly against tho the ratification of till nn ment finont that they cannot possibly bo be overcome through any reasonable ex of time money and effort FO BO long as the liquor traffic exists to fight for its life tito tho Nat national lonal prohibition party Is certainly right about tho the apparent odds odda against tho adoption Rd option by angress coner oai of a 11 constitutional amendment tind and its ratification by tho the 9 states tates eliere vo been 1707 1757 amendments to tile constitution proposed and 18 of thorn havo have been passed herein lies tho the war inar belof the ratification of tho eighteenth amendment in about thirteen months it has that the tha chances against tile tho passing of nn an amendment are arc 10 to 1 the caso js ls put thus i tito chance against ratification are 2 tp I 1 in the house of rep representatives r and 2 to 1 la in mhd senate and micro foro fore 4 to 1 lit jn congress congles that Is should tho the measure i pass either cither house by unal limous vote tho ona one third opposition in the othera wo would tild I 1 block I 1 it t lit in congress na as a whole in other Nv words tho the resolution i aust be supported 9 it tile tho two changes ineich house it efio alio opposition scores on its one chance id either cither hause fhe be measure falls the changes jn n oid state legislatures aro are G 0 to 1 I tho the resolution benlo in tho congress and tedi chances fre 10 to I 1 in other words the moh surp i pass otiss both houses of congress anant unanimously and b defeat defeated cd by tile one chance 1 in alie stater pil 1 puss pass either house of congress and all of the legislatures unanimously and be defeated by the one arf tie all other a r house iou to of coll congress st john makes a stir john 11 st john was the fir forsti pro party candidate to malco make et n real seirin stir jn tho the political world what lie ho did in the campaign of 1884 was long remembered st stjohn john casborn in Indian annd intha in tha civil war avier was li lieutenant catona n t colonel of the efte onal Il hundred undred tind and forty third regiment 1111 nobi vol un ila iio was twice elected governor C of kansas on the alto republican ticket and was defeated for ro elec tion alon to this in 1882 by antl anti pro whitt on republicans who thought him tort warm a friend of the temperance ca cause use 1 frances E I 1 willard and a delege delegation t I 1 0 n of wom women an presented an u r i petition to the republican national convention urging consideration for the prohibition forces the story of I 1 that ti almo me was that the petition orf was not only laid on the table but thrown X f john P st john on the floor where it was found the next day tuch much the worse for wear anyway alss will ard took her grievance 0 o the prohibition party the prohibition n party offered the nomination for president to st johnt john with william daniel of maryland for vice president st jolin john accepted tho the nomination ile he was au an effective speaker and campaigner and he be wept out after blood and especially republican ile iio carried tile the war into new v york considered a doubt full ful state ip in the exciting struggle of that campaign between james G blaine and grover cleveland st john jumped the prohibition vote tote from votes to votes what Is more lie ho polled enough votes in new york to defeat the plumed in III that state and as it turned out in the nation atlon the ing of the time Is indicated by the fact that st john was burned in effigy in more than cities |