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Prohibition Convention Meets in Cincinnati
At Music Hall Cincinnati the Prohibition National Convention gathered under Frances Willard leadership to select temporary and permanent chairs amid a heated platform fight over revenue and silver among major plank debates. John P. St John Kansas and E Ritter Indiana were named temp and permanent chairs as delegates debated platform items on liquor suppression finance and tariffs with votes tight before adjournment.
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Cincinnati
Queen City
Frances Willard
Stevens
Black
St. John
Stewart
Dickie
Ray
J. C. Evans
Illinois
National Committee
John P. St. John
Kansas
Jopn BP. Ar
A.G. Wokenberger
Nebraska
A. G. Wilson
G. W. Stevens
Massachusetts
Committee On Permanent Organization
E. Ritter
Indianapolis
Small
E. F. Ritter
House of God
Committee On Platform
Rassmussen
T. W. Hart
Hagins
Ritter
California
John Bidwell
Chico
Cal
Congress
Hipp
Colorado
Whitfield
Iowa
Bain
Kentucky
Bidwell
W. Jennings Demorest
New York
J. Lloyd Thomas
New York City
Grandison
North Carolina
Ohio
L. B. Logan
Giron T. Stewart
Sam Small
Georgia
Demorest
William Satterles
Minnesota
Joshua Levering
Maryland
J. B. Canfill
Texas
Thomas Carskadon
West Virginia
Levering
Canfill
Satterlea
Carskadon