Prohibition Convention Opens with Fisk Admiration and Fanfare
Delegates gather in Tomlinson Hall Indianapolis for the National Prohibition Convention on May 30. Festivities center on Gen Clinton B Fisk and woman suffrage, with Frances Willard and Sam Small among notable attendees. The session features welcomes, committee assignments, and a pledge to uphold woman suffrage and temperance principles as the convention adjourns to continue Thursday.
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Indianapolis
Tomlinson Hall
Gen. Fisk
Clinton B. Fisk
North
South
Kansas
Sam Small
Georgia
Dickie
Illinois
Frances E. Willard
Green Clay Smith
Gideon T. Stewart
Neal Dow
Maine
St. John
H. A. Delano
Norwich
Conn
Colonel Ritter
Indiana
Delano
Needham
Canfil
London
Axel Gusafson
Congress of Women
Washington
Fisk
Thomas
New York
States
Brewers’ Association
St. Paul
Walter ST. Mills
John B. Finch
National Committee
Perenne
Prohibition Party
Waas
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Committee On
Gore
Diana
Mississippi
Sau Carolina
Territories
Wyoming
Prohibition party seals platform amid woman suffrage clash
At the National Prohibition Convention delegates adopt a platform endorsing national woman suffrage while opposing liquor, with intense debate over a two hour speaking window and a party pledge drive that raises about twenty three thousand dollars. Clinton Fisk is nominated for president with high public acclaim.
Labor Candidate Streeter Accepts National Union Labor Nomination
Hon. A. J. Streeter of Illinois, pictured, received the nomination for President from the National Union Labor Convention held in Cincinnati. A wealthy farmer, he has served several terms as a State Senator in the Illinois Legislature and has accepted the nomination.
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Senate
Lyman Trumbull
Palmer
Bloomington
Congress
Illinois
Washington
Fourteenth
Illinois Infantry
Kentucky
Sherman
Chicago
General Sheridan
Gov. Palmer
Horace Greeley
Democratic Party
McDonald
Indiana
H. L. Kimball
A. J. Streeter
Union Labor Party
National Union Labor Convention
Cincinnati
Streeter
Electric Breezes and Court Decisions Across States
Judge Chups of Albion New York resents George Wilson a wife murderer to be hanged June 27. Bonville body found after Indians tortured him near Duluth as a large posse hunts murderers. Alexander Bogner asked to design a Horace Greeley statue. Concert at Steinway Hall New York to raise funds. Peter Engstrom confected in Erie Pennsylvania shoots himself after note payment failure. Ohio Board of Pardons recommends delaying Blinky Morgan execution by sixty days. F Wheeler of Curtis Wheeler Rochester found dead in Cincinnati sleeper possibly from chloral overdose.
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Jupge Chiups
Albion
Orleans County
N. Y
George Wilson
Man Bonville
Duluth
Alexander Bogner
Horace Greeley
Steinway Hall
New York
Peter Engstrom
Erie
Ohio State Board of Pardons
Blinky” Morgan
F. A. Wheeler
Curtis & Wheeler
Rochester
Cincinnati
Blaine Declines Nomination Amid Prohibition News
James G. Blaine, writing from Paris, declares he will not accept or permit his name to be presented at the Republican National Convention. He cites unity, protection policy stakes, and fears of misinterpretation, urging supporters to avoid factional contention to advance national prosperity.
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New York Dispatch
the Tribune
James G. Blaine
Paris
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Italy
Florence
Chicago
Republic
United States
Views of the Editors on Mr Blaine Withdrawal
New York editors report Blaine has withdrawn from the presidential race. The World The Star and The Press publish decisive statements confirming his exit. The Journal Tribune Times Herald note the move ends hopes of drafting him and praise his self denial and calm judgment.
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Blaine
New York
The
Star
Chicago
Knight
Whitelaw Reid
Florence
Journal
Tribune
Republican Party
the Times
the Herald
Ohio Prohibitionists Nominate Ticket at Toledo Convention
The Ohio Prohibitionists met in Toledo nominating Walter F. Payne for Secretary of State J. W. Penfield for Board of Public Works and John F. Moore for Supreme Judge Delegates to the National Convention were chosen The platform calls for absolute prohibition restricts suffrage to citizens urges Sunday law enforcement suspensions for veterans and arbitration in labor disputes while denouncing liquor traffic license laws imports labor and trusts.
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United States
Prohibition Army of the
Dakota
North Carolina
Ohio
Toledo
Walter F. Payne
Fostoria
Board of Public Works
J. W. Penfield
Willoughby
John F. Moore
Jackson
Congressional nominations across states and districts
The Allegheny County Republican Convention in Pittsburgh renominated Hon. John Dalzell for Congress in the Twenty second District and Hon. Thomas M. Bayne for the Twenty third District. The Democratic conventions in Fourth North Carolina and First Maine districts nominated B. H. Bunn and William Emery, respectively, by acclamation.
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Pittsburgh
John Dalzell
Congress
Thomas M. Bayne
North Carolina
B. H. Bunn
Maine
William Emery
Alfred
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Committee On Permanent Organization
John P. St. John
J. B. Cantil
Texas
M. M. Brown
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Mr. Delano
Rum
Babylon
National Congress
Bishop Turner
African Methodist Church
Prohibitionists
A. M. Richardson
Committee On Rules
Walter Thomas Mills
Mr. Christian
Haddock
Sioux City
Dr. Evans
B. F. Sturtevant
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Michigan
Merriweather
Missouri
Olin
Oliver
Richmond
Mills
Don
Merrywether
Stewart
Small
Credentials Committee
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Arizona
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Morrow
J. F. Colson
John Tle. Tanner
Tiek
George W. Bain
Lexington
John A. Brooks
Kansas City
G. C. Christian
Bennett
Hoffman
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Miller
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Brooks
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E. L. Doeheney
John T. Tanner
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John M. Palmer
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