Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — THE PROHIBITIONISTS. [ARTICLE]

THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

Michigan State Convention. The Michigan Prohibitionists held a State convention at Battle Creek for the purpose of electing delegates to the national convention at Pittsburgh, July 23, and to consider the most effective methods of nastening the advent of prohibition In Michigan. The number of delegates was 239, including nine women. John Rnssell, of Detroit, presided. Delegates were elected to the National Prohibition Convention, to be hold in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23, and a State Cen ral Committee was chosen. The resolutions adopted reaffirmed confidence in the power of the State to suppress the liquor traffic; in the Union Prohibition party of Michigan and the National Prohibition nome Protective party as the only competent political agency to that end. A resolution approving woman suffrage was adopted by 112 to 39 votes, after a hot discussion, especially by the women delegates.