Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITIONISTS. [ARTICLE]

PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITIONISTS.

They Declare for Protection and the Repeal of Internal Taxes. The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention met at Harrisburg with about four hundred delegates. The Bev. John A. McConnell of Pittsburg was made permanent Chairman without the usual speech. The platform pledges the party to the policy of total prohibition by constitutional amendment; opposes all forms of license and denouncesthe high-license law as a delusion and a snare ; demands the repeal of internal-revenue tax on liquor and tobacco; favors the election of President, Vice President, and United States Senators by direct vote of the people ; advocates the settlement of national differences by national arbitration, and the settlement of differences between capital and labor by courts provided for such purposes; demands such correction of the tariff laws as will give full protection to the manufacturers and producing laborer against the competition of the world; asks such change in the immigration laws as will prevent the introduction of convicts, paupers, and those physically disabled, and the enforcement of laws prohibiting the importation of contract laborers, and declares for woman SuffrageDelegates to the National Prohibition Convention were elected.