Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — MICHIGAN PROHIBITIONISTS. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN PROHIBITIONISTS.

Adopt a Free Silver Platform and Elect National Delegates. The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Lansing, spent Thursday discussing the relative merits of the dominant idea and the broad-gauged platform. The dominant idea men succeeded in capturing a majority of the Committee on Resolutions and secured a majority report making no mention of free silver. The minority, however, reported a free silver plank and a resolution Instructing the delegation to the national convention to work for a free silver plank in the national platform. The minority report was adopted unanimously and the free silver plank by an overwhelming majority. The resolution of instructions was adopted by a close vote. The delegates-at-large are Henry A. Reynolds of Pontiac, Samuel Dickie of Albion, George R. Malone of Lansing and Rev. John Russell of New Haven.