Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — PROHIBITIONISTS OF OHIO [ARTICLE]

PROHIBITIONISTS OF OHIO

They Nominate a University Professor fer Governor Salient Features of tke Platform Adopted. Columbus. 0.. Aug. 3.—The Prohibition state convention nominated the following ticket: For governor, Aaron S. Watkins. Hardin county; lieutenant governor, W. K. Foltz. Summit county; judge of supreme court, James Sterling, Stark county; attorney general,W. L. IJster, Cuyahoga county; state treasurer, Hiram L. Baker, Athens county; member board of public works, George W. Mace, Darke county. The indorsement of John M. Pattison, the Democratic nominee for governor, was not mentioned. Watkins, the nominee for governor. Is professor of English literature in the Ohio northern university at Ada, O. ■ - The platform adopted declares unequivocally for The prohibition of the liquor traffic, favors the election of United States senators by popular vote, pledges the party to give equal rights of suffrage without respect to sex, calls for a uniform divorce law and labor legislation and advocates the Initiative and referendum in granting franchisee and tn matters of municipal and county concern.