People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Illinois Prohibition Convention. [ARTICLE]

Illinois Prohibition Convention.

Springfield, 111., April 8. —The delegates to the state convention of the prohibition party are here in large numbers. There are fully 500 of them on hand. There is likely to be a lively fight over the platform, as the people’s party and free-silver men want their ideas incorporated into the platform, but it is believed that a straight prohibition platform, vXrith. no other planks, will be adopted. The state central committee met last night and decided upon Oliver W. Stewart, of Macinaw, as chairman, and Alonzo E. Wilson, of Chicago, as secretary.