Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 hastening the advent of prohibition in Michigan. The number of delegates was 239. Including nine women. John Russell, of Detroit, presided. Delegates were elected to the National Prohibition Convention, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23, and a State Central 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 Home 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.