Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — OHIO PROHIBITIONISTS. [ARTICLE]

OHIO PROHIBITIONISTS.

Their Platform Calls for a Great Many Reforms. The Ohio Prohibition convention was called to order at 9;30 o’clock Thursday -morning at Springfield, O. The committee on credentials reported 363 delegates present. Temporary ChairmanC. P. Macklin, of Greenfield, was made permanent chairman. The matter of device for the head of the ticket was referred to a committce who reported a white rose with a sprig of leaf as the party emblem, which was unanimously adopted. The platform denounces the liquor traffic in the usual terms; demands a revision of immigration and naturalization laws to prevent aliens from voting until one year after naturalization; declares for woman suffrage; denounce speculation in margins; recommend pensious to soldiers and sailors, graded according to time of service; it recognizes gold, silver and currency as the proper circulating medium, issued in sufficient quantity to meet demands; reclamation of unearned land grants, and that no more of the national domain be granted; de‘ clares the tariff should be assessed on the goods from such countries as tax American products; expenses of government should be paid by income tax; all official fees should be covered in the public treasury, and all officials paid salaries.