Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — THE PROHIBITIONISTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

Possible Candidates of That Party tot I the Presidency. The Prohibition--its pf this country ‘are looking forward with considerably interest to the national convention of that party, which will be held in Machinery Hall, Pittsburg, Pa., May 2?. Delegates to the nujnbes. Of 900 or 1,000 will be presents Each State is eijitled to four delegates-at-lurge and (o twice as many delegates ; as the number of Congressmen representing it at Washington and may send one additional delegate for every thousand votes cast for Bidwell and Cranfiil ia» 1892. Each territory and the District, of Columbia may send two delegates. There is a split in the party this year which promises to increase as the date of the convention approaches. The split is on the financial question, as are the splits In the older parties. The party is divided nto “narrow-gauge and “broad-gauge’' Prohibitionists, the former favoring a sin-

gle issue—Prohibition pure aud simple— Bs The policy of the party, while tho “broad-gauge” people consist largely of free silver who contend that the platform should cover all the leading political issues. The two men who lenu respectively the “narrow-gauge” and the “broad-gauge” advocates are John G. Woolley, of Chicago, and John F. It. John, ex-Governor of Kansas. Mr. Woolley is widely known as an earnest worker in the ranks of the Christian Endeavorers, and as an accomplished orator. Every reader, it is probable, has a general acquaintance with the career of Mr. St. John. Both these gentlemen have declined iti advance a possible nomination for the presidency. A name prominently mentioned on the “narrow-gauge” side is that of Joshua Levering, of Baltiinore. He is one of the leading merchants of that city, and is otherwise prominent on account of his. intcrest lh nmny local 'chnritablc institutions and his general philanthropy. Henry B: Metcalf, a wealthy manufacturer of Pawtucket, R. 1., has many admirers, and will probably be given a large-voted A the convention. Like Mr. Levering, he is a “narrow-gauge” Prohibitionist. Of the “broad-gauge” candidates 0- E. Bentley, of Lincoln, Neb., is probably the best* known. He is a Baptist minister and an earnest temperance worker. Still another candidate for the nomination on the “broad-gauge” side is R. S. Thompson, of,

Springfield, 0., proprietor of a Prohibition journal.

JOSHUA LEVERING.

CHARLES E. BENTLEY.