The Butler Weekly Times

Prohibitionists Make Nominations for State Offices.

What began as a state convention of prohibition delegates at the Gillis opera house yesterday morning was turned into a mass meeting half an hour later and put into the field the following full state ticket with the exception of appellate judges:

Governor—Frank M. Love, of Kansas City.
Lieutenant Governor—W. C. Wilson, of St. Louis.
Treasurer—W. H. Craig, of Kansas City.
Secretary of State—H. A. Farris, of Clinton.
Auditor—A. Cobb, of Springfield.
Attorney General—Geo. E. Bow ling, of Lamar.
Register of Lands—J. S. McMurray, of Shelbina.
Railroad Commissioner—D. H. Lane, of St. Joseph.
Supreme Judge—L. G. Rowe, of Westport.

Soon after assembling the fact was developed that there was no party organization in many of the congressional districts, and a resolution giving all persons present who professed the prohibition faith the power of a delegate was adopted. This applied to ladies and gentlemen alike, and the former, of whom there was a large number in attendance, were not slow to take advantage of the unusual privilege. Just one little hitch occurred during the entire session, and that was upon the question of woman suffrage. Then for a few minutes the assemblage, which had been all brotherly love and sisterly affection, assumed the aspect of a real out and out political convention. After the committee on resolutions and a platform had submitted a majority report, in which the platform adopted by the national convention was heartily indorsed, Mr. George H. Townsend, of St. Joseph, submitted a minority report in which he recommended that section 7, relating to women suffrage, be stricken out. A hot debate followed in which Mr. Townsend and his friends were worsted, but not till they had indulged in insinuations of gag rule and in turn were charged with casting firebrands into the convention. This little wave of unpleasantness soon subsided, however, and in all other respects the convention was very harmonious.

There were more gray hairs than dark ones among the delegates and fully half as many ladies as gentlemen, due largely to the fact that the members of the W. C. T. U., which convenes to-day at the Grand Avenue Methodist church, met with their brother prohibitionists yesterday. There was by actual count 378 persons in the hall who declared themselves of the prohibition faith and as the resolution giving all present the power of a delegate was adopted that number of delegates had a voice in the convention. A majority of the ladies and a number of the more distinguished gentlemen occupied seats upon the stage.