The Prohibitionists

Chicago, Dea 13.- "What we want is to take off these stuffed glovos and put on brass knuckles, driviug our war lnto the enemy's ranks." So spoko ex Guvernor John P. St. John of Kansas ut a massiiieeting of Prohibitioni.sts in the Assooiatiou building. ExGovernor J. P. St. John, onco candidate on the Prohibition tiokut for president, atter rcviowing the politica! situation, said: "I ain tlred ofwastíng time on oíd church deaoons. If I wero uskod what our church resolutions moan I would answer, 'God on!y knows- I don't.' Whit we want is to tuke off these stuffed gloves and pnt on brass knuckles, driving our Wf-r into tho onomy's ranks. The Prohibition party is not a Sunday school organization. Lat iría s;iy right now and hora thut we are goiug to got there." Bright l.i-nts f the Party. Nlne hunurud poople assembled to hear the brightost and best known speakers oí the party, who had been ealled here to attond the uational committee's meeting in session at tha Shcrma-n house. On the stage were seated tha speakers and the delogates to tho convention. The audience was addressad by Snmuel Dickey of Michigan, chairman of the national committee; Hon. Volney B. Cushing of Maine, ex-Governor John P. Sfc. John of Kansas, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar of Indiana, James B. Canfleld of Texas, M. B. V. Bennett of Kansas, and Goorge C. Christian of Arkansas. Samuel Dickey said during his address: "I believa it nght that we plant our feet upon a proposition, conceded to be just even by our foes, that some of these days the churchos .vill say that if it is wrong to run a saloon it is wrong to vota for some one else to run it " Old Part es. Mra. Helan M. Gougar wanted the children "to bo educatod by ineans of scientifin temparaiKje instrucUon," and to the Liibor Congruss said: "If yon want to solve tho labor question go to tho ballot box and crash the liquor traffl." Two dominant poiitical parties, she said, were in existenco - one organized plunder, tho othor organizad incapacity. "I expoct to see," slie said, "a wondsrfu) poiitical rcvolution within sis months. Thsre aro two elementa in the saloon train 'j - the one behind the bar and the ono in front, and ths one in front is the worst." Jamos B. Canfield declared that he was throagii with b ith tho "old parties," and that he was with the Prohibitionists uutil he died. At the meeting of the Prohibitian national committeo Pittsburg was selected as the convention city.