To Fight Liquor Evil

Peoría, 111., June 2. - The state prohibition convention was callee! to order this afternoon by Oliver W. Stewart, chairman of the state central committee. The attendance of delegates was unusually large. Every section of the state had a representative. The convention will be in session two days. It will partake lapgely of the nature of a love feast, the time being spent in the discussion of the plans for the fall campaign and the adoption of a platform. The resolutions will be confined almost wholly to national íssufs and with ways and means for suppressing the liquor evil.