1876 Prohibition National Convention

American political convention January 2025 1876 Prohibition Green Clay Smith - Brady-Handy.jpg 150x150px Gideon T. Stewart.png 150x150px Nominees Smith and Stewart May 17, 1876 Halle's Hall Cleveland, Ohio Green Clay Smith Washington, D.C. Gideon T. Stewart Ohio 1872 1880 The 1876 Prohibition National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at Halle's Hall, in Cleveland, Ohio on May 17, 1876, to select the Prohibition Party's presidential ticket for the 1876 presidential election. Presidential nomination On May 17, 1876, the national convention was called to open by party Secretary John Russell due to the absence of Chairman Simeon B. Chase and was attended by 150 delegates,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49303421/belmont-chronicle/ National Prohibition Convention in Cleveland. May 17, 1876 Belmont Chronicle, Saint Clairsville, Ohio 22 April 2020 1 Newspapers.com which one source describes as "not largely attended".Smith Joseph Patterson https://archive.org/details/historyrepublic00smitgoog History of the Republican Party in Ohio 1898 Lewis Publishing Company Chicago 351 en Green Clay Smith, the former Territorial Governor of Montana, was selected to serve as the temporary chairman of the convention.https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0032/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg Page Thirty of Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party live https://web.archive.org/web/20200324131257/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0032/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg March 24, 2020 30 James H. Raper, a representative from the United Kingdom Alliance, gave a speech at the convention.https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0033/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg Page Thirty One of Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party live https://web.archive.org/web/20200324132624/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0033/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg March 24, 2020 31 On the first ballot a variety of candidates split the 70 votes cast including Green Clay Smith with 28 votes, former presidential nominee James Black with 12, former vice presidential nominee John Russell with 8, R. A. Brown with 7, former New York Governor Myron H. Clark with 5, Gideon T. Stewart with 3, James G. Blaine with 2, and five others received a single vote each: former Portland Mayor Neal Dow, abolitionist and advocate for Native Americans Wendell Phillips, S. Merritt, W. D. Dodge and R. M. Foust. On the second ballot, Smith received a majority of 46 votes and was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Stewart was selected to be the vice presidential nominee.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40776783/the-summit-county-beacon/ Prohibition Presidential Ballot May 24, 1876 The Summit County Beacon live https://web.archive.org/web/20200324135816/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40776783/the-summit-county-beacon/ March 24, 2020 2 Newspapers.com Platform The platform drafted by the Platform Committee gave support to alcoholic prohibition in Washington, D.C., territories, and every state, equal suffrage and office eligibility regardless of race and gender, free public education, direct election of the president, vice president, and senators, increasing immigration, decreasing governmental salaries, and opposition to the death penalty, gambling, and lotteries.https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0034/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg Page Thirty Two of Brief history of prohibition and of the prohibition reform party live https://web.archive.org/web/20200324131736/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:dcmsiabooks:br:ie:fh:is:to:ry:of:pr:00:bl:ac:briefhistoryofpr00blac:briefhistoryofpr00blac_0034/full/pct:100/0/default.jpg March 24, 2020 32https://case.edu/ech/articles/p/prohibition-party PROHIBITION PARTY 2018-06-18 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Case Western Reserve University en 2020-04-17 The delegates also voted to reaffirm their support for the party's platform which was created at the national convention during the 1872 presidential election.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47311176/middletown-transcript/ Prohibition Conventions May 20, 1876 Middletown Transcript live https://web.archive.org/web/20200325113830/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47311176/middletown-transcript/ March 25, 2020 2 Newspapers.com See also 1876 Republican National Convention 1876 Democratic National Convention 1876 Greenback National Convention References Category:Prohibition National Conventions Category:1876 conferences Category:1876 United States presidential election Prohibition National Convention Category:19th century in Cleveland Category:United States presidential nominating conventions in Cleveland Prohibition National Convention