Prohibition party
Americannoun
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In the 19th century the Prohibition party was progressive on at least some issues – as early as 1872 it supported women getting the vote, something which was only introduced nationally in 1920.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
Members of the Prohibition party, which opposes the consumption of alcohol, are currently in the midst of nominating who it will run as their presidential candidate in 2020.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
The earliest was August 26, 1887, when the New York Times reported a speech by Fred Wheeler at a Prohibition party convention.
From Time • Feb. 20, 2016
The picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the Prohibition party, organized on a national basis in 1872, temperance was now a political issue in Kansas, Iowa, and the Territory of Dakota, and through the W.C.T.U. women waged an effective total-abstinence campaign.
From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma
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