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Prohibition party

noun

  1. a U.S. political party organized in 1869, advocating the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.


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The scare was unwarranted, however, for the Prohibition party had about reached its high-water mark.

The very cut of his clothes, the very colour of his necktie, proclaimed a triumph, for the prohibition party.

The Keystone and Prohibition party conventions also heard suffrage speakers and adopted favorable resolutions.

England now has a national prohibition party, and Mr. Axel Gustafson is its leader.

On July 18, a convention was held to organize the Prohibition party in Lincoln county.

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