The Prohibition Party candidates for President and Vice-President will be the only national candidates discussing the evils of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. Jim Hedges and Bill Bayes will offer the voters a clear-cut choice on these subjects.
The ticket of Hedges and Bayes is the strongest national ticket offered by the Prohibition Party is 56 years. We need your help! Every Party member and supporter can have a place in this campaign. Here are a few things all of us can do: Put a “Hedges.n.Bayes 2016” bumper sticker on your car. Wear a campaign lapel pin. Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper. Call in to radio talk shows and mention the Prohibition Party and its nominees. Make a financial contribution – every dollar counts. Arrange for the candidates to speak in your area. Pass out campaign literature. Help find electors.
We will be on the ballot in at least 6 states: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Several more are possible. In states where we cannot qualify for ballot position, write-in campaigns will be conducted and paperwork necessary to get write-in votes counted will be filed.
As your national chairman, I will assist you in every way possible. Please feel free to contact me. My email address is [email protected]. Your thoughts and suggestions are welcomed.
In the next edition of this newsletter, I will give an outline of the states which will count write-in votes.
OK troops, let’s roll!
Our Logo, the Camel (From the Prohibition Party website)
Influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902), he who gave the pachyderm to be the symbol of the Republican Party and the jackass for that of the Democratic Party, also gave the camel to the Prohibition Party. Nast drew for Harper’s Weekly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Nast chose the camel to represent the Prohibition Party because, like Prohibitionists generally, camels don’t drink very often, and, when they do drink, they drink only water. Originally a dromedary, the symbol was later changed to the Bactrian camel in order not to be associated with the camel logo on Camel Cigarettes.
They certainly have the money to spend on a ballot drive, the question is whether they will. I think their modus operandi has been to horde cash to keep the party nominally active for eternity.
That will all depend for the most part on how they handle ballot access.
“The ticket of Hedges and Bayes is the strongest national ticket offered by the Prohibition Party is 56 years.” – Rick Knox
Stronger than Rutherford Decker/E. Harold Munn? They polled 46,203 votes. I don’t think so!
Good point. They might actually get some traction with that. Now that you mention it, it’s funny they apparently don’t care about the one actual prohibition that’s actually getting a lot of attention at the moment, with issues on the ballot and presidential candidates being asked about it.
“I think there’s some irony abt the Prohibition Party using the Bactrian Camel as their mascot. What with the Bactrian going extinct …”
They should re brand themselves to the youths as the Dry Humpers. You know, make Prohibition hip and cool with the young’ns again. Bring back Joe Camel as their mascot. Some pizzazz. Maybe hire Vincent Harris to run their social media campaign. Next thing you know, repealing the 21st Amendment will be the the hip new thing on college campuses.
Might be wise for them to focus on marijuana as their key issue.
I think there’s some irony abt the Prohibition Party using the Bactrian Camel as their mascot. What with the Bactrian going extinct …
“The Prohibition Party candidates for President and Vice-President will be the only national candidates discussing the evils of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.”
Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.