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Show SENATORREED PARTIALLY 'DRY' i MEXICO. Mo. Sept 28 (By the' 'Associated Press'i le( larlng for a I "reasonable" modification of the prohibition pro-hibition la' United States Senator James A Red Wednesday in an .'ni-1 .'ni-1 dress here, opened his campaign for! I reelection on the Democratic ticket He assailed tho new tarli f as the-! "most monstrous scheme of 1 'under 1 ever conceived by selfishness and greed.' and attacked the Harding administration. Senator Red had beei, challenged by his Republican opponent, R R Brewster, to declare himself op the; prohibition question in this speech. 1 j Brewster, In the prlm?ry campaign j j declared himself as be in 3 'as dry' as; the eighteenth nrnendmont " AVOIDS LKAf.lT MF.VTIOV. Mr. Reed stated he favored a "rea-I "rea-I scumble modification of the dry law so I tho rights of th- citizens shall be pro-J pro-J tected a?ai:st unwiae and ofton brutal acts of prohibition officials " Reed, who fought the league of nations, na-tions, did not mention the league but mentioned frniT President Wilson's name once in reforrlng to Mr Wilson's Wil-son's veto of the prohibition 1 HI. The spoiler asserted h held "a sentiment of genuine f 1 ier.dJhlp" 'o-ward 'o-ward Prstd'-nt tin r ling and 'was sorry for him. hut even more sorry for the neople 0? th United suttoi." PAY I.r ( ofi'i,iMi:vTx Ho referred to Secretary of the j Treasury .1 M'on as 1 perhaps the wealthiest nun In the United SrUtteb" I and state! Mr MePon "interposed his powerful arm to prevent the pas. age j of the flrt 50! Iters' bonm bill." Loter i he said "0 so-cai!o1 b n"is bill was passed" with the almost certa n knowledge that li. would bo vetoed "So far as this a imlnlst -wtlon is concerned." con-cerned." he continued, the soldiers who 6erved their country will lake their pay In compliments and cheers." |