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Show Nils. Fired Off tht Sprinkling Cert. The Miles Presidential boom has received another an-other puncture. The Prohibitionists who erstwhile wanted the late Commanding General of the army to occupy a front seat on the water wagon, will have none of .him. At the time the boom made its appearance Gen. Miles wrote a letter which was published and construed con-strued as an indication of his willingness to accept, but advising the Prohibitionists to wait and see what the Democrats and Republicans did at their conventions. Now comes the Hon. O. W. Stewart, national chairman of the. Prohibition party, who proceeds to perforate the helpless Miles boom with buckshot by declaring that the retired Lieutenant-General is not a Prohibitionist. Just how Gen. Miles in the first place came to be regarded as a cold water partisan has never been explained, except that he is a temperate tem-perate man himself,, and perhaps by reason of the fact that he was one of the very few army officers who approved and indorsed the anti-canteen legislation. legis-lation. Mr. Stewart made his charge that Gen. Miles is not a Prohibitionist before the Allegheny (Pa.) county coun-ty Prohibition convention, which had nnder consideration consid-eration a resolution to indorse the General for the nomination of President. Ilis speech had the effect of killing the proposition. proposi-tion. JJut what is even more remarkable in Mr. Stewart's speech a the fact that he mentioned the Hon. Charles E. Littlefield as the possible candidate candi-date of the Prohibition party in the coming campaign, cam-paign, and, as Mr. Stewart is jm authority upon Prohibition politics, the distinguished Representative Representa-tive from Maine may enjoy a nice little boom for President. There is much question, however, as to whether or not Mr. Littlefield would really "enjoy" the boom. . . . , ... |