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Show y v& ty y ays far W V - "cF & V IF THEY FAVOR STUiCT PUK Llllli Will. Tell Whole Country Answers An-swers Received on Two Questions 'HALF OF ONE PER CENT' ADVOCATES IN ACTION Reform Organizations Work for Endorsement Plank in Platform CHICAGO. June 3. Virgil G. Hin-shaw. Hin-shaw. chairman of the prohibition national na-tional committee this morning drew up two questions for presentation to dates and said ho was going immediately immedi-ately to their headquarters to ask I an answer in person of each candi-I candi-I date or his representative. Tho qucs-j qucs-j tions were: Subjects for Quiz. "Do you believe In the lSth amendment amend-ment as Interpreted by the Volstead act. which act as you understand Interprets In-terprets Intoxicating liquors to be an thlng conlabnlng more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol? "Do you favor your party adopting a plank in Its national platform en-dorsjjjtr en-dorsjjjtr . LhclSth; amendnvfcntaml "Its enforcement' cs Interpreted 'by the Volstead act or some measure equally effeotlve?" "Mr. Hinshaw declared he Intended to tell the whole country what answer an-swer each candidate mado to these questions. Bryan In Campaign. William Jennings Bryan will arrive hero tomorrow, Mr. Hinshaw said, and the prohibition party chairman will work with him as with other friends, of prohibition to get a platform plat-form endorsement of the prohibition amendment as interpreted by the Volstead Vol-stead act. Tho candidates will be Invited to a meeting Sunday, Mr. Hinshaw added. This meeting Is being called today by a number of reform organizations organiza-tions including the prohibition party, the International Reform bureau and church temperance organizations. Tho subject, of the bureau meeting will be "The lSth Amendment What Will the Political Parties Do With It?" To Sec Both Parties. Mr. Bryan had been invited to speak but owing to engagements In Wis-, cousin he will not be in the city Sunday, Sun-day, i A committee appointed by the'Na-tlonal the'Na-tlonal Temperance council will wait on the platform commlttco of tho Republican party next week and will also visit the Democratic resolutions' committee at San Francisco, the prohibition pro-hibition chairman said. |