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Show COMMANDER OF THE PRINZ EITEL, CAPTAIN THIERICHENS, who has pre-pared pre-pared his ship for a dash to the open sea in defiance de-fiance of watching English and French cruisers. f t , t I 1 !"" ' J Is i v 1 i 1 r v -j v - I J . .-.-. . j Bffl DECLARES FDR PROHIBITION Politicians Think Secretary Would Run for President on Antisaloon Platform. By International News Sen-ice- WASHINGTON', April 6. A letter written by Secrt-tary of State Brya n to Lk H. Kenningion. member of the Democratic Demo-cratic state committee of Iowa, is regarded re-garded her: as his first step in an effort to make Uje liquor question dominant in tho presidential campaign of IMS. Some L'etnociatic politicians in Washington Wash-ington j-roiess to see In the letter the beginning of a propaganda which is intended in-tended to present him as the logical candidate can-didate of his party on a platform in which prohibition will be one of the principal prin-cipal plank?. Mr. Kennington wrote to Secretary Bryan asking advice in selecting a member mem-ber of the national committee from that state to succeed Judge Martin J. Wad, resigned to accept a place on the federal bench. The txt of the reply of Secretary Eryan was printed in the local press of Iowa. It is a plain, emphatic declaration on the prohibition side of tho liquor question, ques-tion, and a demand that an advocate or that cause be chosen as national committeeman. com-mitteeman. In his letter Mr. Bryan advised Mr. Kennlnton and other Democrats in Towa to select a man to succeed Judge Wade for the national committee who not only Is for . prohibition, but ia, as the secretary secre-tary of state expressed it, "positively and definitely committed to the home a against the Faloon." He said that as tt Democrat and as a citizen lie would be greaUy disappointed iu the Iowa Democracy Democ-racy "if it made any other kind of a choice. The letter Is cliaracterlzed as a scathing scath-ing denunciation of the liquor cause and a declaration from the great commoner that the Democratic party must line up on the "right side of this and othei moraj issues or suffer defeat." Mr. Bryan has long stood for prohibition, prohibi-tion, but has maintained that it is a question to be dealt with by the respective respec-tive states. It is claimed on his behalr that his most recent utterance on the subject Is In accordance with his original position. The secretary holds that a member of the national committee is a state officer, and that it is within the province of the state to act with propriety pro-priety upon this question in the selection of the member to represent it on this important political committee. Politicians say that if the national committee com-mittee can be thus committed and the position of the committeeman, or would-be would-be committeeman, determined by his friendliness or opposition to the attitude of Mr. Bryan, It will be but a short step to the full control of the next national convontlon on the same issue. |