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Show DRY SPECIAL RUNS 10 WET WEATHER Hanly and Landrith Also Find Opposition in the Buckeye State. CLEVELAND, Oct. 19. Rain and wet advocates stood out in the dry special train tour today across' Ohio from Union City, Ind., to Cleveland. A drizzle fell throughout the day, "reducing "reduc-ing the crowds that listened to rear-platform rear-platform speeches of the Prohibition national candidates to small numbers, and in two cities, Galion and Shelby, loquacious wets interruj.ited the meetings meet-ings with protests against the speakers' speak-ers' statements. One of the wets took the speaker's stand at Shelby and attempted to make a speech, but was hooted down bv the crowd. J. Frank Hanly. Jhe presidential presiden-tial candidate, had just finished speaking speak-ing and had given way to Ira Landrith, the vice presidential candidate, when the wet advocate interrupted. "You can't make this country drv, and I can prove it." he shouted. ''I'll come right up there and do it now if you want me 1o! ' ' Landrith invited the man to the platform, plat-form, and the invitation was accepted with alacrity. Before he had time to speak, however, the crowd insisted that it did not come to hear him, and he retired. At Galion a man interrupted Oliver W. Stewart, the special train manager, but, when Stewart asked him to repeat his remarks, he retired. TTanlv confined himself today to arguing ar-guing that tho liquor traffic was challenging chal-lenging the sovereignty of the American Ameri-can people and that it formed danger-,ous danger-,ous "invisible government." Mr. Landrith pleaded for moral people to exercise the ballots more freely. - |