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Show PROHIBITION FUSION PLANS Dry Leaders Admit Get-together Meeting Will Develop De-velop Into Love Feast of Little Significance. ST. PAt'L, July 1 7. Prohthition party leaders ailniittod tonight that tlieir plans for a gct-toether conference confer-ence in St. Paul tomorrow, which they had hoped would bring into their or-;:ni-'.ation a throng of Progressives, K.'publieiuis and Democrats, seemed destined to come to naught. 1 us tend of a get-together affair, the meeting promised to develop merely into a prohibition pro-hibition love l'east and experience meeting, meet-ing, with little or no political significance. signifi-cance. Supporters of J. Frank Ilanley's candidacy can-didacy for the presidential nomination had difficulty in concealing a feeling of f)ce over the failure of leaders in other parties to flock to the Prohibition proposed get-together meeting. National Na-tional Chairman Virgil G. Hinshaw, who has had charge of the arrangements for the conference, said tonight he could make no forecast of the action of tomorrow to-morrow 's meeting, although he had been assured by numerous dissatisfied members mem-bers of other, parties that they would attend. Idahoan Arrives. Only one of these had arrived in St. Paul "tonight. Ho is James M. Inger-snll Inger-snll of Pocatello. Idaho, member from his state of the Progressive national committee. lie favors a coalition of the Prohibition and Progressive parties. Oliver W. Stewart of Chicago, business partner and personal representative of former Governor Hanley, arrived in St. Paul todav and spent several hours discussing dis-cussing the prospects for the Indiana man 's nomination with other delegates. Mr. Stewart declared t'nat the Indiana man is the strongest possible candidate the Prohibition party could have. Second to him Stewart placed Eu scene N. Poss, former governor of Massachusetts. Tie declined to discuss William Sulzer of New York as a candidate. Possible Fusion Seen. Mr. Stewart's references to Mr. Han-leys Han-leys attitude indicated that the latter wants the nomination, with John M. Parker of Louisiana as hi? running mate. This would mean the fusion of the survivors sur-vivors of the Progressive party with the present Prohibition organization, Mr. Stewart helieves, and would enable Mr. Hanley to enter t lie campaign with the assurance of a lamer following than ever has been accorded a candidate of the Prohibition parly. Mr. Stewart is waiting with some anxiety for a message from Mr. Parker or from one of several Progressives, who, he says, have asked the Louisiana man to declare himself ;i member of the dry party. Should this declaration arrive at Si. Paul before the convention reaches the nomination stage, the "Hanley forces will he ready to vote for Parker's nomination. |