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Show THE ALSO RANS. As the Prohibition and Socialist candidates can-didates for the presidency cannot possibly pos-sibly injure their chances of election they are able to enjoy the utmost freedom free-dom of speech and possibly extract some fun- out of the campaign by asking questions which neither President Wilson Wil-son nor Mr. Hughes would care to answer. an-swer. This is especially true as to prohibition, pro-hibition, which is an issue in several states but not in the country at large. It is unfair of course to attempt to draw the candidates of the two great parties into the local prohibition fights. There are great issues at stake involving the future prosperity of the country and the campaign must be fought out on these issiiHS without regard as to what Messrs. Hanly and Landrith predict as to tho future, or what Mr. Benson says is true of the present. At the same time there is tio !;.w gaint the candidates of the small parties enjoying themselves as they ramble back and forth over the count rv. |