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Show J. FRANK HANLY AND IRA LANDRITH ON STUMP IN OHIO ZANESYILLK, Ohio, Nov. -'.Thorough preparedness for war will i-ome in the I niter States only when the nation is dry. .1. Frank Uahly, the Prohibition Pro-hibition candidate for president, declared de-clared today in Washington, Pa., a ritv forty yeary without iiqitur, just before crossing the Ohio line for a. night meeting meet-ing here. As proof of bis statement, be declared that b'-j per cent of rejected applicants to the army can trace' their disabilities cither directly or indirectly to liquor. The city hall auditorium was fittingly fitting-ly draped for a preparedness speech. Stars and stripes covAccl the speaker's table, floated from coat racks and strings between posts and a huge flag was pinned in the center of a stage drop curtain. flag-draped motor cars met the speakers at the station. The crowd was large. Ira Ijandrith, the vice presidential aspirant, insisted at Altoona, and other points that federal liquor licenses no longer are warranted even to meet the emergency for which they were created. The government "went 'into the saloon business" for the sole purpose of paving pav-ing the civil war debts, he said, and they are paid. S'ix Pennsylvania and three Ohio cities were visited today -bv the candidates. candi-dates. Ohio and Indiana cities are on the itinerary for tomorrow, the iiitht meeting being set for Fort Wavnc, Lid |