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Show CHICAGO, July 16. Announcement of the appointment of Joseph W. Bailey of Washington, former United States senator from Texas, as chief counsel to conduct an early fight against the prohibition pro-hibition constitutional amendment, and of the intention to oppose for reelection every state legislator who voted to ratify rat-ify the amendment, was made today from the western headquarters of the Association Opposed to National Prohibition. Pro-hibition. A statement issued by James Arthur Searcy, managing director of the association, asso-ciation, bristled with denunciation of the Anti-Saloon league. Prohibition advocates ad-vocates were referred to as "the tyrannical tyran-nical minority which seems to be carrying carry-ing the sixty-sixth congress in its waist-I waist-I coat pocket. ' ' |