Show TOWNS SHOULD ACTON ACT ACI ACTON ON PROHIBITION SA SAYS YS WilSON VILSON I I President Is Not in Favor of cf of Making Question t I Party Issue By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN United cd Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON April 10 I 1 I tin do nn not b believe II that the tho party part programs of th the highest cons consequence po- po al rife lire of th the state anti ami tho th nation ought to be lip thrust to one ono and hopelessly embarrassed for tor long lonk periods pert peri od to together h by making milking a political I slIe of or a S great reaL question which IM h es essentially es- es non political non partisan moM moral monti and social ocia in Its nature nature nature- Woodrow told tho Rev Thomas 1 II n Shannon of ot Newark N. N J. J T while governor Io of ot New V Jersey The above extract from a letter from th the president JIN while governor of or Xe v Jersey Jersy ns thug dug up 11 here today In connection with Secretary ta Bryans Bryan's latest declaration making prohibition a national It was written by bytho bytho bytho tho when asked to po go o on record on local option er E Every one who has talked to him during th the last few W agrees that his sentiments ore unchanged Under no circum circum- stances es In the opinion of or men n closest to him will the president endorse 4 any movement intended to drag the liquor question In the tho days day's la political issues They Thy I say aY another phrase of ot the letter shows this The president wrote e Believes In Rights I am aol a b cr in local local- pelf so er government m nt and believe that that t Cr very every self Ir governing community I which constitutes a local ocal unit should have th the right to control the matter I fJ of Jr tin tilt r regulation or the withholding of or licence Tho The questions Involved ol are nrc social and anti moral and are arc not nol susceptible sus sus- of or being made parts part of oC a apart party part program m. Wherever er the they have hl IH been n mado matlo the subject of party part Contests contests con cun- t tests they have lIan thrown every other question however howl Important In th the thc h background ck and have l made con constructive truc- truc tive live party action Impossible for tor lon long ears ars together Action Demanded As a matter of oC fact act it Is If stated that the only cabinet members who i believe fl prohibition is to be ho made malIc a n aS national issue In th the Immediate fu future future fu- fu S ture tUt are Secretaries Bryan and atHI DanS Daniels Dan Dan- jets if and Daniels' Daniels appointment as see tec- S etar or of the navy y was made on Bryan's Bryans Bry Bry- anus an's personal recommendation atlon The Flie 11 president has hag found no nr fault aull with others others' personal l views hut but be believes believes bl be- lIH a matter for Cor Individual Indi vidual males fo to decide By y m making in the liquor question a national tio t Issue u it In fn the the- coining comIns campaign n even thou though h 1 to attempts to control th the Democratic national committee the uva way war would h bo be opened the president 11 Id to believe C for Cor splitting the wide open It Jt i is understood If be hl is forced to take a definite position dr dry leaders aders p B spy hey th Intend to smoke him out out he wI will l simply r reiterate the views r Q quoted 1 |