Show I G GENI A MILS MILES W WRITES ITS II A LETTERS LETTER It is to John G but Lilt it Dodges the thc Prohibition Question ABSOLUTELY NOH CO M lITT At A Nomination Would Not ot Him Opportunity That Justify Him HimIn Ii In hi Official Life We Indianapolis June National Prohibition committee tonight after o a session st elon of ot several hours selected as nil temporary t chairman ot of the national convention tomorrow Homer L Castle of ot Pittsburg and nuil for tor temporary tury tory W V 0 O of ot Minneapolis Tho showed that lied had been een received und and nd expended 1 by h the tIme national committee during durin tho time past four yeats yeal leaving In III the tl The session seA loll of ot the tho convention will begin at 10 tomorrow and lint will vIll bu be h called culled to order by National ChaIr man Stewart The Tho state delegations will meet at 4 mind mill select con calm convention convention committees and members of ot time the national committee After tho torn organization anti and the roll cull of ot states stated the conventIon will adjoin n until 2 i v II m rn when whon the will ill report The Time committee will report reI ort at nt the Iho evening alon TIme The nominations Ions will be lie made Thursday A 4 letter written by II Ion Gen Miles to J n 1 I of Chicago and anI dated from WI City CIt June 29 20 21 which wa saC public Is believed by b Na Nil National Chairman nn unit l others othelA to eliminate len Gen Mites Miles from rom consideration con tion as us n a presidential candidate though the time Pennsylvania delegation and others who Insist on On Oell Miless nomination have made no statement The Time apportionment Is In one delegate and one for tor every votes cast In 1900 1000 This will give Ie Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania delegates New Neit No York Ill Illinois 92 2 Indiana 73 Ohio Ken ICen Kentucky tucky tuck 27 auth other states smaller rep representation r Each gach territory will multi have four delegates and the thus District of at Co Columbia o 0 lumbia two Tile The arrival ot of the east apt eastern ern rum and western delegations tonight hums bus swelled the attendance to 1600 The arrival of ot the Illinois Winola delegation has haH Increased a movement to a National Chairman StewArt the time presidential nominee Of Ot the 1200 delegates ex ox expected peeled to attend the convention about 60 are women ornen among them nov llev Emm Pow Hader BAder and Ml Miss s a M A It Thompson of ot California The Time result of ot a n caucus camus held heM today by b those who are insisting that O lei n Mites Miles a n decimation of ot Ills lii position lo before being offered time the nomination for tor president Is a 1 manifesto forth tho the position of ot those the meeting mellIn The wits presided over by Fled fell W V Wheeler of ot Los Loll An AnKeles Anell Angelen Keles gelen ell former chairman ot or New r York Among Amon those who signed this thin manifesto rere Chairman Oliver W Stewart Na Nn Secy Becy Janice James A II Tnt Tate H n H B Metcalf of ot if Island 1 the tho vIce nominee tour four years yeara ago J 1 IS E J Butler Buller of ot A A L B n Layn ton toll of ot Oakland Cal CAI J B fI ot of Texas and a U D Colder c od of at Cali California fornia With the arrival of ot the Iho New Nett York delegation today one of at the tIme delegates made public through the national com lom committee tho thin following letter a II copy of at which has been sent him by Gen len Miles LETTER Washington D I C Ce Juno June 20 1901 John 0 U Woolley Dear Sir The Tho many kind expressions of ot favorable opinion In the editorial of at your paper vaner ant anil III In letters from train yourself and many other prominent leaders leRler I permit to pass unnoticed without ex ox expression of at the tIme appreciation and deep gratitude o of at myself my c f The high charac character ter of ot tho the writers those thole whom they represent ent and their unsought ap nil approval of ot acts of ot iny life render rener their words much more than a n compliment ment The approval of at such Kuh n a largo large class ela nf of patriotic veople coplo I hold In the highest estimation ns nA a I reward and valued posses Ion slon IonIn In lim Justice to the time writers writer mind there Is another reason wit 1 I should write nt at this time lime Frequent l mention linn hos been made by you and by others otherA ol ot ola ofIL a IL 1 proposal to place me ml In nomination by h the convention to meet In iii Indiana polls polla on the As Au stated by luy h me rumo In Jim a n previous letter hurts been published ll my ins Judgment strongly fa to favors favors vors the postponement of action by ly that Hint convention until the nominations at nt Chicago and Hi St Louis have been made This ilmis wan suggested ns na rot not ot denying or questioning the Importance of ot tho the subject ot of temperance but In the hope thAt Mint such sueh limited action In that matter as lie can be he taken by national authorities could ho hue coordinated with Ith re regarding garding the thin many and ond Important sub subjects subJects upon which the tha American people Judgment nt nM which mus mJ must t occupy the time attention of ot the tho duet chief ex CX executive In the near future The excel excellent lent and patriotic people whom you rep rope represent represent resent cannot be he lees hens Interfiled In these the e eother other great Krent national nt Ill this thin critical period of at our hIstory than are I tho the great mana mits of at their tar for to these questions concern the thin form torm o of at atour our government as an well lIell na nR tIme the Integrity ty t nod nf ot its It administration TIme The nomination at on time tho although an nil added am anti greatly valued token of ot approval am and confidence nce would not In Irm my Judgment afford that opportunity which would be ho bethe betho time the chief motive emotive for tor my may om official cial life A MILES 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