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Show WILSON CABINET FAVORS TEMPERANCE New York, 'April 26. Secretary Secre-tary Bryan's serving of grape juice at the first formal dinner he has given to the diplomatic corps has been so quickly Allowed by the order of Secretary of War Garrison, closing all saloons in the Panama canal zone for the next year, that public -attention is being called to what are declared de-clared to be the pronounced prohibition pro-hibition proclivities , of the Wil son administration. This in turn has recalled to politicians the support given to the Wilson candidacy at the Baltimore c6n-vention c6n-vention by the prohibition elements ele-ments represented there. Mr. Bryan, who had'jusfcome through a spirited temperance fight in Nebraska, in. which he championed the cause of local option, led the forces at Balti more that finaly snatched victory vic-tory from Champ Clark, whose I Kentucky ancestry and staunch support all through his political I career of Democratic state and national platforms against sum-tuary sum-tuary legislation in all forms, 'marked him for prohibition assaults. as-saults. Some of the best known prohibition pro-hibition politicians in the Democratic Dem-ocratic party were among Mr. Wilson's floor leaders of the convention. con-vention. Josephus Daniels, now secretary of the navy, has been fighting for proflfbition for years. He was one oij the first members mem-bers of the national committee openly to epsouse the candidacy of the New Jersey governor. The TexMddbnhttaded by former CongressmTiw Tom Bali who had only a shore time before been the'unsuccessful state-wide prohibition candidate for governor gover-nor of that state, cast its vote from the first to the last ballot bal-lot for Wilson. The dominant element of the Pennsylvania delegation, under the leadership leader-ship of A. Mitchell Palmer, a Quaker and temperance advocate, advo-cate, stuck loyally to the Wilson banner. What was true of the three states and their .leaders at Baltimore Balti-more was equally true of a half dozen more states, including Mississippi, Alabama (after Underwood's name was dropped), drop-ped), Georgia, Kansas, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont. It is said that with the exception excep-tion of Secretary McAdoo, all of I he ten members of tho Wilson cabinet have strong leanings toward to-ward the essential tenets of prohibition. |