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Show Democratic Chairman I Again Divides Honors Willi West Governor Will Carry Fight to San Fraucisco Where Great Fight Between Bryan ji. and Wet Forces Will Be Staged. 1L. -Wets Banking on Support of Presi-If Presi-If dent Wilson. Issue Not So Pro-M Pro-M nouneed in Republican Circles. Ky? Nationtl Democratic Chairman '4 Homer S Cu'mmlngsTiaa again shar- jjiMe ed lionoi , around tho festlvt board $( with Govv.rnir Edwards of Now Jersey ftfjii -who wa elMtod on a platform pledg- Mtg cd to, "lend tho movement that will jJt!E eventually result" In tho repeal of !l! tho prohlbltlln Amendment. It may M&M aoio order for Mr. Bryan to again V M excoriate tho" Democrat! Chairman. E! tfc This tlmo It was at a banquot given m Ji n anor ot tne Chairman, Governor S EdwnrtTs mado a red hot atiti-pro- 1 . hlbltlon speech, and Governor of New Wt Yorlc BCnt a tclc8ram alongslmilar 'itt4 lines. With theso two governor's of $Mi great states pledged to carry tho Itff fight to tho deocratic onventlon at im San Francisco, and with Mr. Bryan sK' en tho warpath tho OoWen Gate HHL xJ3-iteW',omo performance when K tho dcmosraTfi, gather. H At tho banquet Governor Edwards tS declared that a great lssuo hart era- &R erged from tho past, "tho lssuo of g!B ulato rights and personal liberty." Ho jiff assorted that this issue must bo ilo- 4tK elded by tho people next November. riMT" "It tho federal government," he M continued, "may subvert tho dotrinea ' cf stato rights, and,' without a cotn- m .KiTfiJon or canidato from tho people, ! m y.onter unon our firesldoa and Into our ' M '' Jiomcs with tho bureaurntlc system of m ofllceioTuCT3 and ovorlordshlp, tho! Am theory or our constitutional govorn-j J8j ment' and nil the rights Incident to iW tiotoa rulo and local stato govern- lM mefct nro destroyed. Under such a 1M wsietn tho indostructlblo union of in- Jfij destructible states becomes n myth flVt and we havo tho ncccsary altcinatlvo Sr of . jjroat superpower at Wushlng- m tonjimposl'ng Ub will upon ub In tho. K ,i- ,njTfcctloa or our ImbUa, our manncia, IF -v ur lastoa and our local customs, un- BU '' Tztll nothing is left of tho Independent IK I Jstato of our fathcis but tho name im. "To mo this situatlqn is a political S -f EackrlleEo and I eurpoao to nrry tho 9ff T'l fighl TiToan Tranclsco jcgardlcs3 of at 2 whal any man or sol of men may Um 1 personally think so na to bring about jff ,' a pppular lostatoment of tho doc- M l ? trlnoof stato rights and popular M- ' ; homo rulo upon Which our fathers I fouuded this government." 11 saiiTii'BnNDS ftUGitivrs If ' OoveTnor Smith of Now York sont K n tologrAUi expressing )hl8 regrot that fm lllnoss prevented him from bolng JT ' present at, tho dinner. In his tole- fj cramTnl? Now Yorlc exocutivo said: M , "Dn not forger tho tlmo honorod SJf dcmocratlo docftlno that tho govorn- ment la tho most cffectlvo fhlch gov-K gov-K . Ssina tho least. This procopt of dom- V octet ttllMn u, rocont paBt llUa" O bcon grlovlously and wilfully sinned X nmlnat when, in tho namo of domo- M cracy thoro was Imposed upon 100,- m 000.00.0 roo pcoplo without asking thofr droct consent, a restriction to 9 tholr personal liberty which TruBsIa in hor palmiest days novor dreamed I or.- iajiS HHYAX IS 1'OilMZ.VXT It also transplre'd that Willlnin Jennings Dryan was awnro of the formulation for-mulation of theso plans y tho antl-Iiortilbltloiilsta antl-Iiortilbltloiilsta when ho made his first attack upon Chairman Cum-inlngs Cum-inlngs of tho Domocralic national commltteo for attending tho dinner given In honor of Governor IMwnrdB Tho intention of tho "wets" to put tho Democratic party on record 1 !t possible, in favor of modification, it not nullification, of prohibition enforcement, en-forcement, has aroused every drop of Dryan's fghtlng blood. Tho nicro suggestion of this pro-l gram of tho "wets" brings to tho foro visions" of party sTJlTts In tho event of their success in capturing clthei or both national conventions. It Is ncceptwl as n forcgono conclusion conclu-sion tlrat Dryan would bolt tho Democratic Dem-ocratic ticket If tho San FranciH-co FranciH-co convention should Indorse tho proposals of tho wets. It Dryan should control tho Demo-ctatic Demo-ctatic convention tho wetn would bo defeated. Consequently tho wets are lining up vlth President Wilson, whoso sorotary, Mr. Tumulty, wlolda a powerful Influence at all times Is their IntoTesIi-. IntoTesIi-. O. 1. SITUATION How tho "wots" well fnro In tho Republican cBttVelftlon Is oven moru probltmallcal. Tlio issuo Is less pro- nouneed at this writing In tho Itcpub-llian Itcpub-llian than In the Democratic party. Few of tlio llopubllcan aspirants for tho nomination havo oxprosscd thorn-selves thorn-selves onjtlio question. , Senator Ilaidlns of Ohio, however, tc"o7Itly advocated strict onfoicoment ot the prohibition law, explaining that only rigid onforcoment would dotermino wnothor piohlbltlon Is a good or bad thing for tho nation, and 'whether tho dry nmondmeuts should bv preset cd or ropealcd. The movement in both parties will appeal for tho restoration ot porsou-nl porsou-nl liberty and states' rights. In tho Deocratic con,ontlon tho traditional dorrlno of GtuTos' lighla. In tho Democratic conontlon tho traditional doctrine ot states rights will bo re-gaTiled re-gaTiled by" tho "wtits" ns a sourco ot special strength. , Whatovor tho ncllon of tlio national na-tional convention on tho lssuo, and whatever tho outcome in tho way of party splits, tho "wets" will endeavor to elect it congross commlttod to" lift ing tho lid on light wines and bear by dn-'nmondmont raising tho limit of alcoholic content of intoxicating bovorngos. Inosrauch as tho prosont coiwosg la overwhelmingly "dry" sucoees In this dlroctlon would moan tho defeat of scotes of mem-bors. mem-bors. Ahivn to nANGi:ns Tho prohibitionists aro alive to tho threatened danger and tho anti-saloon anti-saloon leaguo la raising a fund ot JIC.OOO.OOO to ombat tho movomont : 1 of tho "wots" to Eotlfy tho law. "When tho govornots of two great; states llko Now York and New Jersey lnvoko the ancient and discredited doctrlno of personal liberty and states' rights to protect tho outlawed liquor tiofllo It Is. manifest that the work of Amoiicanlnatlon and tho appeal ap-peal 10 patriotism must oxtond bo-yond bo-yond tho rnnka'of aliens within our border" said Wayno D. Wheoler, gen oral counsel of tho Anti-Saloon league. "Poisonal liberty was never guaranteed guar-anteed to tho cltlsons ot any civilized civil-ized govQimnont. Civil liberty is guaranteed. It luauros tho blosslngs ot liberty. Portonal liberty seciru tho cursw of liberty. Th supremo court said; " 'Even liborty Itsolf, tho groalont of all rights, Is not unrestilctcd II-censo II-censo to act acoullng to ono's own will. It is llbeil regulated by law.' "Tho Btntos' rights doctrlno wan satisfied onca for all during tho civil war. To invoke It now la Inoxcusable Tlioao who nro rospousiblo forv It will ho characterized In tho tuturo as Androw Jackson described thoso who attempted to nullify tho fodoral laws In his day In theso words: " 'Theso will only bo remembered to bo held up to ccorn by ovory ouo Who lovos our glorlouB conitituthm, and a guTornmont of laws.' " |