| Show SALOON FOES LOSE LEADER IN DEATH OF WV WI B. B Lawyer r Called Militant l Spirit of Dry Cause III In America EVER WAS V WASON AS ON ALERT Lash of His Ris Criticism Felt in ill High and nn Low Places BATTLE BATILE CREEK Mich Sept 6 By The Associated Press Pres Wayne Press Wayne B. B B 13 Wheeler the mild mannered mann red Ohio lawyer who h for years has been pro pro- prohibitions prohibition's prohibitions prohibition's ft tsO lae n most famous and cr ful rul crusader is dead at the zenith 0 o a brilliant career carcer three Thirty-three years ears of energetic la labor la- la labor bor In the cause of temperance were ended at a sanitarium here late yes yea The general counsel of tse Antl Saloon Anti Saloon league had asked a nurse to hand him a a. book He lie half lifted himself in bed to take it Then n a aheart heart strained by disease and ond over over- overtaxed overtaxed overtaxed taxed by tragedy which took the lip lipof 11 of Mrs Wheeler three weeks ago stopped LONG ILLNESS ILL At his bedside were a 1 son Robert Rob rt Wayne Wheeler and Dr Howard Hyce Russell founder of the league which Wayne B. B B Wheeler so successfully served ser Heart disease following prolonged treatment for kidney trouble was the cause of death Mr Wheeler hail had ha 1 come to the tho sanitarium last week from his sun er home at Little Point Sable Michigan the Michigan the home where on August 13 his wife alfe Ire was burned to death when her clothing caught fire from an oil stove and where her father a witness of that tragedy hail had ha 1 dropped dead dud Specialists at the sanitarium had announced only a 1 few hours before Mr Wheelers Wheeler's death that his condi condl- condition condition tion had ed improved so much that a n major operation for which plans had been made would not be necessary The double tragedy at the little Point Sable cottage was said by his friends to have e weighed so heavily upon Mr Wheeler as to have been a strong contributory cause of or his death illS HIS WIFE rIFE PRAISED He literally gave his life for the dry cause said Dr Francis Scott McBride general superintendent or orthe ore orthe the e Saloon Anti league a when he learn learn- learned learned ed at Westerville ti l Ohio f of erf Mr Wheel Wheel- Wheelers Wheeler's Wheelers Wheeler's er ers er's death lIe He was for prohibition because he knew it was right He lie fought no not for himself but for the cause in which he believed belle Throughout his career Mr Wheeler had a remarkable influence upon the movement against the liquor traffic At Washington ton where he was the mainspring of all Saloon Anti-Saloon league 1 legislative activity Mr Wheeler hela held the respect and admiration even en or I those who fought him most bitterly Senator Edwards of New Jersey who has vigorously fought the dry cause said when he heard of or Mr j death While we were poles DOles apart on the question of the Eighteenth amend amend- amendment amendment amendment ment I always admired him for his conviction and earnest endeavor to to dry up America I love lo and respect a fighter whether he agrees with me or not and Mr Wheeler was an in inveterate In- In inveterate fighter BORAH'S TRIBUTE TRI UTI Senator Borah of Idaho spoke of 01 Mr Wheeler ler as a 0 faithful tireless and exceptionally able oble advocate 01 ot ota a cause In which he sincerely be be- be Mr Wheeler who was born bom on his hl fathers father's farm near BrookfiEld Ohio November ember 10 1869 1889 once told report report- reporter I er that he formed his first antagonism antagonism to liquor when a drunken farm farmhand farmhand hand Jabbed a pItchfork into ni leg I Dr Russell obtained the services ser of Mr Wheeler in May 1893 upon the recommendation of or several pro pro- professors professors I lessors at Oberlin college The young man did not accept the offer oHer to be become be- be become become come an on assistant to Dr Russell un un- until til after much consideration for he had neer never ne er looked upon prohibition or temperance as his life work Once aligned with the Saloon Anti-Saloon league however ever it was not long until ne becam one of or its major officers be becoming be- be becoming becoming coming superintendent of the Ohio league and finally general generl counsel FUNERAL L THURSDAY Mr McBride made public the ar arrangements ar- ar arrangements arrangements for the funeral The ser Ser- services Services vices will be held at the Central M M. E. E church In Columbus Ohio at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon The Rev A. A G. G of Colum Colum- Columbus Columbus Columbus bus Ohio will be in charge Other speakers will be Mr McBride Dr Russell and Dr Ernest A. A Cherring- Cherring Cherrington ton of Westerville Mr Wheeler will b burled in Co Co- Columbus Columbus Co- Co lumbus beside the wife whom he him him- himself himself himself self burled hurled mere than a fort fort- fortnight fortnight fortnight night ago ao illS HIS WORK REVIEWED RE She 1 he character of Wayne B. B Wheeler for years ears cast its shadow over every esery one of the bitter fights that have ha waged around prohibition and Its enforcement in the United States because his name had come to mean meat prohibition pr I n nn In n its every sense Backed nb by b the th Saloon Anti rJ league and the vast religious organizations supporting It It Mr SIr Wheeler fought long lon and stubbornly for tor the eighteenth amendment to the constitution and the act to enforce it it and when that battle batlle was vat won he fought no rio less stubbornly against every ef effort d- d fort to modify those enactments SPIRIT OF OK DRYS Typifying T as he did the very try spirit pim I of the drys Wheeler took the lead lead- leadership leadership around the halls holls of congress congre about the capitol and even at the 1 White House in opposition to every enry move mo by legislative administrative e or executive branches of the which he thought ht would disturb the dry balance which he and his co- co coworkers coworkers coworkers workers had ad set up It has been said that Wheeler Wh eler was wu abused for his activities by the wets wera but that his energetic qualities QualIties qualities had at least earned the secret admiration I of some of them While the wets about his head an quantity of stinging slinging the dry leader worked un un- untiringly unto to put more teeth Into the Ese Continued on rae Pale Two Tao SALOON ALOON FOES lOSE LEADER Continued from Tape rage One enforcement act which they denounced ed so bitterly Although ostensibly the tile Saloon Anti-Saloon league cague general counsel was merely the instrument of the league so far 09 as Washington was concerned Wheeler was the league and in his activities there he we we- w credited with wielding an enormous influence on legislation affecting the dry cause There was no iso move to amend the act however slight tha that escaped the sharp eye of this Ohio Ohio- born lawyer He was inquisitive to a superlative sup degree of o every bill touch touching ing upon prohibition which was drop drop- dropped dropped ped d Into the senate or house bill boxes and anc he was like lightning-like in striking at the measures he consid consid- considered ered ere objectionable ALUE nr OF PUBLICITY In his for his cause Wheel Wheel- Wheeler er depended to a considerable exten on the value of the printed word and he came to be one of the most ex expert eo- eo pert phrase-makers phrase In public life His statements bristled with epigrams and early In his career he found that bet ay ity ty was a l great Set in petting getting his ideas before the public Few or ox his statements Issued d to the press exceeded a typewritten page and most of them were made up of 0 two or three pungent paragraphs Some of the most stirring times In Inthe Inthe inthe the Washington n life of Mr Wheeler came during the congress when the Saloon Anti-Saloon league counsel en en- en engaged caged in hi hl famous exchanges es with witti Senator James A A. Reed or Missouri chairman of a senate funds commit commit- tee This meeting of the senate com corn committee committee was as advertised far and wide w as a a. clashing of the wits of two out out- outstanding outstanding standing who were diametrically opposed as to the wisdom of o one section of the or America but the as to the victory victor to far as outside appearances went rest rest- rested rested rested ed with the individual sentiment of ot those who undertook to render it But this was only one of the con con- constant slant stant combats in which Mr Wheeler engaged on Capitol hilL He lIe was a 1 i prolific witness before committees and wherever he appeared the wets I were there gunning for him Even I with this every day u of 0 the gauntlet the forces associated with him were uniformly successful in beating back every threatened aa- aa advance vance ance by the opponents of the dry laws STATE OF MIND n 1 D Soon after enactment of the Vol Vol- stead act someone coined the word which was freely used on the floor of the senate and the house by those who asserted that the tile Saloon Anti-Saloon league had set up a super government which cracked the lash on the backs of congress as u aswell aswelt welt well as the officials of or the tra on Some Sone one else facetiously de defined de- de defined fined 1 ned the word ord as a state of mind which put a senator or a representative representative to sleep during some terrific terrible onslaught by the militant wets ana an awakened awa ened him refreshed in time to cry yes es while the clerk recorded his vote in favor of o another blow at atthe atthe atthe the liquor trade Nevertheless was the target of invective wherever the surrendering never-surrendering wets came together er er and to the drs dr's it was V a force that even the wets recognized as al almost al- al most moat mo t powerful all-powerful and against which their troops sheck-troops were sent time and ana again in vain aln assaults Besides guiding the policies of the Saloon Anti-Saloon league in matters of leg leg- Mr Wheeler was ever at hand when appointments were to be made at the treasury He lie was never slow to make known his opposition to treasury decisions which he con con- considered considered considered adverse erse to prohibition inter inter- ests eats No treasury tr official from tOil tn secretary down was Immune from Wheeler criticism In such sueh instances One of the long fights made by him himat himat himat at the treasury was for the retention cf f Roy A. A Haynes as prohibition com com- missioner loner and this contest was cat cal ned to the White House Mr Haynes finally lost out but with his depar depar- ture Lincoln C. C Andrews assistant secretary in charge of ot enforcement who was opposed to Haynes Harms from the service Wheelers Wheeler's claimed he got at least a draw in UI inthis iz this skirmish IS BLOW Mr Wheeler had hul shown the effects effect I of illness here during the last ses se- session sion slon of the congress and dry advocates had looked anxiously abou to see who ho would be able to take up the work he had been so successful in It was vas admitted on every enry sloe sice that his be a heavy blow blots to the dry forces carrying on ther campaign here Some wets even privately declared that someone with the energy of the Saloon Anti league i chieftain might have been I Ito to their cause caure in the days das when the te i lines were being drawn on the prohibition pro pro- prohibition issue pro pro-I BORN BOnN IN 1863 The dry leader was born at Brook Brook- Brookfield field Ohio on Nov 10 1869 lie He lieas was as a graduate of or Oberlin Ob college and held degrees from that school as well as Muskingum college and Western Reserve Resene university He was as married to Ella B. B Candy of Colum Colum- Columbus Columbus bus Ohio in 1901 and they had three thre children Robert Wayne Wane Donald Hyce and Joseph CandY The tragic death of his wife in a fire tire in his home was wasa a stunning blow to him He began temperance olk while still at college and was a member of many organizations Interested in pro pro- prohibition |
