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Show PROHIBITION ROW CAUSEH SPLIT Delegates Break Avay From the National Party on Socialist Issue. 8HICAG0, March 7. Fifty-one dolcgates to tho Prohibition national convention last night bolted to thc now National party, and approximately! 100 others, including National Committee Com-mittee Chairman Virgil G. Hlnshaw.J signified their intention of Joining tho , new party, "which was formed by, ! Socialists who bolted from the St. Louis convention. The split camo as a result of the failure of the prohibitionists to indorse in-dorse a merger with the National party over which thoy have been debating for two days. On a lest voto the majority ma-jority of the delegates clearly stood ' In favor of the merger, but It was 1m- j posslblo to obtain the two-third ma-1 jority necessary. During this timoj some half dozen resolutions wero in-' troduced In an effort to reach an! agrcomont satisfactory to tho delo-1 gates as a whole, but it was impossible impossi-ble to pass any of them. The split did not come as a complete com-plete surprise, for the morger faction had given warning on tho floor of the convention that it intended to go with tho nationalists, regardless of tho result re-sult of tho debate. It was not generally gen-erally bolleved, however, that the split would be so complete. Voted to Federate. j Tho prohibitionists, although defeating defeat-ing every attompt In the convention to authorize a completo morger, voted to "co-oporate and federate" with the National party. The resolution to this effect was Introduced as a compromise compro-mise by Dr. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, who led the antimerger attack. This measure did not in any way meet the approval of tho mergor faction and it was Impossible to gain even a majority ma-jority for it until it was certain that a two-thirds majority In favor of the mergor could never be reached. The merger faction then, worn out by two days of heckling, badgering and bitter debate which made a split imminent, yielded and tho resolution passed bv a voto of 203 to 76. Tho convention then adjourned and the national committee com-mittee went into session. After It hecamo apparent that a large number of prohibitionists would bolt, a resolution was brought before tho committee, by antimerger delegates dele-gates suggesting that it place an Interpretation In-terpretation upon the Scanlon resolution resolu-tion which would amplify It Tho committee com-mittee then sent Its Interpretation to the national convention, saying that the prohibition committee, state, local and national, could withdraw candidates candi-dates at any time in favor of -national candidates and that anyone who bolted to the National party could retain his membership in the prohibition party if he so desired. Topic of Discussion. Tho resolution was brought to the Nationalists by Mr. Faris, a member of the national committee, who had previously joined the nationals. .Whether the split will result In a complete breakdown of the prohibition party, which has been in existence nearly fifty years, was the principal topic of discussion among tho dele- j gates tonight and they apparently! were about evenly divided on it. Many' declared that the national committee! resolution was a lifosavor and would prevent tho death of tho party since it allowed mombers to belong to both , parties, but others Insisted that though the convention had failed to dissolve tho party the states would do It individually. indi-vidually. The National party adjourned until tomorrow aftor electing David Coates of Colorado permanent chairman, so as to give the prohibitionists time to obtain ob-tain their credentials beforo serious business was uiken up. oo |