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Show Predicts There Will Be Neither Wet Nor Dry Plank in Platform WASHINGTON, June 25. Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, announced today he would not accept the Democratic Demo-cratic vice presidential nomination. Senator Hitchcock's Announcement was made in a telegram to Arthur F. Mullen, member of the Democratic national na-tional committee from Nebraska, answering an-swering a letter in which Mr. Mullen had said the senator was being prominently promi-nently montloned for tho vice presidency. presi-dency. "I am not after the vice presidency and would not accept tho nomination for second place," tlvo telegram said, Tho Democratic platform will not contain either a wot or dry plank In the opinion of Senator Hitchcock, but ho expressed the conviction today that it will include a strong league of nations na-tions plank. "I cannot conceive that the Democratic Demo-cratic party will place a plank in the platform declaring for or against prohibition," pro-hibition," he said. "Prohibition is not properly an issue between Democrats. If a dry plank wero Inserted it would mean reading out of the party those Democrats who had not favored prohibition. pro-hibition. If a wet plank were adopted It would mean that the men who bo-llovo bo-llovo in prohibition must be outside tho party." |