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Show ToiEiSi " I j I Prohibitionists Will Ask Democrats Demo-crats to Frame Rigid Plank I for Enforcement REPUBLICAN. NOMINEE GOING ON VACATION Senator Harding Declines All Invitations to Deliver Political Po-litical Addresses "WASHINGTON. June 10. Sen-ntor Sen-ntor Harding. Republican candidate candi-date for president, announced today to-day that he had had a general discussion dis-cussion of Ills campaign lnt idght at a dinner with a number of Republican Re-publican leaders. They Included Senators Lodge of Massachusetts, Republican lender In the senate; Smoot, of Utah; Brandcgce, of Connecticut; and Fall, of New Mexico. "Wo dlscnsscd the stale or the union, the prospects of the Republican Re-publican jarty and the platform wliich wo adopted at Chicago," said Senator Harding. WASHINGTON, June 10. Prohibition Prohibi-tion advocates will ask the Democratic Demo-cratic national convention at San Francisco to adopt a plank declaring for rigid enforcement of the eighteenth eigh-teenth amendment and tho enforcement enforce-ment act and will "present a solid front against Governor Cox of Ohio," Wayne R. Wheeler, general counsel for, th'er-Aritl-Sarbo-n fceagucr dcOIarrd to-day to-day in a formal statement. Resolution Lost. "The resolutions committee at Chicago," Chi-cago," said Mr. Wheeler, "adopted a law enforcement plank and lost It between be-tween the committee room and the convention. Mr. Bryan will act as a bodyguard for It it it Is adopted by the resolutions committee at San Francisco." Mr. Wheeler said Governor Cox was "the last hope of the wets In their program for nullification," and that his "record makes fTim an impossibility impossibil-ity if national prohibition Is to be effectively ef-fectively sustained and enforced." Harding Is Busy. WASHINGTON, Juno 1C. Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican presidential nominee, today hoped to make rapid progress in cleaning up an accumulation of mall and senatorial sena-torial work in preparation for his de parture from Washington within a few days for a vacation of two weeks or more. Will Compose Speech. Tho Republican candidate has not yet determined where he will spend his rest period, but since he plans to do-vote do-vote part of his time to his speech of acceptance he intends to select a quiet place. In making a selection he will be sure that there Is a convenient con-venient golf course. Many requests to speak have reached the senator from all parts of the country, but for the present, at least, he win decline ail such invitations. invita-tions. Senator Harding today sent the following fol-lowing letter to Major General. Wood in reply to the hitter's telegram of congratulation: Reply to Wood. I do not know quite how to express ex-press my feelings In dictating an acknowledgment ac-knowledgment to one who was a contender con-tender for the distinction, which came, to me. Perhaps I shall express my- self sufficiently if I say that had thp distinction come to you instead of me, I 1 would have found very' great pleasure pleas-ure and satisfaction in conveying to! you a very cordial message of fellcita-r lion and good wishes. j I "I know that we are both interested (in the same.great good to our common! country and 1 feel confident that you will be very deeply Interested in bringing bring-ing about a restoration of a Republi-! can parly administration in Washing-i ton and a return to the constitutional! methods of government which were, tho concept of tho founding fathers."! Visitors today included former Sen-! lator Sutherland, of Ftah. oo I |