Word: anti-saloon
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With tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...Senator Borah, they now hope to have found him. On Sunday Mr. Borah delivered a militantly dry address before the Presbyterian General Assembly in Baltimore. This circumstance, which seems to unite in him the sentiments of orthodoxy and reform, joins with his heritage from the west where the anti-saloon league did its systematic best, to make the Idaho Senator a man marked for the cause. Indeed, Mr. Borah possesses a Bryanesque build and the same loud sympathies which gave the commoner his crusading character. And both won fame from the power of invective. One cannot call the New York...
...with the flowing black locks, who looks so political-he is Tom Connally of Texas. He has a sharp tongue and uses it to tickle Republicans between the floating ribs. The thin little fellow with crutches-sharp face, dandy hair-is Upshaw, of course, the champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes. See that elderly man, with a sort of hard-shell face? That is Snell, chairman of the Rules Committee. He is a red flag to the radicals. They think he is the special representative of the interests. Over there...
...great scene of the hearing did not take place, however. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, did not take the stand, and Senator James A. Reed, the one Wet inquisitor, did not have a chance to ask him the embarrassing question which the Wets had anticipated...
Before General Lincoln C. Andrews was called before the Committee (TIME, April 19) he was warned to guard his statements, for anti-saloon officials were waiting for his official scalp. Why, no one knew. He is certainly no friend of the Wets...