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...captioned, "The Relation of the States and the Federal Government." Under that title he expounded to the business men assembled that aspect of his political philosophy most likely to interest them. For he is a state rights upholder, a believer in decentralization in government, incidentally an anti-prohibitionist, but primarily a supporter of the idea of individualism in government. He declared...
...York Times, hastily queried, vouched for the veracity of Mr. Eyre, secured from Wayne B. Wheeler (super-prohibitionist syndicated by the New York Times) a statement that Pussyfoot was certainly abroad, probably in Berlin...
...never a red-hot prohibitionist. He was known to be dry, just as he was known to be a bit stubborn.*** He never campaigned sensationally for prohibition; he never signed a prohibition pledge or belonged to the Prohibition party. In fact, in 1916, when he came up for election he was opposed by a prohibition candidate. How did he win? He said: "I just kept in the middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls...
That broad and fertile State was introduced to the Union as "Bleeding Kansas" and settled mainly by abolitionists. Perhaps the same temperament produces the abolitionist and the prohibitionist. At any rate, it is only natural that a state born in such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of purpose from the beginning. Nature seems to have fostered this Puritanical seriousness with the bleak and dismal plains which cover much of the state, with nothing in the way of trees, hills or lakes from horizon to horizon to add frills to a severely simple landscape. At any rate, Kansas...
...Judge. George W. English of Vienna, Ill., was a member of the Illinois legislature, an ardent prohibitionist, and known as a "labor" man. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Wilson in 1917. It is said that labor leaders have now joined in urging his impeachment, and that the Anti-Saloon League after opposing it for a time has given up its opposition...