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...City (pop. 570). Last week Central City saw more excitement than it had known since the gold rush. Editor G. M. Laird cleaned his presses, published a special edition of the Register-Call. Tourists bought rusty miners' tools as souvenirs, posed for tintypes, stopped for drinks at a resurrected saloon. Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter of the University of Denver. Then they all filed inside to see woebegone Actress Lillian Gish perform...
...views on the subject and accordingly I hesitated for a minute. Suddenly another man in the crowd answered for me. 'I know what he would say,' he shouted, 'exactly what he did when some Prohibitionists called on him and asked him what to do about a saloon which was operating in the vicinity of the Capitol. He told them to move it into the basement of that building.' " When she was 16, Pauline Morton moved with her father, onetime vice president of Santa Fe R. R., whose brother is famed for his salt ("It Pours...
Comparison. The Republican Prohibition plank adopted three weeks ago caused no one, Wet or Dry, to gibber with excitement. Its 526 words contained a cautious compromise and a large loophole. Like the Democratic plank it shunned the saloon. Like the Democratic plank it provided Federal protection for Dry States and proposed resubmission of the liquor issue by Congress to State conventions "truly representative...
...with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow States to deal with the problem as their citizens may determine, but subject always to the power of the Federal Government to protect those States where Prohibition may exist and safeguard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and attendant abuses...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...