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PROHIBITION TICKET MAY BE WITHDRAWN Ready To Quit On Enforcement Pledge By Cox Or Harding. Washington, Sept. 23.?Senator Harding and Governor Cox were promised today by Aaron S. Watkins ,the Prohibtion party's presidential candidate, that he would withdraw from the race if either of them pledged his support to the dry program. Mr. Watkin's announcement was made in an address before the International Congress Against Alcoholism. He said later that he would embody his proposal in telegrams to Candidates Harding and Cox. "I ask only two things of the other candidates," Mr. Watkin's told the congress. "Whenever any one of them pledges himself to enforce the 18th amendment and enforce the Volstead act, if elected, and to use all of his power and influence to retain them as a part of the nation's law, I will agree to ask our national committee to release me from the ticket." z The assertion of the prohibition nominee followed a series of inferential as well as direct statements by speakers at the congress'that the Prohibition party might be the cause for overturning the dry majority in congress through defection of sufficient votes from "known dryi candidates." P. A. Parker, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, precipitated a near clash by and dress, the trend of which was an appeal for all prohibition workers to support the dry candidates on the major tickets and thereby avoid possibility of anti-prohibitionists being eleceted locally. Fighting For Cause At the conclusion of Mr. Parker's speech, Mr. Watkins hurried to ths platform and declared his intention to withdraw when the other candidates had given a proper pledge. The prohibition nominee asserted he was "fighting for a cause and not for a party and when that party stands in the way, I will hurry to my national committee and say, ? -i-'? 4-Vii r? norfv fni* t?ll "L t S uiddvivc uno jjtxxvj jlv* time.' " There were numerous members of the Prohibition party in the audience and many of them joined in a chorus of "Noes," declaring they proposed to stick by their party. Others without obtaining recognition from the chairman critici zed Mr. Parker's attitude and the congress for several minutes was in uproar. E. C. Dinwiddle, president of the congress, after restoring order, apologized to the delegates saying it was Ka burst of enthusiasm which js likely to manifest itself in most any way." He explained to th? foreign delegates that while they were not familiar with American politics the day's proceedings should convince them and dry workers here were "not overlooking opportunities that might be wasted." Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former | chief chemist of the department of agriculture, in a speech earlier in the session expressed the belief that the Prohibition party should not have nominated a national ticket. He believed its work was practically finished when the 18th amendment was adopted, he sadi. A delegate interrupted to inquire *? ' - 1 j ??l. - I wnere ne wouiu asn a vunabiau i cast his ballot." "I would leave that to your conscience," Dr. Wiley replied. "But I do not think a vote on the Prohibition ticket will get anybody anywhere." Prohibition Pays. Dr. Wiley also declared the prohi-. bition amendment never* would be repealed or softened because the^ "country's business would stand like a rock against it," since it was found that "prohibition pays." Papers by Dr. P. Almaldi, director of the hospital for the insane, Florence, Italy, and Dr. Eudo Monti, Turin, Italy, dealing with problems confronting dry workers in their nation, were read in absence of the authors, who were unable to attend. Dr. Amaldi in his paper said that the greatest problem prohibition workers have to face in Italy was that developed from the heavy consumption of wine. He reported that whereas the wine consumption in Italy was 16 gallons per capita in 1884, it had increased to 31 gallons per capita in 1914. Secretary Daniels, addressing the congress at its session tonight, de NEWS NOTES The Fall term of the Court of General Sessions at Bishopville has been held up up this week on account of having no stenographer. L. E. Wood, who has held the position for the past seventeen years has resigned and his place has not been filled. William Darby .Glenn, of York, has arrived at home after spending the summer in the West helping gather the wheat crop. He made the trip from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Gainesville, Ga., on a motorcycle. When he hit the Georgia mud he shipped his motorcycle and took to the train. He was accompanied by a friend, both boys being students of the University of North Carolina. Fairfax Harrison has been given a "loyalty medal," a badge of distinction showing twenty-five years; service on the Southern Railway. Five hundred employes of the Southern will be given such medals in the near future. f James W. Gerard, chairman of the Democratic Committee, before the Senatorial Investigating Committee, made the statement that so far he had collected one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars of the two millions which is the Democratic goal. Mr. Gerard says he will be "thankful to get a million." The Bank at Heath Springs was broken into and robbed on Se$tem * r *? ber 13th. The papers tanen irom tuc bank were found this week by the children of B. J. Richardson, in a cotton field twelve miles north of Lancaster. The bank paid the three hundred dollars reward offered for the papers. When the letter, of resignation of the President of France was read | in the Chamber.of Deputies thisj week, the delegates rose and remained standing as a mark of sym-! pathy. Five dollars will be charged for Grand Stand seats at the World Series Games at Brooklyn next week. This is the first time such a charge has been made since 1914. Barnard B. Baruch has contributed five thousand dollars to the Democratic Campaign. W. G. McAdoo gives one thousand. i Bids for the top soil construction of the nine miles of the Dixie highway from Princeton to Ware Shoals are to be opened by the state, highway commission October 1. The Ware Shoals Manufacturing company has agreed to pay one-half the cost of construction of this piece of road. ... r .. Young Holstein and Jersey dairy cows to the value of $10,000 were shipped from Vancouver, B. C., to the Kalfeng Baptist College of Kalfeng, China, comprising what is believed to be the first large shipment of American live stock ever made for foreign mission purposes. clared that a congress could never have been elected that would agree to the- modification of the Volstead enforcement act. He also traced the history of prohibition in the navy asserting that the effectiveness of seamen had increased since the "dry" order went into effect. "Wherever the navy is, it is dry," declared the secretary, adding that recently, alcohol had been discarded in the navy for medical purposes. PRESIDENT WILSON TO ACT AT PROPER TIME I | . Washington Sept. 23.?President j Wilson will actively participate in ' the Democratic presidential cam-1 paign when "the proper time comes," it was stated today at the ] White House. He probably will not make any speeches, officials said,' but will confine himself to state-; ments on campaign issues, particularly the League of Nations. j The President is keeping in touch with the campaign through the newspapers and party leaders. While he has not received a formal invitation from Democratic headI ! quarters to take part inj the camj paign, White House officers said he considered it his duty to do so as a member of the party. BOMB DISCOVERED ON BROOKLYN LIN] Package Of Dynamite With Burnin Fuse Was Recovered?New Clue Obtained Wall Street Mystery. New York, Sept. 23.?While ir vestigators were still seeking t solve the mystery of the Wall stree explosion a week ago, police head quarters announced a package cor taining dynamite had been found tc day on the platform of the Ree avenue elevated station in Brooklyr At the same time announcemen came rrom Police headquarters tha a tag found in Wall street near th horse attached to the death cart ha been identified as one issued by th health department in 1918 to th Reid Ice Cream company of Brook lyn, certifying that the horse wa riot afflicted with glanders. Detec tives left immediately to questioi company officials as to whether th' horse had been sold within the las two years. The bureau of combustibles at po lice headquarters announced tha the dynamite package was a boml with fuse attached and burning when a patrolman found it and "pu it out." Detectives took the bomb t< head-quarters in Manhatten. Inves tigation into the "planting of thi 'bomb" was started immediately ii Brooklyn. Employes were question ed in an effort to learn if extre mists or strikers of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, which oper ates the line, had been seen in th< vicinity today. The bomb was in the form of j ?ard board cylinder and containei no percussion caps, the board o combustibles announced later, bu "dynamite in considerable quanti ty." Patrolmen Sante li, who founi the bomb, put out the fuse, he said by stamping on it. Then he soakei it in a pail of water. It was nin> inches long with eight inch fuse tha had burned half way down, he said The horse which drew the "deatl wagon" has been traced throug] three sales after its purchase fron the Reid Ice Cream company ii 1918, William J. Flynn, chief of th< bureau of investigation of the de partment,' announced today. Hi would not say whether any for eigners or extremists had been in volved in any of the transactions < ? y - -t? j He said tnat "trie ciue xooks guuu but like any clue it may blow up an} time." ASK $500 FROM EACH OF A THOUSAND DEMOCRATS Chairman White Announces "A League Thousand Club"? To Match President's Five Hundred Contribution New York, Sept. 23.?George White, chairman of the Democratic national committee, announced here today that the committee woulc raise a $500,000 national "Mate* the 'President" campaign fund. Mr. White said, that a thousand friends of the League of Nations would be asked to follow the example of President Wilson ,and subscribe $500 each to assure the success of the Cox-Roosevelt ticket and the league itself. Mr. White also said that newspapers favoring the League of Nations would be asked to aid in the formation of the "League Thousand Club" to be composed of contributors to the fund. "Less than $130,000 collected bj us provided a contrast before the senate committee investigating canr paign funds contributions yesterdaj with millions in the hands of th< Republicans," said Mr. White. 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