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nnnnitMiiTW | rmimi ? "I am in favoi thorough believer - _ _ j ? ana oeiicvc ui<ti c\ munity which c If t should have the ri of the regulation < license." May 1, I then Governor of statement to the Secretary of the New Jersey. P?*Aei/1onf Wllcn IJL JL ^91VIVlli> ? v iiuv May 1, 1911, President Wi the following letter to the Rev. Saloon League of New Jersey: "I am in favor of local optii government, and believe that cpnstitutes a social unit should the regulation or of the withho' fV?^ nnacfinrvcj invnlvP iJUU biiV/ M uv/uuiwiju ? v. . ? j tible to being made parts of a I ... been made'the subject matter c party organization and party ac political action in every other fi "They have thrown ever the background and have made long years together. So far as I" consent to have the question of cal parties in this State.' < TO nl^QI* in f / I w JJxy juugixicxiw 10 u^ux 414 v I programmes of the highest com and of the nation ought to be I n 1 rassed for long periods by mak which is essentially non-politica nature." THIS IS PRESIDEI r I Is not Statewide I posed to every princip !. I government? Does Does it not mean sacr I pensary counties pref< with sfrirf- regulation K | I J V ! { ? I ; THE LOG I , n c A- A ? i", J.? i u ilie n.u > | VICTORIOUSLY We enjoy the result iaon on the monume artnrh-mnrlcinn Mk ;trff 9 VV w m m . w. . v ? Have principles? I WOODROW WILSON OF LOCAL / <4 4 . V l.l or local option, i am a in local self government, rery self-governing comonstitutes a social unit ghtto control the matter :>r of the withholding of 1911, Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey, in a signed Rev. Thomas Shannon, Anti-Saloon League of ( >n's "Shannon" Letter ( V Ison, then Governor of New Jersey, wrote Thomas Shannon, Secretary of the Anti3n. I am a thorough believer in local self- Mi ; every self-governing community which m, have the right to control the matter of ... j i- no Irlinrr r*T Imonpoc! IVAAIIC, \yj. ilV/VUVVWI . is d are social and moral, and are not suscepparty programme. Whenever they have >f party contests they have cut the lines of Or :tion athwart, co the utter confusion of tei eld. ' """ D? y other question, however important, into conservative party action impossible for I am concerned, therefore, I never can a s local option made an issue between politi- r ^ - - ' ' * ? i i a .. _ i \ i ?.?i,,, his matter, i do not believe mat party 0v sequence to the political life of the State ;hrust on one side and hopelessly embaring a political issue of a great question ,1, non-partisan, moral and social in its ; . '"] (I WILSON'S FIRM AND OK HELD FOR YEARS. WHJ prohibition unalterably op>le of democracy and good prohibition really prohibit? a< ificing large revenues for dis- r erring this method together and proper control? d< x L. j. DKr.r AL OPTION LEAGUE lerican soldiers who, on the field o r FOR THE RIGHTS OF SELF of their toil and sacrifice. Let us < ' ^ " a ^ ^ ^ mowm /vmy"3 nt at oparzanourg, tu ivxuryuu u/?u sacrifices more than a hundred y ^ . i UNEQUIVOCALLY I OPTION "My so-called'Shannon Le defines my position with regar issue, not only as it was when letter, and the letter to Mr. < was, at any rate, intended to b< sistent with it."?May 14* 19 from the White House at W Woodrow Wilson, President States, in defining his unaltei tion and unchanged position absolute belief in the democrz of self-government. General Haldeman's Lettex Wilson "The Louisville Times, W. B. Haldeman, I ay 5, 1915. My Dear Mr. President: Statewide ide an issue by two of the candidates for the D mination in Kentucky, and m that connection tt being used to impiy that you approve of this pri: mces which are declared to fit the present Kenti 1 the other hand, the socalled Shannon letter is mpt to prove that you stand for local self-goven imocrats to observe. "If you feel that the situation warrants, I she statement of present date from you as to your g< - ? % i i r* i_ e question presented by these letters, sucn ach to clarify our local situation and do much tc viously intended by the Shannon letter. "Your obedient s< <i ?he President, ["he White House, Washirigfofl," ALTERABLE OPINION WHi IT DO YOU THINK? Dispensaries pay hundreds c ollars toward the reduction of ta ind, good roads and general imprc Des prohibition pay? v JNEN, Secretaf : OF SOUTH CARI f Cowpens, January 17 th 171 -GO VERMENT AND CIV emulate their fortitude and vir ? - c r* i* i trie many ovum ksutuutiu puts ears ago. Times have chang N FAVOR ;# tter precisely d to the liquor ' h T TT r-Hrkf a L JL WlUtW V1XV Grogan is or s entirely con VY iilVWU rashington by of the United rable convicregarding his iric principles to President / Editor, Louisville, Ky., e prohibition has been emocratic gubernatorial le socalled Grogan letter nciple in certain circumucky political situation, being used in an *atiment as a principle for >uld be pleased to have eneral attitude toward a statement would do ) emphasize what you ?rvant, 'W. B. HALDEMAN. | -322L3 j I I! ICH HE HAS >f thousands of . xes. the school ' . >vements. What y OLINA 51, FOUGHT I IL LIBERTY. ture^?Inscrrp iots who made \ed since then.