Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-22
DRY CAMPAIGN
 :, FOR ARIZONA
(By A. R. Bucknam.)


 Arizona is in for a hot time from now till November. 1914.
 The Drink Question" will be up- permost in the nina and conversation Of the people all through these cam. paigns.
 How did this all come about? A brief outline will be interesting an instructive.
 At the State Convention of the W c. T. U.. at Tucson in November, l9l2, a few days after the women were given the right to vote, Pro- hibition party enrolment slip was passed around among the ladies and 90 per cent signed it
 This fact was taken to a national conference of the Prohibition party !. at was held in January at Indian 1 apolis two months later. This confer ence was the most successful gath ering that the party has ever held and was in session night and day for six days.
 At this conference 1t was decided to raise a campaign fund of "oEe million dollars, and secure an enroll ment cf five million voters who want the drink traffic to die. l 1t was also decided to concentrate on, not more than ten congressional districts in the Nation and if possi- ble, secure the election of at least one Congressman.
 Arizona was made district No. 1 and as early as February 15 one year age, Edward w. Mills who has the credit of the 9O,OO0 majority for pro hibition in West Virginia, was put in charge as state organizer with head quarters at Phoenix.
 While MT. Mills was getting the lay of tho land Mir. Bucknam of Wis 1coIsin who is called the Gum-ShoeI of that state, was sent out by the>Na tional committee to make a personal canvass cf Wisconsin to secure funds to make a complete canvass of Co l chise county. He secured little over one thousand dollars
 Mir Bucknan came to Bisbee or , last Nov. s and has interviewed ovei one thousand of our people ard hal secured 700 names Of voters who arr , friends of Nationwide prohibition O what is better nationwide admins l tration.
 ' Eugent Chain of Tucson who i i an active candidate for the ULite e States Senate. has made two tour ,. ] cf the state one with W. c. Calder f wood. state chairman of Minnesota ,. and recently with Chas. J. Hall c
 Los Angeles.
 I- A fund of S6,0O0 IS being raised | e lave a Prohibition paper sent to te :. thousand homes in the state, and owe ?. S70O of this Is already secured an Q a thousand papers are distributed | l. cur city each week. |. 2. Der enc thpusand cf our peopl e have read the little book At tn l. Mercy of the State" which is stor l. of the ruin caused by drink. Also man t have read ~Tne Master Meehod,' 8 contains five of E. W Chains a, 8 dresses
 n IL Is dlsO uuutI5AOOA ludt Nlc AN' o tional Committee will put at lea' Il ten thousand dollars into this stat 8 alter June 1.
 !. Tae National Committee is no lt using all the available workers an 6 means ih completing a special fund ( K. s25O,00O June 1, and has sllO,0OO $
 cured to date and over S3O0,00O e their One Million Dolalr fund fo O 1916. Three hundred dollars hay o been pledged by friends in this cit. o The reason for this strenuous .s foIts in Arizona in the great hope D. success and the need of great VI j. ttry this year, to start the nations
 battle off with a bang.
 It is generally expressed that
 Chain can be landed in the U.
 Senate, that one fact will go a Ion
 way toward making Prohibition. or
 of the issues of the National car ' paign in 1916, between all parties
 their primaries.
 But there Is still another fact'