Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-09
THREE PARTIES IN
A DRY COMBINE?
EASTERN ATTORNEY STARTS
BOOM FOR PROHIBITION AND
SUFFRAGE PLANK

Chicago. IL. March 9.-Union OF the
republican. progressive and prohI5i-
ton parties on a platform providing
FOR national prohibition and national
woman suffrage for the presidential!
campaign OF 1916 Is the basis Of =
boom launched in Chicago yesterday
by Frank g.. Curtis. al attorney OF
jamestown. y. y. Dir. Curtis stated
he IS In close correspondence with
such progressiyes a. Theodore Rose
welt. George ". Perkins and William
Allen White. and with influential fac
tors ia the republican and prohibition
parties In fuTtherance OF the move
ment
Mr. Curtis IS accompanied by his
cousin. b T.. Townsend. formerly spe-
c.aI assistant attorney general OF the
United States In the harvester trust
and forest land fraud cases in Oregon.
and also q moving spirit in the trl-
party movement He sketched the
scope OF the movement IN an inter
view a. the Blackstone hotel.
SIR. Curtis made "a clear he was not
authorized TO announce that the men
he referred TO were formally commit
ted TO the movement. although he in
ferred he believes he has their infcr-
mai support. As for Mr.. Townsend,
he was q Taft delegate at the last
republican convention, and now is for
the tr.-party alliance on account OF
diEapproval Of President Wilson
Mexican and European policies.
"ln my Judgment there IS only one
thing that can keep the prohibition
question from becoming a paramount
issue IN 1916. and that is the Euro
pean war. II r. has not been settled
by that time" said Mr.. Curtis Ell
the var is stil on. the great question
will be 20 elect as president a man
who viii guide as internationally with
safety and honor through the next
four years.
There Is no doubt the great lead
crs OF the progressive party, such a.
Roosevelt George W. Perkins. Vii
liam Allen White and many others
are studying the prohibition question. /
The prohibition vote in 1919 was over
100000. The prohibitionists stand .
ready 20 amalgnmate II the prohibition
plank Is adopted The woman suffrage .
plank should go IN also.
Z look upon Theodore Roosevelt or .
Justice Charles Z. Hughes as logical
err 70 can be done within the bounds
90 consistency. the progressive. repub-
lican and prohibition parties should
be united for the campaign of 1916.
The party growing out OF this ANAL
gamatiou should have in its platform
O. plank calling for the prohibition of
the manufacture sale. Importation,
expectation and transportation of bev-
eraEe liquor.
1T s. plain that the people as q
whole demand this plank. and wheth-
or ve like e. or NOT we viii have 90
admit that. morally and economically.
60 Is deserving OF a place IN any party's
platform.
'It was good republican doctrine in
Ig.7. and 90 is yet that we should en-
deavor 90 bring about international +.
world peace. and 10 was Roosevelt as
@ republican. who brought about the
second Hague conference.
"It Is such a man as Roosevelt that
We want as pres dent today-one who
would ask q beuiEerent power 10 re-
move Itself from neutral territory /,
such as belgium. ga the event Of yio-
.ati0n thereof bv beuiEe-ent powers.
-Not one word 81 protest has gone
rp from this nation. We want man
with backbone" IN