The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-20

an inadvertance and not stud
led attempt to smother the pro-
hibition party by ignoring 1t out
of countenance.
But where does the great Gil
son Gardner get off? In his Fri
days discussion of the Progress
sive Party Dead" he says: 1.-THE
conscience .progressives will d.
vide their votes between the re-
publican, the democratic and the
socialist parties
Why not some for the prohibi-
ton party?
Did Gardner write that sem
tence or was It edited out OF his
manuscript? 1t seems incredible
that one touted to know as much
as The Times would have us think
Gardner knows would write such
sentence under such conditions
as exist today in politics.
The conscience voter!" Pray
what issued has suddenly doomed
in the republican, democratic or
socialist parties to attract him?
The progressives left these par
ties because they lacked CON
science" issue. Would you have
us believe that Gardner does not
know that the one big con
science" issue in American poll
tics in the last generation is the
dominant issue of the prohibition
party? And IL voters with con-
science are looking for a land
ing place after political ship
wreck wouldn't 1t be natural that
at least some would sight the
haven offered by the prohibition
party?
And If ellison Gardner is as
bright as painted wouldn't he
have discovered this possibility
Especially when the one real dra-
matte and news feature desertion
from the progressive ranks this
week has been the withdrawal of
Governor Hanley Of Indiana from
the progressive gubernatorial
candidacy after nomination in
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that it is because he will not sup
port any party unless 1t declares
for national prohibition? AS the
only party SO declaring is the
prohibition party, wouldn't bril-.
liant 90 writer like Gardner be
able to figure out that possibly al
tleast one conscience" progress
sive might vote the prohibition
ticket?
1t cannot be said the prohibit.
ton party is thus ignored because
small. 1t cast more votes thar
the socialist in 1914 In the ma
ton. 1t elected one congressman
although The Times has never
yet SO informed the people, al
though it is nearly two years.
If ellison Gardner knows any
thing about the present situation
he knows that more conscience
progressives are thinking seri
ously right now of voting the pro
hibiton ticket this year than any
other ticket. Is Gardner so ig'
norant he does not know this in
spite OF the fact that Governor
Foss of Massachusetts, has al.
ready landed there, Governor
Hanley is getting Their fast, Gov
ernor Sulzer of New York is
openly making a campaignpaigr
as a prohibitionist trying to get
the presidential nomination
Doesn't know that Judge Ber
Lindsay has enrolled, that Fred
Smith, William Shaw and such
recruits have already announced
themselves for the prohibition
party. If he does how is the
sentence quoted explained?
ellison Gardner or The Times
or both should wake up.
A PROFIT.
All of which is Interesting
but not true. Not a news fact
cited in "Prohi's" letter, but has
been published in The Times. The
one who should wake up is Prohi
He should stay awake and read
his Times more closely, then he
would not make such baseless
statements.-Editor.