Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-07
PROHIBITION WILL BE 0VERSHADOWINC
 POLITICAL ISSUE
Bucknam, Returned from Va cation in Wisconsin, So De clares; Opponent of Liquor Traffic; Local Fight.

CT whose efforts played a leading part in the swinging of Arizona into the dry column. one year ago. Buck nam has just returned from a holiday rest at his home in Norrie. Wiscoh- sin where he went, the latter part of November Asked concerning his purpose in returning to the Valentine State, yesterday afternoon, Bucknam said:
 My efforts in the cause of promot- ing prohibition will be devoted to Co chise county where I have the assur- ance of hearty support. My work will be similar to the work done in the county in 1914. It will be subject ! to the direction of a Cochise county committee consisting of representative citizens of Douglas and Bisbee, to whom will, from time to time, make report and with whom I will hold { frequent conferences"
 Just what will your work be- asked the reporter.
 "To resist any effort to return Ari-
 
 operate in the initiation of any need- ed legislation that may be proposed by the Temperance Federation of Arizona" replied Bucknam. The work also to include the general dis semination of information tending to inform the people of the progress of the prohibition movement and to place the matter before them in an absolutely true light"
 Bucknam was reminded that the personal use problem is about to be settled and he was asked for his views on the matter.
 Tt matters not which way the court may decide on this proposition" l" was the prompt reply. "The Drys have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Of course, however, a deci- sion upholding the attorney generals contention would mean a more rigid prohibition law and, therefore, more difficult of enforcement"
 Bucknam furnished a few interest ing sidelights on the Prohibition Ma tional Conference at Chicago
 "The conference was the most re- markable assemblage of representa- tive prohibition adherents which have ever attended. Men who have been in the great movement since it's inception were there and participated in a three day discussion, also con suming parts of three nights in the many phases of the question relative to legislation, leadership and possibi- lities of the prohibition cause. It looks to me, now, that prohibition will be the one overpowering issue at the 1916 conventions of all parties, if I may judge from information re- ceived from leaders of prohibition in the various states"
 What. in your opinion, has made possible this remarkable increase in prohibition sentiment throughout the United States?"
 ''The attitude of the warning nations paid the subject by the press of the country; majority vote in Congress for the Webb-Kenyon act; the elec- tion of Charles H. Randall, first pro hibition congressman from California; the movement to secure an enrolment of five million prohibition voters, by the Flying Squadron of America" headed by J. Frank Hanley, former governor of Indiana; the voting of seven more states into the dry col umn, making nineteen in all. and the rest of the Union about half dry through local option. These results are simply the outgrowth of fifty years of education by the various temperance societies of the nation. Another big influence that brought about this condition has been the de- clarations favorable to the prohibit tion policy. including such men as William Jennings Bryan and Rich mond Pearson Hobson.
 That the movement is one of vast national influence is attested by the association with it of such men as Judge Ben Lindsey of Colorado, Ex- Governor William Sulzer of New York. Fred B. Smith and John R. Mott. also of the Empire State. Gov. Glenn of North Carolina, Ex-Governor Floss and William Shaw of Massachusetts, Governor Capper and Victor Murdock of Kansas, Senator Sheppard of Texas, George Perkins of New York, Herbert Knox Smith of Connecticut and nineteen out of twenty Progress sives in Congress. It may be news to many that Roosevelt and Wilson are counted with the host. "A movement is on foot within all parties to pledge the leading men to go to their national conventions. de manding a prohibition declaration. This is meeting with exceptional fav- or"
 Tn view of this general trend to- ward the support of prohibition. what will the Prohibition party do?"
 ,"The Prohibition party is the last to hold it's national convention which | is done to make it possible to en- dorse the candidate of the party mak- | ing the most satisfactory declaration