Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-04
BUCHANAN 'DRYS'
 MAY AID SHERIFF
Wheeler's Stand For Cleanup Is Lauded By Temper
 ance Representative
Bisbee, Arizona.

blSpCts Al iLOlid, May 3, 1916.
 Editor, Review:-Just few words to clear up the controversy between Sheriff Wheeler and myself.
 The court says that liquor can be brought into the state" and many have asked me just how it can be done, and I could not inform them. and put it up to the sheriff and the county attorney to give me little light on the subject, and to aid them l made few suggestions.
 I want to thank the sheriff for his statement. It is susceptible of only one meaning, and that meaning is that no citizen may introduce liquor for any purpose or ill ayn quantity into this state unless he is willing to surrender himself for arrest and preliminary examination before the nearest justice of the peace on a charge of illegal introduction, at which examination he must establish his de- fense of personal use. If he connot uO lulS Ht Dt Htlu lOI lIldl fore the superior court.
 The above is the only lawful pro cess by which liquors can be obtained until such time as we initiate cr pass by legislature laws regulating the introduction of liquorts.
 l have been a long time securing this information and I am under spe cial obligations to the sheriff for dig ging it up, and making the facts pub lic, even though l had to take roast ing ior my persistency.
 l have no heard from Attorney Ross, but no doubt the two officers agree on the matter But il is i'm portant that the people know who is to blame Ior the fact that the legisla- ture failed to pass laws permitting such introduction: Just one man, Wiley E. Jones, our Attorney General, who cotnended that any laws would be unconstitutional that would per nit any liquor, for any purpose, to come into the state; and the only thing gained by the coure decision is that any act, initiated or passed by the legislature, regulating the intro duction of liquor for all uses is con stitutional, and that Wiley E. Jones sLould be held responsible for the lack of legislation. This does not mean that the law cannot be enforced very successfully, but it does mean that prohibition could be more of a success if we had more regulative laws. Whenever I complain of the action Of Mir. Jones, he always comes back at me that I am aiding and en- couraging the bootleggers, when, as a matter of fact, he is the one man that the bootlegger loves as a child loves its mother. Wheeler should be commerded-he was the first sheriff to set the pace for others tofollow. in the state, and I would like to sec him manage a cleanup as Attorney Ross has done, and I am sure with his many friends in Cochise county. a good sum could be secured for such purpose, if he be willing to put it up to them.
 The Cochise County Dry Fedora tion is at his service, and we would like to see a Wheeler fund of at least a thousand dollars; and if any one desires to subscribe to such a fund, on condition that a thousand dollars is raised for detective service, to be conducted by Wheeler himself, they may send such subscription or cash to our treasurer, o. A. Rhoads, Bisbee, and it will be turned over to Wheeler as soon as collected, if he will accept it. am sure men would rather give five dollars than to sit in a saloon eight hours.
 The sherifs scheme is a good one. but it would be impossible to get the five hundred men, and of course the sheriff knows it all too well r Sheriff Wheeler will accept our offer, We will cooperate with him, as we have wiLh Attorney Ross and other officers interested in making prohibit ton a success.
 Two-thirds of the people desire the prohibition law enforced, but they don't expect the officers to watch a man like a cat watches a mouse, to catch him bringing in a little liquor in his grip. or case of beer in his auto-There is a bigger game
 (Signed) A. R. BUCHANAN,
 Field Secretary Dry Federation.