The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-08-30
WILLIS DEMANDS
A DRY PLANK
Addresses Ohio Republican Plat.
form Convention
TO Be MADE The MAIN ISSUE

Senator Harding In His Keynote
Speech Declares the Nation Is
Aarlft Toward a soeialized State.
National Chairman Hays and State
Chairman Fairbanks Also Address
the Delegates,
Columbus, Aug. 2S.-A party plat
form Will be adopted by the Ohio Re-
publican convention this afternoon.
Several hundred delegates and candi-
dates are present
Doubts that the prohibition plank
viii so into the platform by an over
whelming vote and that former Cow
enor Willis will seek TO make this
the principal issue OF the campaign
were removed when more than three
fourths of the delegates jumped to
their feet and cheered and yelled
when Willis made a demand for such
a plank.
Directing a challenge to Governor
Cox, who will oppose him at the cleo
ton in November, Willis declared;
81 propose to drive Cox into corner
where he will be compelled to fan
himself and cali for ice water until
he says whore he stands on prohibi-
tiOn. Before the convention ad-
jOurns, we want TO serve notice upon
him and the Democratic party that
the campaign can not be won by
camounage and little red cards put
UP in saloons at the eleventh hour.
We can do this only by platform de-
claring for state and national prohi-
bition."
Willis added, however, that the
Republican party is not a one-issue
party, asserting it stands also for
winning of the war by decisive vic
tory, for an "old-fashioned, William
Mckinley protective tariff" and
large merchant marine.
Addresses by United States Sena-
Tor Harding, Republican National
Chairman Wlll Fl. Hays of Indiana
and n. II. Fairbanks, Springfield,
chairman of the central committee,
were features OF the opening session
CT the convention. Committees were
Namrd and instructed to report this
afternoon, when the platform will be
adopted
Declaring for war until "the mad. |
nan of the world is disarmed," and !
urging preparedness for the great |
problems peace will bring, Senator
Warren G. Harding sounded the key,
note for the Republican convention.
we are far adrift toward the So
ciaiized state" the senator said. |
The seizure of the railroads did not .
proclaim it, because that action was
an apparent necessity 1t is a poor
observer of the trend of events who
expects them restored to their former
owners.
National Chairman Will H. Hays de-
clared that the Republican party has
proven itself a more loyal supporter
If the president in the prosecution of
the war than the Democratic party
He said: "The Republican party at
every stage has outdone the Demo-
cratic party, a thing which has not
always been true of minority parties
Our candidates are and must be su.
premely pro-American. who will re
pudiate every disloyal vote. Every
vote cast is a nail in the
kaiser's coffin; every Republican con-
gressman is a stone piled on the
kaiser's tomb. The world is af1ame.
Our country must save the world.
Our party must save our country"
Chairman Fairbanks of the Repuh-
ican state central committee predict
ed Willis election by 100 900, but said
It is even more important TO send
Republicans to congress than to elect
he Republican state ticket