Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-26

IauQua. comments along LnlS line
provoked the 'bellicose Mr.. Ander-
son, who loves a fight and who gave
recently a very fair exhibition in the
Legislature of a gentleman Here
fora in a ceramic exhibit, to produce
the goods, as he himself expresses
it,
"In the light of later develop
ments," Mr.. Anderson says. "it now
becomes necessary to show that, as
conditions now stand, he is very
grave, potential menace to the Pro-
hibition cause in New York State,
in view of certain very interesting
events which have what is, if ac-
cidental, a positively uncanny re-
lation to each other.
I'VE do not intend to permit Mr..
Bryan, through default in exposing
the claims of his so-called Dry Fed
Grafton, to get an ostensible leader
ship in the Prohibition movement
in New York which he can use to
serve the political ends of Mr..
Hearst.
"We shall make no attempt to
keep Mr.. Bryan out of New York,
but if he comes to New York to do
things the effect of which will be
help to Mr. Hearst turn the entire
State over to Tammany, as Mr..
Hearst has very largely helped turn
New York City over to Tammany,
we intend that Mr.. Bryan shall do
it against the protest of the Anti-Sa-
loon League as a non-partisan or
ganiZation, and that he shall do it
in the open as partisan and not
as an alleged Prohibition leader"
Calls Hearst Malign Influence
Mr.. Anderson says he is not at all
sure that Mr.. Bryan was, in simple
hearted goodness, imposed upon by
some overzealous party Prohibition
lists. though it is possible that in his
gullibility he has been imposed upon
by or in behalf of "the man who,
with his wealth and his newspapers,
is, in our judgement. the most ma
lign influence in New York if not in
the entire nation"
Asserting that the stage is all set
for Mr.. Bryan to come into New
York to play politics for Hearst. Mr..
Anderson arrays the following facts:
81. In the latter part of Febru-
ary, just before coming to New York
to speak at the hearing before the
legislative committee, Mr.. Bryan
foregathered in Florida with Mr..
William Randolph Hearst, long a
bitter opponent of prohibition,
stanch friend of the brewers and
practically father of the beer and
wine proposition.
Mayor Hylan, after he came back
from Florida, has been the most ac-
tive advocate of Mr.. Hearst for Gov
ernor this fall, it being understood,
of course, that Mr.. Hearst wants the
GoveTnorship as a stepping stone to
the Presidency.
"The New York World said edi-
torially Sunday, February "a, re-
specting this Florida meeting: 'AIl
concerned declare that there was no
political significance in the gather
ing. Certainly not; everybody knows
that Mr.. Hearst invited Mr. Bryan,
Mr.. Untermyer, Mr.. Malone and
Mayor Hylan to discuss the high
cost of breakfast foods, especially
eggs
"2. The day Mr.. Bryan arrived in
New York there appeared in the
press an appa1 emily inspired story to
the effect that Mr.. Bryan is coming
to New York to make an effort to
smooth out all the differences be-
tween the various factions. These
disagreements have arisen over the
form of the prohibitory legislation
to be enacted in Albany. One faction
is holding out for bone dry prohibi-
ton, another is willing to allow a
little leeway to light wines and
beers
THE truth.is there was never any
difference between the Prohibition
forces in New York on this question,
and the only advocacy of the beer
and light wine proposition that had
any general attention came
from Mr~Hearst and his newspapers
Says He Failed to Keep Promise
"3. The league specifically request
ed that he (Mr. Bryan) take pains
to compliment Governor Whitman
for his open stand in favor of pro-
in order to take the par
tisan curse off the situation. Mr..
Bryan promised to do so. Mr.. Bryan
made no such complimentary refer
ence whatever.
"A. Not long after this Mr.. Hearst
came out in a signed editorial on the
prohibition question, endeavoring,
for manifestly partisan purposes, to
put the Republican Legislature in
hole. 1t revealed Mr.. Hearst as still
clinging to his wine and beer propo-
sition, but cleared the way for him
to run for Governor on the prohi-
bition issue if it should afterward
seem necessary for him to declare
for prohibition.
"5. Also after the interview with
Mr.. Hearst, Mr.. Bryan who we are
informed had previously given as
to the national representa-
tives of the Anti-Saloon League that
he would not go into the new dry
federation unless the Anti-Saloon
League and the Woman's Christian
Union were in it, did
accept the presidency of it. thereby
clearing the way for him to come
into New York state under tile au-
spices of a so-called big national pro-
hibition organization in total disre-
gard of the Anti-Saloon League, thus
perfect prohibition camou-
age for any partisan designs"
Then Mr.. Anderson charges that