Arizona republican., 1920-07-23
BRYAN REFUSES
 DRY NOMINATION
 SO NAME OHIOAN
Buckeye State Gets Third Presidential Nominee When Commoner Wires Refusal New York Au- thor Nominated for Vice Presidency--Adjournment Taken
Republican A. p. Leased wIre1

LINCOLN, Neb., July ZZ-On1O got it's third presidential candidate for the 1920 campaign when the Prohibition national convention nominated Aaron S. Watkins of Germantown, Ohio, after learning from William J. Bryan that he would not accept the nomina- tion voted him yesterday.
 Mir. Watkins won on the second each received s5 votes on the first
 The vote was: Aaron s. Watkins. 1oS; R. H. Patton, "A; D. A. Polling, 24; c. A. Randall. 3.
 It took 1o5 votes to nominate
 Mir. Watkins is a professor of liter ature in a Germantown military academy. He was a professor in Ada College. Ohio, for several years and was vice presidential candidate on the prohibition ticket in 1908 and 1912.
 A Native Ohian
 He was born on a farm near Rush sylvania, Ohio and is 53 years old. He preached IT years in the Metho- dist church before starting teaching and was nominated for governor of Ohio on the prohibition ticket in 1905 and 1908. Tn accepting, MT. Watkins said his campaign plans were up to the national committee but he knew 1t would be an active campaign"
 After Mir. Watkins had accepted, Lucy Page Gaston, anti-cigarette leader, announced from the floor that she would urge her Republican party following to support MT. Watkins"
 D. Leigh Colvin of New York, an author. was nominated for the vice presidency on the first ballot. He was born in Ohio. The convention then permanently adjourned.
 Had Not Heard of Nomination
 BOHEMIAN, Mont, July 22-William J. Bryan this afternoon announced positively that he would not accept the nomination for president rendered him by the Prohibition national conven- tion at Lincoln. Neb.
 The first intimation of his nomina- ton was received by him at 1 o'clock ths afternoon at Madison Lake, upon his return from a forenoon of fishing when he read an Associated Press dis patch giving the text of the telegram sent to him by the convention at Lin coin. He was 40 miles from any tele- graph office at the time, but as soon as he reached Norris. Mont, he tele- graphed reply declining the nomina- tion.
 Bryan's Telegram of Refusal
 The text of the telegram follows: Please deliver the following mess | age to the chairman of the Prohibition national convention, now in session at Lincoln:
 Having been away from the rail-
 
 past 24 hours I have not received your telegram notifying me of the nomina- 1 ton rendered me by the Prohibition | party convention. But reading a copy of it in the Bozeman Chronicle | hasten to reply. 1 profoundly appre- 1 ciate the honor done me in rendering | this nomination and I fully share ir | the conveption's interest in prohibi- | tion as the permanent policy of oul country and in the strict enforcement 1 of the Volstead act without any weak l enlng of it's provisions. I also share 1 the conventions disappointment al | the failure of the Democratic and Re- publican parties to pledge their can l didates to such a policy, but I cannot | in justice to the Prohibition party nol l to myself accept the nomination. To Stick With Democrats My connection with other reforms would make it impossible for me tC focus my attention upon the Prohibi- | tion question alone and besides I ar not willing to sever my connection 1 with the Democratic party, which has | so signally honored me in years past
 T have not decided yet how I shal vote this fall. but whatever may fee it my duty to do in this campaign expect to continue as a member O. the Democratic party and to serve my country through it''
 1 The telegram was addressed to MT | Bryan's brother, Charles Bryan, al 1 Lincoln