The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-09
SENATOR WADSWORTH LEADS NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROHIBITION.

Former Senator James w Wadsworth of New York who recently announced that he would be candidate for delegate-at-arge from New Yorh State to the Republican National Convention, has begun active campaign for the election of wet Senators and Representatives to Congress. The plan of the organization that is forming under his leadership will be to operate in both parties. First it will endeavor to bring about the nomination of candidates for both houses of Congress by both parties who favor the modiiea- ton of the yostead Act and the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment. In where only one party nominates wet the organization will support him. In other words, the plan is to adopt the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, except that it will stop it's activities in Presi- dential campaigns with the termination of the National Conventions. It will make fight in the conventions of both parties for wet plank and the nomination of liberal candidates and whether successful otherwise there, it will take no further part in the contest between the National tickets.
 Plans for the organization and campaign were discussed at a meeting at the Washington home of former Senator Wadsworth. Among the guests of Mr Wadsworth Col Julian Cod man of Boston, Pierre du Pont of Delaware, Senator Edge of New Jersey, Senator Bruce of Maryland Col Grayson Murphy of New York, Edward F. Hardness of New York, F. C. Horst or teNoi9e~i' Secretary of War. from Cleveland, ex-Representa- tive Phillips of Pennsylvania, sydney T. Miller of Detroit Charles H. Sabin of-New York, Austin C. Fox of New York, Capt Stayton, Chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amend ment Capt William Bell Waite of New York Judge H. S White, the newly elected Democratic Congressman from Republican Denver and G. C. Hnkley of Capt Staytons organization
 The New York Worlds Washington Bureaus 41,a ,;Y md fbo Wade forth meeting concludes:
 The organization is supposed to be
 masonic in it's cerecy The notice of
 the meeting was carefully confined to
 those invited Not the list of
 those who attended supposed to be-
 come known; information to the next
 meeting refused.
 The new national movement is not
 to take the place of the Association
 Against Prohibition, but is to coordinate
 the work of that body with every other
 group working along the same lines.
 None of those present would admit
 that anything specific attempted
 in the line of raising funds to meet the
 million a year campaign of the Anti
 Saloon League but the personnel makes
 it rather evident that there will be no money scarcity
 The movement is likely to cause
 some embarrassment to the Republicans
 despite the effort to make it strictly
 non-partisan, for where it must produce
 it's deepest effects is in the Middle
 West. which is Republican.
 While it is declared that the movement is not in the interest of any political party, the prominence of MT. Wadsworth and his political record, has suggested that one of the effects of the movement may be to prevent the Democrats from reaping all the benefits of the liberal wave that to be sweeping over the Nation. If MT. Wadsworth, Senator Edge and other liberal r, tad wifi tha chnu be as successful they hope to be they will remove the question of Prohibition from the field of controversy between Democrats and Republi- cans and force Prohibitionsts into Prohibition Party.