Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — HANLEY TO SUPPORT SENATOR HARPING [ARTICLE]

HANLEY TO SUPPORT SENATOR HARPING

J. Frank Hanley, former Governor of Indiana, who was elected Governor on the Republican ticket and later was a candidate for President on the Prohibitionist ticket, Thursday made public a statement in which he said the Prohibitionist party ought not to nominate WilHam Jennings Bryan or anyone else as a candidate for President. He said he intends to support Senator Harding. The statement follows: “I have just received the following telegram from the national prohibition committee at Lincoln: ‘“Prohibition national convention nominated William Jennings Bryan today by acclamation, amid great outbursts of enthusiasm. Will you wire Mr. Bryan, at Pony, Mont., immediately urging him to accept this nomination, pledging him your support and get other influential people to do likewise?’ “I immediately sent the following answer: — “‘Emphatically no. Mr. Bryan ought not to be nominated, and if he is he ought not to accept Convention .should nominate no candidate for President. Effort should be concentrated on election of “dry” congress.’ „ .. , “I* have read Senator Hardings speech of acceptance. His stand for the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and of the Volstead law for the amendment’s enforcement is all that could be desired. I shall support him with my pen and my voice in the cam-

paign and with my vote in November.” ' „ . Referring to Governor Cox, of Ohio, Democratic presidential nominee, Mr. Hanly said: . “From the prohibition standpoint Governor Cox is impossible. He is less the candidate of the Democratic party than he is of Tammany Hall and the gang of rum advocates and defenders and political buccanees, led by Charles F. Murphy and Governor Smith, of New York; Senator Nugent and Governor Edwards of New Jersey; George E. Brennan, of Illinois; Wilbur Marsh, of lowa, and Thomas Taggart, of Indiana. As a citizen I can not consent that the American government shall be made the subject of spoils for Tammany Hall and its adherents.”