Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — QUITS “DRY” PARTY [ARTICLE]

QUITS “DRY” PARTY

Wooley, Once Prohibitionist Nominee For President Leaves Organization. Omaha. Feb 19. —John G. Woolley, head of the Prohibition party for many years and nominee of that party for the presidency in 1900, has deserted the party and will work from the lines of the oltjer parties in future. Woolley is visiting his son in Omaha and staled that he was no longer a member of the Prohibition party, although he was still a prohibitionist. “I believe the party has accomplished all the good that it can,” said he. •'and from now on the most effective work can be carried on outside of its lines."