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Leading wets and days assemble at convention
At the Chicago Republican national convention a group of prominent figures shapes the party stance on prohibition. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler leads wets alongside Mrs. Sabin Mrs. Nichol and Mrs. Roosevelt while Major Curran Warren Bayley and Anti-Saloon League delegates oppose every move of the wets.
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Chicago
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
The
Wets
Charles H. Sabin
Courtland Nichol
Archibald Roosevelt
Feminine Battle For
Henry H. Curran
Phyllis Burke