National Affairs: Drinking Daughters

Last May at the National Convention of the Prohibition Party at Niagara Falls, Keynoter David Leigh Colvin declared: "Formerly it was the wandering boy who made the mother's hair grow grey. Now it is the drinking daughter also." Within 48 hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson for the Vice-Presidency.

Dr. Colvin describes himself as...

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