The Leon Reporter

The Wilson administration will be
"dry." This expression is used entirely in a sense that appeals to the
inner man, the nation and not
necessarily to those who look for
stereotyped methods of government.
It became known that President
Wilson and his family, all of them,
are averse to the use of liquor or
wine in any
form.
Intoxicating
liquors will have no place in the
White House during the next four
years, unless the president's views
undergo a sharp change.
The premier in the president's
cabinet, Secretary of State Bryan, as
is well known, has been a prohibition
advocate for many years. On
one occasion Mr. Bryan would have
made it a national issue and it was
due to his efforts that the prohibition
legislation in Nebraska was put
into effect.
The fact that a large portion of
the democratic majority in the senate
and house is from the south,
where prohibition is general, makes
certain the fact that there will be
little wine and less wassail than has
been known in Washington
for
many years.
There never has been so dry a
prospect in the White House since
the days of President Hayes, when
Mrs. Hayes excluded wines and liquors from the executive mansion
immediately on becoming its mistress
and the sideboard on which the wine
glasses and decanters of that administration once were
displayed,
now graces a local barroom.