Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 3

THE EV NING STAR. WASHINGTON. N. €. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1927. SENATOR BRUCE OF MARYLAND ‘\“ ¢ Sees Effort to Evade Issue by| “Shifty and Timid” Polit- ical Leaders. Nomination by Democrats of “AlI” Smith or Ritchie for Presidency Urged. OUTSPOKEN FOE OF DRY LAW NOTE—Senator Bruce is the thirteenth | prominent Democrat to give his views as o whether prohibition_will be in the 1928 campaign. Mr. Barry now will turn his attention to Republicans of equal prominence and_the first interview. with Senator_James E. Watson of Indiana, will appear Monday 1n The Evening BY RllBERT nmm\’. Senator Wiiliam abell Maryland, Democrat, is a militant anti- prohibitioni: s no cause for doubt of his views, in the Senate or out of it. “The effor cal leader oW of shifty and timid politi Senator Bri 'I(>t| the prohibition \doiph sald of the. effort time to suppress the issue of only an attempt to cover up hquake with a carpet. my opinion nothing could be futile than the effort that is ade by the party poltroon attention such 1e as ch comparatively col- in h an absorbin )’unlm-mnn to sues as tax reform, on profligacy and the like. s nothing less than an attempt to convert the thou of the party from an issue everybody is thinking about to issues to no small extent un- real that nobody is thinking about; that are beinz thought about on & languid or purely 3 Prohibition Paramount Issue. “I cannot see how any one can rea- onably doubt the prohibition issue is the paramount political issue at this time. The fanatical element of our voting population, which was mainly jnstrumental in bringing about pro- hibition, is strenuously, if not excit- edly. endeavoring to keep it from slip- ping down hill; while the element of that population which was opposed to . unquestionably, been tronger. “During the widespread newsy polis. taken in_the early part of 1926 of the 6.3 s 3 In November, 926, liquor referenda were passed upon by the voters of eight States, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Mon: . Missouri, Colorado and d the vote in five, New Wisconsin, Montana evada, which contain between one-sixth and one-fifth of the entire population of the United States, was adverse to prohibition. In New York jt was 3 to 1, and in both Illinois and Wisconsin 2 to 1. Cites Record Vote in States. “That the vote in Missouri was not dverse to prohibition was, it is fair 0 reason, due to the fact that the Mis- ouri referendum was framed in such Bweepingly reactionary terms that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Associa- tion Agginst the Prohibition Amend- ment and Senator James A. Reed, all Telentless foes of prohibition, advised its rejection. It is significant that at the same election Hawes, a wet mem- ber of Congress from Missouri, was elected to the Senate from that State. “That the vote in California was likewise not adverse to prohibition was, it is fair to reason, due to the fact that the referendum in that State did not involve a clean-cut issue be- tween modification and non-modifica- tion, but merely the question whether the State should recall its pledge to co- operate with the Federal Government in the enforcement of the Volstead act. Grape Growers Interested. *‘It should be borne in mind, besides, that the enormous increase in the ‘use of California grapes for wine mak- ing has notoriously converted vine- growing . communities in California that were formerly wet into dry com- munities. As it was, prohibition won in California by a small margin of 56,000 votes in a total of more than = million votes. “In Colorado, supposed to be one of the dryest of the States, prohibition won by a margin of 20,000 votes only, in a total of 186,000 votes. “‘Add to all this the fact that many mewspapers are now assSailing prohibi- ‘tion and that, in a great part of the United States, it is almost invariably a topic of eager conversation, and it (Would seem clear that prohibition is khe major political issue at present. See No Chance for Dry. “1 might add that during the recent sessions of the Institute of Public Af- fairs at the University of Virginia, ‘which covered a wide range of public topics, the largest audiences were those which assembled to hear the discussion of the eighteenth amend- ment. “Under these circumstances, how can any one reasonably believe that any dry. nominated to the presidency by the next Democratic national con- vention would have the slightest chance of being elected if opposed, as he doubtless would be, ither a dry SPECIAL NOTICES. BE SURE ITS THE HOLLYWOOD chard out Ga. 3 miles na-l l'?OC 1i % no;eg“lorb the besi cider on’the road: 5o, ring v Ll o0 S a0, ¢ THE CELEURATED CIDE] i beGven diity. gntil g on Ice:' choics abples: e Ut Frderich CARPENTER. JOBBING. _ALTERATIONS. Jeain. por cottages. bungalows. GAS _RANG Tear 616 H st. n. hours. % to 10 AOTICE OF NON-RESPONS is hereby Chnrlel P G recn, contractor. 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At sorvice, rolicy of your ‘The National Capital Press Phone M. 650 RR10-1217 D Bt NW. | Bruce of ff re-| per | “none insue | BRUCE. anding on SENATOR WILLIAM C. | | or nondeseript Republican lan enforcement platform | “Unquestionably a large percentage of the Democratic voters wouid refuse [to vote for such a dry candida | simply because he represented conv jtions and sentiments repusnant to them beyond any that now have a ce in our public life. 1t is hardly to be imagined that any Democrat” would be likely to be elected to the presidency with such a Republican opponent as 1 have indi- cated, unless he could obtain the electoral votes of at least some of the following States: M d. Delaware, New Jersey, New York. Connecticut. Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The idea of a_dry Democrat candidate for the Presidency carrying Maryland , of course, little less than laughable. His chance of rying Delaware would be somewhat bui not much better. dersey Favorable to Wets. “In New Jersey the hostility to pro- hibition is so strong that we have re- cently been told by Col. Ira L. Reeves, former prohibition_administrator for that State, that in New Jersey an offi- cial concerned with the enforcement of the Volstead act is regarded as a loathsome thing. to be avolded as one would a rattlesnake. “In New York the vote last Novem- ber against prohibition was, as I have id, In Connecticut, in 1926, 3 Demotrtic St tuheaation adopt- ed resolutions demanding the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and in the the same year, by a vote of 60 to 32 the Rhode Island House of Represent- atives adopted a resolution recom- mending to Congress the passage of an act modifying the Voistead act and the submission of the prohibition issue to a vote of the people. “In the same year the people of Massachusetts_elected o the United States Senate David 1. 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SAGER Owner REALTOR Builder 924 14th St. Main 36 Republican _national administration spared no effort to obtain the election of the personal friend of President Coolidge, Senator Butler. “There_are solid reasons for believ- ing that Gov. Smith of New York, to say nothing for the moment of Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, nominated on a vlatform calling for the modification of the Volstead act, would ohtain the “lectoral votes of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. “The fatal weakness in the can- didacy of a Democratic dry would be that there would be no Republican defection to make up for the defec- tion of Democratic wets, and the crowning strength of a Democratic wet would be that there would be a Republican defection to make up for !the defection of Democratic drys. “Place before the vast host of Re- Dublican voters who are bitterly hostile to prohibition an opportunity, through such a presidential candidate as Gov. Smith or Gov. 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