Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-17
MOVEMENT FOR
DRY PLANK in
GREAT PARTIES
Prohibition Element Making
u self Felt Both in Republican
and Democratic Parks
IBy Latest NALL

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question whi"h / lrer 1" 49, - t..
embarrassment e h.tr l'cIl""rstir
iuh R'I uhIic3r rsrticI NOT I" mon
ton the Pull Moose
20 CCuLt CXi"ts tI.ai strong "TOrts
N bn ma o - "ct pro" hI;tn uut
into tie different platforms. The
nti-Sal'Cm CaCu" leafr"s 0"C1l,
h9y go. T'C ann 'p"" t&at both the
pafti"F end TIC rardidstr3 " III u, ru'
on record IN the liquor iE~up
Information IN vol irrorrrr cd quar-
teTs here today IL that Rrvan y III not
?cek dr.. riank ~ III" mex: n"'10
cratic Ua'fofm. II. is rc"ortP1 that
lie will tppoan such y pl"rk, Pithc
Openly or inl'-rCtlv. on tho ground
that the tiTo - Mt rip" and that t.
would probably defeat tho Democrat
+" party We nosit'on will he that
for tho time hong II SHOULD Ia Ioft
I" the States to deal with the prob
lem.
IL Is wolf known that tho average
politician e whatever party shes vi
Clenuv when any attempt Is made to
commit hir on any phase Of the
HqH0r question
This was wolf Illustrated whom the
lIobson prohibition amendment was
pending before Congress and efforts
were made To- force II TO vote
Members Of all parties IN the hous"
sweat blood over the way thev should
vote. Many pleaded 10 delay the
=, vote until after the 1914 elections
Ipnd because so many members said il
would embarrass them to vote either
for or against Il, the vote was de-
layed until after the elections and
held back until last winter.
Renew Effort.
The prohlbttionists have been meet.
ing with such success in adding
States to the dry column that they
have resolved to make a more -aggres.
sive campaign than ever. They are
planning not only numerous import
ant fights I'm States and in communi-
ties--as, for instance. the proposed
campaign to make Chicago dry-but
they have determined to press the
struggle for a prohibition amendment
harder than ever. ..1
II will be forced on the attention
OF both house and senate next ses
sion. And then. in 1916. every presi-
dental candidate will be catechised,
driven TO state bis position one way
or another, and the conventions win !
be urged to put dry planks into the
platforms. 1885, ~
Right nj this point Is likely to arise
some OF the most animated lighting |
OF the whole 1918 contest.
Interests opposed TO prohibition. |
Including the liquor interests, recog
nize that 1t is coming. They are lay
i1g their lines to keep dry planks out
OF the platforms
Mr.. BFyan,s reported attitude would |
block dry plank from the Democrat |
ic platform, because no other strong |
Democratic leader win take the init
alive fer It. President Wilson is dis |
posed to leave both this issue and
suffrage to the states.
Nor Is there reason to believe that
the Republicans Will take up dry
plank True, there Is powerful sen.
timent In the Republican party for II
but the Republican political leaders
will take about the same attitude as
the Democratic leaders, that the issue
is too uncertain from the standpoint
of vote-getting to adopt II,
One Republican presidential posi-
bility, II Is true. has come out and
declared that the saloon must go
This is Senator Cummins of Iowa
But the other aspirants are not like.
ly to be so bold about Il And some
OF the friends Of Senator Cummins
are expressing regret that he talkec
out SO plainly, lest II center on him
the opposition OF wet elements with
in the party for the nomination.
Il Is possible that Senator Cum.
Minis attitude viii force the wet and
dry proposition to the front in the
Republican convention much more
than would have beer
the case but for his statement II
certainly will do so II he develops
much strength in the convention or
should presidential primary law be
passed-in the primaries.
Congress probably could shunt the
wet and dry question to one side Sc
farF as 1916 platforms are concerned
by voting to submit a prohibition
to the States. That is, |
such Congressional action might have
this effect And then again it might
not. 1t might stir up the issue more
than ever. What is making the poll
ticians lose sleep o. nights is that
they are not sure how to shunt II IL
aside.