New-York tribune., 1919-09-08
Wet Campaign
Opens Against
Dry Candidates
Anti Prohibitions Bo ID y
Sends 8 Questionnaires
to All Seeking Election
to State Legislature
TO Fight Enforcing Bill
Association Also To BE
Active in Cubernatorial
Contests i'm FL States

The control of the Assembly of the
New York State Legislature, hereto
fore decided on strictly party lines,
will this fall be determined by the
vets and the drys if the programme Of
the Association Opposed 10 National
Prob ibition goes through
This organization, taking a leaf from
the Anti-Saloon Leagues book, yes
terday sent Questionnaires to all can
didates for the Assembly in the state,
asking them to announce how they
stand on the wet and dry question.
The questionnaire was accompanied by
letter informing tho candidates that
it will oppose all legislative candi-
dates in favor of the Federal prohibi
tion amendment.
The qucstionnaire reads in part:
"Fair dealing is a prerequisite Of
all relations between honest men.
Therefore, let all of the cards be on
the table The Association Opposed to
National Prohibitions was organized
for the sole purpose of opposing to
the uttermost every abridgement, by
constitutional amendment, Of the
natural and inherent rights of free
ton has legal status and financial re-
sponsibility, because it is incorporated
under the laws of the State of New
York. The question of constitutional
prohibition now has become para
mount national issue. 1t also has be-
come paramount state issue, because
members of the state legislatures may
be called upon to vote for or against
state laws providing for the enforce
ment Of the Eighteenth Amendment
In these circumstances the voters of
your state have right to know all
that there is to know about your views
on constitutional prohibition.
Five Questions Asked
"Thereforc, the Association Opposed
to National Prohibition submits for
yur cnsderatin and asks answers to the
following qucstions:
l. We're you a member of the Legjs-
laturc of your state which voted to
ratlfy the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States :?
2. Did you vote for or against ratili-
cation, or were you recorded as absent
when the vote was taken?
8. If elected to the next Legislature
OF your state would you be in favor
of your Legislature enacting a measure
to enforce the Eighteenth Amend
mcnt?
4. Are you in sympathy with the
principle and purpose of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, quite rrespec-
tive of the views of your constituents
on this question?
3. Are you for state and national
legislation which will prevent the sale
and use of tobacco in this country to
persons Of lawful age?
In the letter accompanying the uues-
tionnairc the Association Opposed to
National Prohibitions made it clear
that 1T intended to become even more
active politically than the Anti Saloon
League has been
1t also has prepared ouestionnaire
for gubernatorial candidates in the
tWenty-one states where it already has
established headquarters, and copies of
these, with further announcement of
the associations political plans" will
be made in a few days.
Fight on Enforcing Bill
From the letter sent to Assembly
candidates last night it was gathered
by those who received il that the chief
purpose Of the association in the next
Legislature will be to prevent the pas
sage of a dry enforcement measure.
The ASSOCIATION, in the letter, which
follows IN part, also took credit Tor
the victory of Representative Reubcn
l.. Haskell, an insurgent candidate in
the Republican primaries in Brooklyn
for county Judge:
"Reports from all parts of the coun-
try indicate that whatever the citizens
Of this Republic think abou. the qucs-
ton of prohibition, per Sc. how much
the majority of them believe absolute
~ and unrcscrvcdly in temperance,
how strenuously many of them are op-
posed to the saloon, a majority of the
voters, women as we'll as men, are
absolutely and unqualifedly opposed
! to the abrdgment the natural and
inherent rights of the citizens of a