Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-30
DRY CANDIDATE
DEFENDS PARTY
Says Law Doesn't Dispose of
Issue.

| Whether the prohibition party shall
place a state ticket in the field or leave
its members free to take their choice
from the candidates of the other parties
will be decided at the state convention,
| which o,,eped in the auditorium of the
| Y. NJ c. A, at 2 80 o'clock this after
noon.
Presence of DR.. Aaron S. Watkins. pro-
hibition candidate for president, lends
Importance to the gathering.
| DR.. Watkins is to speak at the Jubilee
celebration" of the victory for prohibi
ton at the Y. NJ. C. A. tonight.
| DR.. Watkins made the following state
ment prior to the opening Of the con-
vention:
"In many respects this is, the most
! peculiar campaign the prohibitionists
have ever conducted. We have received
wider publicity and more general notice
| from the people than ever before.
"The papers have carried pictures of
the candidate for president at the wash
ing machine and have made great capital
out of the pictures
1.-THE candidate is willing to plead
guilty that he has used the washing
machine in order to keep in training for
the big laundering job ahead.
1--WE recognize that there is great
deal of dirty politics in this country
that needs to go to the laundry, ana
we are willing to take the Job whenever
| the people so decide.
I do not know what special character
istics have for president over and
above the other candidates 1t Is true
that was born in a log house and that
am a bad writer.
81 never worked on a canal boat and
only split a few rails, but I have come
up from the farm into the public schools
and colleges. receiving the same training
as some Of the greatest men of our his
tory.
zone Of our difficulties In the present
campaign is the impression on the part
of a great many that the prohibition
party no longer has mission to perform
"They tell us that we have the law
in statute and constitution. What more
do we want?
1--WE call attention to the fact that we
} have had law on a great many other
questions but that did not prevent their
entrance into politics.
THE tariff question was practically
settled at the time OF the civil war, and
protection has been our policy ever since
and yet, in nearly all national cam
paigns the republican and democratic
parties have made tariff the chief issue
IF the adoption Of the protective
tariff policy does not settle the ques
ton permanently, how does it happier
that the prohibition law has such ar
effect The liquor question is not settled
for various reasons.
"A law can easily be repealed so thai
there can not be final settlement OF G
legislative problem. Prohibition may
arise at any session Of congress.
"A so-called enforcement act may be
introduced which, If passed. will take the
teeth out Of the eighteenth amendment
completely.
The major party candidates. Mr.. Coz
and Mr. Harding. do not see in different
terms nor do they clearly imply that
they would oppose laws multiplying the
dry amendment
They compucate things by saying
they will enforce the law until the peo-
plea decide to repeal IT,"
At tomorrows sessions Virgil G. Hin
shaw Of Chicago. national chairman. and
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, state vice presi.
dent Of the ". c. I. L., viii speak.
Decision TO name a state ticket is ex-
! pected to be the signal for an attempt
, 10 nominate either Mrs. Culla ]. Way
hinger Of Upland state president OF the
w. c. T. T., or Mrs Stanley, fc- United
States senator.