Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-12
LAW enforcement
CALLED DRY ISSUE
Watkins and CoIvin Outline
Views in Accepting Pro-
hIbiti0n Nominations.

GERMANTOWN. Ohio. August - (by
the Associated Press).-Before an en-
.huslastic crowd of neighbors. adj
mlrers and party adherents that over
moved the athletic field at Miami
Military Institute here last night.
rev. Aaron S. Watkins. standard
peaTer OF the prohibition party, and
-. heigh Colvin, his running mate,
hO oth accepted their nominations.
p potn asserting enforcement of prohi-
pIllon laws, and especially the Vol
campaign. VI liz
II am not thinking of partisan
fo ren,yr loud. at any rate-but
you make the application in which
I give 1t: The world has always
.ouio urn foundations necessary to
! government
gospel Of Understandings" Plea.
f.,I ana ! want to preach to you as
ntfo o" Gltizen. not as candidate for
once, the supreme necessity of the
present-day gospel of understanding.
~ tnere is anything the world needs
~ me present state Of turbulence,
faa me present state of unrest and
reheI1iou conditions, Instruction and
,s, aye, and revolution, it is
understanding of men and women
with one another.
H Points to World Nenace.
DO not think that 1 am pessimis-
.,c' out l tell you, my countrymen
mere is just as much of menace in
lne world today as there was in the
midst of the tumult of war civiliza-
tlon mas not settled down again. There
are wars in Europe today, threatened
industrial revolutions throughout the
| world; there is an assault on our in
nerlted civilization and I want our
country to stay down, to come to an
| understanding of our Inheritance, and
let America stand as barrier
against the onrush of revolution and
destruction throughout the world.
/ To US the supreme question of the
year is not equal suffrage. the league
/; of nations, labor, Mexico or Armenia,
nor any of the minor questions on
I which all agree. but the entire ex-
! tinction of the liquor traffic" said
Rev. Mr.. Watkins, in his acceptance
speech
d To Carry Gospel by Airplane.
/ The candidates will carry the gos-
+ pei of their party into every section
|! of the country by airplane. Decision
/ for the air campaign was reached by
the national executive committee. The
/ parade made noisy circuit of the
/ village. disbanding after passing Rev.
/ Mr.. Watkins home, where he and
/ members of the executive committee
reviewed it. Attendance at the speech
l making was large.
4 H. o. Faris. Clinton, Mo-, who
delivered the notification speech to
Rev. Mr.. Watkins, stressed "the plain
4 ness and fairness" of the 1920 pro-
hibition platform. Referring to the
! Volstead act, Mr.. Faris declared no
repeal or modification of present laws
must be countenanced, considered or
connived at"
4 Urges Peace at Once.
h Mr.. Watkins urged signing the
! peace treaty at once, with whatever
reservations and amendments that
may be possible; declared in favor of
1 a mandate over Armenia, if the
United States is requested by the rest
of the nations of the world; urged in
/ tervention in Mexico if peaceable
arbitration means fail, and declared
in favor of the establishment of an
industrial court for settlement of
labor questions.
| The prohibition party, he said, has
always been in favor of equal suf-
frage. land has stood uniformly and
constantly for that reform since its
Inception"
The election of dry President is
equal in Importance to the election
of a dry Congress, the nominee as
serted, pointing out that the legis-
ilative power of the President is
legally equivalent to Lightweight
members of Congress.
! Mrs. Frances Beauchamp, Lexing-
Iton, KY, delivered the speech notify
ling Mr.. Colvin of his nomination.