Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-03-03
ANT|-WET REVOLT GROWS
DRY LEADERS ALARMED
Reports From New England and
Middle States Show Wave of
Protest is Rising.

! New York. March 3.-Eastern .'drys'
were feverishly manning the pumps yester-
! day in frantic effort to combat the wet
wave sweeping over this section from
| New Jersey 10 the northern boundary OF
| Massachusetts,.
Sharp S. O. s. calls, emanating from
/ the lookout post of William II. Ander-
son, head of the New York Antisaloon
League, had failed TO bring relief and at
| a late hour the antiprohibition storm
was still raging.
Complete returns from the GA Massa-
ch,isetts towns holding annual elections
! Monday showed that over half of them,
and many of these previously dry"
strongholds, had voted wet" Among
these were Lexington and Dedhsm,
which had been dry for 40 and %
years, respectively.
| pared TO take immediate steps toward an
Investigation OF the activity OF the Anti
saloon League.
Assemhlyman Louis A. Cuvillier. DEM
ocrat, introduced bill in the New
York Assembly providing for the hcens-
ing of beverages containing not more
than per cent alcohol thus insuring
strong attempt in The Legislature in
behalf of the States right 20 determine
what shall be the alcoholic content Of it's
drinkables.
Strong Republican State leaders openly
began a campaign designed to bring
about plank in the Republican national
platform possible the notification OF
prohibition rs now In force.
In New Jersey, the deed was done.
In Massachusetts, the vote was in, but
In the New York Assembly there was
yet fighting chance for the ''drys."
SO ". II. Anderson, of the Anti-saloon
League issued a call 10 arms in part as
follows:
'sThe Republican party cannot COM
pete with the Democratic party for the
wet support in New York State: and
without the support OF the moral element
generally, including most of the women
and specifically of the supporters of pro-
hlbition, its name Is mud. II Will be
futile for wet machine leaders 70 make
last-hour appeal TO Prohibition Re-
publicans, representing a large majority
of the party IN the State, to save the
party and the country, because most
Of them do not believe that either the
party or the country would be saved
by handing them over 10 a wet bunch
of political pirates and highblnders.
aft Nbl EASY tfapigD W ttHsfiih W
be used as pawns in the betrayal of your,
party to Tammany?'
Governor Edwards, in signing the
New Jersey beer bill. :" declared his be-
lief that this day we have struck a note
that will echo throughout the land He
then gave voice 10 the following pithy
paragraphs, among Others:
The Volstead act. ] am advised by
Ia wyers, makes criminal OF any house
keeper whose preserves, by natural proc
ess, produce more than one-half OF ]
per cent alcohol.
Although this Noistead act, we are
told with much initiation of the cheeks,
is demanded by the morality of the coun-
try, the founder of our churches, under
the Nolstead act, would have been guilty
of crime by turning water into wine.
Although the Antisaloon League is
continually misrepresentlng my attitude,
and although its sun of Incompetence
William Jennings Bryan, sailing around
In the salaried heavens Of fanaficism
and his lesser luminaries, have directed
his beams against me, yet they have
only served to tighten the issue and not
obscure my attitude