Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-30
BATTLE ROYAL Is
ON BETWEEN WET
AND DRY FACTIONS
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representing the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, said strict en-
( sforcement was a moral duty" and
asked a plank pledsing honest" en-
forcement.
Frank NJ. silsby. representing the
Presbyterian National General AS
scmbly, also asked FOR AN enforce
inent plank ana protested agains, any
> weakening OF the Volstead act.
- Former Representative Richmond
!; Pearson Hobson, OF Alabama. sub
I. United plank expressing party
!. pride in the national prohibition law.
!. Henry Clay Necdham, OF the Ma
!; tional Prohibition party, asked If the
!. Democrats wanted these millions OF
:, votes referring to the dry senti-
8 mcnt in the country.
Wheeler Spcnl<S.
& Introducing Wayne b. Wheeler,
= representing twenty-five prohibition
/ organizations and the Anti-Saloon
2 League of America, Mr.. Bryan said
4 many other organizations would file
y petitions and briefs.
:. AS Il member OF the committee, Mr..
r Bryan said he would defer his own
Z. remarks.
= The eighteenth amendment Mr.
s Wheeler said, had come to stay;
= The sGuarc-toed issue you men
= have TO face he said, is whether "A
= beer and wine modification will
< nul!ify IL We think we can prove
:; that IL Will"
Not only popular sentiment. hut
x the opinion OF all the courts" Mr..
I: Wheeler said. upheld the opinion
). that bone-dry laws we're necessary
.. Tor effective enforcement of prohibi-
= ton.
:, TO opcn the way for wine and
r. beer 20 be mann.dcturircd and sold
J. is nu!lification-1uta and simple" Mr.
- Wheeler continued. '"And. besides.
Z II is bad politics because i, would
~ ALLEVIATE the great prohibition ma
< Joritics that have been returned in so
II many States
e In these days Of unrest you can
!. no. go before the people on plat
- form advocating notification or
j.. lax enforcement Of law"
Ill Former Representative Theodore 4
Il Bell, OF California. opened the case
(. for the vets
y Il deny ihe right TO assume" nc
=. said. that the American people vii
~ submit, for all time to come TO the In
IS tolerance of the eighteenth amend.
,-,,,pcnt."
- Heti AssaiIs bryan.
=. lie assatiei the position of Mr.
~. Bryan. reading from various Mat
"a forms on which the Ncbraskun hac
=. been candidate. in 1880, he sa;r
=; the platform on which Bryan mad,
=. campaign for Congress declared 70,
-: protection Of personal rights
~ against Federal cncroachnen,. :
- similar declaration. NJ said, was i,
81 the national Democratic platforms o
III 1896 and 1900.
~ And If the Democratic marty n,
longer stands FOR the rights OF In
~ citizen 10 decide what he shall en-
- or wha; he shall drink or what n
~ shall wear" he declared. then II +
y. no longer a Democratic party"
q. The committee was stirred into
Il, state OF uproar when AIR. B-ya
y. arose TO ask In what capacity MI
~: Bell came before tho committee. an
=. what compensation he received.
20 speak for the grape growers O
*; California" Mr. Bell replied. and
=. would Ike to ask the zen rlenan 10
q; whom ne speaks"
RI: Il am speaking for the women an,
IL. children that your traffic would dc
~ s;roy." retortod the Nebraskan Will
~ cheers and Kisses kept the room int
~ e turmoil
ri And what compensation do you re
~ cciYe, directly or indirectly. from N
IS; Anti-Saloon Lacquer" persisted Nj
-. Bell
~. None whatever"
y. Not nickel?"
~ Not nickel. ought TO say thu
- during four months OF last year RI
ceiyed compensation for certain put
Is lie fpeeches. but for nine years bt
Jg fore ] fought this traffic without
81. penny's remuneration
~ Cochran "Abhorns Word Prohibition
s} az Promising his Alignment on an n.
sumption that the saloon had d.sa,
AT peayed forever. Bourke Cochran sal
he had an adherence Of the wor
~ prohibition in a free country.
w rMy objection to, prohibition" h
stbptinsSd .is that II assumes that I'll
aiss people Arc not capable OF self-in