The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
PLEA FOR PARTY HARMONY.
Rutland Herald Fears Result of Break
ing Up in Behalf of Candidates.

Ii both conventions omit any refer
ence to the 18th amendment and tn,
Nolstead act, what is to prevent its be
coming a purely political issue, TO b,
hammered about in states and congress
slonal districts every two years. asks
the Rutland Herald.
Heretofore, the issue has been more
or less a matter of party platforms
and party expediency Now the Re
| publican party, on it's part, absolutely
ignores the issue and says by impli
cation that whatever is in that par.
ti,ular is right.
| Now come the Democrats, Assem-.
| bling at San Francisco with w. j
| Bryan, announcing that bone dry
plank must positively appear in the
platform and Governor Edwards OF
New Jersey and his followers just as
confidently declaring that there will
b. a wet, or at least damp, plank
therein.
The obvious compromise between the
two would be no plank, the natural
result following the meeting Of an ire
sistible force and an immovable body.
What happens thcny Take the second
district of Vermont:
Congressman Porter Dale is opposed
by two moist and one fairly dry candi-
dates in the primaries. He. himself, will
run as a bone dry advocate and sup
porter, il he says anything special in
his own behalf. Presumably, with the
wet and near-wet strength divided
NJ MOI fhroa ntS tluIa IA, ,1p n
good chance OF being re-nominated
What them
There certainly would be wet Dem
ocrat against him some man like
Harry Writers of St Johnsbury- and
possibly a straight Republican local
option candidate. because since the
party has declared by inference that
wet vs.. dry is no longer party affair,
Republican party lines of course would
be wiped out on such an issue.
What would be the outcome of such
condition?
Take the governorship:' Agan, stand
ing alone in consistent opposition to
the dry regime unless secured by the
peoples inandate-seems likely to be
nominated. Then the Democrats, al
ways more or less moist, could say:
well, this is a bipartisan question;
let's put up another dry Democrat like
Mayo
Undoubtedly, too, the prohibitionists
would put up candidate as usual, and,
with the Republican national conven
ton declaring the issue removed from
party consideration, what would pre-
vent man like Frank Plumley run
ming purely on the so.called moral is
sue which he and his associates call the
rum question? ?"
Possibly Plumley himself would not
accept such a nomination, but there are
plenty Of Republicans who would,
merely to stop Agan. Then what would
happen If the dry Democrat, or even
a silent Democrat, were nominated and
should go skilfully forth to bust up
the Republican party
Most men would say il would be |
fine mess, and it would only be par
tally improved if the Democrats like |,
lver the issue and adopt il at San |
Francisco. They would make ii a
issue and would seriously |
IMPAIR the chances Of any dry Repub /
lean candidate against whom they ran
! wet candidate.
II seems to The Herald a good time
or good Republican doctrine. There
ire four good men running for gov
'rnor. Let's nominate one Of them and
go down the line" with him There I
IRE four good men running for Congress
n the second district. Let the voters
dominate one of them and stick to
he party when finished.
In a national election year, with so
much hanging on the election OF Hard
ng and Coolidge, Vermont should not
My keep up morale, but should see
o it that her Republican delegation in
Congress- is preserved intact