Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-28
WOMAN PUSHING WET
PLANK into PLATFORM
Miss Elizabeth Marbury, Delegate
From Empire State, Stands for
Labor md Beer.

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, Juno 81
like the thin, gray
dust of the desert through which
they came to get here. Is beginning
to settle upon tho viewpoint and
corrode the nerves OF certain dole
gates. alternates and other MEM
hers of the Womcnis National Demo-
cratic party.
Up TO date there is just one
snappy thing in San Francisco 1t
is the CLEAN in the eye OF Miss
Elizabeth Marbury when leaders of
the Nebraska contingent aim a fur
tive kick at her little pct wet plank.
The CLEAN looks like the start of
something; many who have seen 1t
are hopeful.
Mrs. Mary Holland Kinkaid, OF
Washington. all unconsciously and
with nothing but delighted appre-
citation in her SOUL blamed the pro-
found lethargy upon Chairman
Homer S. Cummings. She explained:
He is responsible for the mag
niiicent action of the executive com
mittee in Offering the resolution
which puts women upon fifty fifty
bnsis with men straight through
party activities. We have only 10
wait for that resolution to he
adopted. in which we have utmost
confidence"
This. of course, eliminates the
struggle for equal recognition. which
was moro than half of the storm
set loose by Republican women at
Chicago.
Nall II TO the Masthead, Says She.
Meantime, Miss AIarbury. backed
by good wishes Of the New York
crowd. declares she hasn't any in
tention of giving up her wet plank.
She brought it all the way across
the continent for the purpose OF sub
uniting II here. she declares, and
she just won't be lobbicd. diploma
tized or flibustered out of handing
1t round to show off its good points.
And it's 4 cham Democratic party
that won't nail it firmly TO tho plat
form and stand on II with both feet,
She says. or words TO that effect
Mrs. George Bass, of Chicago.
womcn's national chairman, has
taken the stand that the liquor
question is definitely settled by the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol
stead act, and that II hasn't any
place in this convention. Mrs. KEEL
logs fairSank, OF Chicaco, CO.
leader with Mrs. Bass. OF the party.
Is ardcntly dry" And today Mrs.
kinka!d made the fiat statement that
the wet and dry question will be
ignored by the women's party.
To all of which Miss Marbury made
answer.
They say that without the labor
vote the Democratic party can't win.
Well, then. why don't they give the
!aboring men what they want-their
beer?
"If it is truc--and I believe 1t is
that prohibition laws are being
broken all around this country, why
shouldn't laws give way 10 the will
of the people?
Liquor Merely n Matter Of Price.
Everybody knows that offenders
are the ones who can afford to nay
eNorbitant prices for liquor. They
are the ones who. despite prohibit
ing law. keep wine cellars and enjoy
$500 H"'is SoCA'di!S aau coEdla!s.
The situation being thus resolved
20 question OF money, why is II
not logical TO demand equal rights
for the poor man who wishes only
his glass of beer. or perhaps his bit
of wine when he comes from work
of an evening?
My contention is that the party
should do for the poor what the rich
can do for themselves. That action
is possible by modifying the law in
such manner as TO lcgalizc maklns
and selling beer and light wines.
This is what shall fight for as
long as fighting is necessary. That
vii! be until the amendment wins"