New-York tribune., 1920-06-29
Tan11nany Votes
To Support Wet
Plank by Mack
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the meeting of the delegation. There
was a full attendance.
After Mr.. Farley had asked for dis
cussion of convention business Jere-
miah T. Mahoney, of Manhattan, said
that 1t was time for the Democratic
party of the state and city of New
York to take a stand for the manufac-
ture and sale of light wines and beer,
having consideration for the law of the
land, but insisting upon changes in the
enforcement of the Volstead act that
gree of personal liberty.
Mr.. Mack said he had been in San
Francisco for two weeks talking with
the delegates. He said that wet
plank idea did not go far with the
delegates as a whole, and that if the
Democrats we're to carry the state and
nation this fall they would have to use
good judgment in the framing of their
national platform.
Liberals With Democrats
He said that two years ago the
Democrats carried the state largely be-
cause they stood for wet policy as
opposed to dry one, and he said that
the lovers Of personal liberty, espe-
cially the plain people and laboring
men, would lose all regard for the
Democratic party in the state unless
the party stood by them and gave them
a wet plank s far as the New York
delegates were able to deliver one
He said that the Republicans did the
right thing from their point of view
nearly all the prohibitionists were
in the Republican party, while nearly
all the lovers of personal liberty we're
IN the Democratic party. He said that
1t was the same in Massachusetts,,
Maryland and Missouri and other states
as it was in New York.
Former Representative Fitzgerald, of
Brooklyn in answer to questions by
Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady,
explained the significance of the Mack
resolution. Mayor Lunn emphatically
eve cannot carry the country with
any such plank in the national plat
FORM" said he. eff we revive this wet
issue. in the face of the decision of
the Supreme Court, we do so at our
peril. Such action at this time would
seal our fate. We must recognize the
dry sentiment throughout the nation.
The question was settled when the ma
tional Congress and the state legis-
latures disposed of it and when it later
was passed upon by the highest courts.
1t is not possible to get such plank
through the convention"
Party Responsibility Debated
Mayor Lunn said the Democratic
party was responsible for the passage
Of the Eighteenth Amendment, and for
this statement he was challenged by
Representative Smith, who said that
an investigation of the record would
show that the Democrats were gen
orally opposed to the Volstead bill.
"And l also wish to remind the
gentlemen that he has the distinction
of having been the only Democrat from
the State of New York that voted for
the BILL" said Mr.. Smith, whereat the
delegates cheered.
Mayor Lunn said he voted for it and
would do so again, but that it was
because he wanted referendum on the
matter in the state. He said the State
Legislature refused to submit the
question to a referendum. In reply tc
the suggestion from Mr.. Smith that
Representative Volstead had been de,
feated in the primaries for renomina-
ton. Mayor Lunn said the man who
beat him also was a dry and more
Saharian" in his views than Volsteac
ever was
Elizabeth Marbury said she had beer
advertised as "cur advocate Of booze
and that she was proud OF it. She sale
that it was the honest thing for the
Democrats to do, to give the laborinl
men of the nation beer and light wines