The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-22
DRYS NEED NOT FEAR

The apparent determination of the Prohibition forces the backbone of which is the antl-Saoon League, enter ticket in the national campaign this year is uncaled for in view of the recent dec arations by leaders of big political parties and especially in the light of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States uphoding the constitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment The principle of Prohibition has been established and made a part of the Federal Constitution, thus has the object for which the Prohibionists have waged political warfare been attained.
 Objection to Governor Cox by Anti-Saloon League officials and members of the National Committee of the Prohibitionists not based on any per formance of the Chief Executive The Democratic as well the Republican party has gone on record as being willing and anxious to accept the Supreme Court decision in the matter as f1nal and endorsing the Eighteenth Amendment.
 It has been been said by the Dry leaders that Governor Cox is not orthodox; and it is pretended that will enforce the laws and that his can ddacy is a menace to all who would regulate GUS tom and appetite by the most despotc powers. Yet the history of Governor Cox's political career does not bear these claims. The only time he has been defeated at the polls when he incurred the hostility of the liquor interests by doing the very thing that it is charged that he will refuse to do He has administered the liquor laws of Ohio equally with all other laws. True, in doing, he has made enemies among those who thought he could be diverted from his duty but the friends he made in doing outnumber largely the enc mics
 Commenting his attitude Prohibition and other matters the New York World says:
 From what know of him should
 say that Gov. Cox, if elected would en-
 the Prohibition Amendment to the
 letter, and all laws made in harmony there
 with He is not likely in response to any
 exhortation, public private, to go beyond
 that, many zealots now insist
 ing must be the practice. The Supreme
 Court and the conventions of both parties
 have left the issue with Congress, and
 there doubt, Gov. Cox will leave it. obed- .- tent to it's decree.
 As to the League of Nations he has
 been described lukewarm yet no one
 has spoken strongly in favor than
 he did in his Jackson Day address. That
 hes fayors it and would ratfy the treaty
 without imparing it's integrity, is so eloquently promised by the platform upon
 winch he is stand. is be assumed matter of of the people,
 a courageous leader, true Democratic
 progressive, he appears to be, he would
 not, he could not, array himself with
 the paltry spirits who for the of
 motives seeking wreck the best
 hopes of a war-curSed world We shall
 expect from him, therefore, not merely per
 functory support of the great ideal to which
 President Wilson has dedicated his life, but
 enthusiastic endorsement and the
 courageous advocacy of the principle
 bodied in the covenant.
 There be real doubt to Governor Cox's attitude Prohibition. The Anti Saloon League and it's cohorts merely cooking up for attempting to remain in the field Any ticket f places in the national campaigns this year will figure any great extent in the final results although it may add to the intensity and general n tpraS n he