New-York tribune., 1920-07-22
Drys Name
Bryan for
President


tis attitude toward the conventions
action.
Besides Miss Brehm other permanent
officers chosen were:
James G. Mason, New Jersey, assist
ant chairman; E. l.. G. Hohenthal, Con-
necticut, secretary; Miss Minette Muir
ply, Iowa, assistant secretary; w. G..
Calderwood, Minneapolis, Mimi, read
ing clerk; Neal Dow Crammer, New
York, sergeantat-arms: Lucey Page
Castor, Chicago, assistant sergeant-at-
arms. All selections we're unanimous.
Como to Bury Barleycorn
Opening the convention, Virgil G.
Hinshaw, chairman of the Prohibition
Naional Committee, told the delegates
they had come together to "select a
burial lot for John Barleycorn." The
other political parties, he said "out
of respect to Johns relatives have
voted that he shall lie in state for
another four years to be viewed by
the American people.
"The Democratic platform is silent,
the Republican platform is silent" he
continued. Harding owns brewery
stock, he is not prohibitionist at
heart. Cox is wet. The future is be-
fore us. the campaign is upon US.
eve want to do the wisest thing, the
ment and for the country 1t was our
fervent wish that every political party
would this year fall in line with the
Constitution of the United States, with
the Congress of the United States, with
he Supreme Court of the United States,
and recognize openly and avowedly the
settlement of this question. The other
parties have failed. What shall we do ."
Turning to measures other than pro-
hibition which the party had cham
pioned. Chairman Hinshaw said, Gas we
assemble here for the thirteenth time
IN lfty-one years, We do so with a
realization that we have had part in
more than one battle and for the solu-
ton of more than one problem.
I'VE have preceded every other polit-
lcal party of Importance, Democratic,
Progressive or Republican, in the
championship of every vital issue dur
ing our history. Whatever else we
may remember, let US remember this
that we have stood for national prohi-
bition since 1869. No other political
party has ever championed that issue
IN national platform or convention"
Prohibition Not Settled
Aaron S. Watkins, keynote speaker,
told the delegates: eve must place in
the field a ticket of real Presidential
size and make campaign that will win
the respect of all thinking men and
women.
He said the prohibition question was
a{+ toJ u ~,
machinery of government is attached
and the lawbreakers surrender uncon-
ditisnally.'
Every refusal to declare for law
enforcement simply encourages the wet
forces to believe that the present wave
of enthusiasm will recede and that the
people will soon forget. Then the fight
can be renewed with some hope of sue
cess. Hence the silence of these plat
forms is a wet silence and will be sc
interpreted. Neutrality is now an i'm
possibility. One side or the other is
I defeated, and the parties that permit
such result have simply refused tc
f. take the oath of allegiance.
I eve do not face bold. defiant anc
despotic liquor power as in years gone
/ by. but so long as leading statesmen
sidestep the question of law enforce
ment and Governors and Legislature
plan for the notification of the ma
tional Constitution, so long as temper
ance men sleep in tne:c tents and wet
forces plan midnight attacks, SO lonl
will the great dominant issue of oul
party be living question.
1--WE still demand as in former years
that parties and officials shall respect
the laws and their own oaths of office
or if they have conscientious objec
tons to loyalty, honor and decency
that they step aside and turn over tht
task of law enforcement to friends ot
the cause. Former liquor selling place.
all over the land are being held intact
with fixtures and possibly liquor. il
expectation of the time when indiffer
ence and tolerance on the part of tn,
officials will change to positive friend
ship"