Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-06-18


problem of prognostication a I'M
usually difficult one from the start.
Another feature was the unpre-
cedented number of outsiders and men
from other parties who were on hand
to influence the choice of he conVen-
ton. Notable among these were VIII
liam j.. Bryan and William Randolph
Hearst, especially the latter, who
seemed to conceive it a patriotic duty
to do all in his power to assist the
Republicans In making a wise selec-
ton.
Women will from 10Y on have an
equal voice with men in planning and
managing Republican campaigns. rms
is assured through the adoption by
the convention of the report of the
committee on rules, the chief recon-
mendation of which was that the
executive committee shall have a mem
bership of fifteen instead of ten as
heretofore. The makeup of the COM
mittee will be W. men, seven Wom-
en- and the chairman. In addition the
committee will have a m vice
chairman, ranking next In dignity TO
the chairman. There will also be an
assistant secretary who will be a
The women of the majority
got everything they asked for from the
convention Notwithstanding the fact
that a strong delegation Of their sex
who are opposed to suffrage was on
hand. These latter were disappointed.
The Supreme courts decision up
holding the prohibition amendment
and the Volstead act came at an OPP
perfume time to relieve the platform
trainers of embarrassment on the
question. The hopes of anti-prohibi-
tionists which went from wet to moist
are now scarcely humid. Their only
ecour is in the election of a con-
gress which will repeal or amend the
Volstead law.
Gov. Edward 1. Edwards of New
Jersey, who is making the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination
largely on the question of personal lib
erty, advocates a nationwide refer
endum on the question of prohibition.
He believes that the sentiment of the
people so expressed, will force an
amendment to the law. His conten-
ton is that the act goes too far in
attempting to regulate the habits of
millions of citizens; that it places in
the lawbreaking and criminal class
millions of women all over the cOun-
try who make light wines from home
grown fruits for domestic use and
millions of farmers who make and ma
ture cider from their own orchards I;
that by the prohibition of beverages
of light alcoholic content, it has In
creased the Illicit distillation of harm
full liquors to t~wentyfold their former
production; that many of the agents
of enforcement, both state and fed
eral, have become either blackmailers
Of the lawbreakers Oh partners In
crime; that it is the main impelling
cause why 100000 men of foreign
birth have returned to their native
lands and that it menaces the whole
Industrial fabric, and millions of work
ers are filled with resentment on &C
count of the invasion Of their personal
liberties.
The New Jersey executive attacks
the law on several other counts and
one easily discerns that the question
Is going to cut a much larger figure
at San Francisco than it has at Chi.
cago. In the Republican convention
the only entry similar to Governor Ed
wards was Senator France of Mary,
land, and he never had a chance, fol
at no time was there any prospect of O
wet track.
Garp1on o1oaffnnc whf0h Woro roIiQf