New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-13
Whites Blow
To Wet Hopes
Shocks Party
Democratic Leaders Consid-
ering Plan to Gag Chair
man, Whose Words May
Cost Tammany Support
Jersey Feels Dry Edict
New York No Place to
Back Prohibition Rule,
Wall of Cox Indorsers
BY Carter ield

al by carter Field
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Shocked at
what they regard as the second serious
blunder made by George White, chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee, within few weeks, several i'm
portant leaders of the party are think
ing seriously of taking steps with a
view to gagging the new chairman.
If White had to dash the hopes of
tho vets to the ground, they ask, as he
did in his statement printed in New
York this morning, why didn't he pick
out some other place for his outgivng
THAI in the home of the Tammany
delegation which put Cox over at San
Francisco, and which is vital to Demo-
cratic hopes this year?
Whites comment that the Demo-
cratic party would stand on law en-
torcement would nave been splendid
slug in Denver, Salt Lake or Seattle,
they complain, particularly if the press
associations at the same time got some
good hot news in his interview so that
down. But right where the newspapers
would carry the word not only to the
Iammanites. but also to the New Jcr-
sey Democrats, who fought and bled
for Cox at the Democratic convention.
IS no place, the indignant Democrats
at national headquarters here think,
Tor the new chairman to have talked
about law enforcement.
STANG on Dry Issue
At the same time that Mr.. White
was giving the impression to Wash
lnGton news paper men, just before
Governor Cox made his acceptance
speech, that the League of Nations
would be only q minor issue, and
when he was declaring that progress
sivism would be the paramount issue
of the campaign" he said also that
there was not much talk throughout
the country on prohibition.
1t was not so much what Mr. White
said in New York yesterday that
alarmed the Democrats here, as where
he said it, 1t is realized perfectly
here that if Cox should win electoral
votes on the moist appeal those voting
for him would be getting the same
sort of lemon that the men and
women got four years AGO who voted
for President Wilson because he kept
US out Of war;
No matter what happens in the Pres
ildentlal election. in the private opin-
ION here of observers of both parties,
there is no possibility of electing a
Congress which will modify the Vol
stead act, much less start the wheels
turning for the repeal of the prohibi-
ton amendment. A statement recently
issued by the Anti-Saloon League. to
~tks general effect that the drys had
T1ty to elect eight of the thirty-two
IfHaators this fall to retain dry ma
4Fity in the Senate, has not been pub
ntfly denied by the most ardent wet,
IAfd its truth is privately conceded by
the vets with whom The Tribune
@fresp ondent has come in contact.
iaNhe domination on Tuesday of an
Aat-saloon League worker for Sena-
Iwt in Ohio is merely another indica-
Non Of how hard it is going to be to
@Ferturn the present three fourths ma
tRrlty iof bone dry Senator's
III Reports coming in from the West.
however, indicating that the moisture
Mpposed to be in the Democratic can
Rdacy is hurting the party's chances
- such bone dry states as Washington,
Maho and the Dakotas, are doubly an
Wylng to Democratic leaders here
W4en they see all the advantage of
1Is moisture" being thrown away by
Naairman White
III Democrats Peeved at White
iHfAll he had to do was to keep quiet
M}out prohibition" said one prominent
democrat, plaintively. at is a thing
WHich is simply not being discussed
% the best political circles this year
Up either party. We were going strong
Ml New York, with satisfied Tammany
8Eanization flattered at the idea it
Md put Cox over, with PTS beer
sMhnk in the Democratic state plat
@rm. and with the New Jersey Demo-
Hfats-wetter than the Atlantic Ocean
las Governor Edwards said-pleased
with the ticket.
You might think to read Whites
interview. given out right in New Y ork
City that he didn't know anything
about the fight at San Francisco, or
the 2.75 beer plank in New York, or
the fact that the Democrats carried
Jersey on the wet issue after Wilson
lost the state four years ago by more