New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-09
Party Leaders
Will Pick New
State Dry Chief
haynes Here on Visit Says
Local Republicans Know
Best Who Will Make Good
Successor to Judge Hart
Confers With Governor
viii Go After Boot,eggers'
Sources of Supply and
Take Up Hotel Question

Roy A. Haynes, United States Pro
bibition Commissioner, arrived in New
York City yesterday from Washington
and had conferences with Governor
Miller ard Z. c. YeNowley. acting PRO
hibitlon director for New York State.
He denied rumors that he was here to
appoint q successor to Judge Harold L..
Hars, prohibition director for New
York State resigned. Mr. Haynes said
that he would leave the appointment of
new director to local Republican lead
ers who were in "a position TO know
The best man fer the Office"
Mr. Haynes, when asked if he had
discussed the question of successor
for Judge Hart with Governor Miller
said: "My conference with Governor
Miller was on general matters and not
of any great public interest. The Gov
eraor seemed we'll pleased with the
efforts for the enforcement of prohibit
ton and complimented the men of the
local Office"
Yellowley to Serve for Present
In answer to q question about Mr..
Yellowley's status, the prohibition COM
missioner replied: 81 sent Mr.. Yellow
ley to New York on my own RESPONSE
bility and he will serve until q success
sor to Judge Hart has been appointed"
When asked what progress he found
in New York City,Mr. Haynes declared
that it was the most encouraging in
any metropolitan area in the country
He then issued the following state
ment:
81 am delighted with conditions as
| find them in New York. After con-
ferring with E. c. Yellowley, acting
prohibition director, am happy to
state that there is most satisfactory
progress. | find that he has a complete
grip on the situation and expect, with
ing a short time, to demonstrate to the
public in New York that we have one Of
the model Offices in the country. The
work of completing the new organiza-
ton will be pressed rapidly.
Promises Square Deal
"Those having cases of merit will
find 10 trouble in presenting them.
They will have the Same considera-
ton as they are accustomed to receive
in other places of legitimate business
All persons having business at the di.
rector's Office can come in person and
always get square deal.
so far as the law enforcement is
concerned, under my administration
there are no boundary lines. All
states dIe QISaIALtI OH a uIllIOEIl
basis, governed by the same rules and
regulations and the same conditions of
reliability and dependability must pre-
vail.
"Of course. prohibition enforcement
has back OF it the heartiest support of
the national administration, and, with
the backing of all good citizens and a
favorable press, enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment will succeed,
without the slightest doubt; in fact,
rapid demonstration of this condition
is apparent Already there is concrete
Evidence that the machinery which has
been so auspiciously inaugurated is
Yielding splendid results"
Later Mr.. Haynes expressed gratifca-
ton for cooperation he said he had re-
ceived from some hotel men in diff
ferent parts Of the country. He said
hOtel managers in Ohio had asked that
agents be assigned to their hotels to
suppress liquor violations. One hotel
in Kansas City, he said, had been closed
permanently by injunction because Of
liquor violations.
era attorneys is having a salutary eff
feet said the commissioner. 81 had
conference with President Harding
during the last few days, and the Pres
ident said he would stand back Of pro-
hibition enforcement in every instance"
he cited the closing of the Kansas
CITY Hotel, and quoted United States
District Attorney c. C. Madison, at
Kansas City, as saying: THE paddock
injunction provision is the sharpest
tooth in the law. The way to uproot
liquor violations is to penalize owners
Of property
He said that efforts in New York