Evening star., 1922-10-22
WET ENDORSEMENT
HlNDERS P0MERENE
Move of Anti-VoIstead Men
Seen as Alternating Dry
Democrats.
,oc;al niSnatch To- The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBUS, Oltio, october 21.-The
publication OF the list of approved
candidates for Congress by the or
ganization working for the amend
ment of the Volstead act may have an
adverse effect upon The candidacy OF
Senator Pomerene for reelection to
the Senate, for he is inEluded IN the
list.
senator Pomerene faced at the
orening of the campaign oIpfnous op-
position from the drys beca Hse OF ms
votes in the Senate agaln.t poHipi-
ton, but so far as surface Indications
could be relied upon he see.Vlai 70
be overcoming that opposition Win
the explanation that in so vottI.ts ne
was merely obeying the mandate OF
the people of Ohio, who We're Sd'ii
regularly voting down prohi bit Non
proposals in their elections, and ths@
when the state went dry he gladly
fell in line with that expression, be-
ing personally dry.
1t Will be hard to convince the radi-
cally dry democrats in the state that
the leaders of the movement against
the Volstead law have made up their
list of friends among the candidates
without first ascertaining exactly how
they stand. DIR. Fess. not being so
llSted, ana naNlnS an unqueslioHeo
dry record will probably secure a
large part Of this element of the
democrats.
DOnnhey MUCK Stronger.
1t is plain that Senator Pomerene
lis good many thousand votes
weaker than A. v. Donahey. the demo-
cratic candidate for governor. This
was the case even before the anti
Vois:ead organization published its
oil let hn m a n hxAfN a q
the two candidates will probably
widen with this development. The
dry organizations have just begun
their open fight on the pending stale
constitutional amendment, SO as to
permit the manufacture and sale OF
light wines and beer in this state
Practically every Protestant Church
in the state will open its pulpit to
dry speakers one or more Sundays
between now and election day. This
feature OF the Ohio campaign is
ecllpSing the mere political campaign
work on both sides of the party fence.
The wet managers are claiming a
great change of sentiment in the last
two years, due to the raiding of pri-
vate houses. and to some extent this
is probably true. The drys are preach
ing it to the people that the proposed
amendment will mean the return of
the saloon without the old state regu-
latory and restricting legislation, to
control them. Some lawyers predict
that If the amendment is adopted the
federal courts will declare II of no
effect, for the reason that it contro-
verts the federal prohibition. But the
drys are not willing to take chance
on that, and are pointing out that
with the amendment of the state con-
stitution in this regard carried. all the
state laws for the enforcement of pro-
hIbition will fall, and in Ohio we shall
1n1
federal courts to look to for such en-
forcement.
Representatives Unaffected.
The listing of candidates fer the
House as favorable to the proposed
amendment of the Volstead act has
had little effect on the congressional
campaign for the reason that those
SO listed were generally regarded as
wet before.
The work of the several members
of the Presidents cabinet who have
come to Ohio to speak in the cam
paign does not seem to have con-
tributed much to enthuse the party
membership on the issues of the cam
paign. 1t is now proposed in the re-
publican state campaign headquarters
to organize a driving force of eighty
eight experts in practical campaign
work. one to be assigned to each
county, TO work through the party
county committee, with the one OBJ
ject of arousing the voters of the
party to sense of the Importance of
carrying the Presidents state in this
reelection.
Gov. Davis. who has been Ill, has
now recovered and is announced to
take the stump in the republican
state campaign next week, and this
is viewed with. some concern by not
few republican leaders, who fully
understand that the governors ad-
ministration has not been a shining
success, and that, as a mater Oh Iact.
that was the real reason he did not
ask nomination for a second term.
The democrats will be sure to take
advantage of the opportunity and drag
into the discussion features of the
present state administration that
have come in for severe denunciation
from prominent republicans them
selves.