Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-18
DRYLAWD DUE
I TO DEMOCRATS
So Says Senator Freling.
huysen at Somerville- hits
At Edwards

RARITAN, Oct. Ex-senator FIRE.
linghuysen speaking in Somerville to
an audience of people among whom
he has lived practically all of his
life, last night declared that Gov
ernor Edwards vas waging a cam
paign of dishonesty making promis-
es which he knew that neither he
nor any other man in the United
States could possibly fulfill. Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen declared that pro-
hibition was brought about by Demo-
cratic parties and that it was the
Atates which were overwhelmlngiy
Democratic that were most militant
Nv in favor of the eighteenth amend
ment TO the constitution and the
Volstead law:
Governor Edwards has promised
to make New Jersey as wet as the
Atlantic said Senator Fre1nghuy-
sen. "He has promised a sc fare'
&c beer and a good nickel cigar.
He has promised a return OF tne
DAYS Of revelry-a return OF wine'
women and song.
sIn Jersey City on October ~ ne
said: -
Ia complete without wine, women
and song Tonight to all lntents anu
~n11TnnGeS. we HdNS ia
Of the observation-disclosures lGod
HESS them) and sweet song. When
the Democratic party comes into It's
own in state and nation, let up nope
that we will have wine also to COM
plete the festivity.
"Goyernor Edwards has yet to tell
us how he will bring back the Gays
of revelry. Though he advocates the
sale of liquor in grocery stores IN
stead If saloons he still has the sup
mort of the saloon-keepers. 80 ions
a. they are allowed to have a place
If business where they AN sen IN
~toxicating liquors, they do not care
by what name it is calied. as
rose by any other name rs JUS 90
sweet. SO a sal on by any other name
- inst as pleasing to the saloon
keeper. Laan his
nramises? He answers, elect the
democratic party and there VIII pe
return of festivities, a return VI
wine m and song. .uao++en
aran it be that he has forgotten
that the eighteenth 10
md was non-partisan, or can IL pe
that he simply doesn't know Ihe
movement came to a head unoera
Democratic president. ine etSn
tahn1h IIlClll was
the states under a Democratic presi-
dent. at,
SIN the United States senate thlr-
tv-six voted for such
submission and twenty-nine Repup-
Icans. In the House 141
voted for such submission n 1871
Republicans. The first state to ratlfy
the amendment was Mississippi a
Democratic state; h second state
was virginia. likewise a Democratic
state; the third state was
usually classed as a Democratlc
state. and the fourth state was South
Carolina. always a Democratic state.
"Before the eighteenth amend
ment became effective the south was
dry. The south is the backbone OF
the Democratic party. No section
of the country is so strongly opposed
ID the sale of intoxicating liquors.
At the present time in the senate
there are some thirty Democrats,
twenty-five of whom v not
merely enforcement of the eign-
teenth amendment but actual prohi-
bition. What is more, their consult
uents demand prohibition.
eff Governor Edwards was elected
to the senate and the Democratic
party caucused on prohibition he
would be overwhelmed n unless
he deserted his party he would have
to vote to support prohibition. GOV
erne i. Edwards either knows tina ne
is talking nonsense when he prom
Uses that the Democratic party will
restore the sale of wine and beer, or
he simply does not care what he
says. If the Democratic party IS
against prohibition. let him Explain
rSf he can why prohibition came un-
Hter a Democratic president. Let
him explain if he can why in the
senate thirty-six Democrats as
against t~wenty-nine Republicans
and in the House 141 Democrats
as against 1877 Republicans favored
the submission of the eighteenth
amendment to the states.
"Even If the senate, the House
and the President unanimously de-
sired to make lawful the sale of
wines and beer. they could not do so
unless and until the constitution was
again amended. The constitution
prohibits the sale of all intoxicating
liquors. What it prohibits congress
cannot permit. If congress cannot
make lawful the sale of some intox-
icating liquors. how car Mr.. Ed
wards? 1t is time for him to prove
to the public not only that he can
keep promises which he is making,
but also that he is truthful IN MS
statements. He is striving to take
advantage of the ignorant and to
deceive those who have not read the
eighteenth amendment and who do
not understand that congress cannot
make lawful what it makes unlaw-
full. In a word he is simply trying
to fool the public. Unless I am mis-
taken, he will soon find the truth of
what the immortal Lincoln so fire.
quently proclaimed, that you can
fool some of the people all the time,
you can fool all of the people some
time, but you cannot fool all the
people all the time"