New Britain herald., 1923-05-21

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 The dEgs were greatly eheeHed b. the result of the poll which would in disste on its face the apparent impas sihilisY Of adoption Of any plank foi modification of the Nelstead set,
 The eight state ehaiEmen listed al faYaring modification are Connecticut Illinois Minnesota, Missouri, New teFr ser, Oklahoma, Nevada and Wlsean' sin,
 2a States Opposed
 The sa states regarded as opposed to modification, because tho state ehaiFmen said 30, are Alabama Arizona. Arkansas, Idaho. Kansss Kentucky. Maine, Michigan, Mississin- pi Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp- shire, New Mexico, North Carolina. Tennessee. Texas, Ttas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming
 The IT states whose ehairmen was either nanseammittal or whose views were nnnhtainable arc Colorado, call- ! fornia. Delaware. Florida, New York, Georgia, Indiana. Iowa. Louisiana, Maryland. Massachusetts, Ohio, Penn sylvania. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Vermont and Washington.
 The "drys' declare that seven of the states where the ehairmen was non enmmittai helong in the dry column, They hold. therefore. that with 30 states against modification and only eight for it and tinkerlng with the yoistead act by the democratic con vention is out of the question,
 Analysis Of the figures, however, discioses that the drys have overlook. ed ono very important fact. That vote on adoption of resolutions in con- vention is by delegates and the states do not all have equal voting strength.
 So. taking tha :a dry s.ates-we And that they have as2 out Of the l.0s2 votes in the convention.
 Fight Wet States
 The eight wet states--connecticut Illinois, Minnesota. Missouri, Nevada. New Jersey. Oklahoma and Wisconsin --controi 2l2 of the votes. Add 10 these New York. whose chairman is out of tho country and did not an- swer: Pennsylvania. Maryland and Rhode Island. whose chnirmen re- turned non-committal replies or none at all, but all of which are regarded as wet and the total wet vote Is swelled to 440-more than the avowed dry vote.
 A majority of the convention re- quires bs2 votes. With the incontest- ably dry states controlling 3s2 of these. and the presumably wet states 40. the contest would seem to hinge on the mastering of majority by either side from the remaining 12 states. controlling the other 24o votes.
 These states, with the number of delegates in the national convention for each are as follows: California, 26; Colorado. 12; Delaware. 6; Florida, 12; Georgia, 2s; Indiana. 3o Iowa. 2s; Louisiana, 20; Ohio. AS; South | Dakota. 10; Vermont 8; Washington, 14. Of these the seven claimed by the drys on their past records are Ohio, South Dakota and Washington. The combined voting strength of these states is 16n. Added to the 3s2 votes of the 2s dry states there is found to be total of 542. barely more than he 532 required for a majority.
 But the dryness of all these seven states Is by no means admitted by hose in favor of wine and beer. The hree states controlling the largest delegations, California, Indiana and Ohio, are particularly open to ques- ion; and should these state delega- ions favor a plank for modification, here would be a wet majority of 12 ,otes, even conceding the others. with Florida, Georgia Louisiana, South !akota and vermo ont, to the dry orces.
 30 Must Be Dry
 Thirty states in the union may be