The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-11-14
Make Gain of Four United States Senate Twelve House,
reports Give 39 House Members Dry Wet II Senators
Stand for Retaining Vosead Law Unimpaired
ELECT BUT Owe sENToR Openly ENDORSED AS WET
OF 26e Candidates for Congress Declared Unsatisfactory A
I'll We're Elected Drys Also Make Gains Election of
Governors and State Legislatures

prohibition law won a decisive victory at
the polls last Tuesday, November 4.
With reports in from all but II con-
gressional districts, the drys have gained
IL in the House and in the Senate.
Of'33 Senators elected only l can be
classed as wet
-Four others are for law enforcement
but not classcd as dry, making at least
~ members of the Senate favorable to
prohibition enforcement legislation.
Three hundred nineteen members of
the House are dry, to los wet.
This briefly summarizes the result of
what may be aptly termed a referendum
by the people on the question of modi-
flying or repeating the Volstead law for
the purpose of reopening the breweries
and re-establishing the beer and wine
traffic regardless of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
Law Enforcement the Issue
The issue before the voters was dry
law enforcement involving the question
OF supporting and maintaining the Con-
stituton of the United States. The vets,
or more literally speaking, The nullihea-
tionists, were rallied under the leadership
OF a score or more organizations, chief
among which are the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment and the Mod
Grafton League. Both the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment and
the Moderation League made some rec
concentrations of candidates. After
combing the country with hne-tooth
comb the Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment was able to find
fewer than loo districts where they
thought it safe to ndorse the candidates
publicly. This Association branded 269
candidates for Congress as unsatisfactory.
1t is significant that of these 200 so la
belled by the nullihcationists, 211 were
elected. The one hope OF the nullihca-
tionists is eventually to gain control of
the House and Senate. Their chief effort
therefore in this election was exerted in
the congressional and senatorial CAM
paigns They lost ground and they are
farther from their goal, wine and beer
than they were before November 4 be-
cause the next House and Senate are
drier than the present, which is another
way of saying that it will be the driest
Congress in the history of this nation.
Drys Gain in Election of Legislatures
In addition to increasing their strength
h Congress, the friends of dry law en-
lorcement made decisive gains in the cleo
ton of state legislatures. Part of the null
iifcation program was to elect Legisla-
lures that would repeal state enforcement
codes. While particular attention was
given to the election of Congress, the
nulli6cationists did not overlook the I'M
portance of legislative campaigns. Re-
ports from states indicate gains in the
election of Legislatures and Governors
friendly to prohibition enforcement
One of the most spirited contests was
in Pennsylvania, one of the states where
the dry law enforcement code is made
Quate- In this state gain was made by