The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-09-18
EDITORIAL FROM THE HUN
TERD0N REPUBLICAN,
SEPTEMBER 10th.
ovERwORKED ISSUE

In view of the fact that the eigh-
teenth amendment of the United
States Constitution prohibits the sale
of Intoxicating beverages and mas
much as there is not the slightest
probability that this amendment will
be altered. the wet and dry issue
seems to have been given a false
Importance in the present campaign.
This we attribute to the politicians
who are seeking votes on the theory
that the rural sections are not
aware that the issue is practically
out of politics and that there are
many well meaning individuals who
would support any candidate who
says he is dry regardless of his
true position.
This is an unfortunate situation
and supplies the opportunity to paid
politicians to use supposedly moral
issue in the guise of reform and
get quite substantial backing while
real isues are submerged and real
men are injured politically. Men
who fall back on the wet and dry
issue today are generally those who
have no other issue to run on and
| the peculiar part of it is that they
| are nearly all men who have never
been personally dry nor identified
with the dry cause, until they decided
to run for public office. The way
the Kean agents are stressing Mr..
Kean's dryness in the rural sections
is something of joke to those who
| are familiar with his wet history.
| Of course there are hundreds of
men in New Jersey, who though not
rich, are truly dry who might have
been supported for the Senatorial
nomination and it seems quite sig
nificant that the Anti-Saloon League
and certain reformers elected to get
behind this millionaire politician who
stopped drinking Che says) only as
he became candidate for office, in
stead of backing real dry As the
situation is becoming known to the
people of the state, individual voters
are waking up to the fact that Mr..
kean's wealth has more to do with
the activities of his paid reformers
than his dryness.
Senator Edge is not advocating a
return of the saloon nor the sale of
intoxicating beverages. He merely
takes the position that law that
will send to prison persons who pos
sess beverages containing only one
half of one per cent. of alcohol are
extreme and fanatical and that the
| Constitution only prohibits intoxicat-
| ing beverages, not all beverages, and
| that much better respect for and re-
| suits from the amendment would
follow sane and fair Interpretation
| thereof.
| One local Kean agent, who is
known to have suffered severe finan-
cial losses recently, has, since the
opening of the campaign, purchased
a new automobile and shown other
| signs of prosperity that are quite
noticeable, which may explain his
activity for Mr.. Kean.
Senator Edges public record is I'M
/ H.. r 1T
States Senator and those who look
through the mass of Kean propa-
ganda (Which any millionaire could
buy) will readily see that it would
be the heighth of folly for Repub-
leans not to nominate and elect
Senator Edge.
Mr.. Kean endeavors to criticize
Senator Edge for not supporting
President Coolidge but nothing of
that sort is heard from the Presi-
dent. In fact, in order to show his
approval of Senator Edge, who was
one of his staunchest supporters
in the Senate, President Coolidge de-
| clined to grant an interview to
| Mr.. Kean, Notwithstanding the fact
that he is a member of the Repub-
lican National Committee President
Coolidge recognizes Senator Edges
ability and the thing he most de
sires is the return to the Senate
Of his loyal friends and supporters
such as Senator Edge proved himself
to be. All well informed people rea-
lie that the nomination of Kean
would mean a Democratic United
States Senator for the people OF
this State will never send Wall
Street millionaire to Washington
to represent them upon an issue that
is merely used for the occasion.
| Ordered and paid for by Robert A
Zachary, Campaign Manager foi
Senator Walter E. Edge, Ventnor
| N. j.