New Britain herald., 1926-10-04
POLITICAL POT
 BOILS MERELY
0Idfeld, Wood and Wheeler
 Have Inning

Washington, Oct. 4 P-Political blasts from three major centers- republican, democratic and prohibit tion were added today to those al- ready discharged by party spokes- men who have their gaze upon the November elections which will de- eide control of the seventieth con- gress.
 President Coordge's professed
 fears of a contemplated raid upon the federal treasury In the Decem- Der session." said Representative Oldfeld, Arkansas. chairman of the democratic congressional commit tee" are too vague and mysterious to be taken seriously by the coun- try" while Representative Wood, Indiana, chairman of the republican congressional committee, said that the democratic party. fin futile ef- forts to find even one issue on which the public response to its contentious would amount to more than hol- low echo of it's own faint murmur- ings, has shown bullfrog- like agil- ity in jumping from one subject to | another, but in no instance has 1t found a place in which even tempor- arily to sun itself"
 Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun- sel of the anti-saloon league en- tered the controversy with a state ment that Oregon will be the cen- ter of several state wide wet and dry fights" the others being in Mis- souri. Montana, Colorado and Cali fornia, while he contended that pro- hibition referenda elections in New York. Nevada, Wisconsin and Illi- nois, would be without any legal effect"
 Defends Republicans If the president and Secretary Mellon would join the democrats at the December session of congress, Representative Oldfeld asserted, the large surplus now being piled up in the treasury will be restored to the people by means of another cut In their taxes. and there will then be nothing to fear from the mysterious raiders now giving the president so much concern" while Representative Wood declared that there Is not a vulnerable spot in the republican record" on the tariff, national prosperity, governmental economy. taxation and farm relief. The real issue of this campaign" he added. 'is found by combining all of these subjects"
 Prohibition, MT. Wheeler con- tended, has decreased deaths from alcoholism. arrests for drunkenness, alcoholic insanity, consumption of alcohol, jugenile cases requiring court action. crimes against chastity. and tremendous decrease in the number of first offenders for drunk enness and many other offenses con- neCtcd with the use of liquor."
 These results, he continued, add cd to the economic gains. will stand like the rock of Gibraltar against any wet wave or beer barrage at tack on the eighteenth amendment"
 Scoffs at Democrats
 The democratic party was pie turcd by Representative Wood as "scampering here and there in search of an issue. remining one of q little puppy which wraps it's gums about a stick, turns it's head this way and that in hopeful expectation. not knowing whether to hang on or let go." while Representative Old field declared that President Cool idge is "tilting at a windmill" add ing that 'it Is not the congressional raiders need be worried about so much as hs own department heads, for the record shows that during the past five years congress has cut the appropriations asked in the eXecu- tive budget by more than s350, ,000,- 900 substantially the amount of the 1926 tax reductions