New Britain herald., 1926-05-29
BAPTISTS LEAN ID
 GROUP IN MIDDLE
ModernistS and FundamentaliStS
 Losing AdherentS

rosh;nctou May % P-Ihe uo.olrtions committee report oHeIe" The main opportunity for q lui,u@. !u,t. rnentalist-modernis fight al ,o"'S sessions of the Northern hap.I7' ,i. convention. but the middle ol lI- road" element appeared to be Tla''s n control as the result or l'S '0- +-,, In the only one of the SIX @'sC- tions of component soc.s''0s "1I N5or,hers of the resolutions com r,,ttee refused to divulge Tn "aN"'.g' the nature of any Of the feeo.I'- recon r,e,dations in the report, pI's"it- l., In,,. in an effort to eliminate "' hasis for a preliminary coh''o''''S ta.wenn the extreme factions
 Fundamentalists Lose
 - a-fuudamentallsts Io9l ...l.apdav bv a vote or 1.7oS to 4'l srtsr thev presented a ticket m oP- nosition to that recommenueu .I,s the nominating committee for ,r., ,'1 foreign missionary society," a,r,jddIa of the road slate was hHao- sd hv Carl E. Mnliken, former gov, srnor of Maine, who was reelected nras,dent of the society. The ul'Fa- {rndamentalist ticket headea "S Charles P- Brock, Denver haa p','' nrexented by Rev. II. H. Sa'"e'' Pontiac. Michigan. .,u .s t,n The regular" or middle or e"7 ~osd" tickets for officials or hNe .or,nent organizations had been carried unanimously prior 10 'ue contest. These were for o1lclalS VI tha convention itself--Rev. J. Whit comh Broughter, Oakland, Cahfor- ni. heinz chosen president-the American Baptist Home Mission so- oiety, Women's American bap.Ls' ,, Home Mission society, America" Bantist Publican society, and Wo,n- ems American Baptist Forelgh -N'S- sion society. o, prohibition also claimed some o' 4.. deIegates' attention today "llu Wayne E. Wheeler, general couhsel ,f the Anti Saloon league the princl- nal sneaker on this subject HoId' ing that "prohibition is based or the moral and religious conllclionS Q, the American people" he urged in his prepared address, that the churches "emphasize the rightheS' of prohibition rather than heed thf loose talk about the alleged failure of enforcement"
 assails Governors
 He also took occasion to assail tho governors of New York and Penn syivania and proponents of a refer endum on the issue.
 Tt is better for a man or na ton to do right even imperfectIy than to do wrong with complete sue cess" he said.
 "Congress does not need to ask referendum vote on prohibition t discover that the majority Of tn American people favor this beS possible method of dealing with th organized liquor evil. The consti tuition makes no provision for an such referendum. which would b without any legal force what ever. \
 Tn wet states like Maryland, tn state constitution prohibits ref erendum on this question. Wher the vote has legal effect, the dry participate, but where it is q stra' vote they properly ignore. Voter will continue to elect congressme and senators and hold them rt sponsible on this issue.
 "The inconsistent vets bitterly or pose the presidents order permit ting state officers to act as feder; officers to enforce the constitution although the same vets favor usin ytate officers as federal officers carrying out their proposed refereT dunn on beer and wine. Thousand of state officers act also as feder officers. No one was disturbed ov' this policy until it was suggested aid prohibition enforcement,
 States Rights Issues
 'eThe states rights issue raised the wet governors of Maryland ar New York is false and flimsy. " states exercised their highest Sd ereign rights when they ratified Il 18th amendment which placed equ obligation on state and federal go srnments 10 enforce fl. No sta can, under the guise Of state righ protect a national wrong and