Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-11-25
PROHIBITIONISTS NOT
WORRIED OVER VOTE
In RECENT ELECTIONS


Atlanta, Ga.-Georgia prohibition
lists with other dry leaders of the
South, who have been here, are not
the least perturbed over inroads of
vets in some of the states as shown
in recent elections, but on the con-
tarry are reminding their followers
that the present Congress is over
whelmingly dry.
In none of the states which acted
on prohibition referendums, was more
interest shown than in California,
where Hon. VIM. G. McAdoo, ma
tive Georgia son, took an active hand,
with the result, as stated by Mr.. Nc
Adoo in a letter to an Atlanta friend,
eve licked the nullificationists by
about 10000 majority" Attention
is called to the fact that Mr.. McAdoo
did not make a "vicious" fight, as
stated in some of the press reports,
but he conducted "a righteous fight
for law and order and for maintain
ance of the constitution"
Local prohibitionists quote Mr.: Nc
Adoo as denying reports that he had
charged that "those who are seeking
toastain modification are in effect
notifications, guilty of staging re-
bellion against the United States"
The position taken by Mr.. McAdoo
it was stated, to use his own words, !
is "that no state has right to defeat
or thwart the prohibition act, but
only to enforce it." He shows very
clearly, it was pointed out, that there
is lawful way to amend the United
States Constitution.
Right Recognized by Constitution
''There can be no objection on the
part of any citizen to a lawful pro-
posal to repeal or amend the Eigh-
teenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, because that is right recogniz-
ed by the Constitution ITSELF" Mr..
McAdoo is quoted as, saying, "and if
the vets would resort to that method
we could get a direct issue as to
whether or not the people want to
change the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead Act and restore the
saloon.
"But the liquor interests" Mr.. Nc
Adoo continued, twill not make this
direct issue in the lawful way. They
prefer to break down the Constitu-
tion through repeal by states of their
enforcement laws and thereby secure,
through unlawful means, the restora-
tion in some states, at least, of the
liquor evil now outlawed by the
Eighteenth Amendment"
Texts of speeches made by Mr..
McAdoo, in California, one before
the National Convention of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union and
the other on the radio at Los Ange-
les, on the proposal to repeal the
Wright Enforcement Act in that
state, have been perused with con-
siderable interest by Georgia prohi-
bitionists. Mr.. McAdoo, as is known,
takes the position that prohibition is
''the greatest moral and economic
victory ever achieved in human his
tory" and that ats benefits to the
masses of the people have already
been incalculable."
"It is not necessary to resort to
notification or revolution or viola
tion of law to secure relief under
our system of government" MIR. Nc
Adoo says. eff the Eighteenth
Amendment is not supported by pub
lie opinion, then the Constitution it
self provides the lawful way to elm
mate it. The lawful way is to sub
nit to the states an amendment for
the repeal or modification of the
Eighteenth Amendment in precisely
amendment has been put into the
the same manner that every other
Constitution.
Mr.. McAdoo reminds prohibition
lists that the Eighteenth Amendment
instead of being slipped unto the
Constitution as anti-prohibitionists
have charged, was ratified by larg-
er vote of the states than any other
amendment ever put into the Con-
stitution except the Bill of Rights.