The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02
CAMEL To STALK
WHERE ELEPHANT
AND ROOSTERD DID
Leaders See Party Lines
ObIiterated With Wet
and Dry Issue.
By N. ID. Cochran,

IWreS GIuII COJT6SDOUHoHt
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Prohibi-
ton split the Democratic party wide
open in 1912. 1t is now performing
! a. similar operation on the Repub-
lican party. But the breach in the
; Democratic party is not healing and
the politicians face the prospect of
both parties entering the next presi-
Dental election all shot to pieces.
Politicians may holler their heads off
about the tariff, the League of Ma
lions, the world court or even relief
z for the exploited and distressed farm
ers, but the people generally get no
kick out of them.
None of these issues stirs up the
fighting blood of anybody except
those directly interested.
What everybody is talking about
is prohibition. You can get an ar
Rument anywhere and at any time
on light wine and beer, States rights
/. or any phase of the prohibition is
sue. On both sides of the argument,
spartisans are quick to boil over with
Intolerance, bitterness and downright
vindictiveness.
VETS and Drys
The dividing line between parties
Is fading out. Partisans are lining
ND as vets and drys. Prohibitionists
don't care a darn what else a man
islands for or against so long as he
IDS lependably dry. An anti-prohibi-
tionists will take unto their political
ii 1t, i-
ably wet.
A Democratic Congressman from
Massachusetts, Gallivan, says If
William B. Wilson; Democratic can
Cidate for United States Senator
from Pennsylvania is an anti-Saloon
xLeague dry then he and other wet
Democratic Congressman will go in
Ito Pennsylvania and make speeches
) for Ware, a wet Republican candi-
Gate.
& A Republican Congressman, Tink-
am from Massachusetts,, demands
4 the Anti-Saloon League be investi-
gated and particularly the charge
I that Michigan Republican has &C
cepted money from the 'anti-Saloon
! League which is interested in legis-
lation before Congress.
This stand-pat Republican from
President Coolidge's State charges
/. the league controls the Government
by money so that free government
sshas become a mockery and a phan-
TOM
& Grave Charge
He makes the grave charge that
the Anti Saloon. League has raised
"an irrepressible conflict and has
2 severed the United States as with
: knife" 1t has placed those who
! believe in liberty and the separa-
ton of church and State in fatal con-
ssf1ict with those who assent to bond
age and ecclesiastical political con-
troll. = 1t has packed the
Federal bench and has destroyed
confidence in it's intellectual integ-
rity. 1t has reached successfully
into the Supreme Court with it's sin
lister propaganda for it's adjustment
.sof liberties for the individual. 1t
has appointed United States attor-
neys and has dominated the prohi-
bition enforcement unit. 1t gives
money to members Of Congress"
On the other hand, Senator Borah,
Z Republican bitterly denounces New
: York State for refusing to help en-
force the Volstead act and her dis
= loyalty TO the fundamental principles
a upon which the Government is
founded" And he bitterly assails
(. the New York State referendum,
3 drafted by former Senator and Sec
!. rotary Of State Ehhu Root, Repub-
: lcan.
Z On the Democratic side, Governor
\ Smith of New York, Governor Ritch-
lie of Maryland, and other prominent
northern and eastern Democrats are
4 fighting prohibition and the Demo
4 cratic solid South is backing the Re-
7 publican Anti-Saloon League to the
limit,
In Illinois, George Brennan. Demo
crat, is running for United States
! Senator as a wide-open wet, while
4 in Pennsylvania former Secretary of
I. Labor Wilson, Democrat, is running
as a bone dry with Anti-Saloon
League backing.
& In New York. Senator Wadsworth,
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