Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-16

While no minds seem to have been
changed on either side, the country
was greatly interested in the debate
at Boston of Senator Borah and DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler on the cues
ton of whether the next Republican
platform should advocate repeal or the
prohibition amendment.
AS the Philadelphia Evening Bulle.
tin Gndependent Republican, sees it,
perhaps the arguments on either side
were equally futile, but the debate in
its inception was a good thing" that
it fought to Ae duplicated" For. in
the opinion of the Bulletin, "the more
often it is demonstrated thai two citi-
zens can stand on the same platform
and discuss the question of prohibition
without calling each other names, get
ting mad and otherwise indicating
their temper. the sooner the rational
and right solution of this national
problem viii be established"
Their attitude puts to shame the
cowardly evaders and snivelers in
both parties who think the issue ought
to he ignored" proclaims the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch independently, while
the Davenport Democrat (Democratie1,
recognizing that "Dr. Butler and
the Idaho Senator We're acting up to
Republican kindergarten" asks, Can
it be that we are returning to the
golden era of free speech and frank
debate which brought so many clashes
of oratory and logic a few decades
ago. and that contributed some most
interesting platform battles to the
campaigns of those days?"
IF two fellows are spelling for a
fight let them get together" says the
Kansas City Journal-Post independent
Republican,, which originally suggest
ed the debate. ut may be sin to
| keep them apart; certainly the inno-
cent Outstanding public will have its
| hands fun doing it. Once they have
met and sprawled all over each other
| and pulled hair and covered them
| selves with sweat and dust, qufetude
and harmony will reign as the after
math We hope that Senator Borah
and DR.. Butler will now get along
| very nicely together" And the Kala-
mazoo Gazette independently believes
| that "if debates of this kind do no
| more than attract public attention
away from the convenient shams and
nostrums Of political charlatans. they
viii serve a useful purpose"
s;x x
! The Reno Evening Gazette Repub-
| lican), the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
| tRepublican) and New York Herald
| Tribune Republican, reject the idea
| that prohibition can become party
| issue, while the last named expresses
| the hope that the debate in Boston
| will be followed by many other de-
| bates, and that they will be conducted
on an equally high plane" The st.
| Joseph News Press independently, Man
chester Union independent Republi-
CAM Duluth Herald independently.
| New Orleans Item independent Demo
cratic) and lei Paso Herald Gndepend-
enU recognize no results achieved by
| the forensic contest. The St Joseph
paper holds that "a better purpose
might have been served if the discus
sion had been upon more flexible lines
/ and revealed an. earnest effort to ar
rive at a workable solution of the
problem"
Numerous papers disagree with
these conclusions. The Chicago Daily
News independently declares that ito
try to dodge it is to disclose intellec
tual and moral weakness and breed
contempt for politics and political in
stitutions." The New York Evening
! World independent Democratic) con
ciudes that "Dr. Butler and Senator
Borah have forced the Republicans te
meet this issue in their next conven
ton; it cannot be ignored and it must
be met"
1T is too early to say what may be
done by the Republican party, but in
dications are that the issue will CONS
before the convention and there viii
he stormy time is the prophecy OF
the Albany Evening News undepend
ent Republican,. and the Pittsburgh
Sun independent Democraticl, as wei
as the Christian Science Monitor lin
dependency, feels that oath Of thu