Evening star., 1927-10-09

NJ ORE than $1,750,00O will be
nH spent by the Anti-Saloon
v League organizations of the
1 L United States during the
campaign year of 1928;
supreme effort will be made to elect
a bone-dry President; every congress
sional and senatorial candidate will be
put under the microscope months in
advance Of the election. and a finish
fight against the candidates. of Gov.
AL Smith of New York, Gov. Ritchie
Of Maryland, Senator Reed of Mis-.
souri, and others is in prospect.
Such. in it's high lights, is the out
line of dry plans for the coming year
as disclosed by DR.. f. Scott Mcbride,
general superintendent of the league.
upon whose shoulders has fallen for
4 time the mantle of the late Wayne
B. Wheeler.
Program Partly Wheeler's.
The program, incidentally, was
worked out in part by Wheeler, whose
influence with the dry league thus
will continue long after his death.
On it's political side the program in
cludes, briefly, the following points:
/. No attempt will be made by the
| league to write a prohibition plank,
or even a law enforcement plank, in
either the Republican or Democratic
i party platforms.
2. No compromise is to be made in
the fight against Smith of New York,
i Ritchie of Maryland, Reed of Mis-
souri,, Nicholas Murray Butler of New
York, and other prominent men to
which the league has not as yet an
nounced it's opposition.
3. The strongest possible drive is
| to be made to elect an out-and-out
| bone-dry President. This is regarded
| as of supreme Importance. The next
President may be called on to appoint
a majority of the Supreme Court of
| the United States. A Supreme Court
majority of wet or even moist con.
victions is regarded as unthinkable to
the league leaders. Hence the inten-
| ton to elect bone-dry President at
any cost.
This intention is strengthened by
the realization that the next President
also will appoint Federal district
| judges, a new Attorney General and
a new Secretary of the Treasury. To
have either post filled by a wet would
be national calamity, as the league
| views it.
Thorough Canvass Planned.
A thorough canvass of all candidates
| for the United States Senate and
/ House of Representatives also is to be
| undertaken far in advance of the com
! ing primaries. This will be done, as ir
the past. by the State and lesser Anti
saloon League branches. but the co
| operation and assistance of the ma
tional league will be Forthcoming
| wherever and whenever needed.
Thus weeks, perhaps months. ahead
of even the primary elections the dry
| organization will know the wet or dry
| convictions of every candidate for ma
tiOnal office in the United States. and
with that information in hand vii
! give or withhold it's support accord
| ingly.
| Such, in few bold strokes, is the
| picture of the leagues political activi
ties during the coming year. as paint
ed by DR.. Mcbride. Coupled with the
political program gees he financial
In it's high lights it includes:
| For the national organization al
Washington a budget of $50G000 fol
educational and cooperative work o
a more or less routine nature and
$4,000 special fund to be used purel,
for political purposes.
For the various State leagues budg
cts of which the following are approx
innate and typical: