Evening star., 1927-05-08
THOMPSON FIGHTS
WET PARTY LEADER
Terms '28 Issues Special
Privileges" Third Term and
Zones of Influence"

/ The Democratic party does not in
tend to go before the country on a
notification" platform that means
defeat. Huston Thompson, former Fed
eral trade commissioner, declared last
night i'll making a demand upon the
! Democratic women of the country to
block that issue before it disrupts the
| 1928 convention.
Pledged to oppose any out-and-out
wet or nullf1cationist for the Presi-
| dency, the members of the newborn
| National Woman's Democratic Law
! Enforcement League greeted with
equal enthusias SIN declarations by for
mer Senator Robert l.. owen of Okla
/ homa and other speakers that the
next Democratic candidate must he a
supporter of the eighteenth amend
| ment,
Real Campaign Issues.
81 believe you can make this such
a moral and economic issue that you
| will arouse the men of the Demo
| cratic party from their sleep and that
! nullificationists won't dare put for
| ward the issue in the convention, =
| Mr.. Thompson declared. THE hour
| has struck" he told the league mem
| bers, when you will strike fear in
! the hearts Of men and can carry this
| fight into the enemys camp. | hope
not in New York, but in some West
ern State there will he no question
about notification being an issue in
| the convention
Special privileges opposition to
a third term. and zones of influ-
. NY,t,ir -,
with which the Democratic party has
a hope of victory. Mr. Thompson de
clared in warning that the cry of
'nulliticationists" would lead the party
to defeat if these other issues are not
squarely met.
Challenge TO Vets.
Miss Belle kearney, State Senator
from Mississippi, started near STAN
pede by reading the riot act to the
Democratic Party on the prohibition
question.
I'VE will have a dry nominee for
the presidency or we will support
nome" she declared. This is not a
threat of revolution within the party
but a lifting of the flag of sanity
which means 81 battle.
I'VE will not desert the Democratic
Party she added, neither will we
follow a banner that drips with the
shame of compromise with honor: We
resent the suggestion of having a null
lificationist to head our party ticket.
If such a tragedy should occur, as
the nomination of a wet for the office
Of President Of the United States, We
the Democratic women of this coun-
try, will work 18th all our might to
effect the defeat of such a candidate.
1--WE would scorn him." she declared
1--WE would repudiate him. This is
our challenge to the vets of America.
Insult to South
Replying to the attack made on the
league by Senator Edward l. Ed
wards of New Jersey who came to the
support of Gov. Al Smith Of New York,
against whom the league Is a solid
unit Miss Kearney declared that the
prediction that the solid South would
support a wet candidate rather than
see the Democratic Party defeated in
1925 lis an insult to the South, which
is not only the stronghold of prohibit
ton, but the preserver of religion and
Of Anglo-Saxonism.
THE people of the South, who de
nounce the effort that is being made in
different sections of the United States
to nullify the eighteenth amendment
are assailed by the vets with charge
OF inconsistency" che said. They are
asserting that Southerners have tried
to nullify the fourteenth amendment;
and, for that reason, they have no
right to criticize those men and wonl.
Ell who are attacking the eighteenth
amendment The cases are wholly dis
similar.
'The eighteenth amendment was
gained by the will of the people. The
legislatures of every State voted for
its ratification except two; Rhode Is
land and Connecticut The fourteenth
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
tion was forced upon the Southern
people. There was only one State in
the South that voted for the ratifica
ton of the fourteenth amendment.
that was Tennessee.
1.-The amendments added to the State
constitutions. and the statutes passed
for the preservation of white su
premacy, have been recognized as
legal by the United States Supreme
Court.
women Not Terrified"
Mrs. Edward 7. Smith of st. Louis
former member of the Missouri Legis
lature, declared that the time has
come when the women Of the country
should say what type of man should
be President,
I'VE demand that our President be
man who is not bound up to the
liquor interests, who does not scoff
and ieer at the Constitution. she
warned The women voters ARE not
terrified" at the threats of the party
machines, she declared. and believe it
is the duty of every loyal citizen to
support the Constitution
Mr.. Thompson, in his address, liken-
ed the notification issue TO an ant
eating armadilla he encountered on
recent wolf hunt in Texas, that con
tinuously led off the pack on the
wrong trail because of it's eagerness
Il need not tell YOU" he said, that
the wolf represents special privilege
and all its attendant issues, and the
armadilla the doctrine of nulliflcatiou
which those who are TOO eager for vic
tory are offering us as the way to oh
tain it.
Pleading with the women not to let
the question of notification overshad
Aw those other issues, he declared:
NYou've thrown a fear into the hearts
OF a good many people who thought
they saw sure thing coming their
way"
Attacks Special Influence"
In a scathing attack on the sphere
of influence" fostered by special
privilege" under the Coolidge admin
istration, Thompson declared that the
influence of foreign nations has re-
peatedly caused American firms to be
afraid to put Made in America on
cartons or labels on goods going into
other lands"
''The Democratic Party could make
a campaign on that issue such as was
never seen before in this country he
said. "yet here comes this issue of
notification across the track
Especial privilege has never played
the game so successfully in any four
wears of our history than in the last
four years" he declared resuming