The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-09
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BE BIG ISSUE in
NEXT ELECTION
Both BOrah and Butler Will
Press Their Views on
COP. Convention
5000 ATTEND DEBATE
No Official Decision. But Un-
official Judges Vote 6 to
3 For Senator

= New York, April s.-R-Clar-
ence Darrow and Wayne B.
Wheeler will debate prohibition
in Carnegie Hall April 23. The
subject will be prohibition and
its effects upon 1928 presidential
candidates"
Boston, April 9.---LP)-Prohibition
doomed today as a possible big issue
for the Republican national conven-
ton next year. Debating the ques-
tion last night, both Senator Borah
Of Idaho, dry, and DR.. Nicholas MUIR
ray Butler, president Of Columbia
University. wet, said they would press
their views on the convention.
As Senator Borah put it: Il agree
will be presented to the American
people in the campaign Of 1925
In this connection, DR.. Butler said:
"The war is on. xxxxx Xxx. No
candidate for the presidency hereaft-
CIR will be permitted to avoid the is
sue by hiding behind law enforce
ment."
Some 1900 persons who crowded
Symphony Hall and uncounted thou
sands of others who listened by radio
were divided as to who won the de-
bate. There was no official decision.
but the Boston Herald. Republican.
appointed nine Republicans Of state
prominence as unofficial judges.
Their vote was 6 to 3 in favor Of the
senator. The Herald in announcing
its list Of judges said: "The Herald
carefully refrained from asking their
opinions on the question. 1t added
that it was assumed that one of them,
pres ident Marsh of Boston University.
ais a firm believer in prohibition
and that another, William II. Cool
idge, Boston lawyer, has been a
consistent critic of prohibition and
continued:
"As to the others, the Herald can
not state with any definitcncss that
they are wet or dry"
Boston Herald Has Judges
The Herald's judges were George
W. Coleman, president Of the Bah
son Statistical organization; William
II. Coolidge, financier, unrelated to
the president; Frank s. Deland, cor
poration counsel for the city Of Bos-
ton; Carl Dreyfus, Boston merchant;
Frank B. Hall, attorney, formerly
chairman of the Republican state
committee; Daniel L. Marsh. president
of Boston University; Arthur r.
Stone, Judge Of the Cambridge dis
trict court; Z. Mark Sullivan, lawyer;
BENJAMIN Icring Young, speaker OF
the state house of representatives.
The debate was sponsored by the
Progressive Republican organization,
the Roosevelt Club, Inc, and counten-
anced. even though the political is
sue may not have been, by the pres
ence on the platform Of the chairman
of the Republican national commit
tee, William NJ. Butler.
The disputants agreed from the
first on the evils Of liquor and the
, saloon and that the present state Of
enforcement throughout the country
was not satisfactory. DR.. Butler, VINO
took the affirmative Of the question,
"Resolved. that the Republican ma
tional platform In 1928 should advo-
cate the repeal Of the 18th amend
ment," declared at the beginning that
their differences were not as wet
or dry" and to this his opponent as
Sented.
Should Have 15-Year Trial
For broad summarisation, Senator
Borah contended that the amendment
was a law to be enforced and obeyed
and not to be abandoned, in the face
of the lack Of a suitable substitute.
until it had had fair trial over 25
years.
Dr.. Butler argued that the amend
ment was not germane to the con-
stitution, that it changed the theory
of our federal government and that
the Quebec government control was
q far better way of correcting the
evil.
In declaring the subject national
issue, the speakers varied somewhat.
DIR. Butler said: ut is more import
ant than any since the issue Of slav-
Very and secession. 1t 10 primarily
and chiefly question OF government.
of the protection and perpetuity OF
by the constitution. My appeal is
from the legislative and judicial
branches of the government to the
American people to undo the damage
done and correct that stupendous er-
ror.
Senator Borah urged, however, ito
abandon prohibition now would be to
betray the principles Of the party. It
would be criminal to break down and
disregard the constitution. What we
need IS not u party giving orders to
retreat. but orders to advance. The
! Republican and Democratic parties
may sidestep this issue but the peo-
pie will not"
Some Epigrams
Both arguments sparkled with cpl
. grams. TO choose q few: u
Butler: I'VE have retHviIed to the
saloon, only we don't zee it,"
Borah: "A wet state can ship its
wet into dry state but dry state
cannot ship its dry
Butler: "This battle. is to be
fought with principles. not plati-
tudes."
Borah: 81 am Republican al
thosgh many persons do not think
sO."
Butler: 1.-THE attempt to dragoon
<Ahe body when the need is to con-
vince the, soul. will end only in re-
volt" a
Borah: "Liquor 10 { curse to the
human family and mpst b dealt with
hvs laW eys