New Britain herald., 1928-10-24

$-2 at Albany, Hoover hAs ben work ing in Washington. It is said that Smith is . quick learner. g. ts Hoover. In his knowledge of the problems of the nation. Hoover starts years ahead. If Smith wsrs elected, 1t would take him years to learn what Hoover knows now"
 Turning to the tssuss es the cam paign, Mr. Hughes found that the real issues'' wers few. Commenting on what he termed ''the sham battle over prohibition" hs saia that Gov ernor Smith know he had no chance of election, without the votes of the dry South.
 'He is tryins." oentinpsd MT. HugheA ''to gain the presidency by getting enough vet votes in the North and East to add to the essen- tial dry votes of the South. The drys ire asked to support him on the ground that he can do nothing. ana the vets because he can do much' This is not to my mind. . very com' mendable enterprise.
 "Ws cannot escape. if we wouid' the verities of the situation. The 18th Amendment is in the Constitu- ton. It ts validly there. It will take the votes of 36 states to change It. No scientific definition of in,o.lcat. ipx liouor can os framed wa.en will permit intoxicating liquors to DC made and sold in this country con- trary to the Constitution. There is nothing within the limits of any possible valid definition which would satisfy the demands of the vets, That is the actual Atuatlon and no amount of talk will change 1t.
 Y do not say that the election or Governor Smith would not greatly intensity the demand for . change. I believe that it would also greatly impede efforts at enforcement. But insistent demands for changes would be met by insistent oppon- ton, in which democratic drys would play their part. We should have much agitation. much confu- sion. Meanwhile. the Constitution would continue to stand inexorable in Its requirements and subject to amendment only by the.action of ss states. For this reason l call this . sham battle."
 Mir. Hughes found no issue In honesty. "The Republican party" he said, was betrayed in its own house, but prosecutions have been had, conducted by able counsel selected by President Coolidge to redress the wrongs committed. The republican party is composed Of mll- lions of our fellow citizens who be- lieve in its policies as being of ad. vantage to the country.
 If these policies are sound, II Herbert Hoover is an honorable and l. capable leader, 1t Is futile to sug' gest that they be abandoned and the country entrusted to anothei and less capable leadership because of wrongs committed in the past | which have been the subject of reg. ular and strongly pressed legal pro, ceedings instituted and carried through under the present admin istration.
 Neither President Coolidge nol Secretary Hoover is in any way re- sponsible for these wrongs"
 MT. Hughes could find no trac' of the League of Nations issue il the democratic platform, nor an! IJ"definite issue as to foreign affairs. l Democratic Platform
 "The democratic platform" h added, speaks of further efforts fo the limitation of armament, bu presents no program"
 With respect to Latin-America Mir. Hughes said that the democreti rarty and Governor Smith seenn'
 ito forget the record of the las democratic administration"
 Ut was that administration" h continued, which intervened fl
 santo Domingo and Haiti. The re
 publican administration fnherite
 that situation and demonstrated it anti-imperialistic policy by perfect
 ing arrangement for withdrawa
 from Santo Domingo which wa
 effected. We would leave Haiti
 we could. We are trying to hel
 Nicaragua at the instance of bot
 contending parties in that countr
 and in the interest of a fair electio } in order that an independent an } stable government may be estat lished."
 . Referring to the democratic plan . declaring for protection of America . lives and rights. MT. Hughes recal ed his statement made at the la'
 Pan-American Conference when [ 2 a delegate of the United States Go,