New Britain herald., 1928-02-02
poLllICA BREACH
 RIPPED WIDE OPEN
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 SlithS Wd Policies

Whdhiasten. Feb. 2 N-Ths po- liticsl breach between William c. NeAdoo and Governor Smith of New York that began with the 1924 dsnscratic convention stood q greater dimensions today with every indication that 1t will con- tinue 70 long as Smith Is presi- dential possibility.
 Old Rivalry
 Bringing up the old rivalry Of Madison Square Garden for the first time in the present campaign. McAdoo in Richmond. Va. last night denounced the governors views on prohibition enforcement. attacked his recent utterances on the enforcement situation in his own state and sounded a warning to the democratic party that it must never send wet" to the White House.
 Describing the issue as one that must be fought to a conclusion in the 1928 campaign. McAdoo said. Tho supreme need is to put law enforcement in the White House."
 Anti.Salon League
 His speech. before a gathering under the auspices of the Anti Sa- loon league. the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other dry organizations, was the high light of night that brought expressions from Smith and two other demo- cratic presidential luminaries. Gov ernor Ritchie of Maryland and Sen- ator Reed of Missouri.
 Those of Smith and Reed con- cerned the subject of national de- fense and disclosed their difference of opinion as to the wisdom of large expenditures for military and spoke here before the women's pa triotic conference on national de- fense. contending for armament that would protect the country from any invader. while the governors views were given out by the Church Peace Union in New York in a let- ter written last June.
 In the letter, which commented on the Geneva arms limitation con- ference, the governor observed that What the nations expend for armament ahd its upkeep would wipe out the slums of the cities. educate the children of the world. reestablish farms and industry and restore prosperity to mankind"
 Ritchie Address
 Governor Ritchie addressed the Brooklyn Bar association. appealing for maintenance of principles and institutions which have been tried and tested and attacking the "evil'' of centralized government. He re- newed his plea for the right of states ito settle their home affairs at home.' listing prohibition as one question that should be turned back to the states for decision.
 The Maryland governors candi- dacy was indirectly drawn into Me- Adoo's fire at Smith with his decla- ration that the 'liquor interests" had seized political power in both states but the only personal refer- ences were to the New Yorker.
 Referring to Smiths candidacy. Mir. McAdoo declared it an "absur- dity' to expect that a president hostile to prohibition would engen- der prohibition enforcement.
 Attempt is being made" he said, Ito convince the country that no matter if a wet is elected presi- dent. the constitution and laws will be enforced. This is both unsound and untrue. X The White House in the hands of the liquor interest s would be a veritable Gibraltar of offensive operations and the doom of the 18th amendment would be written boldly upon the face of the constitution"
 Attacks New York
 Mir. McAdoo devoted much of his address to the fact that New York has no state enforcement law and to Governor Smiths statement that despite that ''there deyolves upon the state the sacred duty of sus- taining the 18th amendment and the Nolstead law"
 His effort" McAdoo said, "fs ap- parently to create the impression that no state enforcement statute ts necessary because even in the absence of such statute the state officias are under an obligation to enforce the Volstead act. This po- sition is entirely misleading and has no justification in law. x xxx The sacred duty upon state officials of which the governor speaks doubtless exists, but the means of performing 1t were taken away from them when jurisdiction over prohibition offenses was removed from the state courts by repeal of the state enforcement act"
 States Issue
 Declaring that organized liquor interests hoped to nullify prohibi- tion enforcement state by state, McAdoo continued:
 This then, is the icMle-shaIl disobedience to the supreme law Of the land. as practiced by New York and Maryland be permitted 10 es- tablish a doctrine which, carried to