The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-10-01
Church Conferences, Synods, Con-
ve-tions Have Not Been Silenced
by Bugaboo Church in Politics
WILL FIGHT TO MAINTAIN
LAW
Anti-Sa1oon League Will Supply
Every Pastor With Facts About
The Presidency and
Prohibition"
Prohibition"


The campaign committee OF the Anti
Saloon League of America has selected
Sunday. october %, as the day for a final
nationwide appeal through the churches
in behalf of the election of Mr. Hoover to
the presidency.
IL is the hope of the committee that
cooperating pastors in every state will
re-State the fundamental facts about pro-
h.bition and the presidency. and especial
" emphasize the importance of getting
out the church vote.
The committee is prepared to furnish
pastors of each state with a sufficient
number of special appeal folders, urging
them TO join in the nationwide drive on
october %. Special material WI be
offered to each pastor TO help bring the
vital facts about prohibition and the
presidency, and the importance of voting,
10 the attention Of his people. Included
in this material will be, Cd a ther-
mometer poster to show the percentage of
church voters that vote, CD a dialogue
for young people, ent tied, will you vote
for Smith or Eoover?": CD a report on
the Canadian system of So-called govern
ment control: "a questions and answers
on the presidency for Sunday School
classes whose members are of voting age;
go assorted miscellaneous material in
GLIDING Smiths record on prohibition
Hesitation. and other leaflets relative to
the campaign.
The cooperation of church members is
asked TO make October % the day that
will count nightly in defending the
Eighteenth Amndment and the Volstead
law against the attacks of those who
would destroy our national prohibition
policy.
That bugaboo, The Church in politics.
with which the wet forces are attempt ng
to silence the Church, is availing nothing.
Denominational bodies meeting in con-
ferences, synods, conventions are fear
lessly going on record urging their MEM
bership to vote for Secretary Hoover, not
for part. san reasons, but because MIR.
Hoover has declared that he is in favor
of maintaining the prohibition law and
has pledged himself and party to enforce
ment of that law. On the other hand,
Governor Smith has repudiated his
partys prohibition platform and has de-
clared in favor of the so-called govern
ment control system for the United
States, and until such time as that can
be brought about, has said that he will
consider it his duty to urge Congress to
modify the Volstead law granting each
state the privilege to determine what con-
stitutes Intoxicating beverages.
BY this attitude Governor Smith has
made prohibition the dominant issue in
this campaign. Dry Democrats VIII re-
fuse to recognize it as partisan issue.
They will vote their party ticket but viii
vote against the head of that ticket who
has repudiated the party's platform on
this issue.
The Church will not hesitate to follow
this battle into the political arena where
it has been dragged by Governor Alfred
E. Smith
If Governor Smith and his friends
imagined that the Church would not dare
enter this fight lest it be accused of par
ticipating in partisan politics, shey are
badly mistaken.