Evening star., 1928-10-30

tirely dissatisfied with it. I can and ]
will improve it. The Republican party
seems to think that this cannot be
done. Let the American people decide
that for themselves.
Unwilling to accept the old order
OF things as the best, am entirely
dissatisfied with the conditions prevail
ing throughout this country as result
of the eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead act. I believe that both OF
them ought to be brought into harmony
with the best thought on the subject
to the end that we may restore respect
for the law, promote temperance and
wipe out official corruption, bootlegging
and offenSes against public decency
and public morals that follow in their
wake.
Standing by the old order of things
the Republican candidate refers to Il
as a noble experiment, desires to deal
with it constructiVely but makes no
mention of what he intends to do about
it beyond the appointment Of COM
mission.
The average American citizen knows
that this is entirely unnecessary, in
view of the widespread knowledge OF
can public life and morals.
Attacks G. o. p. Dry Stand.
Mr. Hughes, as spokesman for the
presidential candidate, says nothing
can be done about prohibition; the
Republican party must continue in the
old course of attempting to carry water
on both shoulders. To bolster up its
false claim for a continuance in power
it must pretend to be friendly with the
vets and friendly with the drys, clos
ing its eyes to the evil consequences
that grow out Of accepting the old order
Of things, processing one belief and en-
tertaining another, avowedly dry when
appealing to the dryS, attempting to
mislead the vets by insidious propa-
ganda to the effect that nothing can
happen--the old order Of things must
remain.
With that entirely disagree be-
lieve that there is no question in this
country that cannot. be definitely set
tied, no condition that cannot be made
better by the intelligent thought of the
rank and file of the American people.
Eight years ago the Republican party
placarded the country with signs that
read Let us get away from wiggle and
wobble." In no similar period in the
as much wiggling and wobbling as there
has been in the last seven and a half
years. The chief spokesmen of the Re-
publican party are wobbling all over on
the prohibition question. Their wires
are crossed. Senator Bofah holds pro-
hibition to be the overshadowing issue
Of the campaign. Gov. Hughes, on the
other hand, referred to it as sham
battle, and dismissed 1t as being no
part of this campaign. Mr.. Hoover
finds himself caught between the wiggle
and the wobble, and he gets off the
hook entirely by referring to it as q
noble experiment.
Let us see the wiggling and wobbling
between the Republican party platform
and the attitude Of the candidate and
his spokesmen. The party platform
under the title 1.-The Rights of the
States" says:
Advances States Rights.
"There is a real need in the country
today to revitaliZe fundamental prin-
ciples. There IS real need of restor-
ing the individual and local sense OF
responsibility and self-relisnce There
Is real need for the people once more
to grasp the fundamental fact that un-
der our system of government they are
expected to solve many problems them
selves under their municipal and State
governments and to combat the ten
dency, that is all too common to turn
to the. Federal Government as the
easiest and least burdensome method OF
tightening their own responsibility.
Following that statement In the plat
form there should come from the Re-
publican party clear-cut. plain SdecIa-
no inFA Ia fnNF nf rN1a sNf fl11
prohibition question by the application
of the theory and principle Of States
rights. Instead of that, when make
such a proposal, the Republican ora
tors are in violent opposition to it. The
candidate himself calls it socialistic,
and Senator Borahl says that the per-
petuation OF the present condition, vio-
lative of States rights, diametrically
opposed to his party's platform declara-
ton, which Just read, is the para
mount issue of the campaign. Talk
about wiggle and wobble-where is
there eny more glaring example of 1t
than this?
No man has performed a greater
service in the cause of States rights in
recent years than the governor of
Maryland-and here In his own State
let me talk as frankly ana as freely to
you aS lie has III CIle past.
Let me say that the Republican party
WiggleS and wobbles on this subject,
because 1t Is held down to the earth
by the forces of intolerance, well Or
GaniZed for the destruction of the fun
damental principle of States rights, in
order that their ideas of personal con-
Duct may be imposed upon the Ameri-
can people. They are made up of sew
eral groups. I can think of nothing
that would go further to weaken the
structure of our Government than to
have such organized groups use their
money, their political power and their
influence to ,browbeat the elected rep
resentatives of the people into submis-
sion to their theories. It is a form OF
political blac.mail that the American
| people cannot and-I am satisfied-will
not tolerate.
Cites Anti-SaIoon League.
In his book on American Indi-
vidual" Mr.. Hoover, referring to propa-
! ganda associations, said:
"If they develop into warning inter-
/ ests, If they dominate legislators and
intimidate public officials, If they are
| to be new setting of tyranny, then
they will destroy the foundation of in
dividualism."
Will Mr.. Hoover deny that the Anti
Saloon League is a propaganda asso-
citation? Will he state that 1t has never
attempted to dominate legislators or
that it has never attempted to intilni-
date public officials? Just read the
warning that was sent to Senator Nor
ris when knowledge of the fact got
around the country that he intended
to speak fer me in this campaign be-
cause of my progressive ideas on SO
many subjects that he has been fighting
for in Washington Coincident with
the flashing of that news around the
country, he received the following warm
| ing from the Auti-Saloon League:
"The Anti-Saloon League has always
i1rnakeS this speech for Smith the league
is thv~ Ugh 18th Nm. The Anti Saloon