Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
WHY THE VETS WANT
THE NEXT PRESIDENT

Thousand meU WHO VIII IOlAOh NleA
wet leader!
Fifteen voluntary committees o
the Association Against the Prohi
bition Amendment met in New Yorl
October 10, 1927, and heard Captain
William H. Stayton, president %
the association, claim that it is
fallacy to believe that thirty-si1
states must act to repeal the
Eighteenth Amendment; that the
thing needed is merely one more
liberal justice on the Supreme
Court of the United States.
In making this explanation Cap
tain Stayton let the cat out of the
bag.
He told WHY the vets want to
elect the next President. They are
grooming a series of powerful lead
ers as candidates for the Presiden-
tial nomination. There is political
reason on their side for this can
vass of the country to elect a wet
President; but there is mystery in
their methods and poison in their
political propaganda.
FalIaciOuS Propaganda
Nominating time is approaching;
the booms are booming and the Wets
are trying to fool the drys into vot-
ing for a wet, because evidently
there are not enough wet votes in
the country to elect a President.
One of their tricks is the spread OF
the fallacious propaganda that 1t
takes more than a mere President
to change the prohibition laws or
weaken the Eighteenth Amendment.
"a President" they say, "can only
ENFORCE the laws, not change
them"
If so, why are the vets so dead
set on placing a wet in the White
House?
Looking again at Captain Stay
toms escaped cat, we learn that the
vets want a wet President because |
of the enormous advantage they |
will have in the kind of men he will
appoint to Office.
Power of the Courts
AS the organized friends of the
LIQUOR interests indicate, wet
President could appoint to the next
vacancies on the Supreme Court
jurists who could undo the strong
support given to the Eighteenth
Amendment by the Court in the
past eight years. Whether prOhi-
bition will stay depends in large
measure on the Interpretation Of the
courts, a fact clearly stated by As
sistant Attorney General Mabel
Walker Willebrant at the Washing
ton Conference of the National w.
c. T. U. 1t is almost literally true
to say that every wet argument
against prohibition has been ans
wered by the Supreme Court, as
constituted at present, in its de-
and if the public were not
ignorant of this the wet propaganda
would not get so far. Many decis
ions have been by a vote of five to c
four, a very narrow margin. t
Justices of this court have been I
appointed for life and may retire I
1t the age of seventy. 1t is to be I
expected there will be vacancies on +
hat high bench in the next Admin +
That is one reason why the vets d
want to elect the next President; il
hey want a man whose views are e
Ill against prohibition; a man who f
'avOrs liquor. The public expects O
such a man to appoint to courts 4
md other offices men of his own f
yiews. il
Whom Would a Wet President a
Appoint to Office! S
The vets have been objecting to =
he lawful execution of the law; =
hey have been strewing verbal =
oses over the graves of slain boot i
eggers. 1t cannot be imagined y
hat, with their favorite wet Presi- =
ential candidate elected, he would y
isappoint his crowd by appoint =,
ng an Attorney General who would -
dopt strict enforcement as the ma II
ional legal policy; who would aid -
he great army of U. S. district at -
Orneys all appointed by the Presi- "
ent, to prosecute violators of the
law; who would. ap- -
oint an undoubted friend of prohi- q
ition to the post of Assistant At "A
Drney General in charge of prohi- ~, ~.
itiOn law cases and to argue -
trongly for the Eighteenth Amend d d
lent in the high courts. Not at ALI "
he natural expectation would be :.
le appointment of cabinet officers, NJ
ureau officials and the great per- III
1nnel of an administration that II
ould be personally and officially vi
Dposed to prohibition, it's observ-
nee and it's enforcement. More ye
ian 10000 government posts are 10
led by Presidential appointment, TO
Id each President fills these jobs uii
ON the ranks of his own support al
s. III
Several wet candidates for the Iel
-hite House have been conspicuous
their outspoken enmity to prohi- io'
ton. Their words and actions Ia
I'VE been the wellspring of wet 20
Can you name one ap
ho gives the impression that he
Duld faithfully appoint to office IN
e undoubted friends of prOhibi- sp
IN? u
A wet administration would mean
all probability an entirely new er'
'ohibition Bureau. m tl'
Can you imagine any one of the ny ny
ell-known wet candidates for Pres lo'
ent, who owe much of their pres %
t political capital to their abuse re- re-
prohibition and its manner of ad- tl'
appointing as Prohibi- "
IN Commissioner a man who be- -
ives in and is capable of rigorous 40 40
of the prohibition "a. al
W? -
The New York Times, unfavorable
prohibition, recently expressed cIi' W
lie .lsAn..snIIrr Ii, A1,ncn nunrde. luk